Happy Happy Happy Saturday!
I’m going to spend most of the day working on my End of the Year Slideshow. I’m pretty sure I said that exact same thing last weekend and then I totally procrastinated.
It’s okay, I said. I’ll work on it a little bit each night this week. That makes more sense, anyway.
But I didn’t.
Not once.
So here we are again.
The good thing is that I have 13 more school days which means I have plenty of time left for further procrastination.
This was part of a reading passage from our Language Arts District Assessment.
We were allowed to read the passage as many times as necessary to our students. This was a huge relief because, at first, it seemed as if the students had to read it independently, but upon further investigation, we learned that the teacher could read it. And when I say further investigation, I actually mean that a friend at another school texted a picture of the directions to me and she highlighted the part that said we could read it to our students.
Directions are important, people. Make sure someone you know reads them. Thanks, Rebecca!
Anywho . . . I would like you to try to read the word “Shetland” multiple times in a passage out loud to your students as many times as necessary.
Lauren from A Teachable Teacher (who also teaches in my district) sent me this text:
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First of all, I would like to tell you that I completely staged this picture. The box by itself looked lonely so I grabbed the tissue box and my mug of pencils (from Jon Jon) and set it up.
There. I feel better now.
Anyways, have you heard of HP Instant Ink?!! Lauren (again, A Teachable Teacher) told me about it months ago and I either ignored her, didn’t understand it, ran out of time, or was watching reality TV because I didn’t get it. I didn’t. This has happened before.
Last weekend, on a lark, I looked it up and found out two things.
1. My existing printer is part of this program.
2. This was going to save me a lot of money.
I am a printer, people. I will print and print, mess up, re-print, change something minuscule in my project, re-print again, and then, for good measure, I will print it again. In other words, I kind of waste ink.
And it doesn’t matter if it’s color ink, either. I don’t care. I am not afraid of printing (or hairspray, for that matter. I believe in hairspray).
This HP Instant Ink means I can print and print and print and print and print . . . and pretty much only pay $9.99 a month and HP will ship ink to me when I am about to run out.
This is MIND BLOWING, people. I will probably do a whole blog post about it because I cannot get over it.
The only teeny tiny problem is that Steve is not happy about HP knowing when I’m out of ink because, according to him, my printer will be communicating with them and that means Big Brother is watching and they will know everything and we are just opening up our house and our lives to them, Kristin, don’t you think that’s kind of scary?
To which I said, Who cares? I’m never running out of ink again and IT’S CHEAP! Don’t you get it? Ink will come in the mail and it will be cheap! And I can print all kinds of stuff without thinking twice! What would you like me to print for you? Name it! And what about the Cloud? No one knows anything about the Cloud and for all we know, the Cloud already knows everything anyway so who cares if HP gets in on the action? It’s like FREE ink, practically!
I think at that point, he had tuned me out and shrugged his shoulders and given in.
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I am all about this now.
I was afraid to try it because it has no artificial ingredients and you know (you must know!!) that sometimes preservatives and artificial ingredients just taste absolutely delicious.
HOWEVER.
I tried the Cinnamon Cream flavor this week and it was delicious.
I feel a lot less guilty about putting creamer in my coffee now.
And do not, I repeat do not, leave me a comment saying that it has this or that instead and I’m going to die from it, and I need to stop drinking coffee and/or just drink it black.
Because that’s not happening.
Stir. Stir. Slurp. Slurp.
Mmmmm. Good coffee.
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I laughed so hard when I saw this on a boy’s desk before we started Fun Friday.
Apparently, he did not want anyone to use his desk if they were going to be playing with the play-dough.
This started a phenomenon (as things like this usually do) and by the end of our Fun Friday time, I had found four similar signs.
Kids. Crack. Me. Up.
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Okay, who’s watching??!!
It starts this Monday night!
I am debating inside my head (and now here) on whether or not to take a break from Talk About It Tuesday for this season . . . I am thinking I might just want to watch the show for fun (without taking notes) and then maybe when I have something to say, I can say it on FB and we can have conversations about it on FB . . .
Thoughts????
Alright, I better stop procrastinating about my slideshow . . . and go fold some clothes.
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Thanks for explaining the whole ink thing! I, too had heard about it, but didn`t get it. Now I do!
The ink deal sounds like a deal!
I always love your posts! Keep blogging. I agree with your sister–you need to post more often. 🙂
That ink plan sounds amazing!! I am looking it up as soon as I finish this comment. I am so excited about the Bachelorette and not being in school. I have mixed feelings about what to tell you about Talk about it Tuesday because I love those but I'd also like you to be able to just enjoy it. I have to do that slideshow too. YIKES!
I need Talk About it Tuesday in my life. Please don't stop! And I totally agree with your sister – I wish you would blog twice a day!!!!
Love your comment about the coffee! Everything is bad for us… Can you imagine how much worse it would be without flavoured creamer!?!? And if one more person tells me about the dangers of aspartame I might just pour my daily diet Pepsi right on their head! Wonder if those coffee mates are available in Canada….
Good luck with your slide show! Have a great weekend!
i LOVE that creamer!
and I LOVE HP insta ink!!
I cracked up at that desk sign. Too funny!
Please don't stop Talk About It Tuesday. I'm begging you! *Insert Britt meltdown here.*
Kristin
School and the City
If I printed more then this would be a fantastic idea!! Is it $9.99 for the color ink too!?! This might be something to look into just for summer as we all get ready for back to school! I started watching the Bachelorette last week! #teamkaitlyn
Mrs. 3rd Grade