Math Card Game Ideas

When I was reading through some blogs tonight I came across this fabulous idea for a game of war on What's the Buzz - Math Fun

Which is really funny, because while I was driving home from work tonight I was trying to come up with some new math centers (addition and subtraction) and I thought up a similar game. Remove the aces and face cards from a deck of cards, and divide the cards evenly. Each player turns over two cards; if playing addition they add them up and the student with the highest sum gets to keep them. And if playing subtraction, they subtract the smaller number from the larger one, and the student with the largest difference gets to keep all the cards. Haven't tried it yet, I plan to tomorrow I'll try to let you know how it goes....

Adorable! Purseday Fun!

I love fun stuff, I was looking around for a cute bag to post and found this fabulous site Oh So Cheeky Boutique I really hope that I have some extra money to spend soon! Or that I can somehow drop a hint to one of my oh so fabulous parents...wink wink...

This one is my first choice...

With this one being a close second :-) Love it!

Here's a link to the ordering site in case your interested. Enjoy!
Cute Personalized Teacher Bags

Funny thing is... and an exciting (to me) giveaway

The last time I blogged it was about blogging and it is going to be again...

I have been reading around on some different blogs and found a very exciting giveaway to me as a teacher! So so excited to share this, Laura over at First Grade Fundamentals is doing a very exciting giveaway that I am sharing...she is giving away a gift card to one of three stores. Head over to her blog and read all about it...

Choose Your Own Giveaway

I'm really excited to be learning more about blogging. Last week I figured out how to at tabs to the top, we shall see if I can figure out how to add a blog roll...here we go...

Inspired and Challenged

Ok I've decided Blogging is AMAZING!!!!!!!!

I could sit here all night and read blogs and get new ideas...I wish I were this inspiring.

I have found many blogs, and ideas and each blog leads me to another or 10 more for that matter. Oh my goodness I'm so inspired however now I must get off and finish American Idol *scotty swoon...oh I mean I must fill out our title paperwork. :-D They accepted our offer and we should be closing on our house on the 18th of MAY!

So excited. I'll come and post some pictures soon. But now I should go fill out the paperwork.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial for really getting started blogging? Also I'd like to know some tips for personalizing my blog. I want it to be cuter. Like so many of the ones I have found. And also...hope no one minds but here are some of the blogs I'm loving tonight!

http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/ - very cute very fun ideas there is a small part of me that wishes I had more than 29 days left to implement before the end of the year...

http://aplacecalledkindergarten.blogspot.com/ - WOW...if only I'd found this sooner...did I mention very very excited about only 29 days left!

http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/ - I want to have a week to look at all the ideas and resources on this blog!

http://kindergartenworks.blogspot.com/ - egads...they are all so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh 20 minutes later after reading more on the last blog...I should go switch the laundry.

If you have an answer and/or suggestions to help my customize my blog I'd love them!

Thursday Pursday Fun :-)

So blogging is becoming a more regular thing because of these fun little twitter trends :-)

Today my purse-day post is devoted to the purse I really want at this time...mine is getting to be really sad and old so I would love to have a new purse, it's really not that expensive just have to gather the money together to get it....payday here I come :-)

Here's a website you can check out these and other fabulous 31 Products! I'm so excited to have found them!

www.mythirtyone.com/beckyt

They have so many cool products I could spend way too much money there!

My First Tuesday Shoesday Post

I'm very excited to be posting my first Tuesday Shoesday post....it sounds like such fun. This last week I've really been enjoying the boots my students have been wearing and I thought I'd take today to share a couple of those pictures with you. They are super uber cute!

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do...

Little Kid boots are so cute...

And they love showing off :-)

So adorable!

I love photography and look forward to the day when I get to have the AMAZING camera I want so I can really get those killer shots :-)

Ideas and Inspiration

I am loving reading blogs and perusing the wedding & photography blog world. It is inspiring me to attempt to become a better blogger and photographer for that matter. I've been thinking a lot lately about "what I want to do when I grow up" I think I want to do something with photography, wedding planning & things of that nature.

My first step is continue to read blogs and learn and save for a camera! I also want to create a photo blog so I can start posting some of the pictures I have taken and am taking and maybe get feedback and advise for things I can do better or different.

I LOVE taking pictures and I always have and think I may finally be at a place where I could pursue it and do something with it.

On another note, we have placed an offer on a house I don't know if I've talked about that much here...We made the offer in the middle of February and almost every week I get an email or a text from my Realtor that makes me think "Maybe we'll know this week" well we still don't know, however I did get a text this week that made me think for real "maybe this week" they asked when we want to close. My husbands response, "can we do it today" I laughed...no we can't, they haven't even told us if they are accepting our offer? Strange but I'll take it :-) so maybe the end of May (ahhh that's the end of the school year) or Beginning of June (that would be much better), we'll see what their bank says...

Well I'm off to a wedding reception...hope you all have a blessed night!