Book Fair Warehouse Sale

Being a teacher is a pretty awesome gig.  I love it.  I love the kids, the content I teach, the school I work at and the most recent addition to things I love... Scholatsic Book Fair WAREHOUSE SALES!!!!!

So here's the deal, the local warehouse has two sales a year.  Every book is either 25% off or 50-80% off. WHAT? SERIOUSLY?  YOU'RE KIDDING RIGHT?

Plus if you spend $50 you save $10 or if you spend $100 you save $25.

At first the awesomeness is overwhleming.

Then its time to focus and load up your cart.  SO MANY BOOKS.


I walked up to the register with $85 in books, the woman said, "go pick out two more books, it will sent your total to $100 and then you can you the save $25 coupon."

I walked over to this Unwanted Book cart and found THE BOOK THIEF sitting right on top.  Awesome.

Wanna see how many books I got for $75?

5 Books for my daughter (she's going through a dinosuar phase right now and 2 high interest low reading level books.

Big book about animals, EON (one of the discarded books) The Book Thief, a Bone Book, Gregor the Overlander by a little lady who wrote an unknown series called The Hunger Games, Scat, What I saw and How I lied (SO looking forward to reading this one) Maxium Ride Book 1, and Hero's for my Son-- I know the Author Brad Meltzer and he's an awesome man.  I started reading the book in the warehouse and I started to cry.    9 books.

Dragon Keeper, Full Tilt, two books I don't know anything about.  Amela Rules , I"ve been reading this comic for YEARS now and I"m SUPER excited to see a company like Scholastic backing it.  Laika, my friend bought me this book and I took it with me when I went into labor,  I read the rest when I was on maternity leave.  The first book in the Seekers series,  The Juvie Three, because I LOVE Gorman Korman and Leviathan.  7 Books

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME  23 books for $75 average cost per book $3.17.

Oh you are ALL SO jealous of me.

I'm giving away some as prizes to my students.  I had 10 students watch Project For Awesome Videos-- four kids watched over 30 videos and commented.  Project for awesome raised over $100,000.  Thanks John and Hank for being totally and utterly awesome.


BTW- Last night Holly and Alicia and I chatted about the Bloggers Getaway. Lots of giggles, lots of talking (by me) and a whole lot of fun.

In the first week of January we will featuring three getaway locations and three conference locations.  Be sure that to follow Holly's and Alicia's blogs so you can get the details.   Surveys will come shortly after we feature the locations.

It happened again

Once again I'm sitting down at my computer, avoiding cleaning, editing and grading.

Nothing.

I've got NOTHING.  NOT A THING.

What to post, what to post.  Yep, right now I'm breaking every rule for maintaining an interesting blog.
A good blog should remember its audience, keep to interesting and informative topics, try not to show YouTube clips because those get blocked on firewalls and makes the whole blog reading experience longer.

Here's a YouTube clip. 
Before you watch it or don't watch it, whatever, no pressure, you should understand WHY I'm posting this.

I LOVE SMART PEOPLE DOING SMART THINGS.

So this is a music video for the movie Tangled.  The whole thing is done with one continuous shot, a film making style I personally love.  What I dig most about this clip is it's all the workers, the animators, the writers, none of the famous people in the movie.

Look at how much fun they're having.  

Also look at how many women are working there.  For a long time I wanted, I dreamed at working at Disney. Who didn't?   But somewhere along the way I gave up on that dreaming, thinking it would be too hard or impossible.  Disney was always such a boys club.  But this clip makes me happy for SO many reasons.
I hope you enjoy:




In other news, The Blogger's Getaways is picking up steam!  We have 15 girls interested.  If you signed up then hopefully you got your interest survey.   Please fill it out,  I"m privy to all sorts of information and it looks like it's going to be an AMAZING time.    The sooner you fill it out, the sooner we can get working on it.