I know I know I have been MIA...
THO THORRY
I say that a lot huh???
and FAIR WARNING...
this post is FULL of nutty SQUIRRELS!!!
and very RANDOM SQUIRRELS
it has been cray cray in my neck of the woods...
we had 2 teachers cut from our school and I am super upset about it.....
it is about numbers... we don't have enough
SOOOOOO slash... teachers get cut
well 3rd grade didn't have numbers and our pre-k
if you didn't know this already I am at the tiniest school in our district...
we are already at 3 teachers per grade level so when one gets cut
it is like losing a family member...
the pre K teacher was seriously one of the bestest pre k teachers I know...
AWESOME
and now with her gone there is only one pre K teacher and now she has like 20 kiddos
THAT IS A LOT OF LITTLE ONES... bless her heart FO SHO
and then we cut a 3rd grade slot...
well the 3rd grade teacher who was being cut is the daughter of a 4th grade teacher
AND
*tear*
my buddy Mama Monk (aka Mrs. Monk... AKA farley calls her MONKy) volunteered to be cut and be reassigned so her daughter "chipMONK" could stay
THO THWEET right????
THO THAD TOO
I love me some Mama Monk
MONKEY was my mama at school... I LOVE HER VERY MUCH!!!
broke my heart to see her go BUT what a great example of what a mama will do for her kiddo....
soooooooooooo
Chip Monk is now a 4th grade teacher with me and Melissa (aka itty bitty... I don't call her that b/c my dog's nickname is Itty Bitty and that is just creepy)
so changes changes changes
and while we are talking
well I am typing and you are reading... so let me rephrase
and while I am on the subject....
of CHANGES
man have my dynamics in my classroom changed
let's just say I have my work cut out for me and I was
SUPER SUPER SPOILED LAST YEAR!!!!
I'll leave it at that!!!
and now I break into this blog for SQUIRREL
*********squirrel***********
I get random emails all the time and a few have been to show you my new truck...
well I must say I wanted to get her all "jacked" up and rimmed out... BUT I digress...
I love her in her pre- farley stage... LOVE LOVE LOVE... never thought in a bajillion years I would be a truck girl BUT
step back JACK
I LOVE HER....
had my mama take pics of me and the truck....
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| there she is... and me too.. no smile... not sure why... mama must have caught me off my smile big pose... |
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| smiling and posing... LOL... what a goober |
*****squirrel****
we had a birthday party today...
it was for my dear friend's daughter
it was at one of those jumpy place thinga ma jig places
you know the kind where it is just a germ infested...
kid jumping....
CRAY CRAY want to poke my eye out place....
mama need a CALGON moment kinda place...
well this place WAS NOT...
it was a wonderful place for little kiddos to jump around
and VERY CLEAN and well just plain NICE
Bub had a blast!!!! and was on his best behavior!!!
BESTEST... I was a very PROUD mama
so to treat him Mia (she stood in for hubs b/c he is back to working Sat.) and I took him to Landa Park to ride the ........
Still a proud mama... he was quite possibly the best kid in that jumpy place... YAY BUB!!!!
*****squirrel*****
our spelling TEKS (what TX tell us to follow) has 4th graders work on plurals for spelling so ... we have not only been spelling various plurals... BUT we are ALSO looking for plurals in our reading... some of these are PRETTY good!!!
AND just in case you didn't know....
I posted a plural FREEBIE in my TpT store... hope you can use it...
my kiddos liked it
take a look at it b/c it is a plural sort
concentrating on the add -es
please tell me it is NOT just me that keeps having issues
attaching LINKS to pics...
OK THANKS...
and ONE last thing...
*****squirrel****
remember I told you that I fell in love with this wacky book....
well I finally finished the packet to go with it... LOVE IT and my kiddos did really well with it!!!
here are some pics
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| http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Activities-for-The-Day-I-Swapped-My-Dad-for-Two-Goldfish |
we had a great time sharing all of their SWAPS!!!
they really did have a blast talking about their various swaps and illustrating them in a fish bowl... LOVE IT
*****squirrel*****
ok maybe I had one more squirrel...
you know the kind that just jump out at you while you are driving... the kind that you almost hit and then realize you almost died trying to miss a SQUIRREL...
the NUTTY kind...
well I have to tell you this story and then I am done....
last week
we were studying FREEDOM WEEK
and more precisely the Preamble
and the kids were making connections between Martin Luther King Jr and his speech and the Declaration of Independence!!!
it was an interesting conversation...
and so I added that a kinder teacher at our school likes to refer to M&Ms when she talks about the topic of skin color...
I proceeded to tell them that Mrs. Holbrook likes to say everyone is like M&Ms...
we are different colors on the outside but same thing on the inside and some of us have nuts...
well I didn't exactly know what caused the looks on my kids faces BUT they just stared at me and some of the boys snickered... and then it hit me... they had just watched the PUBERTY video and now I was talking about some of them having NUTS...
OH MY GONADS...
I had to back pedal and laugh and repeat it to be something like this...
you know you know...
some of us are nutty
FUNNY???
isn't that awesome of Mrs. Holbrook to come up with that....
so now
ONE - they think Holbrook is a NUT for saying that sort of thing
and
TWO - I have scarred them for life with this analogy that I obviously screwed up... Holbrook definitely says it better
OK that is it.. for now...
no more random squirrels
no more talk about NUTS
or M&Ms...
I am on a diet...
or like I call it a LIFESTYLE change...
and just for the record I am down 40 pounds... HOLLA!!!
baby still has back and curves BUT just less of it!!!
here is a before and after for ya :)
Mustache how you like my new necklace???
OK that's it...
TOODLES...