Fun with Bottle Caps!

Good evening!  I hope all of you are having a fabulous week so far.  I'm officially sick of rain.  I have a beautiful crystal clear swimming pool in my backyard, but it won't stop raining!  I'm becoming cranky and grumpy.  Hopefully I'll be able to soak up some rays tomorrow and get back to some trashy romance novels.  I have my priorities, right?  Ha!

I'm babysitting for my friend who is Florida this week. Her doggy, Fletcher, is PRECIOUS and is Bella's boyfriend.  They wake me nightly chasing each other around the kitchen table.  This was my view as I ate dinner tonight.

They look like they are STARVING, don't they?  Haha!

About a month before school let out, I noticed my kiddos were throwing lots of water bottle lids away.  I let them have water bottles at their seats because our classroom is honestly about a football field away from the restroom/water fountain.  I saw a pin using bottle caps and had the kiddies (and their parents) start saving for me.  Unfortunately I didn't apparently pin that pin so my brain flat-lined on what to with them.  Oh, bless me...

This was my water bottlecap booty before.

My first project I decided to do with the caps was a making words activity.  I cleaned the caps and then applied 3 sets of alphabet stickers.  I wanted to be sure we had plenty of letters.  Then I Modge Podged the stickers on so my little darlings won't be able to peel off the stickers.

This is how they turned out!

This is how the sheet will be used.

Here is the sheet if you'd like to use it! I know it's not lined up perfectly.  My first graders won't care!  Mostly I'm very particular, but not tonight it seems.  C'est la vie! Click the pic to download (if Google Docs is cooperating).

I had plenty of caps left over so I decided to use them to help my firsties practice their numbers.  Several had much trouble this year identifying numbers after 50 and especially after 100.  I just wrote the numbers on with a sharpie and then Modge Podged over the number to prevent rubbing off.  The idea is that they should be able to put the caps on this chart in order and then write them on another chart.  

I'm very frustrated with this chart.  It needs to be a bit bigger for the caps to fit perfectly, but I absolutely could NOT get the boxes any bigger. I took the margins away.  I tried it in Word and in PowerPoint.  Grr!! I'm sorry!  I will take this to school and slightly blow it up before I laminate these.  Give me some tips if you know how I could have made them bigger.  I hope you can use it anyhow!  Click the pic for the Google Doc.  I hope it works..Google Docs has not been nice to me tonight!

All in all, I had a very productive day!  I didn't even nap today!  Haha!

Are you working on any projects?  

Much love,

Are you a REAL Teacher?

Ah...Pinterest...how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways!  I am joining a great linky party hosted by Falling into First.  The idea is to post pics of your MUST DO pins for the summer.  I love this!  Click her button to join the linky!

Tattletale, tattletale, hang your britches by a nail!  Good grief, my kids drove me absolutely CRAZY with tattling this year.  Even my sweet little Tattle the Turtle didn't help.  I'm going to try this one for next year.  I'll have to hit up some yard sales to find a cheap old phone.  I got rid of my landline forever ago.  I pinned this from Second Grade Sugar and Spice.  She listed another source, but I couldn't find this pic on that blog anywhere.  Maybe I'm blind lol.

I had a Birthday Box this year, and the kiddos loved it.  However, sometimes they took FOREVER to choose something.  I also had to keep it stocked with items.  The Birthday Box had things in it that were too big for the Treasure Box (which I'm also phasing out).  I'm trying to simplify my life.  I saw this on Reagan's site and fell in love!  I'm not sure if I'm going to do Pixie Sticks or not but something similar. Click the pic for a direct link to lots of her classroom photos.

So...what are your MUST DO pins?

Currently--Wish you were here!

Happy Tuesday, friends!  I'm coming to you from Panama City Beach (the nice residential area--NOT the Spring Break crazy end).  My teacher friends and I have been coming down here when school gets out for about 5 years now.  It's a gorgeous beach house!  I'll have to post pics so you can see what an oasis it is.  The owner calls us his Tennessee Teachers lol.

Anyhoo...it's Currently time! Link up with Farley at Oh' Boy 4th Grade!

Do you ever just look at things and think that can't be spelled right?  I'm looking at military and thinking it can't be right..must be the font!

I'm on Book Three of the Shades of Grey books.  They have been an interesting read.  I wish sex really was ALWAYS that good LOL!

Have a good day!  I'll gaze at the waves and wish you were here.
Much loves,

Obsession Confession

You are an obsession, you're my obsession, what do you want me to do to make you FOLLOW me...  Haha, couldn't resist!  I'm joining Bonnie over at Living a Wonderful Life in her first ever linky party!

So I have tons of obsessions....guys in uniform, my dog, Snoopy stuff, baskets, scrapbook paper, and on I could go.  But the following are the biggies today!

Books!  I am sooo obsessed with books!  I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and enjoy it, but I will admit that I still like to have a "real" book in my hand.

These are my To Be Read books!  Yikes!

This is the bookshelf that takes up most of one wall in my guest room.  I have already read all of these and should clean them out..but...but...but....I can't! See my Trixie Belden collection down in the bottom left?  Ah, memories!

Double-Walled Water Tumblers. Ok, call me CRAZY but I can't stop buying these!  They come in such cute colors and patterns!  The red polka dot is my absolute favorite, but I'm using the green one today.  I'm doing much better about drinking my water like a good girl.

Southern Sweet Tea Water Enhancer.  I used to be completely and absolutely addicted to sweet tea...especially from McDonald's.  Oh, my!  I couldn't get through a day without one!  I gave it up for Lent year before last and wasn't quite so addicted but still had a problem.  Then I found this stuff!  Y'all..it is the best thing EVAH!!  I drink my water, and it tastes like I'm being naughty!

The Walmart brand is the best!

And last but certainly not least.....SHOES!!!
I have more shoes than any one person should have.  I ashamed to count them. I have turned my smallest guest room into the "closet room".  Thank goodness I did or there wouldn't be anywhere for my shoes!  These wedges are my faves right now because they give me height without making me feel like I'm gonna break my clumsy butt!  I have a tendency to buy every color of shoes I love.  Oh, help me..lol.

What's YOUR obsession??
Much love,

Planning, Pinning, Printing and POOLing!

Happy summer, friends!  I cannot believe I have been on summer break for exactly one week.  Yikes!  Time just flies by!  I've been able to not fall into a summer slug/hobo mode {yet} and have gotten lots of school projects done.

I spent most of the weekend blogstalking the "Back to School" labels on my favorite blogs. {Isn't blogstalking one word?  Blogger doesn't think so lol.} I even hit the jackpot and found a Back to School linky party from last summer.  So my printer is overheating, my TPT wishlist is up to 92 items (ha!), and my brain is swimming with all of the things I pinned!  I'm excited for the new year already!

If I'm not pinning, printing, or planning then I have been lounging by my pool.  I have finished two of my beloved vampire romance novels and two bottles of wine.  :-)  Ha, not a bottle a book, I swear!

Tonight's little project is to do "surgery" to the books in my Book Hospital.

Now that I've been exposed to all you awesomely creative bloggers out there, my sign looks way shabby (those are band-aids, by the way)!  It always breaks my heart when my books get damaged and NO ONE TELLS ME!  I know they are afraid I'll get mad at them if they rip a page or it falls out.  I explain to them that this basket are where the "hurt" books go to get "surgery" to fix them right up.  At the beginning of the year, I make a big deal about it with latex gloves and a doctors mask and let them watch me fix them.  After that, they are really good about making sure I know about rips and tears.  Haha, almost too good!  Sometimes they put books in that just have a teeny tiny tear.

Off to surgery, have a blessed night!