A Whole New Me... Blog-wise Anyway!

What do you think of my new design?  And name?

Alicia at Dreamlike Magic Designs has done it again!  I LOVE IT!



Feel free to grab my new button... it's over on the right!

Tomorrow I'll choose a winner at random for the $25.00 in free product since I used a blog name that I came up with... sorry about that, but thanks for the great suggestions!

I think this name fits me perfectly and my new position as a 3rd grade ELA teacher!

Oh yeah, and Kelley at Teacher Idea Factory is having a pretty huge giveaway to celebrate 500 followers... you should check it out!  I'm giving away my fillable class grid booklet and 5 flippy books of the winner's choice!



And, you can still enter mine for 2,000 followers! It's an ELA-stravaganza since that's what my new position is!  You can win all of my ELA *tiny* packs, which are geared for grades 1-3.  Click on the picture to enter- the winner will download the "There's 'gnome' Sound There" silent letter pack from Teacher's Notebook and I will e-mail you all of the other packs!  It ends TOMORROW!!!!!

New Blog!

I am so excited to unveil that... soon!... I will be running another blog.  Only this one will be for me and my students to post on to help keep classroom families up to speed with our learning!

The fabulous Patricia over at Primary Practice shared this blog post earlier about student blogging.  She recently shared it again at the 2nd Grade Teacher's Club and I was so jazzed about it!

When I started this blog last summer, that was my goal- a place where I could instantly keep parents up-to-date with the classroom... BUT... I had so much fun talking to ya'll that I quickly hijacked the blog and kept it for myself!  I have found blogging SO much more fun and easier than upkeeping a website so I do think I am going to let my classroom website expire when it runs out in June.

So... here's the new site!

I have only done one little tiny post and I haven't told my kiddos yet... but I hope you'll check it out!  You can click the picture below! 

PS- the web URL is whoostalking.blogspot.com... Am I the only one who finds that amusing/scary...?!

I plan to show my kiddos tomorrow and talk about what this means, send home a parent note for permission to post, etc... and hopefully kids will be submitting posts to me next week!