Mrs. Ryder's First Grade Funzies

Teacher tired. It's a real thing, y'all. Teacher poor is another real thing, also. Toward the end of last school year, my hubs and I were stretching every last penny. I would dig around our pantry and fridge and attempt to make dinners out of the ingredients we had on hand. We had several bars of cream cheese, so I went to Pinterest and searched for cream cheese pasta sauce recipes. I came across a recipe that ended up being one of our FAVORITE meals ever!! I was so thrilled to have found a new, EASY staple dinner recipe. Here are the ingredients I use-- I didn't pin the recipe I found, and now I can't find it again. I got inspiration from the recipe but did change it a tad from what I remember: 1/2 bottle of Olive Garden Signature Italian Dressing (we buy ours @ Sam's Club) Cream Cheese (8 oz) 2 tbsp Grated Parmesan Cheese Pasta of your choice (I've made it with spaghetti, angel hair, fettuccine, bow tie, & penne- great with all!) I use 1/2

I am loving the trend of b&w stripes with watercolor flowers. I decided to make a few that I could use in my classroom, and am happy to share them! You can get them FREE in my TPT store, here . :) They download as a Power Point file, and from there you can edit the text any way you want. The two fonts I used are  KG Second Chances Sketch and  KG Neatly Printed . I think a pretty script would be great too! If you've never downloaded fonts, be careful- it's addicting! And I promise, it SO easy! You can just Google "How to install fonts on Windows 10" (or whatever system your computer is). That's how I learned to do it! Usually you just: Click "download" from wherever you're getting the font.  Open up the downloaded file location.  Right click any "TrueType Font" files and click "Install". That's it!  Make sure to have your Word, PowerPoint, or whatever program you're typing in closed or just resta

Things have been so busy lately with school starting. I am trying to take this Labor Day weekend to not even THINK about school and just enjoy time with my family. I have done pretty well so far besides an hour or two of school Pinterest and Instagram browsing... I saw a photo on Instagram of a super cute computer background in a teacher's classroom, and I realized then that I have had the same stock photo on my school computer for SIX years now. I just never thought about changing it. It was a simple and quick task, and something just for me to enjoy. I made a similar one for my home computer, but instead of having "Mrs. Ryder" on it, I simply made it for our family-- "The Ryders". By the way, if you're ever going to use your last name in a sign of any kind for your family, please don't use an apostrophe before the 's'. Just trust me! #grammarnazi Here is what my home PC screen looks like now: I love it. Here's how you can make y