My blog Oodles of Teaching Fun was nominated in the 2012 Really Good Education Blog Awards by Really Good Stuff and is now a finalist in the Middle School (4-8) category. I am so very excited and I have my fingers crossed that I might win. Voting begins on Monday, June 18th and ends on Friday, June 22nd, 2012.  The blog in each category with the most votes will be the winner. I would appreciate  it very much if you would vote for my blog by click here.  Thank you for reading and hopefully voting! 




      I must be lucky today. I entered IDEA Paint’s social media image giveaway. You were to take a picture of an area you would paint with IDEA Paint. IDEA Paint turns any surface into a whiteboard. I took this picture :

        You can help me win this too with a simple like! The picture with the most likes receives a kit to paint an area. I oober excited! Thank you guys! 

             I spend way too much time on Pinterest. I find my self looking at it on the computer and on my phone. So of course I have find items I would like to make for my classroom. Below are some of the items I plan to make for the new school year.

          I am going to make these dry erase photo frames. I plan on using white frames with the zebra theme. I’ll post pictures when I get them done.

           I have been named the new cheerleading coach for our school. In planning for the upcoming school year for cheer I started searching the Internet for resources. Sadly, I found very little. So I thought I would share the items I created. Hopefully, some of my blog friends are also cheer coaches and these items will help them to. Click on the links below for the freebies!

Cheerleading Tryout Score Sheet
Cheer Squad Contract
Cheerleading Tryouts Information






          I have other materials that I use for my cheerleaders as well. If you need anything, please let me know.  

       
              I returned to my classroom today to start on a few projects. For some reason I cannot just work on one project, I need to work on many. Over the last few years I have collected many different baskets of all shapes and sizes. I have decided I would like all my baskets to be the same color, so I purchased some plastic spray paint in black.

      Please ignore the mess in the picture, but this is what it looked like when I finished putting the contact paper on top. I am going to put black electric tape on the sides. What do you guys think? Should I go with black contact paper instead, since my colors are pink and black?

      So I have been looking for zebra themed materials all over the internet. While looking, I found the website Sparkle Box. This site has a lot of free resources, such as word cards, writing frames, banners, calendar sets, printable bookmarks, and many others. Everything on the website is free! There are a lot of resources, so I have not been able to look at everything, but I am very excited to do so.