Motivational Monday {Linky}

Before I get to Motivational Monday, I wanted to thank everyone who participated in my giveaway.  We had a great turnout!  Now for the winner...

Andrea, check your email, you have a lot of decisions to make!!

Now, I know everyone needs a little uplifting on this first day back after Thanksgiving break!

I have some student-related motivation for today.  These are not mine, but I can't get the Pinterest buttons to work on my blog for some strange reason.

I think I might hang this first one up in my classroom:

What motivates you?

We Have A Winner! And a Sale!

Congrats to our winner, Sara V.!  Check your email!

And to continue the celebration...

Both of my stores are 20% off this weekend!

{TpT}

{TN}

Some of my best sellers:

Happy shopping!

Is it always this tiring??

Phew!  Every year I forget how tiring those first few days are!  

The winner of my Duo Trimmer Giveaway is...

Sarah!  Congrats to her and thanks all for joining the fun!

Also, just wanted to share this shout-out I got on Twitter:

Love her!  So cool!  Thanks Erin!

I'll share more tomorrow, but I am off to the beach today!

Traveling and We Have a Winner!

 Remember those teachers you had in high school who would tell you that they graded your test but wouldn't give it back to you until the very end of the class?  I'm going to be like that today.  I'm going to write a blog post and make you wait until the very end to see who won the laminator giveaway.  {of course, you could just scroll down to see...}

When I was younger, I didn't have much interest in traveling.  Don't get me wrong, when my parents said they were taking us on vacation, I definitely got excited.  But I was never one of those kids who wanted to travel the world.  I guess I was pretty much a homebody.

Then I became a teacher and that changed quite a bit.  All of sudden I wanted to share as many experiences as I could with my students.  I went to Hawaii with my husband and I spent a majority of the time with my camera slung around my neck.  Here's a photo I captured of one of the beautiful flowers we encountered:

Click here to see more photographs.

Now I am ready to go on more adventures!  My brother is doing an internship in Atlanta, Georgia this fall and I already have my husband looking up flights.  It might be a small adventure, but it's still farther than most of my students have gone.

{Anyone in Atlanta, Georgia want to meet up when I am down there?}

Okay and, now, the moment you have all been waiting for...we have a winner!

Congrats Patti!  

Thank you to all who entered - there were so many entries!  I wish I could give one laminator away to everyone!  But keep you eye out...I just might have another giveaway up my sleeve!

We Have a Winner!

Congrats to Whitney Kibler!  She won a $10 giftcard to Teachers Pay Teachers - happy shopping!  Thank you to all who entered my giveaway.

I am definitely enjoying my vacation so far and it hasn't even been 24 hours!  I've already gone to the gym, done laundry and taken care of this little guy:

Meet Raleigh!  We just got him last night and I am in love!  He definitely keeps me busy too.  I'm feeling accomplished and now I get to sit with my coffee and catch up on my blogging.  Happy Summer!

Winner and Winnee

Not sure if that's a word, but here's the winner:

Congrats!  Check your email for my St. Patrick's Math and Literacy Packet!

And I was a winner over at:

Go check out her awesome site!  She has some really cute stuff in her store too!

It's Winner Time!

Ladies and...well, ladies, we have a winner!  The winner of the 31 bag is:

Congrats Laura!  I'll be emailing you soon.  If you didn't win, go check out Karyn's 31 Consultant Page to grab your own 31 goodies!  I'm going to get my tote today (it was Valentine's gift from my hubby - yay!)

I also completed my fractions packet today.  Check it out at my {TpT store} or get it on SALE at my {Teachers Notebook store}

And the winner is...

Kelly B aka Queen B from Busy in Kindergarten!  

I will be emailing you shortly with your TpT giftcard, I hope you can get lots of good stuff with it!  Thank you to all who entered my 100+ followers giveaway!  

Now, I'm hard at work on a new unit on fluency.  I'm sitting at my computer watching the snow fall outside my window.  It's our first real storm this year!  It has a very calming effect, especially since I don't have to leave the house (if I did, panic mode would be setting in).  Look for my new unit soon!

We Have a Winner!

The winner of my first ever giveaway is....

(I didn't number my posts...so I used my wicked math skills to count my posts)

Congrats Courtney over at Swimming into Second!   Check your email soon!

Also, major props to Courtney for helping me figure out how to use the random number generator!  Thank you thank you!

Thanks to all who participated - I had so much fun!  Can't wait to do one for when I reach 100 followers ;)