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How’s your summer been???
Hey Teaching Heart readers… How’s your summer been? Hopefully it has been a time to recharge that teacher battery… And for those thinking about back to school already, go easy on yourself with help from Teaching Heart, check out this index filled with free ideas and printables for back to school planning. Be sure if […]
DIY Jeep Desk – Weird Animal VBS 2014
Gearing up for next week. Weird Animals VBS. I am teaching a third grade group at my church. Today my counselors and I decorated the room. Since Iggy is the third grade mascot, our theme revolved around him. I saw the Jeep desk idea on Pinterest and thought it would be fun to add Iggy […]
Top Ten – What I learned from Teaching Preschool
Taught my last day of preschool today! Two years of fun on Fridays – done! It was like planning a party every week. Plus I got to work with a great group of teachers! Packed up my belongings today and felt a little sad; but also happy to be moving towards entering Elementary teaching again. […]
Runner of Steel with a Titanium Ankle!
Phew! Checking a Half Marathon off my bucket list! On Sunday I ran the Pittsburgh Half Marathon and became a RUNNER of Steel. I am adding to that title – With a Titanium Ankle, since I have one of those two and really couldn’t imagine after my break I would ever complete both a Sprint Tri and […]
Random Thoughts on Training to Run a Half Marathon!!
Less than 2 weeks till my first Half Marathon and probably my last (unless Disney calls me and offers me a full paid trip to come run their half and then there will be another – CALL ME DISNEY!!! )… Training for this half marathon has taught me a lot about myself and my body… […]
Rock Around the Calendar at A Kindergarten Tea!
What a special treat to be the presenter at the Bower Hill Elementary School Kindergarten Tea in Peters Township, PA! The Kindergarten Teachers, the Principal, and the PTA really strive to make this event such a fun and resourceful day for local Preschool and Kindergarten teachers. I am so excited to share the wonderful pictures I […]
My First Triathlon!
Woot, had one of those bucket list moments I want to share with my Teaching Heart Peeps!!! It goes along with the Moo, It’s Monday Series… that I HOPE to start back up again in September. I swam, biked, and ran my first ever Triathlon. It was Janney Baierl Family YMCA Triathlon in the North Hills […]
A tiny tooth fairy magic
Gotta love my seven year old… she has to ask the tooth fairy for pixie dust. At Easter she requested a magic wand from the Easter Bunny… Luckily the bunny had purchased a bubble wand that was called MAGIC bunny wand! Phew!! How can you not answer such a request… they are only 7 once […]
Merry Christmas Hodge Podge
Merry Christmas to all my readers! Thanks for being here! I hope you are feeling the Christmas Spirit… Just a hodge podge of Christmas pictures!! Aren’t this Santa Hat Brownies Cute? A mom made these for a snack at my daughter’s Daisy Troop. I had hoped to do an adult Gingerbread party this year – like […]