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Mar 28, 2015

2nd Annual Spring Teacher Blogger Meetup

Well, I thought last year's Teacher Blogger Meet-up in French Lick, Indiana was a blast...but this year was even better!!! You aren't going to believe all of the fun we had!

Thank you to Teachers Pay Teachers and GoNoodle for sponsoring the Teacher PJ Party!

What an amazing INSPIRATION all of these teachers are! I was so excited to meet a few favorites! Who do you recognize?

Jessica Tobin from Second Grade Nest and Miss DeCarbo {LOVE}

Fellow Indiana blogger: Mel D. From Seusstastic Classroom Inspirations!

Fellow Indiana Bloggers: Brenda Frady, Jenny Garwood, and Hilary Gard

Primary Inspired, Luckeyfrog's Lilypad, Second Grade is Out of This World

More Indiana Bloggers--and the BRAINS and HEART behind the whole weekend.

Thank you to Brittany Banister and Holly Ehle!

Mrs. Banister's Kindergarten Kids and Mrs. Ehle's Kindergarten Connections

Amazing ladies!

Did I mention that we also got to meet Deanna Jump, Dee Dee Wills, and Kim Adsit!? Can't even explain how sweet and wonderful all three of these ladies are!

Thank you to all of the companies that donated goodies and prizes to our meetup. It was amazing that these companies knew teachers were coming together and didn't think twice about sending us amazing gifts.

THANK YOU!!!!!

Lakeshore, Vera Bradley, Scentos, Creative Teaching Press, SDE, Teachers Pay Teachers, and Erin Condren!

To see everyone else's posts about the weekend, see the link up below! Have fun visiting all of the other bloggers and finding some new blogs to follow!

Also, ENTER TO WIN! If you'd like to win THIS awesome giveaway, enter below! (Keep scrolling down!)

Here's what you can win!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

An InLinkz Link-up

Mar 22, 2015

2015 Teacher Tool Gift Exchange

This past weekend I went back to French Lick, Indiana for the 2nd Spring Teacher Blogger Meet-Up! What a blast! There were twice as many bloggers there this year and we had so much fun. Today I'm going to share the teacher tool that I received in the gift exchange. So much fun!

I really loved the view that I had because INSPIRATION was right behind these bloggers. :)

Flair Pens are a huge hit with teachers and I sure was glad that I got a set because that's what I gave as my Teacher Tool gift too! So funny!

Thoughtful Liz Wimp from Mrs. Wimp's Firsties was the genius behind making sure I got more Flair Pens!!! :)

Be sure to check out her blog too when you have time!

Here is our small group after exchanging gifts! We had four groups like this throughout the room exchanging, so I can't wait to see what everyone else got through this linky! Head over to Miss DeCarbo's blog below to see everyone else that is participating!!

P.S. Yes, I did get to MEET Christina DeCarbo! Love her products and love her!! :)

An InLinkz Link-up

Jan 13, 2015

Spring Blogger Meetup is Coming!

Last year, Tales from the First Grade and I headed south for our first "blogger meetup". What an awesome time!

This year, we are ao excited to head back! Ehle Kindergarten has started organizing the meetup for this year and we are thrilled! Here is some of the info from Ehle Kindergarten's blog and how you can get more information about it!

Apr 5, 2014

Spring Blogger Meet-Up Blog Hop

I've already posted about the awesome Spring Teacher Blogger Meet-Up that we had in March in French Lick, Indiana. Now, for even more details and chances for you to join in on the fun we had! Plus, you can see EVERYONE that was included by joining this amazing Blog Hop that Mrs. Pauley and Holly Ehle have put together! You are not going to be believe all of the amazing teachers that you are going to find through this Blog Hop!

One of the fun activities that we did at the Meet-Up was that we brought a favorite teacher tool that we love to use in our own classroom and we'd like to share/swap with another teacher. We had a ton of fun with this. After passing and swapping the wrapped gifts over and over, I'd like to share the teacher tool that I ended up with.

