Let's learn about the Water Cycle!!

This week we are making a cute little flip book about the water cycle! Here is a quick peek at it along with the beginning of our KWL chart!!

Where in the world has Flat Stanley been??

How to Build a Snowman Writing

Penguin Fun!!

We had tons of fun creating our very own penguins!!!

Day 4: Professionalism

Well, I think I pretty much have this one covered!  After teaching for 17 years, I am about to get my Master's degree in Educational Leadership.  For 1 1/2 looonnnngggggg years I have been working my butt off to get this goal accomplished.  It is about to become a reality in May.  So, this month I will be taking my principals certification test.  (Pray I pass).....  Then I can start applying for jobs and become a principal!

Day 3: Fitness........

I am going to just say I got plenty of fitness walking up and down a ten foot ladder while repainting my foyer!!  I am hurting today!!  Butt, legs, arms, neck, back, and anything else that is on my body.
Here is part of the finished project!

SPARKLY SHOES!!!

Sorry, this has absolutely nothing to do with craftiness or creativity!  I took a break from my project to go pick up my order!  I got these precious babies today!!  LOVE!

Day 2: Creating and Crafting

So, after finally deciding what I needed to do to my foyer walls (after a year ago my sweet husband decided it was time to put spackling(?) on the wall you see when you come in, which was khaki and the spackling was of course white) I began my project today!!  Here is the before picture of one of the walls.



See in the far bottom right corner??  You can see a little of the spackling.  GRRR.....  So anyways, for a year (at least) I was trying to come up with an alternate to repainting my discontinued Khaki wall paint.  I decided to paint vertical stripes of cream!  You can faintly see my pencil lines :)  So, this will be #2 on my New Years List!  Happy painting to me!

My New Year! Day 1: Fun and Family

Last year was a total BUST!  If I do say so myself.  Grad school, tornadoes destroying my school and disrupting the lives of so many of my students, oldest son moved back home, middle son graduated highschool, etc. etc.  

I am wishing and hoping that this new year is WAY better!! I will graduate in May with my Masters in Educational Leadership, yay me!  And hopefully......our brand new school will be getting closer to being finished!!

So, with that being said, for day one I hope to have a great year with my family that is full of FUN!  Baseball and soccer games to watch my boys shine at what they love doing is at the top of my list!

BRING IT ON 2014!!

In just 6 more hours it will be a brand new year!!  So many friends and family have had a not so nice 2013, so here's to many blessings to come!

Turkeys Disguised as Community Helpers

We had SO much fun with this project!  I have 10 more pictures to upload later.....

DAILY 5

My boys

Cute Snowman Snowglobe Creations!!

Here she comes

Where our lives were saved

As the world turns.....

SO.....it has been a couple of years since I last posted.  A TON has happened since then.  BIG things like a F5 tornado destroyed my beautiful classroom.  (sad face)  While our building is being rebuilt my school is being housed at a nearby church.  Emmaus Baptist Church has been ever so nice to allow us the use of their beautiful building for the year.  It has been 6 months since the tragedy and it is hard to believe tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  What a long road it has been with my teacher buddies and I. It is great to say that we have made it, and continue to make it each new day in our different environment.  I have a class full of 17 2nd graders and a wonderful student teacher.  Ashlee has been with me since day one.  It will be difficult for me when she leaves in December.  I have grown so fond of her!  But as the world turns, life goes on and it is time for her to spread her teacher wings and fly, haha.  She will be a great asset to any school!  I will post pictures of my new classroom soon!  I will also be posting post tornado pictures also.

classroom pics

The calm before the storm....

Well, Friday's weather was b-u-TIFUL!!!! I think my class agreed since their behavior was out of control!  Saturday was just as pretty and Eddie and I went downtown to Renovation Station to get some more things for me to work on!  We then drove around and took in some sights.  Oh how I love downtown OKC. So fun!  Today I have been crafting again!  I forgot that I finished my wreath for my room yesterday before 11:00. Here is a picture of it! 

It took a whole lot longer to make then expected, but I think it turned out nice.  I also used my cricut and some paint and made the sign that is above it.

Today I worked on a tshirt with roses.  Here it is!

Sorry it is hard to see. I made about ten roses and then sewed them by hand onto the shirt.

Now I am sitting and watching tv.  The weather is again supposed to be nasty on Tuesday.  I hope we don't miss school!!

Happy Sunday!

There's No Day like a Snow Day

Well today was our first snow day of this school year!  I had mixed emotions about whether I wanted to miss school or get an extra day of in February.  Now that the day is winding down, I am glad that I had a day to be lazy.
     I decided to work on several crafts that I had been wanting to make.  The first one being a magnetic memo board to hang in my kitchen.  It was a fast project that I now adore!

Here it is!