Hiking, an Award, and a Hop!

Hi All,

It's a lovely Sunday morning and I HURT ALL OVER!!  I went hiking yesterday to the Cascades (beautiful waterfall in Giles County, Virginia), and my knees hate me.  However, it was very pretty and I did have a good time, so it was worth it.

Anyway, I have a few shout outs to throw out.  I wan to say THANK YOU to Taylor over at Baking, Crafting, Teaching...Oh My! for giving me the Versatile Blogger Award!

The rules are to:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award (DONE!)
2. Link back to them (DONE!)
3. Select 15 awesome blogs to give it to (well, 7)
4. Let them know they won the award (right after this)
5. Tell those you awarded seven things about yourself (YUP!)

Because I am super new to this, many people already have this award, so I will try to find as many as I can to award this to!  Second, since I did a lovely Tell Me More linky party with Amy last week, I will just send them a link :)  Here we go!

1. Courtney at Classroom Snapshots
2. Stephanie at The Secret Life of a Teacher
3. Courtney at Flocking to Fifth
4. Ashley at That's So Second Grade 
5. Jeannie at Classroom Couture
6. From the Desk of... 
7. Kerri and Lindsay at Teacher Bits & Bobs

That's it, I'm stopping at seven...that took almost an hour!  Anyway, congratulations you guys!

Next up is a Blog Hop!  Kelley at Teacher Idea Factory is having a Rocking Resources: Things you can't Live Without Linky Party.

So here goes....

Things I can't live without.....

1. Felt Tipped Pens - I love these pens!  They are great for grading, drawing, writing, etc.!  They don't bleed through papers or stay on hands too long!  I always buy 2 or 3 packs a year, because I keep losing them!

2. Paper Cutter - I really can't live without this!  It saves so much time cutting out things.

3. Laminator - Again, I don't what I would do without this.  I don't even know how much time I spend laminating and cutting things out in front of the TV.

4. Agenda/Lesson Planner - I would be lost without this thing.  I've had my kids scour the room looking for "Mrs. Love's agenda!"

5. Scholastic Printables - In a pinch or need work fast for a sub, these are perfect.  You can find just about anything here!

What can't you live without?

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!

My First Award!

I know I'm not supposed to blog more than once a day; however, I got an award today!

It's my very first one!  Gretchen from Always a Lesson gave it to me!!  I'm so excited.  So the rules I have to follow for this award are to:

1.) Follow the person that gave me the award (DONE!)
2.) Link back to the person who gave me the award (DONE!)
3.) Pass the award to 15 more people! (Working on it!  So many blogs already have this award and I'm so new to this!)

So CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 15 AWESOME BLOGS BELOW!

1. Primary Possibilities

2. The {Mis}Adventures of First Grade

3. Kickin' it in Kinder

4. Fantastic Fifth Grade

5. Lesson Plans and Lattes

6. Little Treasures

7. Doodle Bugs

8. Teaching in High Heels

9. Hanging with Mrs. Cooper

10. Ladybug's Teacher Files

11. Splish! Splash! Ms. Lander's Class

12. Adventure in Sixth

13. Living a Wonderful Life

14. Surviving the First Year

and last but certainly not least

15. Paper, Pencils, and Books, Oh My!

Congratulations again you guys!