Hello World!

Hello World!  I'm back :)  What a crazy past few weeks I've had.....First, getting back from Spring Break.
Second, had my first full on wreck (truck a total loss)
Third, Testing and its the last few weeks of school (need I say more)
But, at least I'm ok, Gieco is the greatest and is handling everything, son wasn't in the car so all is good :)
Going to the school Bazaar today and hoping to win some cakes and cookies :) Hoping to get back to Blogging and posting some cool stuff.  Yea!!!!!

Where did the time go?

It's my official last day of Spring Bread....Pretty proud of myself for not becoming overwhelmed with anxiety.  :)  All the things I took home to "work on, organize," etc are still untouched.  Yes, I'm one of those that drags everything but the kitchen sink with me in hopes I will accomplish something!  Actually, I did begin the break sketching out my plans for the rest of April.  But that's the only thing I've done!  Well, besides housework.  I did get my child's end of the year teacher gifts 75% finish (which means they'll be completed the last week of school-something I was trying to avoid)  All things consider though, I've had a pretty excellent spring vacation!  Looking forward to seeing my kiddos and the none stop chatter of all their happenings over the break.  :)  Maybe I'll even have a chance this weekend to post some freebies. :)

Meeting the gov!

It's spring break!!! (Hence the lack of blogging, etc)  We went downtown tonight to meet the governor, and all on his own my little boy got so excited (even changed shirts before we left) he could not wait to meet her.

 She was so great so sweet and the owners of the bookstore (Blue Bicycle Bookstore) were very welcoming and easy going.  On a side note-super great books from new to old to collectible!  I snagged up a great local award winning children's book Shackles-LOVE it!

 

Mondays

....Need I say more?  I left my portable hard drive at home this morning.  It has EVERYTHING on it.  When I say everything, I mean everything-SMARTboard programs, lesson plans, etc.  Because my laptop for some reason doesn't want to connect to my home printer, (and I am too lazy to fight with it on that) I use my home lap to type my lesson plans, and at the same time I do those I am creating the week's "Welcome Work" and SMARTboard programs.   Obviously it is a MONDAY!!!!  Thank goodness for exceptionally loving parents who are in town as well as scholastic.com's "daily starters"!!!!  Anyone else having this much fun?

Happy accident

 I happened to stubble into a contractions activity that my students LOVED!!!  My original plan was to use the paint color strips 

As you can see however, my three year old cut almost all I had into perfect little rectangles-pretty good cutter that little man!  Otherwise I would probably not have laughed it off so much.  

Anyways, in a last might brain flash I decided to whip out some good old fashion sticky notes....below are my examples but the students filled their pages!  They used the smaller tiny stickies and just went to town on the activity!

I survived the week!!!

Ok so the week is not over but our practice today went great, and Vanessa and I finished the "music video".  Which, I might add is ROCKIN'!!!!  We were jumping up and down screaming and clapping this afternoon after watching it (which I preached to my students about NOT doing, luckily they were home at the time LOL)
I did not get my test papers sent home however-but we can't have it all.  :)  We were also able to write our thank you letters to the ladies from Water Missions International, and I was so proud of my kiddos they really didn't even need my to edit they did so awesome.  Yea!!!!! Looks like we'll make it two more weeks till spring break.  :)

If I can make it through

If I can make it through this week without a complete meltdown I am most certainly doing something extra special for myself!  Performance is Thursday, just finished wrapping up the video yesterday (still have yet to put it all together)  Just practice the paragraph dance on stage today.  Tomorrow is an early out day, and can't plan on putting video together then-no it's not a staff meeting (that we could have gotten out of, maybe) nope its stations of the cross.  Obviously we will be attending that and attempting to let go of all our panicked thoughts on  putting on a great performance as well as getting all our lessons, etc done this week!  Breathe Breathe Breathe.....Anyone else having one of these weeks?