TpT B2S Sale & Creativity to the Core Giveaway

It's that time of year...Teacher Pay Teacher back to school sale! I know some of you have already gone back to school or will be relatively soon. ( I go back in 24 days!) Teachers Pay Teachers to the rescue with their back to school sale!

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Get your wish list ready before the sale on August 4th and 5th.

ALSO.........

I am celebrating with Meridith from Creativity to the Core to celebrate a huge milestone.

Take a look at all of these goodies you could win!

AND... Winner's Choice from my store and all of these fabulous Teacher Pay Teacher sellers. 

You only have until Saturday to enter.

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Good luck!

The Teacher Talk Giveaway

Hey all!

I'm writing a quick post to tell you about a giveaway that I am participating in. The lovely Jess from The Teacher Talk blog has reached 2,000 followers on Instagram! (Wowza!)

She is throwing a HUGE giveaway with prizes from 21 teachers, including one from yours truly. :)

The giveaway ends today! Head over to The Teacher Talk blog to enter to win!

And the Winner is...

My Birthday Extravaganza ended July 5th but I did not get home from the lake until yesterday. Here are a couple of pictures from my trip. It was so much fun!

My sweetie was enjoying himself.

And now on to the Giveaway. The winner is...

Thank you for all that participated in my Giveaway, freebies, and sent me birthday wishes.

Birthday Extravaganza Day 4

Hey all!

Have you been enjoying the Birthday Extravaganza? I have really enjoyed your comments and love! Thank you for the birthday wishes as well.

Today is the last day of my Birthday Extravaganza.

For Day 4 everything in my Teachers Pay Teachers store is 20% off and my Giveaway ends today!

Have you entered the Giveaway yet? There are only a couple of hours left. I will post the results Sunday night PST when I get home from camping.

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Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thank you for celebrating my 30th birthday with me.

Birthday Extravaganza Day 3

Happy 4th of July!

Today is Day 3 of my Birthday Extravaganza!

Did you all snag the awesome freebie yesterday? I hope you enjoy it.

Here is the freebie for Day 3.

All you have to do is go to my Facebook page. Like my page (if you haven't already) and download the freebie. This freebie will only be free TODAY.

So hurry quick and tell your friends about this awesome freebie.

Have you entered my Giveaway yet? July 5th is the last to enter.

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Enjoy your 4th of July and be safe!

Birthday Extravaganza Day 2

Today is my actual birthday! I am turning 30! Eeek! How did that happened?


It is also Day 2 of my Birthday Extravaganza!

One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to play scavenger hunts. I'm sure all of you have played before but just in case you haven't, there are items hidden all around a certain area. You are given clues to help you find each item.

Well I will not take you on a true scavenger hunt but I thought it would be fun to do a small modified one.

So...this is how my scavenger hunt works for today.

One of the products in my Teachers Pay Teachers store is FREE for today only! The "hunt" part is that I am not going to tell you which product is free. But I will give you 1 hint...it's math related. You have until tonight (July 3rd) at 10pm to find the freebie.

Don't forget about the Giveaway I am holding either. It ends July 5th!

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Birthday Extravaganza Day 1

In my family birthdays are a big deal and it doesn't stop once you get older either.

So in honor of my birthday (which is on July 3rd) I am throwing a party. Well a online giveaway/freebie party and all of you are invited.

Each day, for the next 4 days, I will having some sort of deal or sale for a limited time. I will be using Instagram, Facebook, and this blog to announce each of the deals.

Today's giveaway is...

through Instagram.

Today you have the chance to win my Back to School Unit before you can buy it just by reposting the imagine below, tagging me @msrichardssmusings, and 2 of your friends.

AND there is more...

I am also throwing a Giveaway for one lucky follower to win a $25 gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers and 1 product from my store chosen by the winner. Giveaway ends July 5th!

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Don't forget to tell all of your friends and check back tomorrow for a new freebie or giveaway!

It's Giveaway Time!

The next couple of weeks I will be enjoying the lovely historic landmarks of Europe. If I don't respond to you in  timely manner, please be patient. I am not sure what type of internet connection I will have but I will definitely respond to all of the emails and comments when I get back.

