Wizard of Oz Decorating 101, Giveaways, and a Freebie-- Oh My!!!

Guess what I did today...Stayed in my PJ's ALL. DAY! Why you may ask... Well...

1. It's Summer!!

2. I Can!

3. I have OCD-- BIG TIME!! Ask Brian... He'll complain  tell you!!!

4. (This is tied into #3)-- I was working on my decorating packet for my Wizard of Oz room and couldn't stop!!! 

Now, I don't know about you but I am the kind of person that once I start something that is really important to me I have to finish it through to the end. Come hell or high water, I am finishing it! Well, I did finish it. Most of it. Part 1 of it. The Bulk of it. I have a few ideas I want to finish but after working on it all day, I think I am done, plus I need a mental break now! 

Check it out!!

I am going to upload it to TPT tonight! But before I do... I'd like to offer it to you as a giveaway! I've seen some new pinners to my "Wizard of Oz" classroom decor board and if this is something that you are interested in, then this is the perfect starter decorating pack for you!!

There are 3 ways to enter! Click on the Rafflecopter below to enter!The Giveaway Ends Tuesday, July 16th!

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This giveaway is also a way for me to celebrate my over 100 Fun, Fabulous Followers! I decided to do something simple and easy! So, I am giving away a $15 TPT gift certificate along with my classroom decor packet! I think simple is better! 

Speaking of Giveaways...my dearest bloggy friend, Tamara at Mrs. Russell's Room

is having a One-Year Bloggaversary Celebration!! This is a blowout of a celebration where everyday you are a winner!!! Check her blog out to for great resources! She is the sweetest and has some really great ideas! Remember to leave some love for her if (or any blogger! It's the nice thing to do!) you download some of her fabulous resources! Tomorrow will be K-2 Math resources, Thursday will be K-2 Unit resources (I will be featured in this giveaway-- Look for my Surf's Up Unit! It's Totally Awesome!), and then Friday is Back to School Resources. Click on her button to take you for there for more information and to enter!! And lastly, a FREEBIE for you! This freebie is only for FB Fans! Go to my First Grade and Flip Flops Facebook page and click on the Fan Freebies Page to download:

Make sure you "Like" my page to get your Freebie!! 

Thanks again! Have a SUPER DUPER Week!!

Stressed and other randomness...

Do you Facebook? Have you followed me on FB yet? No?? Well, click on the above to take you to my blog's Facebook page and like it! I do post and will start posting more now that I will have more time. I do post more on my personal account (you can friend me there, too! Although I do warn you, I am more candid in my personal page but it's me!) but you will see a posting about my current obsession (it occurs, oh-- about every few months or weeks, depending on when the mood strikes me) with 

Yes, it's that time of year where I am stressed to the max with end of the year paperwork, final projects that I am trying to *sneak* in and finish, and cleaning out my room!!! Please tell me you are in the same boat! The worst part is having to pack up my room ALL. OVER.AGAIN when I.JUST.MOVED.IN this year! Yes, I have to pack up my bookcases, metal cabinets and put them all in boxes and stack them on the shelves or filing cabinets so my floors can be waxed, cleaned, etc... It was just so nice in my old room where I could still pack up a few boxes and place my furniture on the carpet. My new room (which is smaller, by the way, and is already packed to the hilt with everything under the sun) has to be all packed in our ONE (yes, I said ONE) post planning day-- never mind all the other paper work we have to do! So, I am not sure one jar of Nutella will get me through this! LOL! So, I have slowly but surely been getting my paperwork done so I don't have to buy the megasize jar of Nutella as the deadlines approach. How many days do you have for post planning and do you do the same things I do--reading and math cards, pinks and blues, CUM folders, report cards (obviously!), etc..? 

In other randomness, this weekend we celebrate Memorial Day! Thank you to all that have served or are serving! It was a relaxing weekend with the family. We had some friends over and Gabriel had been talking about making smores because that's what they do at camp. I look over at my son and tell him that he has never been camping because Asian people never camp! I dare you-- look in any camp site, you will not find an Asian family there or any Asian family depicted in a Gander Mountain catalog because we just don't camp! LOL! So anyway... here we are making smores the only way I know how: 

It was fun! We have the best times together!!! Love my friends and family!! I am especially looking forward to my girls weekend at the beach after school ends!!! Cannot wait! It is always fun to be with my first grade girls. They are my family, too! Love them so much.

Speaking of first grade, this week we will be working out of my Surf's Up unit! If you haven't picked it up yet, you still can from TPT! Click on the picture to take you there!

I just printed out my centers from my unit and cannot wait! All I have to say is CUTENESS!! There is a writing craftivity for "How to Build a Sandcastle".  And so much more!! 

Here is a cute video to go with it:

Only 6 more days left for me!! How many for you?