Beach, New Product, and Paint Swatches, OH MY!!!!

Hi everyone! It is already May tomorrow! So excited! Warmer weather has hit Rhode Island! I LOVE it! I mean it is nothing compared to you lucky southerners! I have been watching the weather and hearing all about your 80 degree temperatures and sunny days! Either way, I have been trying to get some work done on new TpT products without missing out on the sun, so I went down to the beach and worked outside this morning! I didn’t have to substitute today! (I guess that’s one perk of being a sub!) It was beautiful! It was just nice to be outside! I feel like I can be on the computer working on blogging and TpT for hours and I lose track of time and the nice days! So, I am glad I was able to get in the sun! Check out the pic I took of the beach!

 

 

I view TpT as another job! It is a lot of work, but I really love doing it so I guess that is what matters! I like it even better when I get to work at the beach! Who can complain about that?!

 

Well anyways, I have funny story to share with all of you! So, I walk into Home Depot a few weeks back and start grabbing paint swatches for an activity with my after school students. The Behr paint guy comes over and says, “Hi, you must be doing A LOT of painting at home with all of those.” Well, yea that was embarrassing!!! Here I am at Home Depot grabbing free paint swatches to save some money but took an amount that was obviously a lot (whoops!). The guy laughed when I said I would put some back. Either way, I end up telling him what they are for and that I teach and whatnot. The man says to me that he loves the fact that they are used for school. He tells me that they are discontinuing a lot of the paint, therefore, in a few weeks he would have paint swatches that would just be thrown away. I said I would gladly take them so he took my number to call me when they would be getting rid of them. WELLLLLL, when I went to pick them up today there were 4 huge boxes of paint swatches! They were so heavy I needed the Home Depot employees to load them in my car (pathetic, I know!). While I am SOOO grateful, there are more paint swatches than I know what to do with?!?! Take a look at what I got today!!!! I find it really funny actually!!!

 

 

 

I have 4 huge boxes that are all this full! I have a feeling it is going to take a while to use them all! Haha!

After finally hauling those boxes into the house with some help from my brother, I was able to post my newest product that I have been working on for 2 months! Boy was that a long 2 months! It was such a relief to know it was done and posted! It is nonfiction reading comprehension passages about animals! It includes multiple choice comprehension questions, graphic organizers, and various ways to use the passages! My students have really enjoyed them so I am very confident other kiddos will too! Below are some pictures!

 

 

 

 

Click HERE for more details about this product!

 

Thanks everyone for stopping by! Time for dinner! All this writing has me starved!!! ;-) Talk to you all soon!

Reading Comprehension Time! COMMON CORE of course ;-)

I know! I know! I have been M.I.A. for the past week. But, I haven’t forgotten any of you. I have been working on my newest product. This one was hard work. A LOT of hard work! But that is fine because now it is all done. Finally! Spring is Here - Original Stories for Reading Comprehension Practice COMMON CORE ALIGNED. As much as this product was time consuming, I am proud of this one. I have been focusing solely on holiday products that I almost lost sight of one of the most important things we teach our students. READING! Ahh the holidays and celebrations suck you right in don't they!?! Now, it feels great to have a TpT product that is useable for my buyers for more than just the length of a holiday or celebration. So, be sure to check it out.

Anyways, now as much as I was working really hard on that product, I have been doing other things with my time. Things like relaxing, sleeping in late, taking my time drinking my morning coffee, and oh yea, staying up late catching up on my DVR. Yup, I am on school vacation. Who would think a 23 year old could get so tired. Oh, but I do! After this lazy week though so far, I feel well rested!

Well, now that I have spent ALL of my morning blogging and pinning, I guess I need to do something more productive like.....going to get my nails done. ;-) Haha! Thanks everyone for stopping by!!! Check back soon for a St. Patrick’s Day freebie similar to my Christmas and Valentine’s Day edition freebies!