This is just a short post to let you know that
Camp Kindergarten is having a cute back to school giveaway.  Go check it out here!
http://campkindergarden.blogspot.com

      Hi!
I have been busy working on my first paid item for TPT.  I am so excited about it.  Hopefully I will get it loaded next week!  I am visiting family at the moment or should I say policing the pets?  My parents have a 6 year old standard poodle.  I have an almost  15 year old diabetic cat.  My cat hates their monster dog and their dog wants to play or eat my cat.  We have to gate off their space.  The dog gets the front half of the house and my cat gets the other half.  Needless to say my cat can only stand a few days of being banished to the back half of the house.  You're probably wondering why I don't board my cat at the vets.  His names is Cuddles but my vet said that when I am not there his name does not fit him at all!  He tries to bite them and scratch them. ( Kind of hard when you don't have any claws!)  Anyways they won't let me board him there or should I say they don't recommend it because of his diabetes.
If you haven't put the I Love Clipart button from Mel on your blog what are you waiting for?  You can get cute, free graphics!  I love Mel's graphics.  I was in her fun Graphics Clipart club and it was like opening a Christmas present every day!  I miss her emails!!  I am off to referee the pets!  (The dog is winning so I guess I am going to have to banish myself to the other half of the house too!

   
Morning!  I finally got my first freebie up in my TPT  store unless it disappears on me. It's a long story! My picture images disappeared on me yesterday so I hope they are still there this morning.  Now I remember what it feels like to accomplish something you're afraid to do.  That should help me be a better teacher!

I have another funny story.  Tuesday I tutor a sweet little boy.  I do this in my room at school.  Well I thought I would be smart and take some of the things I have gotten for my room to school now instead of later.  I have to laugh because my keyless card would not open one single door.  The doors would click but not open.  Our office is closed until August so I knew it was useless to press the intercom button. I was going to see if the janitors in the building would answer the phone but I discovered that I had forgotten to charge my cell phone. I then drove back home and called but you guessed it no one answered!  I ended up having to cancel tutoring because  who wants to read outside when it is 90 degrees?  Who wants to even be outside?

Mel over at Graphics From the Pond has some cute playdough graphics you can get.  All you need to do is display her cute I Love Clipart button and we know you all love her cute clip art!

http://graphicsfromthepond.blogspot.com

Hi Everyone!
I wanted to let you know that there is a great giveaway going on over at http://hootsnhollers.blogspot.com
She is giving away some great place value foam cubes which would be so great for math.
  I am busy working  on my first product for TPT and a sample of that unit for my first freebie.  I am learning a lot about the process and securing the graphics thanks to blogger, Heather Byers.  Thank you , Heather!
I need to go get ready to tutor.  Have a great day and keep cool!

This is just a short post to see if it will show up on Bloglovin!

Hi everyone!
What a gorgeous day.  My small town is having their fireman's festival this weekend.  Thank goodness the rain has gone.  I thought I was going to have to build an arc!  Last night I got to watch the great fireworks from my deck.  They were really nice.
  I am getting ready to open my store on TPT.  I have been receiving a lot of help and support.  It's kind of a scary adventure, as I know most of you know.  I am also very excited! I just don't want to make any mistakes. I know!  Don't we tell our students you learn from your mistakes?  I guess I better embrace those words or I shouldn't be saying them to my class.  I made a cute welcome sign for my classroom.  I think I will make them for several grades and put them in my store as one of my freebies.  I am going to keep this short because I am off to the festival!  Have a great Saturday night!


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I love my new blog!  It is so cute!  Honey Bunch Designs made it for me.  This design mimics my classroom too!  I am all about polka dots, owls, aqua, and lime green.  Is anyone else like me?

I went to school yesterday to print some things off.  Wrong!  My laptop would not connect to any internet and the brand new desktop computers weren't hooked up either. So I moved on to Plan 2 or B.  You can tell I am a teacher because we always have several plans and we are great at improvising on the spot.

 I  rearranged my furniture and unstacked  40-50 chairs.  The AC was on but I could not tell!  I also moved  13 tables and moved them again and are you ready?  I moved them once more!  It looks nice, but I will probably rearrange it again before school starts or after I see what it looks like with 24 kids.  I only had 19 kids last year so I had to take away some of my station tables .  I am not really happy about that but I have found if the kids sit too close together I have more discipline problems.  I now have 10 tables for the 24 kids.  I will take pictures later when I have my bulletin boards decorated and when I recharge my camera.  Yup!  It wouldn't work yesterday too.  Oh well  all I can do is laugh and write about it here!  That's why my blog is called Laughter and Learning in First!

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