I really wanted to let you know about this wonderful giveaway that I am participating in while I am away. Jamie from Bright Concepts 4 Teachers and Aimee from Primary Speaking have reached 500 followers! Congratulations ladies! They are going to have a giveaway spanning over several days. Who does like multiple chances to win? Make sure you enter before it ends.

We have a winner!

Happy Monday!

Whew! It has been hot up here these last couple of days. Now, I say this with a caveat...I live in Washington State. Our summers are typically a balmy 75-80 degrees all summer long. When the temperature starts to get closer to 90 we start melting up here. There is not a fan left on the shelves in any of the stores in a 50 mile radius. I know this is winter weather for some of you, but this little Pacific Northwest girl is baking.

To try to beat the heat, I figured I would start working on organizing all the papers I brought home from school a couple of weeks ago.

I'm pretty sure I made it worse. I am one of those people that have to take everything out first and then put them in the correct spot. This just means it will be a little messy until I get everything in it's correct spot. How do you organize all your center papers and activities? Do you use a filing cabinet or binders? I am thinking that I would love to change how I organize everything but I am not sure what I am going to do yet.

My mom took pity on me and let me come over for dinner. She lives in a neighboring town about 20 minutes away. It is consistently about 10 degrees cooler at her house.

Yesterday, I was contacted by Jessica from the Literacy Spark to say that I won her 200 follower giveaway! I got some great prizes. It felt like Christmas in July. I can't wait to use all of them.

In other news, my 100 Follower Giveaway ended yesterday. Andrea K you are one lucky girl! You have won my 100 Follower Giveaway. You should be getting an email shortly with the details.
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I hope everyone is staying cool.

Five for Friday (June 28)

Hey All! It's Friday! I have been officially out of school for a whole week. Ahh....so wonderful! I am linking up with Kacey at Doddle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday.

One

I got out of school on Thursday and I immediately went to a conference 2 days later. My state offers a wonderful program called Jump Start for teachers that are in the process of getting their National Board Certificates. They jam all this great information on how to approach your National Boards into 4-days. As you can imagine, it ends up being 4 very LONG days but definitely worth the effort.

Day 1: Homework already.

Two

My conference was about 6 hours away from my house. Luckily I have a couple of friends in the area. After a full day of jamming my brain full of standards, assessments, and rubrics I was at least able to spend the evenings with my friends I haven't seen in a while. One of my friends just got this adorable kitten.

So cute!

Three

While I was at my conference I also found out there was a Hobby Lobby just down the road. Unfortunately there is not one by where I live. After going, I realized perhaps that was a good thing. I was barely able to contain myself. There were so many cute things there. I'll just have to plan a trip back so I can go again. 

I am planning on using some of this fabric to cover my bulletin boards. 

Four

I get to spend my summer going through a little light reading. Surprisingly I can't wait to get started. I have heard about some of the books from other teachers but I haven't had time to read the books yet. I'm excited to see how I can use them in my classroom next year.

Five

There are only 2 more days to enter my 100 follower giveaway. There are a TON of great prizes. Don't forget to enter. 

Happy Friday!

Are You Lovin' Some Blogs?

Hey all!

I am fortunate to live in a state that has a 4-day conference set up for teachers that are interested in getting their National Board Certificate. I got out of school last Thursday and hopped in the car for a 6 hour drive on Sunday.

Today was Day 1! Oi! Information overload. I even have homework. I still have 3 more days and a ton of information to get through.

In other news....Have you heard? Google is getting rid of their news feed starting July 1! (Ahhh!!!)  Before you freak out....I have great news.... check out Bloglovin. Have you heard of this website yet? The sign up with this site is done within 10 minutes AND Bloglovin will transfer all the blogs you follow with Google Reader. Sound simple? (It is!) Tori from Tori's Teacher Tips has wonderful step by step instructions on her blog. I'm linking up with Tori for this wonderful linky.

Don't forget to check out my giveaway before June 30th. There are a bunch of great bloggers that donated products.

I am dead on my feet. Hopefully I don't dream of National Board Entries too. Haha