Taking on Second : Bloggermeetup

A couple weekends ago, I had the amazing opportunity to meet some of my favorite blogging buddies! We took over French Lick Resort and just had an awesome time! Thanks to Holly and Brittany to putting it all together! Those ladies did SUCH an awesome job!!! Here are my highlights!

1. I am one of the lucky ones who gets to teach with some of my best buds so we car

The Primary Gal, Me, and Cassondra

2.While we were introducing ourselves, letters were passed around. We were supposed to write our names, blog, favorite thing to teach, and something else(great memory, right!?) on the LETTER. They said they were letters...

Okay, okay, looking at the picture, I can totally see the exclamation mark. But we swore it was a lower case i! Sooooo we all wrote on it upside down!! It sure gave us a good laugh when we finally realized!

The weekend was sure inspirational!

3. I loved getting to meet Melissa from Mrs. Daily's Classroom! She is so sweet and totally one of my blogger besties! Can't wait to see you in Vegas girl!

4. Another awesome part about the meet-up was all the teacher swag we got to bring home from the sponsors! They were all so gracious with their donations!

Last weekend was awesome! I went to French Lick with some of my favorite blogging/teaching buddies to meet up with more awesome blogging/teaching buddies! There were over 100 of us! Some of my favorite bloggers were there, more about that later! We did a favorite teacher tool gift exchange! This was one of the most fun activities to prepare and exchange!

I was all ready to exchange, and did you notice how my whole bag matches my blog and business card!?! I didn't even do this on purpose, and believe it or not, I'm the worst at matching!! We all got in groups by grade level. We played a left/right story game to do the exchange! This is what I do to exchange Christmas gifts in my classroom! It is pretty fun! We went in a circle and unwrapped our gifts. Here's what I got!

{Drum roll}

The first thing I pulled out was the measuring tape masking tape! I said, " Oh my husband is gonna love this!!" Well I guess it wasn't for my husband, because I got some funny looks!(HAHA!) But it just popped out! He is always looking for a tape measure when we are working at the new house, I just couldn't help it! It will come in super handy when we get to our measuring unit! I really can't wait to use it!

UMMM do you SEE that big green Post-It pad!?! I'm totally in love with the big Post-It's! I have those sticky monsters everywhere! I also got two packs of the smaller Post-Its, these always are useful!

I also got a super cute notebook...which I began using immediately! I kept some great notes from the sessions that attended, made notes about my cousin's baby shower that I am planning next weekend, and made notes about what needs to be fixed in my new house before the final inspection!!! I never realized how useful a little notebook is! I was so caught up in all my new goodies, I just can't remember who gave it to me... But thank you so much! I love it all! Check out the other tools that were swapped over at {Second Grade Sugar and Spice!}

What would you share as your favorite teacher tool ($10 limit!)? I'd love to know!