Winter Break officially began on Friday @ 3:00. I had a great day at school. Christmas came early in my classroom:
Lots of candy, starbucks cards, a trip to the spa, candles, scarves, stationary. Lots of fun stuff.
I also received this nice card:
Very cool!
Now it is time to turn off the teacher thought process and turn on the holiday cheer.
Once again I have neglected this blog. I think sometimes I should just give it up, but then I think I better keep it because one of these days I am going to write something meaningful again on it. I guess I cannot rush creativity.
Things are moving along around here. The kids are home today. We had dentist appointments and Chloee has a dermatologist appointment this afternoon. I have a staff meeting tonight. It seems like there is always something going on.
I made this for Chloee's class project about family. They are making a family quilt to hang on the wall in the hall outside of her classroom. This is the picture I used, but I forgot to scan in a copy of the scrap page. I called it "A Family For All Seasons". I did not have a picture of all of us for Spring, but at least the other seasons are there.
School is starting to get busy. I have 30 kids total now. They are starting to adjust and the parents are starting to open up about issues. It is interesting to learn little tidbits about families. I have good parents in there and that helps make life a little easier. Which reminds me I have a parent waiting for an email answer from me.
A little girl in my class tried to slap my assistant yesterday when she was not getting her way. It is interesting that both of my classes are full of single child households. It is a whole different dynamic than ones where there are siblings.They have issues sharing things including space in the classroom. Anyway.... I pulled the child from the class activity and she had to sit and watch others participating. She screamed and cried like she does every time she does not get her way. I ignored the screaming and crying I have learned that tuning into that only makes her feel like she has control and she continues to do it. I spoke to her mom about this and she was devastated that her sweet little daughter would be this disrespectful to a teacher. She sent me an email telling me that she had talked to her daughter and all her daughter would do was scream and cry. The mom asked me if she did this in class and I said yes, but I don't give into it, I ignore it and lets her know I am in control and not her. The mom was so appreciative of this and said she tried it this morning. She said it was weird not comforting her like she usually does, but yet it worked. It is not rocket science, but it is nice when you can suggest something small and it makes a big difference to someone.
Well that is all today. I have a stack of work to get done before tomorrow. I hope this finds all of you doing well and staying healthy.
I started making this for a bulletin board at school and well I liked it too much and now it is hanging on my fireplace instead.
Chloee is feeling much better and now I feel like I am coming down with something. We are out of school for today and tomorrow so I won't be missing work if I am sick. I scheduled a sub for tomorrow anyway since the doctor said to keep Chloee home all week.
Tony comes home tonight- anxious to have him back.....
I have a couple more cards to do and I am working on a scrap layout. If I get them done I will post them.
Well the day is getting away and I have a to do list that is calling me......
My spring break has officially began. We do not have anything planned- other than little jobs around the house. I kind of like not having any committments during the week so we can just hang out. I could tell the parents of the kids in my class were not overly excited about it being spring break. I think most were staying home and not really looking forward to having to entertain their kids all day every day. Oh the exciting life of a parent.
We are having my parents, Tony's parents and his sister over tomorrow for cake and ice cream to celebrate Declin's birthday. It will be fun to be together again.
Happy Spring!
I am hitting the floor early this morning and probally will not stop until late tonight. I have my staff party tonight- which was cancelled back in December because of the weather. I used the party gift for something else- so now I have to either get something or make some cards. This is still in debate- depending on how my day goes.
Tomorrow at school we are kicking off our snowman unit with a parent led project. We are going to make this:
This is such a fun project, but there is a lot of prep work for it.
Anyway- that is all for today as my time is limited.
Winter vacation officially began at 5:30 am this morning with the closure of the school district due to weather conditions. We are pretty excited about this. I had already pretty much checked out of work mode on Monday when school was closed. Anyway....
I made this last night as a just in case we did have school- teacher card.
Today is weigh in and there was no gain or loss.
We are due for more ice and snow this weekend so I better go get my grocery list made, the laundry going and the floor vaccummed.
Have a good weekend.
It has been so dark and grey here in the NW lately. I pulled the shade this morning and saw this out my window:
and this:
I took these because of the colors.
We sometimes get so lost in the black and white and grey of life that we don't really see the color that is around us.
The economy is bleak right now, we have a new president that is bringing change and we are all creatures of habit- change is not easy for us. The holidays are approaching and that means spending money that we may or may not have and the list goes on. It is hard, but we need to stop and see the color in our life- the things that are really important- family, our health and the fact that we have jobs. We all have days that we hate our jobs and want to do something else, but right now if we have jobs- we should feel very lucky.
Anyway...my point being that...Take time to see the color in your life- it is there you just have to see it.
Thursday Night already. Where did the day go??? I know where it went.....I had a breakfast/planning meeting this morning with Jenelle. I love these meetings- we eat, get caught up on all the school gossip, family drama, etc and then we settle in to the planning mode and get a whole month's worth of planning worked out.
After the meeting I still had time before Chloee was due home from Nana and Papa's so I ran over to the rack to return some items and found this Jacket. The one I got is in Fushia, but I could not find it on the web. I love it because I can use it as a shirt and as a jacket for these fall days that we are having- cold in the morning and warm in the afternoon.
I also ran over to Pier One and picked up some more of these: The flavor is called "First Rain". I love these candles because they fill the whole house with their fragrance, rather than just one room.
I am reading this: American Wife. I think it has the potential to be a good book, but I have been reading it for over a week and it is not catching my attenion like I thought. I am hoping it will get better.
Well that is all for tonight. I will be back tomorrow with Weight Watcher news and of course Halloween pictures.
It was a quiet weekend around here. I got some scrapping done. We got bedrooms cleaned and some what organized. The laundry done and put away. It was a good weekend.
This morning when I opened the curtain this is what I saw.....
I love Fall and I am looking forward to seeing lots of these colors in my world. I bought some beautiful Fall papers to scrap with. I can't wait to take some pictures to scrap with it.
I am hoping today will be a better day at school. It has been a rough two weeks.
Have a good Monday!
