An Award, a Giveaway, and a Blog Hop! Oh My!

I got an AWARD! 

First, I want to thank Kelly Teach for giving me this lovely award!  This award goes to blogs with fewer than 200 followers.  So I'm passing the love (no pun intended!).  The rules are:

1. Copy and paste award on your blog.
2. Thank the giver and link back to them.
3. Reveal 5 other bloggers and let them know by commenting on their blog.

This award goes to:

• The {Mis}Adventures of First Grade
• That's So Second Grade!
• Two Tacky Teachers
• Fifth Grade Fancy
• The Elementary Adventure

Congratulations you guys!

Second, Ashley over at Just Reed is having a GIVEAWAY!  So head over there and check it out.  She is giving away an Erin Condren Lesson Planner.  I honestly had no idea what that was so I went and searched for it.  It is a wickedly cool lesson book!  Because I am obsessed with office supplies and the like, I had to enter!  You should too!

Third, Janis from Grade Three is the Place for Me, is having a Newbie Blog Hop.  

So I figured "why not?"  I want more people reading my blog :)  So the questions are:

1. What state you are in
2. Your current teaching position
3. Your teaching experience
4. When you started blogging
5. Share a blogging tip/blogging resource

Right then,

1. VIRGINIAN!
2. Fifth Grade is awesome :)
3. Just finished my second year
4. Technically since 2009, but really this past June
5. The 3am Teacher pulled me into all this!  She has an awesome blog, clip art, and frames!  She also has fun little tutorials (that even I can follow) on how to create buttons for you blogs and such.

Okay, that was a very long post for me.  However, do and check these blogs out; they're pretty fabulous!