Winner and A Pep Talk

Hey everyone! Sorry I didn't post the winner last night,  but here is the winner from the "All You Need is Love!"

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I will be emailing you soon!!!

And I wanted to show you something that is one of my NEW favorite videos.

Today our principal showed us this video at our faculty meeting. I just love her - she's so good about trying to keep up the morale. You seriously need to watch this - it made me laugh so hard, and cry too....but I fell in love!

That's it for tonight my friends. Short and sweet.

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What we've been up to and a Video Tutorial: Re-sizing Clip Art

you know - it ALWAYS happens!

There are times when I don't really have anything to post and I RACK my brain trying to think of something to share with you...lol

and then other times??? I have SOOOO many ideas and thought to share, that I can't ever seem to get caught up....

But first, I wanted to say THANK YOU for all the love on my Monday Menu post yesterday :)

I'll be sure to show you another recipe next Monday.

Back to school.

So here's our writing we did on our first week back...

They had to write about their favorite memory, something they learned, and what they HOPE to learn in 2013, with a starter and closing sentence, of course. Then, we used the (only PART of) patterns I found from The Glyph Girls freebie - check it out HERE

In math, last week, we moved into learning about hundreds place

They are so good now that I give them a mystery number like this:

6+800+40

and they can tell me, without even thinking about it, that it is 846!

I'm super proud!!!

so, we've changed out the sheets in our Number of the Day folder that we do....

Check out my pack 

And we've been reviewing rounding - one of their centers has been my Rounding with Jack and Jill

Check out my pack 

Moving on to Reading centers....

This week is a review week, so for their word wall center, I wanted for them to do something different...

but first, I want to show you how well I'm keeping up with my word wall!!

I'm SOOO proud of myself!!

Over the summer, one of my goals was to work on my word wall...that was ALWAYS my weakest link. I sent out an S.O.S and so many blogging friends came to my rescue!!

Lori sent me a picture of her word wall, and I LOVED it, so I decided to go forth with it, and I love it!

My only problem is that since i don't have any wall space, I had to use the space under my wall, and I'm VERY QUICKLY running out of space... in fact, I HAVE run out of space for some of the letters...

So I think I'm going ot have to take some down, but I really don't want to because we refer to it ALL the time when we write....

Any suggestions?!??! I really am stumped...

Anyway, for one of their reading centers, I gave them graph paper, and they had to write the words, correctly with tails and hats (what do you call them??) taking up TWO boxes and the "shorts" taking up only one box. Then, outlining them like the words on are on the word wall. Apparently, this is a harder skill than I thought it was going to be, because I've had to have most of the ones who have done it already, redo it...lol

I'll do this again when we get to perimeter, so they can find the perimeter of the words. But we're not there yet.

And one of the other centers I wanted to share with you was a great find! It's from Michelle, over at Teach123 - it's her Arctic version of Read, Trace, Draw (check it out in my visual plans post)

I think I'm addicted to these now - haha! I might need them for all the "seasons."

and ONE last thing!

I had such great "reviews" from my last video - on how to insert your name on a picture for your blog, that I am doing another one for something I get asked a lot. 

HOW do you resize your clip art on your products so it doesn't look like this....

or this....

poor kitty - sorry Ashley!

(but thank you for making such a CUTE kitty!)

So here it is, a quick video tutorial on how to resize clip art - there are few different tricks I show you, so check it out, and let me know what you think!

Re-sizing the clip art to keep it from "squishing."

Want to see more techy posts?? go check out my girl Katie's Linky party!

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Video Tutorial: Putting blog names on pictures

So today's post is my very first video tutorial.

But first....

The winner of my facebook giveaway for my Bear Snores On pack was Lisa R.!!
You can still check out the pack HERE.

Ok -
let me paint how my Monday planning-at-home-day went for ya...

I woke up was making my coffee...
All of a sudden, I hear Brooklynn laughing and then something hitting the tile.

Yep .

My phone. Now, I have a Samsung Galaxy, which I LOOOOVE!!

but when I picked it up, THIS is what it looked like


ugh. And guess who doesn't have insurance on her phone???
Really?? With a one year old and 3 year old you don't have insurance on your phone?? Yeah... I know.

Oddly enough, I could still use it.

Well, then I went to go make my dinner for that night - it was a crockpot meal (shhh... don't tell the hubs, he HATES crockpot meals - he says they taste different. Anyone else's husband say this?? It's so weird to me). Well, I went to get the meat, and i opened the fridge that was in the garage, and ewwwwwww!!! The meat was expired by like FOUR days - bleh!! Right in the trash. Man, what a WASTE of money!

THEN, throughout the day, we were outside on the back patio playing, and then I look over and see Autumn doing this....

Yes. Autumn had busted through the screen on the porch door. Le sigh....

AND this was also the day that Brooklynn was at her worst for teething. She was SO miserable :(

I had to carry her around singing "you are my sunshine" over and over to her.

But can I say? I was NOT mad at the day. I don't know why or how...lol. But I wasn't. 

AND the first few days back to work have been AWESOME! My kids are behaving so well and I am getting a lot accomplished. I'm just so impressed with them!

Anyway, getting to the REAL reason for the post....

My VERY FIRST VIDEO TUTORIAL!

 I want to give a BIG shout out to Tessa from Tales from Outside the Classroom, for showing me how to do these video tutorials! I'm addicted to them now!! haha!
(so let me know if there's anything you want a video on!)

I've had a lot people ask me how I put my blog name on my pictures (like on the picture below)

So, that's what today's tutorial is on.

Hope it helps!!

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