School's Out! and Sell It Saturday

School let out this week, and, like many of you I'm sure, I am very excited! One of the reasons that I'm so excited to be done with school - at least temporarily; I am doing Summer School - is because now I will have time to work on my Teachers Pay Teachers store! I'm really excited to get some more things up before the new year begins, which is why I'm going to begin a Sell It Saturday Link Up!

Sell It Saturday

I only have a few products up, but I am starting to see some sales, especially for my products that go along with our new reading series. Here is a link to my current product that I have up. It goes along with the second grade Reading Street 2013 series. Unfortunately, it's pretty specific in it's use so it isn't for everyone, but for those of you that use Reading Street, it's pretty awesome!

I plan to get some more Reading Street supplemental materials up, but I'm also working on some general products as well. For instance, I'm changing my room colors a bit this year, and I am working on some new name tags (among other things) to reflect the changes. My colors have always been green and teal. This year, I'm accenting with yellow and grey.

I recently saw the "Hello my name is" idea at Second Grade Shennanigans and loved the idea of adding that to my own name tags. I'm still unsure if this is what I'll go with or not, but I think they are super cute so far!

Linking Up

So what have you been working on? Scroll down to the bottom and share a TPT product that you've been working on and want to share with everyone. Be sure to visit at least three others, and check out what they're sharing!

End of The Year Madness

It was quite the interesting last day of school. We were supposed to have Picnic Day, but we got rained on, so we had to change some plans.

In our classroom, we did a "Find Somebody who..." game, passed out bags, worked on our End of The Year activities, had a Frozen sing along while coloring pictures of Elsa and Anna (even the boys got in to it).

We also danced to some GoNoodle videos, played Down By The Banks, and had an indoor picnic before finally settling down to watch Wall-E.

We love us some GoNoodle! Try it out if you're looking for a brain break.

At the very end of the day, we clapped as our fifth graders paraded through the school. With only five minutes left before dismissal, we all sat around in a circle and shared our favorite second grade memory, and, if they wanted to, why they were going to miss second grade. Surprisingly, I only had one jokester during this time. The rest of the kids were super serious. It was fun listening to what their favorite things were. Some were things I didn't even remember doing! Many of the kids thought that our modified picnic day was the best day of all (of course! we never get to do so many fun, nonacademic things in one day after all).

One student's favorite memory was making a house for the fourth little pig.

By the time the kids were dismissed, I had about six students full-on sobbing because they didn't want to leave their friends and our classroom. It was heart-wrenching. Our admin talked about it the next day at our Institute Day because apparently it happened in a number of places throughout the building. It really shows how much our school has changed in the past year. I've always had kids who wish they could go to school all year long, I've never had the level of emotions that we had this year.

How did your end of the year go? Let me know in the comments below. And don't forget to link up for Sell It Saturday!

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