BUSY.......and a Freebie

I seriously feel like I'm spinning.......things have been CU.RAZY. busy. I have wanted to sit down and blog but every time I have a chance to sit down I doze off. Pure exhaustion, folks. Beginning of the year is kicking my booty!! I think we have scheduled more meetings the first few weeks of school this year than our entire last school year. We started new benchmark testing (I LOVE all of the info) but I think I need a few more hours in the day and a secretary!! On a positive note, I have retrained my bladder to hold for more than 8 hours and my wonderfully sweet husband is making fabulous dinners for our family. (we'd probably starve right now if it were up to me) So thankful for him!

About a month before school started I tried to start getting things together for our fable and fairytale unit. I would love for you to visit my TPT store and pick it up for FREE. I just ask that you leave me some sweet notes if do.

This unit has anchor charts, phonics activities, storyboards for fables, and fables for your kiddos to read. I hope these are helpful to you.

Have SWEET dreams, friends!!

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