Long First Week and Some Good Reads

I feel like I have seriously neglected my blog this past week.

My first week teaching 6th grade at a new school literally FLEW by!!

I didn't have time to do anything but survive.

Needless to say... I have lived to see another week of 6th grade.

I'm just about done lesson planning and I feel like I'm actually prepared for this week.

I'll just have to go in early tomorrow and make some copies.

I'm still desperately trying to figure out how to fill (without over-filling) a 45 minute period.

Some days last week I was underplanned... some days overplanned.

I don't adjust well to change so I like when my lesson plans work out perfect....

but as we all know as teachers... that very rarely happens.

Sigh... still waiting on bookshelves that my school ordered for me to arrive.

Until then, I will not be posting a classroom reveal.

And I am DYING to post a reveal. 

I LOVE my classroom this year.

Being put into a classroom with absolutely nothing in it was refreshing.

The past three years I inherited a classroom full of junk.

So, since I can't post a reveal yet, and I had no time for a Monday Made It this week....

I'll post something else.

I've been asked MANY times for a list of my favorite good reads.

Here it is!! 

(Later this week I'll post clothes from my most recent shopping trip!)

Ashley's Favorite Reads

1. Tell the Wolves I'm Home (LOVED this! Totally different than my norm!)

2. I Hunt Killers

3. The Game (the sequel to I Hunt Killers)

4. Delirium trilogy (the ending of the first two made me so mad!!!)

5. Gone series

6. If I Stay

7. The Mortal Instruments

8. Digital Fortress (or anything by Dan Brown)

9. The Testing

10. Maze Runner series

11. Legend series

12. Wonder

13. Ungifted

14. Out of My Mind

15. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

16. The Hunger Games

17. Divergent trilogy

I'm sure there's many, many more I could add... but I just can't come up with them right now!

I'm currently reading Freak the Mighty.

XO

Five for Friday Linky!

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

Today after cheer practice, I spent some serious time working on things in my classroom. 

This first bulletin board is going to be for my Cultural Diversity course I get to teach. The class itself is still a work in progress. As of right now I have the first project and the final project planned. This bulletin board will be the host of our classroom tree. The first couple days of school students will research their culture and answer a few basic questions. They will put their info on a "leaf" which we will add to our tree. Now all I have to do is figure out how to design a tree out of paper. :)

This second bulletin board took me FOREVER to put together. I may be teaching 6th grade, but I am cross-curricular. Everyone else on my grade-level team teaches one subject. This board will be to post our daily agenda, homework, and my point system for classroom management. My lovely friend Hannah shared this wonderful link with me from Teach. Inspire. Change. This is a whole-class behavior system where students can earn seconds towards their time. Their ultimate goal is to reach 15 minutes where they will be allowed to play semi-subject related games. Hopefully this is something I can keep up with and the students will be excited about!

I'm working on some cute t-shirts for my cheerleaders. 

The colors will be slightly different but I'm super excited for them to get them!!!

I just finished reading this book...            Now I'm waiting for this book... to arrive :)

What can I say?? I LOVE a good mystery!

I discovered these beautiful expectation posters  from Lessons With Laughter . I'm debating how I want to display them in my room. I thought about finding some cheap frames to hang them with or some wooden frames from Michaels that I could spray paint and then modge podge on. Ohhhh the ideas!

And finally, it's messages like these that really make me smile :)