Two for Tuesday (Summer Bloggin' with TTT)

As my school work load increases exponentially, I am struggling to find the time to create products or even to blog at all.  However, when I saw this link up with The Teaching Tribune I couldn't resist. So as today is Tuesday, I am following the Summer Bloggin' rules and putting up two of my resources in my TpT store on sale for 50%!

The first product I have chosen is my newest addition to my store - Counting Makes Us As Happy As Pigs In Mud! This is a selection of pig themed Maths activities using the cutest clipart from Creative Clips. Click on the image below to get it on sale for this week only.

Product number two is one of my older products - Lollypop Word Sort. This is a selection of words you can make into lollypops to use to sort into real and made up words. Great for practising those phonic skills! Click on the image below to get it on sale for this week only.

Both of these products will be 50% off for a whole week. And head over to The Teaching Tribune to find other products also on sale.

I reached 40 Bloglovin' followers this week which made me really happy, although I'm still a little way off I {heart} Recess' total of over 1000. However, to help her celebrate I have donated (along with many other bloggers) a product to her massive giveaway. Pop over to her blog to enter!

It's Currently June

It may have been the first link up I ever joined in, but it is still one of my favourites, and this month is even more special as its my birthday month! So here's my contribution to Farley's monthly link up...

Listening  - To Series 2 of the tv show 'Hustle'. I've watched them all, but thought it would be nice to go right back to the beginning and watch them again... and see if I can work out the con!

Loving - I cooked a massive dish of pasta yesterday on purpose, so that when I was shattered this evening I wouldn't have to prepare dinner and could just reheat the leftovers! Otherwise, I would be eating toast...

Thinking - June is my birthday month (let's not mention which birthday) and my parents have asked what I want for my presents. Gone are the days of barbie dolls and videos on my list, I have to come up with something though or I'm likely to get random clothes I will never wear!

Wanting  - Yesterday I started the 30 day abs challenge that is going around Facebook at the moment. Admittedly its only day 2, but I really want to stay motivated to complete it!

Needing - Someone to tackle the huge pile of marking that seems to have built up on my desk. I swear its multiplying by itself...

Summer Bucket List - Cheating here! Please refer to my previous post 'Summer Bucket List' where I linked up with Deanna Jump to write what I wanted to do this summer. 

Why don't you head on over to Oh' Boy 4th Grade and join in the fun? Don't forget her rule of 3 for commenting on others!

Summer bucket list

I'm linking up with Deanna Jump to write my to-do list for this summer. Even though summer doesn't start for me for another 5 weeks, I can still plan ahead!

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Number 1 on my list is to relax and de-stress after the school year.

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I also want to catch up on some musical watching. Hoping to get tickets to the Lion King, even though I've seen it before, I really want to watch it again!

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I want to eat a lot of dim sum when I'm visiting my parents. It's a meal I've really missed recently!

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I'm flying back to the UK for a month (so beyond excited!) and top of my list while I'm there is catching up with my friends and family.

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I also want at least one Sunday roast. Hopefully roast pork... with roast potatoes... and fresh vegetables... and gravy... yum!

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I also want to create a few products for my TpT store. I've now got 20 products in there, but want to increase this as I have loads of ideas and loads of new clipart to use!

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Graphic by Creative Clips

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While I'm in England there will be obligatory trip(s) to the Cath Kidston shop to stock up for the next year!

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I am also hoping for a weekend away with some of my UK friends so we can have a proper catch up and make up for me living so far away most of the year.

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I'm moving flat this summer, so unfortunately (as I hate it) I've also got to pack and unpack at some point!

Five for Friday time

So another week has gone by and another week closer to the end of the year, and yet the work continues to pile up!

I'm linking up again with Doodle Bugs Teaching for the fabulous Five for Friday linky party which is just so much fun if you have never tried it. I've found many of my favourite blogs to read through this link up and I'm sure a lot of my followers have found me the same way!

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I've posted off my first ever SLANT box to my new friend Amanda from His and Her Hobbies . There are no pictures as I don't spoil the surprise, but hopefully when she receives it she will have a reveal! If you haven't heard of SLANT boxes before, its run by the lovely Jameson from Lessons with Coffee and you get paired up with two people, one to send to and the other to receive from. I can't wait to get my box from Jamie at Miss Math Dork.

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In my craft club, I've been sewing bookmarks with the children. For some this has meant lots and lots of re-threading needles and untangling knotted thread, but it was worth it when my littlies manage to create pieces like this!

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As part of the school's healthy eating week, my class cut out pictures to make their own balanced diet plate. I may have created a group of monsters though as I was apparently so passionate about the need for a healthy diet, that at lunchtime they all refused the cake and asked for fruit... the entire week!

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A website recommendation that I've recently sent out to the parents of my class, Words for Life has reading tips, recommended books and downloadable activities, all split up into age groups. Go check it out!

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And last, but not least, its our half-term holiday this week (yes I know some people have finished completely, but we have another half a term to get through, so I'm happy about my week off now!) so I intend to do as little work as possible and catch up with my reading. I have 5 new books lined up and have made it my challenge for the week to finish them!

Graphic by Creative Clips

6 months + 2 days blogiversary!

So I completely missed my 6 month blogiversary, in my defence Tuesday was a very busy night for me (wrote a Maths assessment and watched multiple episodes of Mr Selfridge!) and it completely slipped my mind.

I honestly can't believe I've been doing this blogging malarky for half a year and how much I'm still enjoying it, despite the slow growth of readers and followers. I've learnt so much over the last few months and I really hope that I am bringing something (even if just a little something) to the blogging world.

Anyway to thank you all for reading my blog at all, I've got a brand new product to give away for free. Just click on the image below to go to my TpT store and download for free (in a nice round-number co-incidence, this is my 20th product uploaded to my store!)

I've linked up with Teaching Blog Addict's Freebie Friday, so head over there for more great freebies!