Currently AND Five for Friday!

Ohhhhh y'all. I'm tired. It's FRIDAY! We finished up our MAP testing this week, and my kiddos worked so so so so so hard. I'm immensely proud, but my little heart can't take the stress! Testing, boo.

Anyway, every week I see people with their linky parties going on, so I decided to hit all of them in one fell swoop. First, it's MAY! So ... linking up with Farley for a "Currently ..." 

AND  with Doodle Bugs for Five for Friday! If you follow me on Instagram {my new obsession} you might have seen many of these ... 

Currently reading Zen Shorts by John J. Muth (close reading!), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (read aloud!), The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein (another close reading text!) and Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen (AWESOME for our poetry writing!) {all wonderful, beautiful fabulous books, and you KNOW I love a beautiful book} ...

These two - Mr. BBZ and our pup Cecelia - are my favorite.

We set off rockets this week as part of our forces and motion unit. The kids LOVED it {duh, so did I!}.

A happy Friday outfit that matches my classroom! Aerosole shoes ... #comfy. ;)

Got a haircut yesterday ... it was time. I don't include too many pictures of my face around here, so I figured this one was a great one to start with. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!@#)($&&$#!!! {I'm tired} #crackingmyselfup

And a BONUS .... another teacher clothes outfit! My favorite rodeo princess boots and Spring-y scarf, with a jersey pencil skirt that is, quite possibly, the closest thing I'll ever get to a real pencil skirt in an elementary classroom.

That's it for me - I'm off to bed. ;)  Don't forget to enter the MEGA giveaway of AWESOME TpT supplies!! 

Spark Student Motivation Saturdays Linky!

Woo hoo! I'm on Spring Break, and Mr. BBZ just finished a TRIATHLON {what, how did he do it?!}, but I saw that Joanne over at Head Over Heels had a student motivation link-up, so I just HAD to link up to my post about "Motivation Madness."

As y'all know, motivating kids {and teachers!} in this last stretch is something I've been thinking about a lot ... and I cannot WAIT to see some of the great ideas going on over there. So hop on over and see what other teachers are doing to keep learning fun! :)

Some Bunny Loves Your Blog: Teaching and Tapas

I'm linking up with Ms. Bainbridge to let Alyssha over at Teaching and Tapas know that I LOVE her blog. She clearly gets her kids up and moving, interacting in meaningful ways AND her work is aligned with the Common Core {there's a joke in there somewhere}.

Plus ... I think I pin every post that comes through my reader.


Thanks for being awesome and inspiring me in my classroom halfway across the world, Alyssha! :)