Rated a Top Ten!! See These Top Ten Rated Blogs...

A Fabulous Fellow Teacher/Blogger, Louise Morgan of The Frugal Teacher, awarded me the "Rated a Top Ten" Blog Award!! Thank you very much, Louise! I am honored and have only waited a week to post because I just passed along the "Lovely Blog" award...didn't want to "toot my own horn" too much! Again, Thanks Louise at The Frugal Teacher. Teachers, check out her blog!  I have chosen some spectacular blogs that most of you may be familiar with but felt as though they should definitely be sporting some "My Blog is Rated a Top 10" Bling....as they are definitely 10's!! They are as follows:

Terri's Teaching Treasures

Hunger Games Lessons by Tracee Orman

Jennifer Runde of Runde's Room

Sally's Elementary Matters

Mrs. J's 5th Grade Chalk Talk

A Middle School Survival Guide

The Polka Dot Owl

Leanne Baur's Teaching Tales

Lorraine Vasquez's Fabulous 4th Grade Froggies

A Modern Teacher

Please Stop by TBA's Blog for Award Details and Grab Your Award to Post on Your Blog!
Have a great Friday and Weekend!! Happy St. Patrick's Day (early...)--Wear you green!!!

And the Lovely Blog Award Goes To...

I received the Lovely Blog Award, THREE TIMES this weekend!! How wonderful is that? A BIG "Thank You" to Rebecca of The Teacher's Chatterbox , Andrea of One Teacher's Take, and Dani of It's Grow Time for passing this award along to me! Please visit all of these great teaching blogs!

Here are the rules for the Lovely Blog Award:

1. Link back to the blogger who gave it to you.

2. Pass the award onto 15 followers.

3. Follow the person who sent it to you.

Here are a few blogs that inspire me!

1.    Lessons from the Middle
2.    Addie Education: Teacher Talk
3.    Teacher Park
4.    JD's Rockin' Readers
5.    Raki's Rad Resources
6.    The Diary of a Not So Wimpy Teacher
7.    Ms. Jordan Reads: Reading. Writing. Thinking. Sharing.
8.    Fun to Teach ESL
9.    Classroom Magic
10.    Simple Steps to Sentence Sense by Charlene Tess
11.    Make, Take, and Teach
12.    Globicate
13.    Teaching Tweens
14.    Treasures for Teaching
15.    Teaching Tales

My apologies if any of my lovely blog choices above has already received this award in the time I picked blogs and the time I posted! I must say it took me a while to choose 15 and link them all up after making sure they hadn't already received the award!  Please stop by these "lovely" blogs and find tons of neat ideas, lessons, etc!

Happy Blogging Everyone!

The Liebster Blog Award!!

I'm so excited to blog about this!!

A very big THANK YOU to Charlene Tess at Simple Steps to Sentence Sense for nominating me for the Liebster Award. 

Here’s an explanation of what the award is all about:

Liebster means “dearest” in German, and the award is intended to help up-and-coming blogs get the attention they deserve.

 In order to accept the award, the blog owner must do the following:

  1. Copy and paste the award on our blog.

  2. Link back to the blogger who gave us the award.

  3. Pick our five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have been nominated.

  4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs.

I am pleased to accept this award and would like to pass it along to the following great blogs (in no particular order):

The 5 Blogs I've Chosen Are Well Worth Checking Out & Following!! I could suggest many more fabulous blogs that are up and coming, but rules are rules! I would suggest following the 5 above via Facebook & Twitter as well! 

I'm very grateful to have received this award from 

 Simple Steps to Sentence Sense by Charlene Tess!! 

Thank You!

Edublog Awards!

Announcing the 2011 Winners – Congrats to All!

Just a taste of the winners...

Best New Blogs:

• Tech With Intention
• Speech Room News by Jenna Rayburn
• Kleinspiration by Erin Klein
• All 4 My Child
• Drydent Art by Tricia Fuglestad

See all of the winners at the link above! Congratulations to you all! I hope you spend some time visiting these blogs; I surely will!  

Regards,

Ann Marie Smith

I Received the Sunshine Award from Vicky at Scipi!!!

A very big THANK YOU to Vicky at Scipi for nominating me for the Sunshine Award!! 

She has truly been great in advising me and encouraging me as a TpT seller. Thank you, Vicky!   Vicky, aka Scipi, has a super teaching blog! Check it out! 

For the Sunshine Award, I was to post my answers to the following questions:

•            What is your favorite color?

              Hard to answer: Purple, Cobalt Blue, Red

•            What is your favorite animal?

              Again more than 1 answer: 

               I Have 5 Dogs & a Kitten, so...Dogs & Cats

•            What is your favorite number?

              I guess 4; 4 quarters makes $1, 4.0 is a perfect rating  on TpT and a perfect score on the state writing test; 4 seasons in a year, and I could keep going...

•           Facebook or Twitter?   

              Facebook

•            Your Passion?

              Besides teaching, I find peace and "stress therapy" (lol) in painting, and gardening! 

•            Giving or Getting Presents?

              Giving....but it's fun to unwrap too! I am a kid at heart!

•            Favorite Day?

                  Saturday is my favorite weekDAY; Christmas is my favorite holiDAY; that first warm weather day at the end of Winter/beginning of Spring is another favorite DAY of the year! I always catch that Spring Fever!!! 

      I get to pass this award along to other fabulous blogs. Two blogs and people I think "Shine" and so receive the Sunshine Award from me are:

       *Teacher Park by Ruth Spears

       *Wise Owl Factory by Carolyn Wilhelm

      Both of these ladies are gracious in sharing ideas, supporting fellow TpT Sellers, providing advice and/or comments via TpT forums, Facebook, etc. I have gained invaluable knowledge and inspiration from visiting their blogs, observing their techniques, and seeing their wonderful ideas! They have lots to share on their blogs, inspiring teachers everywhere!