Summer Bucket List Linky

School is out! Actually it has been out since last Thursday and has taken me this long to recover and begin functioning again. I have spent the last three days taking naps, watching TV, and just being entirely L-A-Z-Y! I'm the type of person who just needs to be really busy...otherwise I find it hard to get much of anything done at all. I had to get up this morning to work on curriculum writing tasks at school {which I am doing for the next three weeks} so today was a bit more normal for me, without the kids of course!

I have still been blog stalking, but not actively participating so it's time to get back into the swing of things. I have enjoyed reading everyone's summer bucket lists, so here's what I hope to accomplish:

{Read}

I had wanted to do a book study on this book, but everyone else is waaaaay ahead of me on that aspect, but I did order it and plan to read it this summer anyway.

I also picked up the Book Whisperer by chance at the Scholastic Book Warehouse sale.

I did want to join an online book study, so I bought the Kindle version of this book to join in last night. I think it starts tomorrow so I need to get started...

I have this book on Reading Workshop that I have never read as well if I have the time.

I've also had Sophie Kinsella's newest book on my iPad for a while just waiting to be read.

{Organize my Files}
And everything else... I have too many computers and devices. My desktop is a disaster! I think Dropbox is calling my name. Also, Simply Second posted today about a graphics organizer for Mac called Pixa. I think I will be checking that out as well.

{Prepare}
I say this every summer, but I really want to be prepared for the upcoming year! I think this will go along with creating products because I can just create what I need. I spending June working on curriculum maps and assessments for my grade, so a lot of that will be done.

{Visit Family}
I have niece and nephew that live in Massachusetts (with the rest of my family). I only get to see them once or twice a year, so I am looking forward to going home at the end of June.

my nephew Brady

my niece Maddie (Madison)

{Blog/Create}
I feel like there is still so much more to learn about blogging! For example, I just had to figure out how to embed the pins below...I was thinking about doing Teaching Blog Traffic School this summer. Would anyone recommend (or not recommend) it? I need to set up a Facebook page as well and get back into Pinterest as well as look into the blog planners I keep seeing. Plus, I want to make products again...I sort of stopped a couple of months back.

{Pinterest Crafts}
There are lots of crafts and things I want to make from Pinterest! Here are some things that I have been eyeing:

I have been seeing all sorts of neat things that can be done with Washi tape (which I had never heard of before this weekend) like decorating binder clips, pencils, and even keyboards! The above keyboard looks amazing to me...My keyboard is black so I have to do some more googling to see how it would look. But I am definitely going to order some tape! 4Mula Fun has an easy tutorial on the binder clips as well as some links for purchasing the tape.

I want to make these seat crates!