Dorothy Wilson over at Twenty-Something Teacher Tales put together this adorable little bucket of "Tools for Teaching." You can see the full description below. Who doesn't love Expo markers, hand santizer, and Starbucks!?! Oh wait....and CHOCOLATE. Notice, there aren't any pictures of the chocolate. You can see them at the very bottom of the bucket, if you look closely.

Dorothy's Tools for Teaching were such a creative idea and a good reminder to take care of myself, spoil my students, and coffee is for teachers!!! (Love Starbucks!) Thank you Dorothy!

Also, due to all of Holly's hard work, there were tons of great door prizes! Look what I won!

$25 to Teachers Pay Teachers! (I've already spent it of course! Thank you, thank you, thank you!)

Now, although there were a lot of prizes at this EPIC Meet-Up, we did learn a few things! It was a pretty open session and there weren't any scheduled or planned speakers, but instead, anyone who wanted to share tips and tricks, could do just that. I loved this social, meet-up type format because you know how teachers always sit and talk anyway! Well, we were allowed to!

My three biggest Take-Aways from this Meet-Up:

1. NEW FRIENDS! Meeting new people and taking a fresh look at teaching. I loved hearing about another school, what they are doing there, and how some things are the same as ours, but some things are much different. It was a breath of fresh air! I traveled to the Meet-Up with Abbie (who teaches in the classroom next door to me), but we met these lovely ladies from Terra Haute!

Allison (Me!) and Abbie (Tales From the First Grade) from Fort Wayne, Kelsey (Aloha to Kindergarten), Stephanie, Sierra, and Haley from Terra Haute.

Since being back, I have already networked with these sweet ladies! Can't wait for the next meet-up!

2. ORGANIZING tips from Dana Lester (Common to the Core) and Greg...the infamous Kindergarten Smorgasbord! They helped me get motivated with blogging again. Gave me tips on organization of my clipart, and also just tips on trying to make time each day to blog about something useful. Greg is right, we really do useful things everyday that others would love to hear about (okay, maybe some would like to hear about it more than others.) I LOVE blogging and creating products for TPT, so I truly need to find more time to blog and share my creativity and fun. That's what keeps me going in teaching, having these fun things to look forward to!! I love collaborating with teachers from all over the place and the wonderful teachers at this meet-up reminded me that I need to continue to network and blog! I love it!

3. UPCOMING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES. I was happy to hear some ladies from Scottsburg, Indiana announce they have a Technology conference coming up that sounded very interesting to me because it sounds like I could learn even more that could help me with blogging and creating things for TPT! I love learning new things and meeting new people!!!

It's called Digi-Palooza and it's in Scottsburg, Indiana.

Okay, if you have made it this far, you are ready for an awesome giveaway! Believe me, all of this reading will be worth it! As you have already heard, we received some awesome gifts from some AMAZING sponsors! By entering our rafflecopter giveaway in this Blog Hop, you can win:

ALL OF THESE PRIZES AND MORE!

How can you win these prizes? Well, just KEEP ON HOPPING through this Blog Hop, and be on the lookout for the Rafflecopter! Good luck!

Now, onto the next FABULOUS teacher in this Blog Hop!!

Click here to visit Marissa at First Grade Stars!

Mar 25, 2014

Indiana Spring Teacher/Blogger Meet Up

Well this weekend was a whirlwind of fun! Loved every minute of it! Abbie from Tales From the First Grade and I left school Friday and traveled down to French Lick, Indiana.

Abbie Jinnings, Tales From the First Grade

We didn't get there until pretty late, and we had some interesting adventures on the way (if your gut tells you not to follow the Garmin speaking, you probably shouldn't follow it, that thing was going wacky!) Anyway, we eventually found our way to French Lick Casino and Resort and met up with some amazing people!

The weekend was put on by the lovely hostess, Holly Ehle!

She did a fantastic job and it was an amazing feeling to come together with so many teachers that took the time (and money!) to come and meet up with other teachers, just-for-the-fun-of-it! We were able to learn some great tips from each other for the classroom, blogging, and overall social media. We had a great lunch and collaborative session together, full of laughing and prizes!