Summer Projects: Start a blog!

St Augustine — 'The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.'

Traveling is the best part about summer vacation! Adventures this summer include: 

*Playa Del Carmen, Mexico (Girl's Trip)

*San Antonio, TX (Family Trip---aka I drove 13+ hours in a car with my 3 nieces/nephew under 10 years old, basically as exciting as it sounds)

*Cayman Islands (Vacation)

*New York City, New York (my sister recently moved here, but it worked out timing wise because I was selected to attend the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy that my friends at Space Camp told me about. If you haven't  heard of it check it out---I'll let you know all the fabulous things we do there.)

*San Diego, CA (for COMIC CON!! I'm so beyond excited that we actually got tickets, even if it's only for Wednesday and Sunday #nerdfest). 

Point of this is during all my travels, I always learn things to take back to my classroom to share with students and I need somewhere to store all my thoughts/ideas. And I decided hey it's summer and why not start this blog thing I've been considering for a while? Plus, I need somewhere to link my tweets to (I can't get anything done in 144 characters) and then maybe I can pin my own ideas to share with fellow teachers.

First thing you need to know if you are going to read my blog is that my brain works faster than my fingers and mouth, so I try my best to not make typos and proofread, but as I would tell my students: It's informal writing! :) 

Also, as my teammates would say about me, I don't mean to interrupt, I just randomly remember things and get really excited (hints why I like to use a bunch of parenthetic notations). My brain just jumps all over the place sometimes!  

Speaking of my team, here is a fabulous picture of us at School Day at the K. They are amazing and any other synonym you could use to describe them. We work wonderfully together and I am so beyond blessed to work with people who have amazing ideas, are willing to try new ideas, and care so deeply for the lives of students (not to mention are fellow book nerds). I'm beyond sad that we are going to 4 sections next year and Danielle is moving to 4th grade. She's my other newbie that stays till way too late at night working on stuff and is the most down to earth person ever. I'm hoping it won't last long and she'll be teaching with us again!