Five for Friday

Friday, already?  I don't say that often but this has been a super fast week!  We had Monday off for President's Day.  Today we didn't have students due to teacher records day, so of course we had an ice storm last night.  All the other schools in the county were closed due to the storm.  I'm not sure if that was good karma because we won't have to make up the snow day or bad karma because it was the first opportunity for a snow day in over two years and we didn't have kids anyway??
Regardless, Friday is Friday and I'm happy to be linking up again with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

1. I went on a little shopping spree recently to The Dollar Tree!  I love that store, you never know what you're going to find.  Here are the bargains from my latest trip...

First off, I don't need these.  However who could say no to the color combination or plastic!  I love containers!  I will probably switch my book baskets in my classroom library next school year with these cuties but I'm not sure what I'll do with the sandwich containers.  The cute little soap boxes have already found a purpose!

They are the perfect size for a deck of cards for math games and...

look at these CUTE little dominos I found at The Dollar Tree as well.  They are the size of a paper clip!  Have you ever seen anything so cute???
I also found a pair of foam dice, some "read between the lines" glasses and the sweet little finger spy eyes I saw on a blog early this week (sorry I can't remember who blogged about them).

2. Last Saturday I went to a wonderful test prep inservice that was put on by Smekens Education Solutions (check them out here, you'll be glad you did).  It was the best $10 I've spent in a while.  The inservice lasted an hour and a half and was full of great ideas for reading and writing test strategies for students.  Our state test (ISTEP) is in less than two weeks and I learned some great ideas for helping students!  Here are some anchor charts that I made for my classroom this week.

3. This week I had a break through!  You may be thinking DUH!  but I was thinking A-HA!!  I learned how to bundle products into a zip file!  I've been wanting to bundle some of my items for TpT but had no idea how to do it.  I found out how on a TpT forum.  (If you are a TpT seller and have never gone on their forums, go now!  There is a wealth of information!)  I now have my four Gumball Math Workstations bundle in my stores.  Buyers can save $6.00 by purchasing the bundle instead of each individual packet.  Yippee!

4. On Tuesday evening something happened that I never thought I would happen.  My oldest daughter had her first orientation for high school in the fall.  I can't believe my baby is going to be a freshman in high school!  How is it possible that she can go from this

to this overnight??

5. This weekend I get to have my nails done and dress up!  Each February my husband and I go with a group of friends to a Red Dress Ball.  It's always a great time because we love spending time with friends and I love dressing up!!  Here is the dress I'll be wearing.

(If I don't look too hideous, I'll post pics later this weekend)

Have a great weekend!!