Santa Might Be Looking for Me...

Hi FRIENDS! I've decided not to start my blog post with it's been awhile because that seems to be the way it is. It's the busiest, craziest time of year and all I want is to cherish every minute and slow time down <->mainly, just on the weekends. Those are the only days that are fast.

Are you wondering why Santa is looking for me??? I have been busy crafting, building, sanding, sawing, painting, and glueing things. There is a chance I may me mistaken for an elf. Seriously though, it's a happy time out there in the garage.

All of this started with a little run around the neighborhood on trash day a few weeks ago. his summer my best friend made the hubs and I go to someone's trash once because they were throwing cabinets away. She has this gift for seeing beauty when others see trash. She turned the cabinets into beautiful pictures and quotes for other people. Sooo...back to my run in the neighborhood. I noticed someone throwing out cabinet doors (apparently everyone is doing it in my neighborhood). I came back later with Lil' Miss and had her help me load the car up. This is where is gets really awkward...the people throwing them out were home. Yea. And they started talking with me. EMBARRESSING!! We exchanged numbers and they saved more for me and helped me load them in my car the next visit.

Well, I started turning cabinet doors into treasures for others as Christmas gifts. I've had so much fun.

I even made the Christmas blocks for teacher gifts from our fence scraps. Ya'll....the crafting just CAN'T. BE. CONTAINED.

And personally I think everyone needs a Praise and Prayer board. This one is not for us BUT I plan on making a personal one. We should always have a PRAISE.

BUT WAIT THERE'S more...I have decided to put an end to the marker madness in my classroom. Do your kids lose their dry erase markers several times throughout the week? I seriously don't know what they do with them but I've got the answer.

A special place for everyone's marker. I have never used a chisel bit before until this weekend BUT friends, I plan on creating lots of things with holes. I don't know what yet but it was a fun little tool and needs to be used more.

After all of this work in the garage I decided to end my weekend on the computer making a fun little game for my kids to use as a review this week. You can pick it up at my tpt store this week for FREE.

I'll be back later with more details on this activity and some other FREEBIES.

I Monday MADE IT!!

Hi Sweet and Sassy Friends!! I have some fun pictures of some things that I have made just in time for school to start and Monday Made It. {insert cheering and clapping} Okay, first.......I didn't actually make the bench BUT I did repaint it and get it classroom ready. That should totally count and the fact that I nearly took out the neighbor's window during the process. {if your my neighbor reading this--I'm sorry and it's okay} Here is the before: {donated by a dear friend-LOVE her} I need you to picture this: I'm on my front porch with the lid of the bench resting nicely on the back of the bench (easier for sanding). I'm using a handy-dandy electric sander. Super powerful. I place the sander on the lid and push the button..........OH. MY. WORD. the board shoots across the yard towards the neighbors window. YIKES!! A little embarressing but no one saw, so I pick it up bring it back and this time I hang on to it....

{FREEBIE} Friday!

These summer Fridays are coming and going a little too fast. I met with some of my teamies this week. Actually, it was 1st and 2nd grade......it's always nice to catch up and share ideas. We ate, talked, ate, stressed, laughed, and talked some more. Loved it! A get together just doesn't seem appropriate without a little back to school goodie, right?! And who doesn't LOVE some Bath and Body lotion??!! If you need to throw together a quick little gift please feel free to use these tags. { click here } Hop over to TBA to check out other { FREEBIES } this Friday. Have a SWEET day, friends!!

All Things Techy...and FREE

Well ya'll, I have so many wonderful things going on in the classroom and it's all things techy. I cannot wait to share a few of them with you. If you haven't stopped by our class blog then you should. { Mrs. Kirby's Kid's Blog } These authentic pieces of writing just make me so stinkin' happy. I constantly check my email throughout the weekend to see if they have written anything. Not because I told them to but because they want to. (insert happy teacher dance right here) I took my very first student bloggers to the school board and they told our school board what a blog is and why they think it's important. I gave each one of the kids that presented a small journal, sticky notes and pens to write their ideas about things they'd like to blog about. This is what their journals look like 2 days later.... These kids cannot get enough!! Look at all their THOUGHTS... BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Look at...

Keeping Up With Kirbys

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