Monday Meet Me (Summer Bloggin' with TTT)

This week I thought I would try and join in with another day of The Teaching Tribune's Summer Bloggin' week long linky party and so have gone for 'Monday Meet Me'.

I teach in Year 1 which is 5/6 year olds in their second (first for some!) year of school. 

I have moved abroad to teach in my current school and although its been nearly 2 years I still can't quite believe I did it!

I watch lots of old British tv shows so I don't feel homesick! Currently still working my way through Hustle, but got Broadchurch ready to go once I'm finished.

I listen to soundtracks from musicals mostly! Wicked, Legally Blonde, Shrek, Les Mis... just some of my favourites!

I read pretty much everything going. If I lost my Kindle I would be devastated! At the moment I'm reading the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. 

I do far too much procrastinating! Such as writing blog posts when I should be writing reports!!

Why don't you link up too? I love finding out more about my fellow bloggers!

Saturday Sell It

I'm joining in with a brand new linky party today! It's hosted by Kristin from Teaching in a Nutshell. She is starting a link up called 'Saturday Sell It' and even though it is Sunday, I thought I would join in!

The product I'm going to highlight is my brand new addition to my TpT store - Chameleon Tricky Words.

This is a full set of tricky words from the UK Letters and Sounds programme. They are colour coded by Phase and all the words from Phases 2, 3, 4 and 5 are included. There are also two choices of colour for blank flashcards, so that you can write your own words. 

Leave a comment and tomorrow I'll choose one random winner to receive a copy for free! 

Edit: Winner chosen. Congratulations commenter number 2 - Susan K! 

Let's have Five for Friday

A link up with Doodlebugs with Five for Friday.

Here are my 5 moments of randomness this week.

My TA made this display for me. I asked for a seaside from the past. I got actual sand on my wall. Amazing. Love it!

I started some reading journals a few weeks ago as part of my Challenge Area and they are very popular! Look at this lovely independent writing.

My craft club made some fossil dinosaur pictures this week. An excellent use for the huuuuge box of art straws in my cupboard!

I found these at my local savers store, I couldn't resist buying them, but need to come up with a genuine educational idea to use them!

Have you checked out The Teaching Tribune's Summer Bloggin' linky? I joined in for Two For Tuesday. Today it's Free Font Friday! I've already grabbed the free font and I'll be checking back to see what other great freebies I can get. 

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!