American Idol, Pictures, Books, and a New Blogger!!!

I have heard that many bloggers are having MAJOR issues with other people stealing their images/text from their blog. I have decided to copyright my blog for protection. Click on the copyright image link below my header if you want to copyright your own blog. 

 I have been spending most of my week hanging out by the pool - yes, I'm still job hunting too.  I have an interview Friday...hopefully it goes well! I think my mom is a little jealous that I'm on summer vacation already. Ha! She works in the schools too as an educational diagnostician.

So who do you think is going to win American Idol? It's down to Crystal and Lee. I hope Lee wins! He has such great talent and is cute!

I'm terrible about developing pictures! I have tons of frames in my apartment but with no pictures in them.....or the picture in the frame is the picture that was in it when I bought it. Yesterday I decided to get some of my pictures printed!

Summer goal number one - CHECK! OK - I just noticed I have two of the same pictures on my leopard bulletin board thingy.

I have been working on building my classroom library. The other day I bought two new books - The Snowy Day and A Bad Case of Stripes. I did a lesson on The Snowy Day this semester with my 1st graders on transition words. And I just love the book A Bad Case of Stripes...have y'all read it before? Each month I'm going to purchase a few books so I will have plenty for when I start teaching.

My "real life" friend Kristan who guest blogged on my blog the other day has decided to start blogging again! I decided I would write her first post for her - go check out her blog here! Hope she keeps it up this time! :)

  
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Happy Thursday!

Show Us Your Life: Favorite Children's Books

I haven't participated in Kelly's Show Us Your Life in a long time! I figured I would join in this week! Maybe I can get some good book ideas from all you bloggers!

I'm a future teacher so I obviously love children's books! I'm starting to build my classroom library now so I will be have a lot of books for when I start teaching next year! Here are a few of my favorite books for children!

My all time favorite book is The Rainbow Fish! It's a book about morals, being an individual, and sharing. I did a podcast on this book this semester for my Language Arts class.

Thank You Mr. Falker is a great book for children who are having trouble learning to read. I won't say too much in case you haven't read it.  It's a great story!

One of my education teachers came to class dressed up as Miss Nelson last semester and read this book to us! It was pretty funny!

 I LOVE all of the If You Give A Mouse A Cookie book series! 

And of course I love all the books by Dr. Seuss! One of my favorites is the Foot Book - it's the first book I learned how to read!

And my all time favorite chapter book is Number The Stars - it's about the Holocaust of the Second World War.

Also, as a child I loved the Junie B. Jones chapter book series...there hilarious!!

What are some of YOUR favorite children's books? Teachers or Parents - what books should I for sure get for my classroom?

Job Hunting, Baby Proof, and Blog Book

I have been job hunting the past two days in College Station and I have had NO luck! I have been to about every restaurant and no one is hiring for the summer. Every restaurant I have been to is looking for applicants who can stay awhile. I'm hoping I can find a job waiting tables since I have experience in that area but I may have to look for something else. Do y'all have any ideas of where I can find a job?!?!

Yesterday I applied at Red Lobster and I had an interview right away with the manager. One of the questions the manager asked me was, why I wanted to work for Red Lobster?  I didn't really know what to say...so I told her I thought it would be a nice place to work and that I really liked seafood. I told my mom what I said and she about died. Well....what was I suppose to say?! Ha! Guess I need to work on my interviewing skills!!!

HELP! I need a JOB! lol  

I just started reading Baby Proof yesterday. It's pretty good so far! I'm not too much of a reader but I love reading during the summer!

Have any of y'all ever thought of turning your blog into a book? I'm thinking about turning some of my posts into a book one day. I think it would be a neat idea! Do you know about who much it would cost?

Have a great night!

It's the Weekend!!!

ASorry I haven't blogged too much this week. I have been SO busy with tests and homework. I think I did good on both of my tests so I am happy about that!! I am still counting down the days till winter break!! Today President Bush Senior invited President Obama to come to A&M and speak. I did not get to go because it was just invitation only. The security was very tight here on campus today! Earlier this year I got to meet President Bush Senior at Big Event here at A&M. The story is actually kinda funny how I met him...

Back in March A&M held a event called "The Big Event" where students who go to A&M volunteer one day to help out around the community to say thank you. Before we headed out to start working they had a few people speak. One of the speakers was President Bush....I was so excited! Well after he spoke my friend Kristan and I tried to get closer to the stage to get a better picture of him. So as we got closer to the stage Kristan goes, "Mr. President, I was wondering if I could come up on stage and take a picture with you. My uncle got to take a picture with you at an Astros game and is always bragging about it. Could my friend Christa and I come on stage to take a picture with you and Mrs. Bush"? I was sooo embarrassed....I was acting like I didn't know her! Ha! I was trying to hide my face...until President Bush said we could!!!! So the secret service let us on stage and took a picture of us with him!

Isn't that SOO cool?! The pic did not turn out too great because they took it with my phone.


Today my friend Katy and I went to go see the movie Where The Wild Things Are. The movie is based on a children's book. I did not really like it....I thought it was kinda weird. I actually think it was a little scary for children too.


I am really wanting to see the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This movie is also based on a children's book. I do not really like animated movies but I LOVED that book! Have any of ya'll seen these movies yet?


Tonight I am just having a chill night. I went over to my friend Natalia's house earlier to watch a movie. And tomorrow Matt (my cousins boyfriend) is having a party for his 21st birthday so that will be fun! The theme is Matti-Gras aka Mardi Gras. Ha!

Hope ya'll have a great weekend!! I am excited I get to sleep in tomorrow morning!! :)

It's Almost the Weekend!!

I have been really bad about blogging this week! I have been busy doing presentations and projects all week. I had a literary element project due in one of my education classes over the book Number the Stars. On Wednesday I had to be the "teacher" and teach the literary element of theme. I am hoping one day I can use what I learned from this project to teach my students the literary elements to Number the Stars (if I teach the fourth grade). It is a really good book about a little girl and her family who live in Copenhagen during the Holocaust in World War II. Her best friend is Jewish and has to come stay with her so she will not be found by the Nazi's. I remember reading this book in the seventh grade and loving it. I would recommend reading it!
On Tuesday I had to do a presentation with my group for our INST class. We had to discuss the topic of GT students. We have been working on this project ALL semester long. Tonight we went to Buffalo Wild Wings to celebrate being done with it!! I was glad that Matt got saved by the judges in American Idol this week. I felt Lil' should of been the one to get kicked off. This coming Monday I made an appointment with a Dietitian here in Bryan. I heard she is really good. I am hoping she can give me a plan on what I need to eat everyday that is healthy, quick, and easy. I would love to be able to lose 15-20 lbs. Well finals are ALMOST here so that means school is over soon! Hope everyone has a great weekend! :)