Welcome to the Sunshine State! Enjoy yourself as you take a tour around our wonderful {and large!} state! Grab some freebies along the way, and be sure to enter to win our Bundles of Sunshine!
My family moved to the Jacksonville area 3 days before I started ninth grade. Ah! We moved from Michigan, where I always said I would return. *Sigh* However, I got hooked on Florida. And how could I not? Beach, warm weather, beach, fun things to do all the time...beach! While in college, my friend and I lived one block off the beach. I went everyday. Even in the winter. I loved it. I've lived in Florida for about 20 years now. Wow. I am old.
{Two of my favorite bridges}
The First Coast has pretty nice beaches. I'm not saying gorgeous because we are only gorgeous for about a month when the currents come up from the south and bring the pretty, clear blue water. The rest of the time we take what we can get.
{One of my favorite beaches. In college I volunteered to walk up and down the beach at sunrise to look for sea turtle nests. Tough, I know.}
We enjoy surf fishing, kayaking, canoeing, snorkeling. Pretty much everything to do with the water. Except sting rays. Those jokers are scary. (PS, don't throw your fishing pole at them to scare them away from you when a whole herd is flying at you. They don't care and your reel will fill up with salt water and get hard to use. And people will laugh at you...for a long time...like years. That is my FLA PSA to you. You're welcome.)
This weekend, we (FL blog hoppers) have freebies for you to enjoy! Stop by each of our blogs for an activity or idea to use in your classroom. To grab my freebie just click an image below!
These personal dictionaries have kept me from pulling my hair out (which is not a good look for the beach). Choose from either the
Dolch list or the
Fry list.
It drives me crazy when students stop writing because they can't spell something. Instead of students asking me 837,592,749,592 how to spell "was" or "because" or "friend" I just point to their writing folder. Each student has a copy of the dictionary pages in a sheet protector in their folders. So handy! The students even tell each other to look up words after they give up on asking me. Ha!
This weekend
my whole TpT store is 20% off! Pick up some (or all) of these products. Just click on the image to go the TpT product page. Call it spreading the sunshiney goodness.
I also have an Etsy shop:
hermionejschwartz.etsy.com. Now through July 31, I am offering a 10% off coupon. Use coupon code
FLbloghop during check out!
The Florida teachers below have two fantastic giveaways for you! You can enter once from each one of our pages. All you have to do is follow my blog! Hop around to all the blogs listed below, and be sure to follow them to get more entries. The more entries you have, the more likely you are to win! Each pack also includes a Starbucks gift card (because, well, a teacher's gotta have a coffee!).
Come find out more about the beautiful state of Florida by reading about these other sweet teachers!
