Two for Tuesday! 4th-5th Math 50% OFF!

Today I am linking up with The Teaching Tribune for her Two For Tuesday linky party!  

I have two of my (already super cheap) products 50% off!

1.  Decimal Multiplication SCOOT/Task Cards is a great tool for helping students practice multiplying with decimals while being up and moving around the classroom!

Check it out HERE!

2.  The second product I'm offering for 50% off is my Fractions, Decimals and Mixed Numbers on a Number Line SCOOT/Task Cards!  Ordering Fractions, Decimals and Mixed Numbers is a hard concept for students to master and these cards really helped my students last year!  Hopefully you can get some use out of them as well!

Enjoy!  And check out my TpT Store HERE!!!!!!!!!

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Monday Meet Up!

Hello Blogville!  

Today I am linking up for the first time with The Teaching Tribune for her 

Monday Meet Up #4 linky party!  

1.  The second I hear about a new show or movie that deals with crime/suspense/action I MUST see it! Some of my favorite TV shows are 24: Live Another Day, CSI: Miami, Bones, Castle, The Following, Rookie Blue, Scandal, and Revenge!  Movies are too numerous to even begin to list them!

2.  My school is getting the opportunity next year to departmentalize!  Only a few schools in our district do it and I am super excited that we are going to be able to try it out!  My passion in teaching is Math, so of course I want to teach that.  The other subject I will be teaching is Science.  Now, to be honest, I really have never taught much Science.  Our curriculum is so heavy into reading and math that science just got pushed to the wayside each year.  I am looking forward to teaching math and science this year and to be able to throw my whole heart into teaching just those two subjects!  

3.  I desperately want to be tan!  I am not exactly sure why, but I laid out a few times in the beginning of the summer and now I am kind of obsessed!  I don't want to be so dark that I look like I rolled in Doritos or anything, but I just want to have that beautiful, golden glow! I'm almost there!  And it gives me time to myself to read and gather my thoughts.  

Well that is my Monday Meet Up for today!  Hope you enjoyed learning a few things about me!  

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Jamie

Life As I Know It

I'm Back!

It's hard to believe I haven't blogged in 3 months!  To tell you the truth, I had a really rough year last year.  When I blogged I found myself mostly complaining (or wanting to complain) about school, which I knew would only perpetuate my situation, so I stopped altogether. :-(

But it is well into summer now and I'M BACK!

I figured a good way to get back into the swing of things would be to link up with Doodle Bugs for her Five for Friday linky party!  Here we go...

1.  I have always been a reader at heart, but this summer I have been really diving into reading everything possible! Right now I am on my second book by Jodi Picoult!  She is an absolutely incredible author and I loved 'The Pact'.  It is long but absolutely worth the read!  Now I'm reading 'House Rules' and am definitely enjoying it so far!  If you haven't read any books by her I highly suggest it.  My favorites of the summer so far have been the Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day (AMAZING!)  and all 3 books by Gillian Flynn, which absolutely rocked my world!

2.  I am having a blast this summer with my baby girl!  Being at home with her last summer was fun, but this summer she is able to do so much more and I enjoy every minute I spend with her!  Here are a few pics from last week!

Swimming at her great aunt's house!

SO BEAUTIFUL!

Playground Fun

Who doesn't love to lounge around in a ball pit?!

3. I got a sewing machine for Christmas but just over the summer I have finally found time to create a couple of cute projects!  I actually rented quite a few books from the library the other day with tips and tricks for beginners and I've already learned a lot from them.  Here are a few projects I've completed lately!

First dress I made for Olivia!

Keychain wristlet!

DIY Makeup Bags!  My friends is on top (more like a little pencil bag!!) and mine is on bottom!!

Super cute purse I made Friday!

4. I have just found one of the coolest apps of all time!  If you haven't heard of it yet, check out Time Hop!  You can sign in through your Facebook and each day it alerts you when your Time Hop is ready.  It shows you status updates and photos that you posted on that day from previous years!  It has almost brought me to tears a few times when I have seen pics of my baby girl when she was little bitty!  I really love it!

4 years ago today I was preparing for my wedding!

Olivia and I on Father's Day 2 years ago!  She looks so funny!

5. This week the hubby and I have watched a few movies together, and surprisingly I have liked them all!  Here they are...a few are old and a few are newer!

Once again, it feels so good to be back!  I want to get connected again and to get pumped for the new school year!  I just know that this year is going to be soooooo much better than last year!

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Linky: Mathematical Monday!

I am linking up (late) with I Heart Recess for Mathematical Monday!  

I absolutely loved her post and I am super excited to try it sometime soon!  Definitely go check it out!

I want to show off some new task/scoot cards that I made over the weekend and our snow days!  You can find them HERE at my TpT Store!

