Summer Fun

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I don't know about you guys but I am having a *GREAT* start to summer vacation. After a few days of training, packing up the room and cleaning it up, I was officially on SUMMER BREAK! Wahoo!

But, back up: We had to do some training at the end of the year, which turned out to be awesome! I work at seriously the best school and our administrative team had such a great idea. We had a lot of new teams next year, myself included on a new team, so they decided to do one morning of team building. Which *insert eye rolls and groans here* but seriously, it was a-ma-zing. I won't go into too many details or give incriminating information, but we did a variety of things which included an obstacle course in the gym with blindfolded people and an Amazing Race style challenge around our town. It was so much fun and I know my team laughed so hard! What a great day! Here is a picture of our team pyramid in a park by our school:

So much fun. AH! It made me really jazzed for the upcoming school year!

So then I headed home to the parent's house and spent a few days relaxing with them! I celebrated Father's Day! I took my Dad golfing- it was my first time ever- and it was alot ofun! I also made these bad boys for my Dad- I like to call them a Reese Peanut Butter Cup Cupcake! My dad is a sucker for anything Reese so these were perfect and he loved them!

I worked a couple of days at my serving job and spent yesterday dealing with a busted hot water heater and now that leaves me to today. I'm currently watching Vikings reruns on my DVR and drinking coffee. Spiced Pumpkin coffee to be exact. I hoard that stuff in fall and then my mom gave me a box that she had hoarded for my birthday in April because I was out! So so good. I like ration it. But it's so good. So good.

I have been working on a little summer reading- I started the Stephanie Plum series and read the first book in like 2 days. I'm waiting for the 2nd one in the mail so I've been tackling the summer reading for school, which is "The Leader in Me". If you haven't read this book, do it now. It's an easy read and so good.

 
We are implementing this program in my school next and I am really looking forward to it. We are needing  little extra "something" and I think/hope this will be it. I am excited to teach my new students about leadership and great skills in order to be a leader. I have been thinking about my room and how I want to set things up, reinforce those qualities, etc and I thought about a simple reminder on the desks. And then I was like "OH! I'll just put the 7 habits on their NAMEPLATES."

So this was born:

I can't wait to put these on my desks. And what a better way then to have the 7 habits right there on the student's desks to remind them constantly. The 7 Habits are: 

The 7 Habits

1 Be Proactive

2 Begin with the end in mind

3 Put first things first

4 Think Win Win

5 Seek first to understand

6 Synergize

7 Sharpen the Saw

The 7 Habits are explained in more detail in the book so I completely recommend that you check them out! If you want to purchase these nameplates for your classroom, head over to my TPT store by clicking here!

They are chevron (duh, I love me some chevron) with coordinating labels, black with multiple colored labels and grey with multiple colored labels as well. There are 15 pages of nameplates in all so you can mix, match, and use them however you want! They work best when you print them on cardstock first. Then using a white-out pen, silver shaprie, chalk, or neon sharpies, write the names on them. Then laminate them and you are good to go! If you need additional colors for labels or backgrounds, feel free to e-mail me and I will see what I can do! 

Now, back to the coffee and putting together some of the things I got from IKEA last week. This item for sure has been "cat tested, mother approved". :) 

Have a great day! 

Brit :)