Weekly Summer Link Up! Favorite Sites

good morning! I'm back for the next weekly summer link up! I am getting over a cold so I am stuck at home in pajamas until I feel better, which makes it a great time to blog. 

Here are my favorite sites in no particular order: 

Pinterest 

Pinterest is my go to spot for ideas on everything you can imagine. Don't know what to cook? I pinterest. How should my bulletin board look this year? pinterest. You name it, its there and I absolutely love it. I also like to go back and see the pins I posted in the past kind of like a time capsule. 

Teachers Pay Teachers

Teachers Pay Teachers is amazing and dangerous because I end up spending wayyyyy too much money buying different activities or decorations. When I discovered it a few years ago I was in shock with what they had to offer teachers. I never thought I would have time to sell my resources on there, but I did it last year and I love being able to share with other teachers and help them out!

Edmodo

When I first started teaching a few years ago I found this site that is used as a classroom page but is setup similar to the interface of facebook. The kids love it and it has come a long way! there are so many features that can be included and used in the classroom. It stores your files in an unlimited cloud like service, you can connect google drive, students can have discussions, turn in assignments, etc.! the list goes on! I also use it for professional developments to communicate with other teachers and stay connected. 

Facebook

I just like facebook. I like to look at photos and to be honest its one of the only ways I can share photos with my grandma :), yes she has one too, and can use it better than I can!

what are your favorite sites?

Weekly Summer Link up: Random Act of Kindness

This weeks summer link up is about a random act of kindness. I try my best to be kind to everyone (including animals lol) because you never know what they may be going through. My random act of kindness occurred this past year with one of my students. This girl was my student for 2 years and this was her final year with me. We grew close and it was great to feel like a mentor to her. As a gift to tell her thank you for such a wonderful 2 years as a student, as a friend, and for teaching me many things about myself, I decided to buy her 8th grade dance ticket. She mentioned she was unable to go but wouldn't tell me why. A coworker and I spoke to her parents and mentioned how we had wanted to surprise her with her dance ticket to give her the chance to go and celebrate her last year in the school. She was extremely grateful and excited. She had an amazing time at the dance and made wonderful memories. One of the many reasons being a teacher makes me happy! :) We still keep in touch and I can't wait to see her follow her dreams! 

Assess Me Linky: Week 2

Week 2 of getting to know me with the Assess Me Linky thanks to The Tattooed Teacher!

this week was a this or that sheet!

1. I live in jeans, all the time, if I'm not in jeans I am in jean shorts. Living in Miami means trying to beat the heat! (weather wise, not basketball). 5. I live in the suburbs of a city but anytime I travel the country side is so beautiful! 11. I started drinking coffee within the last year or so and now I can't stop. It's absolutely delicious and I can't believe I didn't like it before, I was missing out. 15. FLATS everywhere. No matter where I go, I am in flats. I can't remember the last time I wore heels, even to weddings, I take them off after the ceremony. 18. Again, living in Miami means that its summer here most of the year and even though Central Park is lovely, I think life would be tough here without central air. 

Currently August!

Since its August and I love linky parties, here is the August link up from Oh' Boy 4th Grade. Summer is ending soon and I go back into the classroom in 2 weeks! I feel like summer just started! Anyways, Edmodocon 2015 yesterday was awesome I loved all the speakers and new ideas. They will be posting the videos and resources on their site soon so check it out! 

Apparently I was having a chocolate craving when I made this .... lol 

Summer Weekly Link-Up: My Talents

This was a tough one! I can be artistic, which I think can be a great talent, when creativity strikes! Here are few drawings that I made a few years ago to decorate my home:

I like to create things and this was done as a Sunday project with my husband a few years ago to decorate the house. I made them with water colors using only shades of black. :) I am sure I have other talents but this one is a favorite of mine! 

thanks to I Heart Grade 3 for such a fun summer link up! go follow and link up :) 

Monday Made it! - July 27th

My first ever Monday Made it! after reading and seeing what a few bloggers have been doing, I got excited and decided to post a few things I made today or worked on. 

1st thing I worked on is a planner for the blog! I went to Target and got "trapped" inside because of a crazy storm which can be dangerous because Target is wormhole. Anyway, I found this super cute planner in the Dollar Spot section of Target! best place in the store. Picked it up with a few stickers and voila! a planner for the blog :)

My 2nd made it are some decorations for the upcoming school year. Our overall school theme is Jurassic Park so everything is going to focus on Dinosaurs and Discovering that 'A'. I made these using my Silhouette Cameo. My sister and I got one last year to make classroom decorations and we have discovered a new found love for it!. Which leads to 3 and 4 ....

My little sister is having her baby shower this weekend and we are playing a "guess the baby food" game. Of course we wanted to label the different foods in a cute way and decided to use out Silhouette Cameo to make these tags for the baby food jars. Aren't they adorable!?!?

Since those tags came out so awesome, I decided to make similar ones for the back to school gifts I am giving my co-workers (hopefully they don't check this out and find it!). I am giving them little jars with mints in them and the tag says "you were 'mint' to teach". something simple as a welcome back! Tags again were made on the Silhouette Cameo, jars were purchased from the dollar spot at target along with the red bakers twine. Simple. Easy. Affordable. 

My last Monday made it is slowcooker mac and cheese! I have been pretty obsessed lately with creating meals in the slowcooker and so far I have been making some delicious dinners! I found this recipe at 101 Cooking For Two. Very simple and only takes about 2 1/2 hours in total. It came out amazing! I just wish I would of made more for tomorrow! 

Summer Weekly Link-Up: My Favorite Picture

Hello everyone! this is my first link-up party for the summer and this weeks focuses on your favorite picture. This is a tough one since I take A LOT of pictures and its tough just to pick one. So I attempted to narrow it down and I picked this one: 

This is a photo from my engagement shoot about a year and a half ago. My best friend took the photos for me and they came out amazing :) This picture captures how silly my husband and I are. We like to randomly slow dance when we have conversations, run around like kids, and just be crazy together. 

Bonus photo: Our fur babies at a bulldog birthday party enjoying some doggie cupcakes and ice cream.

aside from marrying my best friend, adopting these two were the best thing that has ever happened to me!

whats your favorite picture? join the weekly summer link up at I Heart Grade 3!