Five for Friday-August 8th

Time to link up with Doodle Bugs!!!! 

This was my last official Friday off, but I worked. This was day 2 of curriculum writing. 

Each grade level created all six weeks calendars. These are VERY rough drafts. 

We also matched our Year at a glance Resource with our new textbook. 

Not shown above are the 13, yes THIRTEEN, district assessments for the entire year!!!! 

A lot of work, but worth it. 

Now, my job is to merge 6th and 7th to create one for my Advanced Classes!!! 

This was my second day back on campus, so I took some time to actually move all my junk stuff into my new classroom. Now, it looks like this: 

Let's just say YUCK!! 

This means, I have a LOT of work to do!!! 

Instead of working on my room, I went shopping! Yep, I had a few hours WITHOUT children to shop!!!

 I actually found something other than shoes! 

These are Palazzo pants. This picture does no justice to how cute they are! 

Alison from Rockin and Lovin and Learnin talks about them all the time. 

I am sold! 

I could have hung this shirt nicer because it looks slouchy, but its not. 

That's a skirt behind it. It doesn't look it, but the shirt and the stripes are green. 

Super comfy! 

I ordered a cartoon character of myself and it turned out AMAZING!!!!!

Nikki from Melonheadz created it and it's AWESOME. She even got my new highlights right!!!!

I got a character made of myself to use on Facebook, TpT, and my business stuff. 

I can't reveal it here yet, but if you follow me on Instagram, you can see it. 

My Instagram is :hodgesgal23 

We are heading to San Antonio for a last weekend getaway tomorrow morning. 

I have 3 more days of summer, officially, but I will be working at school starting Tuesday (you did see the madness above, right? 

I am excited to go away, but I am not looking forward to being HOT. We are going with our neighbors and best friends and taking our children to Fiesta Texas. I love roller coasters. I dislike hot though. 

We are also going to the Riverwalk and maybe the Alamo.  

My friend has lived in Texas for over 10 years and she hasn't even been to the Riverwalk. 

How is that even possible? 

I plan to set her straight. 

Happy Friday and for those of you in school already, enjoy  your weekend off! 

Bananas for Bundles

I have been super busy this week, super productive! After being lazy and unproductive the first 7 weeks of summer, I filled this week with all nighters! 

Okay, not really, I love my sleep way too much. But, in all honesty, I have worked long and hard this week. 

I am trying to make a commitment to better my products and work my TpT store more. I love what I buy from the fantastic stores and I want my products to be the same. 

Just in time for the big sale! 

Something I taught myself this week was BUNDLING!!! Bundles save money and we ALL love saving money. (well, at least I do!) I also learned about linking my products to similar products. I will post about that on a Tried it Tuesday soon. 

 I created this bundle of my factor task cards.

Exponents

Least Common Multiple

Prime Factorization 

Greatest Common Factor 

I also revamped and updated my skill cards. I bundled those as well. 

They are the same problems I had before, just redone. 

For my Texas middle school teachers, I created cards for the new TEKS we are implementing starting this year. I bundled them as well and even have a GREAT deal for Math Departments. 

I have also been scouring my own wish list. I have several things marked.

 I am getting some clip art and this as well. 

I catch myself not preparing warm ups as timely as I should. 

Well, Maneuvering the Middle has done it for me!

Don't forget, I am having a SUMMER GIVEAWAY, that ends  this Sunday. 

Winners will be announced Monday! 

Enter to win a teacher shirt and a pencil sharpener 

Click here to enter. 

Be sure to check out these new options and your own wish lists as well. It's time to get our sale on! 

Happy Friday! 

Five for Friday- CAMT 2014

I spent this week in Ft Worth at CAMT

It was awesome! 

Sunday night after checking in, we went to the Stockyards, 

ate some yummy food and saw some local sites. 

We headed back to the hotel and checked out all the sessions we had to choose from. 

 These are some of the fun ladies from my department. This picture says it all, 

WE HAD A BLAST! 

This was us walking to dinner on Monday. 

Day 1 of  CAMT: I met my favorite bloggers!!!  

Jennifer and Jaime from 4mula Fun and Miss Math Dork

Seriously, I cannot express how much I admire both of these ladies. Their blogs are awesome and 

I have used so much of their products with my students. 

Meeting them just felt right. 

Plus, I was actually the short one. That never happens when you are 5'10!! 

The same with Danielle from Live. Love. Math. 

I own her entire store, I use everything, it's amazing!!! 

She even helped my 8th grade teachers after their scores came back low. She offered, on her own, to give them resources. This is what I love about this blogging world. 

When we met, we both said, I feel like I already know you, 

She's a shorty though! HA! What I am used to!! 

I even got to attend my last session with her and actually have time to chat. It was awesome! 

I could have gone home at this moment and it would have felt completely worth while! 

I know there were more awesome bloggers there  that I missed. I wish I could have met everyone. This definitely made me want to do the next TpT conference and meet more of you wonderful bloggers! 

The one thing about CAMT is sessions are first come, first serve. This means that sometimes you do not get into a session. You learn really quickly to get there early and wait, especially if it's someone you really want to hear. 

This was the line to see Dinah Zike, day 2, an hour and a half BEFORE her session. Craziness I tell you. 

I have seen her multiple times, so I passed. 

I actually got into all but one of the sessions I wanted to go to. 

I will be blogging about the wonderful, and not so wonderful sessions I attended later in the week. 

When I wasn't in a session, I wandered the exhibits. DANGEROUS!!! 

I had a budget, but I blew it! Typical. It's a good thing my husband does NOT read this blog. 

I immediately bought the special the Math Teachers of TpT were having. 

10 AWESOME teachers on this CD!!! Can't wait to delve into it. 

I treated myself to some teacher shirts and earrings. 

Miss Math Dork made these earrings. They are soooo cute!!! 

I bought this super cute word wall cards. What a talented artist, Catnip's Word Walls.

At the last minute I bought this number line. This is not the one I bought. I bought mine for 6-8 obviously. It's still in the box though. I could have waited and let my school buy it, but I was in a shopping mood! 

These were just fun buys. I love QUIET dice and that is ALL I use in my room. 

I am excited about the self checking operation games for my students, but also my own children. I have one that starts multiplication this year. 

And that pen. I bought each of my little boys one and the great thing about little ones and they thought I brought back something magical. Best $2 spent all week! 

Yep, I went nuts and I loved it! 

I did rush home Wednesday to spend with this sweetheart. It was our wedding anniversary. I hated to be gone for a second of it, but the trip was well worth it. 

We went to dinner, with kids, to celebrate. No way were my kids letting me go out without them, they missed me too. 

I have so much to share with you about the actual conference, so I'd better get busy on that. Plus, now I am finally excited about getting prepared for this school year. It's about time, summer is ending soon!!! 

HAPPY FRIDAY ALL!