Saturday Snapshots - Chicago, Miller Park, and MMI Tease

It is unusually chilly here today, so a perfect day to catch up on the blogging.

And what better way to jump back in than with Miss Nelson and her Saturday Snapshots Linky.

 

Last Sunday I was able to cross off a visit to Miller Park from my summer bucket list.

Our Brewers have not been doing very well this year but they did eek out a win while I was in attendance - the win came after 13 innings of a 0-0 score (yawn).

Here's a pic of my friend and I having lunch at the TGIF's that overlooks the field.

It looks like we are the only fans in the stadium.  :)

Don't even get me started on the Ryan Braun situation.

 

On Monday I met some college friends in Chicago - I love the Windy City!

I would have loved to go to the SDE Conference but my district pays for few (if any) conferences.

 

Anyway, we took the train into the city and stayed at the Sofitel.

I got us rooms there on Priceline, and they were beautiful!

We took a water taxi to Navy Pier and the Willis Tower. 

 

We had dinner at the Weber Grill place, and lunch the next day at the outside cafe near Millenium Park.  My niece is interning in the city so she met us for lunch.

Fun at the Bean!

 

The next day we traveled to a friend's lakeside home, and spent the day boating and lounging.

I. Just. Love. Summer.

 

Here's what I'm working on for my Monday Made-It(MMI):

I found this at Kirkland's on clearance - it is for devices like iPads.

I thought it would be perfect for my students to use when working on the two minis I wrote grants for.

My plan is to make it match my chevron theme somehow.

Stay tuned......

 



Saturday Snapshots - Author Skype and More

Happy Saturday

I'm again joining Miss Nelson for Saturday Snapshots

 

Last Sunday I joined family members for our annual visit to the Taste of Chicago.

 

On Thursday my book club group was lucky enough to Skype with the author of the book we had selected for this month.

Leigh Newman is the author of Still Points North, and she promptly responded to the e-mail I sent through her website asking her to Skype with us.

She was in NYC and chatted with us for about 35 minutes.

I can't wait to tell my students about it!

 

We've had very hot weather this week (much like the rest of the country), and I had to sub on Friday in a Summer School class of first graders.

Our elementary schools DO NOT have air conditioning.

This was about all the little ones had the energy to do:

 

I'm working on something for my Monday Made It with these:

 

I've added a new item to my TpT and TN stores!

The monster craze is everywhere, and when I've been teaching summer school, I've often heard the kiddos talk of the summer movie that was the inspiration for this pack.

I've included lots of unique and useful items like these:

Question of the  Day chart to laminate, and update daily.

 

Punch cards for behavior, center completion, or earning rewards.  

 

 Six different kinds of passes (this is a sample of 3 of the 6).

Labels for reading response journals. Also included are labels for science, math, and writing notebooks, and dream journals!

 

This product includes lots more items (58 pages in all) for turning your classroom into SchoolTown University!

It can be found here, and is on sale through Monday!

Saturday Snapshots!

Happy Weekend!

I'm think I'm starting to keep track of what day it is by the linkies that are being held on a particular day of the week.

Just another great thing about the summer.

 

Today I joining Miss Nelson for her Saturday Snapshots Linky.

 

Here are a few shots from my week:

 

I've been subbing for Summer School in my district to earn some extra cash.

I get to pick and choose the days I want to work, and I get to see some of the other schools in my district.

On Monday my  position was "Para Security".

I got to sit at a table and question screen everyone that came through the door.

It was actually kind of boring (and I was warned it would be), but I did have my iPad with me so I did some blog stalking in between interrogating people.  :)

 

How many city workers does it take to repair a 2 foot long piece of curbing?

Four - apparently.

My dog was not happy about these guys standing around working in front of my house earlier this week.

I think the curb had been hit too many times by the snow plow, and it was beginning to crumble.

 

I had to share this (courtesy of the PIP app).

It's a picture of some flowers from our Door County trip

 

I'm working on something for Monday Made-It.

Hope it turns out the way I'm imagining.

 

I'm also putting together a new project for TpT.

Here's a sneak peak:

Coming soon to my blog and TpT store!

 

I also wanted to give a shout out to two BBF's that acknowledged by blog with the Liebster Award.

Table Talk with Carrie and Caitlin

 

Emily at Confessions of a Third Grade Teacher

 

I had already been nominated for this award last year, but it's nice to be recognized again by two wonderful blog friends!

Hope you'll check out their blogs!