Guess who has to wake up by alarm tomorrow for the first time this week? That's me! ;)

We ended up having four snow days off from school. For new readers, I live in a rural area and actually live on a gravel road and they don't typically get plowed until everything else is somewhat clear. The buses are only driving snow routes, but I am excited for the students to get to go back tomorrow to have their Christmas concerts the next two days. My kiddos and I are fine staying home forever, but I know a lot of my parent friends on Facebook are READY for their kids to go back. ;) I enjoy all of the unexpected time off with my family that I can get. My babies aren't going to be babies forever!

Yesterday, I had the chance to bundle all of my Christmas hundreds charts hidden picture activities into one product. I know a lot of you find this much easier. You can find it by clicking on the picture below. The bundle includes 13 charts and is on sale for $8.75. 

I'm having so much fun being snowed in that I might be guilty of refreshing the school closings web page of our local news station no more than 8 million times in the last hour to see if my school has been added to the list. Yes, I receive texts from the Principal, Facebook messages, emails and a phone call, but knowing right away is such an amazing feeling! ;) Ha! Does anyone else share in this excitement?

Okay, maybe I should lay off the Coca-Cola a little! :)

This morning, I created an emergent reader and a few freebies to go along with it. Be sure to check them out! Click on the pictures to take you to my TpT store to purchase the reader or download the freebies! Just so you know, the freebies are included in the reader file if you purchase it.

Thursday we were fortunate enough to get out of school early due to snow and icy conditions and we followed it up with a day off on Friday! Woo hoo! I needed some time off to get a few things caught up around the house and to start creating a few more things for school. This time of year is always crazy busy, but to add to it, we are having a Breakfast with Santa fundraiser for encore teachers and it has been taking up tons of extra time. It should be lots of fun though!  

I hope everyone is having a wonderful fall season! I miss all of my bloggy friends! I am enjoying so many great activities in and out of school and it's definitely keeping me busy. This is my favorite time of year for many reasons. I love the colors, the smells, the weather, the leaves, pumpkin everything, long sleeves, bonfires, fall festivals, pumpkin patches, etc. I could go on and on!

This was our Parent-Teacher conference week and I honestly thought it would be a great time to work on curriculum. However, I didn't realize so many parents and students would come into the library. We were having a used book & VHS sale, so that brought families in, too. It was great to see parents and kiddos because I really miss family connections from being a classroom teacher! Although I wasn't able to work on curriculum, I did a massive amount of cleaning & getting rid of lots of things from when I was teaching Kindergarten. I love feeling organized and being able to get to things easily!!!

For today, my goal was to work on a few things for the upcoming week and I wanted to share a link to a few activities in case you need something, too. I have a few more things in mind, but I don't know that I will have time to post them between church and a fall festival tomorrow.

I created two fall/Halloween cookie sorts. One sort is for my Pre-K and Kdg. classes and the other is for 1st-5th grades. Click on the pictures below to take you to my TpT store.