First, my students have REALLY been struggling with adding and subtracting fractions.  It's not the adding and subtracting part, but it's finding equivalent fractions and then having to simplify.  Some of them have just been going into overdrive and completely shutting down. :-(  So I am hoping that doing these task cards in centers and math small groups instead of doing worksheets will help take some stress off.

Adding and Subtracting Fractions with LIKE Denominators!

Sorry that the stinkin' Smart Ink button is on there!

Adding and Subtracting Fractions with UNLIKE Denominators!

Again, sorry for the Smart Ink button!

Pick up these task/scoot cards HERE!

March Currently!

February flew by! I can't believe it is already March! It's time to link up with 

Farley's monthly currently linky party!

Listening:  I am laying here watching tv, listening to my awesome hubby click away on his PC game.  He humbly let me have a night out last night with some friends so tonight is his night to game away as long as he wants to!  I am so blessed to have him.

Loving:  I am obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch! I literally must have a bowl each night before bed.  It is the perfect amount of sweet to have just before bedtime!

Thinking:  I have been working on a new product for my TpT store lately.  It is going to be a small packet of task cards for practicing adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators! I am learning more on Adobe Illustrator every day and so it is taking me more time to create my products because I am making them more intricate each time!  Check my store out HERE!

Wanting:  I cannot wait for the writing test to be over!  We are taking it this upcoming Wednesday and I just really hate watching some of my kiddos stress out about it.  I also hate watching a few of my kids care so little about it!  I want the stress of it off of my shoulders!

Needing:  I desperately need to go buy my daughter some new pants! I swear her legs have grown like crazy over the past month or so.  Her bday is coming up in a few months so I don't want to go crazy, but I really need to get her a few new things!

?????????:  10 years?  That is how long my husband and I have been together!  On Wednesday we will celebrate our 10 year dating anniversary.  We don't ever celebrate dating anniversaries anymore since we are married but I figure this is a big one and we need to at least go have dinner or something for it!  10 years ago, when I was 16 years old, he asked me to be his girlfriend and we have been in love ever since.  SO blessed!

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Surprising Sentiment

The past two days have been very long.  We had parent/teacher conferences at my school until 730 both evenings and I am truly exhausted!  But I want to share a surprising sentiment that overcame me this evening as I was finishing up my conferences.

First off, I have talked many times on my blog this school year about how this has been the most difficult year I have had teaching so far.  I have a very big class, with lots of personalities within it.  I have felt really discouraged many times this year, mostly because I have felt that many of my students have not yet shown me their full potential.  I told that to many of the parents I met with the past two evenings, and most of them concurred.

But as I was finishing up this evening, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of satisfaction.  I know each of my students this year on a level that I haven't known any other class before.  I know about their home lives, their struggles, their victories, and their accomplishments in a deeper way than I've known my previous students.  This is most likely because I have had to work really hard to connect with them so that I can keep even the slightest bit of control in my classroom!  I was able to really connect with the parents I met with, mostly because I know their child so well.  I was able to tell parents about their student's accomplishments and how well many of them are doing.  I conducted most of my conferences with a big smile on my face!  I felt good telling [most of] my parents how proud I was of them!  My bucket is certainly full!

I just wanted to share my smile with you! :-)

So Many Things!

I have so many things I want to share this evening!!!!

Today and yesterday my district had SNOW DAYS!  Yesterday I got to spend the whole day at home with my precious baby and my sick husband.  He is feeling much better today but had 'the crud' the entire week.

Today I woke up and realized that we have parent/teacher conferences on Monday and Tuesday night and that I was completely unprepared because of missing school!  I met up with some of my coworkers and we had lunch and then went to school to get stuff ready.  I'm hoping that we actually get to have conferences since we are expected to get more snow Monday/Tuesday!

MY NEWEST PRODUCT!!!

I created a new product on TpT that I am super proud of!  It is a set of Task/Scoot cards that allows students to practice naming fractions, decimals and mixed numbers on a number line!  It asks students to find which letter best represents a given fraction, decimal or mixed number, as well as fill in the missing number, write a number that is less than a given fraction, decimal or mixed number, and MUCH MORE!  I am really excited to use it in my room!  If we wouldn't have had two snow days this week I already would've!  Check it out HERE!!!!!

On another note, I have found this AMAZING app called OverDrive!

It is an app in which you can add your public library to your account and E-Rent books from there for FREE!  All you have to do is create an Adobe ID and have a library card.  I have put it on my classroom set of iPads and so far my two students who have library cards love it!  I am super sad that only two of my students have public library cards.  I am going to get library card applications soon to send home with my students to hopefully encourage their parents to get them one!

The book I read this week on OverDrive is called Gone Girl, by Jillian Flynn.  It was an incredible read, I couldn't put it down.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, until the end! I cannot believe how it ended.  Blah.  I highly recommend it if you like crime/thriller/plot-twisty/adult novels!   Check it out! After I read The Confession by John Grisham, I am going to read another one of her novels!  Can't wait!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  

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