Friday Flashback and Five for Friday

IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!  That means I'm linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching for Five for Friday and Teaching Maddeness for Friday Flashback!

1. Last night was Basket Night/Book Fair and it was a HUGE success!  There was a great turn out and lots of my students were able to attend.  My room moms are the best and created a Harry Potter basket for our classroom!  We all donated a little something to it and our fantastic art teacher and librarian donated books 1-7 so it turned out to be a huge hit!

2. The author of Dragon Run, Pat Matthews, was also at our Book Fair to sign copies of his book.  My teammate and I snagged a picture and signed copy before we had to announce the raffle winners for the baskets!  All in all, a  pretty great night!

3. Well I finally did it.  I created a Facebook page for Teaching with a Touch of Twang!  I would love for you to click the link below to become a fan and follow me on Facebook.  There I will post things from my blog, ideas and giveaways from my blogging buddies, websites and other special giveaways!

4. I have also decided to join the Instagram craze!  My username is... you guessed it - teachingwithatouchoftwang.  What the Teacher Wants and Apples and ABC's have collaborated together and created #teachertalktuesday.  Every Tuesday I (and many other amazing teachers) will post one picture from our school day.  I have already started following some of my fellow blogging buddies and am already getting so many ideas for next year!  If you already have Instagram leave your username in the comments section, I would love to follow you as well!  Don't forget to link up by clicking the picture below.

5. This last one literally happened in the last hour of the school day.  My media specialist came to me with an offer from Scholastic that we couldn't pass up.  They are offering certain schools a chance to participate in a pilot program called QR Booktalks.  They send you a box of not yet published books and your students have a short amount of time to read one and create a "book teaser trailer" by writing a short summary and recording a book teaser trailer on camera.  We had to write a "pick us" letter and get it delivered by 3:00 PM today because there are three schools in the running and only two can participate.  Fingers crossed that we get picked!

Don't forget to link up your ideas for May's Monthly Market: Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, and the End of the Year and enter my 200 Follower Giveaway (open till May 5th).  You have all month to add your ideas and check out what other people are doing as well!

 

Check out Doodlebugs Teaching and Teaching Maddeness and link up your week in review.  Happy weekend y'all!

Workin' It Out

One of my favorite all time things is Harry Potter!  What better way to get in wedding shape (when I all I want to do is veg and read on the couch eating Doritos) than working out with some of my favorite characters?  Thus we have the Harry Potter Workout:

Saw this on Pinterest (of course) but it didn't lead back to anybody's website, so if you know who originated it please let me know so I can give them credit and thank them!  I was nervous because I thought this would ruin the movie for me but it didn't, it was a lot of fun actually!  Hysterical and sad when they said Voldemort three times in under three minutes and I had to do 30 push ups... lol.  I did change this a little from the original to meet my needs and I also added in 10 calf raises every time someone said "Harry Potter."  You can also change it up or move around the exercises to the phrases that occur more often to benefit your wants.  Your call!

To give you a little fitness for your classroom, since you probably won't be able to get away with the HP Workout plan on rainy days, here is a website that I use with my kids when we can't go outside for recess: Adventure to Fitness.  I really love it and the kids are too funny when following along with the guide Mr. Marc.  He takes you on an interactive/physical mission to capture an evil mastermind, all the while your kids are working out and learning about new civilizations, events in history, etc.  I really like it for multiple reasons but it gets the kids (and me) up and moving and learning and it's free!  Just sign up using your email account and viola!

I promise you won't be sorry for doing either of these fun fitness activities.  Let's call it what it is, if it's not fun, I'm probably not going to do it... especially when it comes to working out ;o)

Sabra