Some Bunny LOVES your Blog! Linky

I'm linking up with Christina from Bunting, Books, and Bainbridge for her Some Bunny Loves your Blog linky party.  

I could do 100 of these posts and not shout out to ALL of the blogs I love.

However, one of the newest blogs I've been following that I just love is Angela's blog Hippo Hooray for Second Grade.

She is so sweet and down to earth.  I love how she shares her real life and her teacher/classroom life.  She's got amazing ideas for the classroom.  She is always showing what her kiddos are up to.  She just celebrated 200 followers with a ton of HUGE giveaways.  She also just released the coolest Main Idea Packet.  I was lucky enough to help her edit it and got a sneak peek.  You should totally go by and check out her blog and her fabulous ideas!  Thanks for the inspiration Angela!

2 Truths and 1 Lie

I'm linking up with Latoya from Flying into First Grade for her weekly Linky party.

I'm not a very good liar, but here goes nothing:

1. At age 15, my mom drove me from Indiana to Washington D.C. and put me on a plane as an unaccompanied minor to France where I stayed with my friend's family and toured southwest France with them for an entire month.
2. I met my husband for the first time on my first day of college at a freshman orientation dance, where he was neither a freshman nor even a student at BYU. I asked him to dance and he tried to blow me off.  I didn't let him.  We danced, and 6 months later we reconnected through a random Yahoo Chat room.
3. I started teaching at the age of 21 on November 1st before I was technically graduated from college, so I technically didn't get my real license from the state until almost MARCH! 

So, what do you think?  I will tell you this much, 1 fact about 1 of these is the lie. I'll fill you in on Saturday!

The Computer is back!

Wahoo!  I'm so thrilled to have our computer back!  It's been back for almost a week, but I'm just so gosh darn busy!  Or lazy... both would be correct.  WE just finished up third quarter report cards and parent teacher conferences.  Last week was TOTALLY draining.  Wednesday I only had half the parents show up and 5 of those 6 showed up on Thursday...at the same times of course.  Overall, very productive and fun times meeting with the families.  Yup whole entire families, mom, dad, aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents, whomever is available.  It was AWESOME to watch parents faces light up as they came to understand how well their child is doing.  I love my kiddos!

In other news, t -2 days until Spring break (or at least until my PD conference 3 hours away, still in my county, on Friday.  But NO kids! And I get to stay with my most favorite people outside of family on the planet!)  My kids were like this today:  Have you seen Lilo and Stitch? Disney had this picture with the following quote on their facebook page today, which I totally shared with the comment of it being my class today! "This is your badness level. It's unusually high for someone your size. We have to fix that." - Lilo

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Have a good night, and I'll probably be MIA except for a few linkies until after spring break.  Not much computer time while visiting my sweet niece, brother, and sister in law which is how it should be! 

My very first Donors Choose Project!

Hey everyone! I had so many good intentions of posting this last week. However, we had lots of traveling, school events, funerals, and a broken computer which all play into why its getting posted now. From my phone.... hence the lack of built in links (note to blogger... id like your app much better if i could put pictures where i wanted them and hyperlink.)


So, have you heard of Donors Choose? basically its a place where teachers can go and write grants for materials they need in their classrooms and people can choose which projects to donate to. So, I've been a member of donors choose for YEARS now, but never written up a project until now. Thanks to some inspiring posts about all the stuff y'all are getting for your classrooms! If you'd like to see my project copy and paste the link below (sorry I can't hyperlink it!)

http://www.donorschoose.org/erikareyes

For today only you can use the promo code INSPIRE and your donation to my project will be matched. So if you donate $20, $40 will be added to my project. Plus, it's all tax deductible! Love it!

If you can't donate now and want to later, you can still use the link. The only difference is, there won't be the promo code for matching.

Thanks in advance for supporting me and my classroom!!

Dead Computer

Help! Our computer (an almost 5 yr old hp desktop) won't turn on. I used it last week, everything was fine. Tried to turn it on Friday morning, nothing... No fans, no noise, no lights, nothing. We've tried everything. Googled it, tried it.


I'm SO SAD/annoyed! We really don't have money to be buying a new computer right now. I don't even know where to begin with figuring out if there's a fixable problem. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Until then, I'm trying to do as much as I can from my phone... It's kind of a pain, not going to lie. #1 pet peeve on my phone, typing comments and capatchas. I'm not a robot!

Currently... March with iPhone/iPad directions

Love this Linky with Farley!

Will have to add all the buttons and such later when I'm on a computer and not on my cell phone app... Sorry.

Also, since I am on my phone... And others of you may be, too, or on an iPad or itouch, here are some directions for you so you can join Currently wherever you are!

How to Participate in Currently... With Farley from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Read Farley's post and click on the blank copy of the month's Currently.

2. Take a screen shot, if it won't let you save the picture, by pressing the power button and the home button at the same time.

3. Open you favorite photo editing app. Mine happens to be Skitch for adding text, if your interested.

4. Fill out your Currently and save a copy to your camera roll (each app is different, but most I've used have use an outgoing arrow as the icon to click to share)

5. Upload your new picture to a blogpost, title it Currently, and link up. (To get the direct link to your post after you publish it, click the title of the post and use the link in the address bar. To get the direct link before you publish your post, choose the permalink option from your right side menu and copy that link.)
Easy peesy lemon squeezy!

Math Night and Navajo Tacos

Not sure when this will show as posted, but we did this Feb, 28th and had an awesome time! My committee was fabulous and so was the food!
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Oh man, did I eat we'll tonight! (Ok, let's be honest, thanks to John, I eat well EVERY night) but last night John got a day off and we didn't have to pay. I didn't take any pictures of dinner, because I was too busy eating! Sorry... But mmmm Navajo tacos are tasty!

It was math night for our school (which I was committee chair). There was SO much going on in our tiny town that (popped up all of a sudden this week) I was freaking out that all our hard work would've been for nothing.

There was a fundraiser dinner for the HS there was a community meeting with all of the big wigs from the county (which is a huge deal, in 9 years living here all these people haven't visited our little corner or the world), and it was the Blue and Gold banquet for all of the scouts ages 8-11. Seriously, we had been advertising math night since mid January. I'm not quite sure why no one else seemed to notice today's date was already taken! Oh well.

We had about 120 people show up (we have 230 students at our school) and not only eat free Navajo tacos, but who stayed and played math games and earned prizes for winning and parents learning with their kids!! It was SUCH a huge success and I'm SO proud of my committee and our planning and follow through.

Our goal for the night was to provide families with a variety of leveled games from preschool level through 6th grade using items they would most likely have in their homes already.
We had four rooms of games:
Egg cartons
Tangrams
Dice
Playing Cards

I was in charge of the egg carton games and plan to share the direction sheet I made at a later date. As soon as my computer will turn on, because today it just won't, at all. This could spell disaster! So, I'm posting from my phone.

Happy Friday!