Camo, an award, and a giveaway count down.

Lots to talk about tonight, so go grab yourself a Shamrock Shake (Holly ;)) and enjoy the show... err... uh... blog :)

Camo:

I did this activity with my Kinders last week.  We were learning about camouflage and how animals use camo to stay safe.  I put lots of green paper shreds in a bucket with small green butterflies cut out of green-ish wallpaper.  The kids had to dig through the green scraps to find their butterfly.  When they found their butterfly, they had to take some green scraps and make a bush in their science journal and glue their butterfly on the bush.  I'll let the pictures do the talking:

An award:

Sweet Tammy at Forever in First gave me a Top 10 blog award!  You have to stop by Tammy and check her out- you won't be disappointed!  :)

Here are my Top 10 blog award nominees:
   Holly at 


Chrissy at

Michelle at

Reagan at 


Kimberly at


KPM at 


Hilary at Mrs. Carvitti's Clippings


 Mrs. Rider at 


The KinderGarden

Jill at 


Congrats friends, and enjoy your award! :)


A giveaway countdown:

I'm hosting my first ever giveaway once I hit 100 followers! :)  Amazing peeps joining me include:




and Mrs. Carvitti's clippings is giving away a set of clip art that you ask her to design!

So, pass the word along- and as soon as I get 100 followers, we'll start the giveaway!! I'm super excited and someone is going to be a VERY lucky winner!!!

That's all for now!  And my question for this time is:  What do you think is in Staci's gift box?  She's going to open it tomorrow, and I JUST CANT WAIT!!  

An award!

No, I didn't win a Grammy- I know, I know, you're surprised.  I should have won a Grammy... but maybe next year.  (haha!)  But, I did win this sweet little award:

Thanks to Steph from Be a Nut with Mrs. McNutt for giving me a new award!!  Be sure to check our her cutie blog!  :)

Here's the scoop:

Thank the blogger who gave the award to you... Thanks Steph- her blog link is above! :)
Put the award on your blog... see above :)
Pick 5 blogs to share the award with.  (remember the less than 200 followers rule!!)

So here's my picks:  (and sorry if you've already gotten the award- that just means you are twice as awesome! :)

Cathy at Sunshine and Happiness in First Grade  (I met Cathy at our blogger meet-up and she's one awesome chick.  We had fun at the after party... eh, I mean The Container Store.)  :)

Hilary at Our Art Santuary (She's our art teacher at school, and I just love her! )

Lisa at Stories from Second  (Another teacher from our blogger meet-up, but I wasn't able to meet her.  She has great ideas and a cutie blog!!!!  She just barely made the cut off for this award- 198 followers, way to go Lisa!)

Stacy from Off 2 Kindergarten (Another blogger from the meet-up!  I love her blubber tub idea!!!!)

Ashley from Teaching in the Net  (She say with us at the blogger meet-up, and hadn't started a blog before coming.  She now has a blog!  Go celebrate her new blog by following her!!)

So, thanks again, Steph!!

My first award!!

Oh my!  I'm so excited about receiving my first blog award!  Tammy, from Forever in First gave me the Versatile Blogger award!  Soooo over the moon about it :)  I feel like a real-life blogger now! :)

So excited!  Here's what I have to do:

The Versatile Blogger Award rules:

1.  Thank the person who nominated you with a link back to them.  Thanks Tammy, check out her blog with the link above!

2.  Tell 7 things about yourself

3.  Pass this award on to 12 other newly discovered blogs and let them know they received an award.

 

 

7 things about me...

1.  I dated my husband for only 6 months before he asked me to marry him.  I guess when you know, you just know, right?  :)

2.  We are blessed with 2 boys, Wade and Henry.

3.  I play tennis and love to ski.

4.  I have a minor in Spanish... hola!

5.  I do photography on the side, and I LOOOVE it.  Some might say I'm addicted to photoshop :)

6.  I'm training for a half marathon.  This time last year, I wasnt even able to run for a whole minute... but thanks to the Couch to 5K program, I ran my first 5K this spring, and now have set my sights on a half marathon in May.

7.  I love the color green.  :)  -- the same color of this award!! :)

And now to nominate 12 other blogs:

1.  Circus of Learning

2.  Classroon Confetti

3.  Finding my Marbles

4.  Kate's Kindergarten

5.  Marvelous Multiagers

6.  Misters and Misses

not a teacher blog, but I just love this girl's style!

7.  Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business

8.  Mrs. Plant's Press

9.  Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

10.  A Place Called Kindergarten

11.  A Teeny Tiny Teacher

12.  Oh Boy, 4th Grade