Book Bags

I finished sewing my kiddos - book bags and I love them.  It took awhile to make 29 bags, but it was worth it.  The classroom library is staying neater.  I don't have to worry about them breaking, like plastic containers.  They are about 11x13 inches with two 16 inch finished handles.  They hold 5 books perfectly.  The kids store them on the bottom shelf of the gray crates, too easy.

The kids were really excited about them.  My room mom tried to sneak one home with her.  We have 6th grade reading buddies on Friday.  Half of the kids go to 6th grade and half stay with me - so they will just grab their bags and go.  Easy peasy.

Did everyone's weekend streak by or was it just mine????

Week 3 - Monet

Our PTA pays for our "Art Smarts" program and I love it.  This program provides an assembly to tell the kids about the life of the artist and show some of his/her work.  Then an art teacher comes to our classroom once for 45 minutes during a two week period.  It is extra special for me, because my art teacher is always a former student's parent.  I had her son when I started teaching and we have remained friends.  Don't you just love those kind of parents.   My kids love it and I love it.  This time I was smart enough to take pictures of the kiddos creating their works of art.  Kinder and First created "Poppies"

The other thing that I love about this program - not every grade does the same project.  Second grade does a different art project than Sixth Grade.  It is wonderful.  When I grow up I want to work for Patrice the owner of "Art Smarts".

Yellow

Ok, these are from the 2nd week of school, I am getting closer (not really).  I bought "Color Fun" from TpT (sorry I don't remember who the author is) and I love it.  It has a book suggestion and a couple of activities for each color.  Unfortunately, with  the extra students this year and not being use to having all those extra kiddos - I only got two colors finished.  Yup, red and yellow.  So now I can throw all the rest of the crayons out of the crayon box - just kidding.  I have a creative bunch of little ones this year.  Love, love their illustrations.  I wish I had more time to do the creative part of teaching - I miss it.

The book was "My Yellow Shirt" or something like that, giggle.  Aren't they cute?

This little one draws the best trains, it is his passion.

Maybe,  I can finish the rest of the pages in February - maybe I should do the orange page because it is pumpkin month, hmmm.

Week 1

haha, it is actually week 9 - but I just got my computer back and needed to update my blog.  I have a very sweet class this year, there are just so many of them.  I am having  a hard time getting everything done in a day.  Thankfully, I have some really great moms that come in and help me. 

*I am not sure where I got the projects exactly, but will look them up at school.  I just need to update before it is December, giggle.

Ok, my desk hasn't looked this good since the first week of school.  It is a disaster at the moment.

The file thingy, on the corner of my desk, to keep me organized.

Four milk crates, zip tied together that hold their daily binders, poetry journals and their new book bags (I just finished).  I love these crates.  I bought 16 of them and it was worth every penny.

Our "No, David" pictures.  Some of them are a little more interesting than others.  I love this clothesline that I have hanging in my classroom.  It really showcases their work nicely.  The problem is - this project hung down a little too far and I kept hitting them, since I am so tall. 

Our writing wall - The First Day of First Grade.  I have taken these off and put them in binders for a class book.  At the end of the year, I will give each student their individual papers.

Chicka, Chicka wall.  I always do this the first day of school.  It really shows me cutting skills, coloring, following directions and if they know their name.  I will post more tomorrow

Missing

I haven't blogged in awhile, but I have an excuse. I have a laptop and a desktop and neither one of them are cooperating with me. The laptop won't let me go on blogger or comment on anyone's posts or Paypal, etc. It had to be fixed and the settings didn't get restored correctly. The person that fixed it won't return my phone calls, grrr.

Now, my desktop won't let me go on the Internet at all. It freezes up. This morning, I tried to play with some pictures and they weren't there. Gone. So I had a crying fit. Luckily, everyone was still asleep. I am back to blogging on my iPad, which can be a pain because of the picture thing.

I have done some really cool things at school and hopefully I will be able to post about them very soon. I can't believe I will be starting week 8 tomorrow. The next month will be crazy busy. Lots of district assessments, parent conferences, grades, three baby showers, new grand son, grand daughter's luau and hubby coming home for a month. The last three things will be my favorite.

I took my grand daughters to the beach yesterday so we could take pictures. We had so much fun. One of my favorites of the birthday girl.

Hawaii, again

I am in Hawaii for a long weekend. I was missing my husband and feather lei graduation was this Sunday. So, I took a couple of personal days and flew in yesterday.  So excited to see my hubby, I guess I miss him more than I thought.  It will be a busy weekend. I have some shopping to do for my classroom and lots of cooking for the luau tomorrow. But, so glad that I am here

Twins

I found out that I am going to be a grandmother to twins. I am Tigger excited. A little worried because their mom is only 5'2" and my son is 6'4". But I know she will take care of herself. When they were pregnant earlier this year I told them they were going to have twins - but the baby never developed and they lost it. I was heart broken. Two weeks ago they found out they were pregnant again and I cried hysterically - happy, scared crying.

They went to the doctor yesterday. One sack and two healthy heartbeats. I want to go shopping and make things but I have to wait for a few months. I am not a patient person unless it is in my classroom. They have boys' names picked out already. I am going to have three grand babies in one school year. Amazing