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I haven't blogged in so long and I miss it! 
I have had the most upside down year at school and it ended with a bang on last Friday. 
The semester started of with a huge struggle in my classroom with a  recent student teacher. It took me the second nine weeks to rebound and get back on track. Our amazing office manger and principal planned many fun activities that involved twitter the last week of the semester 
and a Sonic drink cart. Thanks Shelley and Jamey!


Do you Twitter? I have had a door into my classroom with twitter for two years now and love it. 
Check out my classroom @skaggsart
I began tweeting last year, but our school made it the IN thing this year.
We have Twitter Tasks of the day that involve teacher and student tweets. 
Here are a few #ttt from the week in our Photo booth. Each day had a theme....
 Team Shirts
 Christmas shirts
Scarf day

I had planned santa hat day for the last day at our assembly. My team got me good by not letting me know that I was going to be surprised at the assembly.  I knew something was up at they were on stage playing an hilarious version of Wheel of Fortune, which spelled out my name as
Teacher of the Year at our school. 
My family even came out on stage. 
Yes I had the santa hat on, hat hair. I was so surprised and honored.
 I even get a parking space up front for a year. 

I have so many posts to share, so watch out! Thanks Mr. E for commenting that I needed to post. 


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  1. Art on my HandsDecember 27, 2014 at 9:13 PM

    Congratulations! What a terrific honor.

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  2. Beth CarterDecember 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM

    It is! Thank you so much. It was memorable day.

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  3. Laura KimDecember 29, 2014 at 8:14 AM

    Congratulations on TOTY!

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  4. Mrs. NguyenDecember 31, 2014 at 8:47 AM

    Congratulations!

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2015 at 3:45 PM

    Beth, congratulations! I am just now catching up on my blog reading so didn't know till now that you are the Skaggs TOY! Well deserved!

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