Liebster Award!

So honored that we were nominated by Live, Love, Learn in Fourth Grade for this award. That means someone actually visited our blog. Yipee! Thank you very much Allison. Hop on over and see her cute blog! Love it!

Rules to accept the award:

*Link back to the blog that nominated you
*Nominate 5-11 blogs with fewer than 200 followers
*Answer the questions posted for you by your nominator
*Share 11 random facts about yourself
*Create 11 questions for your nominees
*Contact your nominees and let them know you nominated them

Blogs I am Nominating:

Okay, I have spent an hour trying to find teaching blogs that don't have more than 200 followers. They either have more than that, or I can't find how many followers they have. Others were just barely nominated for the award. Ugh! So for right now I am going to nominate the one blog I did find that currently has under 200 followers. I will add others if I find them in the next little while.

I'm Not Your Grandpa, I'm Your Teacher!



Allison's Questions:

1. If you had to describe yourself using only three adjectives, what would they be and why? Obedient (because I always wear my seatbelt), funny, responsible 
2. What is your favorite stress reliever during the school year? Besides chocolate and Pepsi, sleeping in on the weekends. 
3. Do you use reading workshops in your classroom. If so, what do you think about it? Yes, and I like it because (like everything else I do) I tweak it so it is simple and works for me and my students.
4. If you could go back and relive one teaching experience you've had what would it be? Positive or Negative. My whole first year of teaching. Even though the parents and students liked me, I can't help thinking of all the things I did wrong or so different than I do now.
5. What are your hobbies? Reading, cooking, fishing, ATVing
6. What is your all time favorite lesson? That's too hard of a question :) I love when we decorate our writer's notebooks, teach reading strategies, and make fossils.
7. What is your all time favorite recipe? Another totally hard question. Probably my mom's English Toffee recipe. Lot's of memories there.
8. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? New York or the Caribbean
9. If you had unlimited money, what would you buy for your classroom? Laptops for all my students.
10. What advice would you give to someone interested in starting a blog? Try and post as often as possible and comment on as many blogs as you can.
11. Are you an animal lover? Yes, as long as we are not counting snakes and mice.

11 Random Facts About Us:

1. Zzzquil helps us sleep well
2. Our children are 21, 19, and 10
3. We love Mexican food
4. Soccer is our favorite sport
5. Hubby has taught our three children in fourth grade
6. Our fridge currently has 13 photos on it 
7. We love to vacation at the beach
8. My favorite drink is Pepsi, husband's is Dr. Pepper
9. We freeze every winter
10. Our favorite children's books we have read this past year were The False Prince and The Runaway King (the first two books in the trilogy, can't wait for number 3 this fall)
11. We have a wiener dog named Ginger

11 Questions for my Nominees:

1. What's a funny thing a student said to you this past school year?
2. What's one of your favorite books?
3. If you were given one thousand dollars right now and had one hour to spend it, what would you buy?
4. Where is your happy place?
5. What is the cutest decoration you have in your classroom? 
6. What's the best advice you would give a fellow teacher?
7. What's one of your favorite professional books?
8. If a parent brought you lunch from anywhere, what would it be?
9. What is one of your pet peeves?
10. What do you do in the summer to relax?
11. Have you ever won anything? What?