December photo 22

You may not know it, but this is Old Armadillo-----Armadillo Viejo. B and her classmates had a "reader's theater" and their group was doing the story they had translated into Spanish. She had the title role---and snored for most of the play. I will post a video of the end of the play on the other blog.

December photo 18

We decorated little houses at our party. The kids had fun!

December photo 17

We made salt dough ornaments at school and painted them to give as gifts to the parents.

December photo 16

We had a kit to make a gingerbread house at school. They used it for a decoration at our Christmas program. Delicious, no?

December photo 3

We had a pinata party at school this week!

December photo 2

You can't see J, but he's there on the second row. He's a french horn player, and this is the final bow after their Winter Concert.

November 1-25

Here's my second catching up post. November stuff I took pictures of:

B was interested in heritage photos

My car is making patterns with the numbers on the odometer. I can't help but notice them.
I made a rainbow for letter R with each child making a segment of the rainbow.

The train. At the library, you're literally a few feet from all that power. It's kinda scary!

B at the Scout House with her new American Girl mini doll

J taking a picture of the mirror



J was in Flashback Fever. My other blog has more photos!

I was waiting for the train to pass one night. If you're an Aggie, do you know where I was sitting??

Turkey cookies for snack.

We put our thankful thoughts into a box this month. here are all our ideas on the table.

Another shot at school---writing on the white board is a rare treat for them!

B and the pecan pie she helped me make (before it got baked!). We sent it up to J's school for the teacher drawing right before Thanksgiving. Throughout the day, they drew teachers' names, and they then got to go to the library and pick a pie that someone from the PTO had brought up. I don't know who got ours, but sure would like to.

My necklace I bought for myself. I just totally love it. There are earrings to match that I didn't get, but if I ever get invited to a Premiere jewelry party, I will get them!

B got 1st place at the district meet for Art Memory!! Go girl!!

That's it--until I post this week's photos!

October Photos

I am catching up!! I am so far behind that I am just starting with a photo a day on Thanksgiving. However, I have some October pictures to share----
Before crazy hair day (braids in hair overnight to create waves that next day)
After

mini-Pumpkin carving

I can't share many school photos, but this one is safe.

J and B went to the TROUPE lock-in---J in his straight jacket, B, his nurse, with a giant shot.

J and Larry were in "Dirty Dealings in Dixie," a Gone with the Wind spoof melodrama.

Rhett and Scarlett

J and Lar in the same scene. Lar was the villain, J was Ashley.

Lar about to be shot----or was he?

I caught this guy driving on the road with his 4-wheeler. I am annoyed by him, and now I can send this to the cops??? I was inside my house, looking through the door to get this sneaky shot!

Another school shot. I made a number line. Red dots for even numbers, next will be blue for multiples of 3.

This school shot shows our calendar. We add a weather report on each day we come, and at the end of the month, we do a graph. What did we have the most of? Sunny or cloudy?

Dusk shot---of the neighborhood bar. Never been there, of course, but I liked the neon sign as contrast to the light in the sky.

This is our new police station in Bryan. I love the way the lights look at night.

Next post? November 1-26.

October Photo 10

Is this backpack too big? Yes, it is as heavy as it looks. There is a computer in there, a bunch of spiral notebooks, a binder (and another binder for band isn't in there!), shoes for gym, pens, pencils, sunglasses, etc. What can be done? No one has lockers at this school.

October Photo 9

This is some of the dough---and for some reason, it got really gooey on "this" boy's turn.

October Photo 8

Today at school, as a part of our "Community Helpers" unit, an actual baker came and showed us how to make cinnamon rolls and kolaches. This is he and his son, rollin' the dough.

September Photo 30

On Monday this week, J got his school computer! WooHoo for federal grants! ;-) It did cost us $50, which is not a deposit. At J's school, the Dual Language kids and the GT magnet kids got it first. In January, the whole 6th grade will get wireless laptops.

August Photo 7

Here's B measuring a javelin throw. We used a straw for this one. The discus was a paper plate.

J was very intent on finding the true "winner" of the events, so he was my record-keeper.

And when you use things like cotton balls and paper plates and straws, anyone might be the winner. Levels the playing ground to have such lightweight things. One boy was the stand-out winner in races, though. We handed out little gold medals to all the kids at the end of the day.

August Photo 6

My last day teaching pre-school was an Olympic-themed day. It was a great day of fun sports---even for me, a non-sports gal. B gets all the credit for setting up an awesome Olympic arena. It included hurdles (over mini-traffic cones), balance beam, shot put (pictured here, with a cotton ball shot), javelin throw, long jump, discus throw, rhythmic gymnastics, and relay race.

July Photo 21

Here is a carrot we grew in our school garden. This one's not washed yet, but the school kids were washing them and eating them right there. Ahhh . . . that's what it's all about! :-)

My class's corn plants didn't do as well as the carrots, but we got a couple of ears of corn.

July Photo 20

Today was our Camping theme at school. We had a couple of sleeping bags in the room, and the girls were sharing them---and going in head first, which is what's going on in this picture.

July Photo 6

This was a picture from our Teddy Bear's Picnic at preschool. It was a fun day---I had found a lot of activities I thought were really fun.

June Photo 30

These pictures were taken at school on Tuesday. I just thought their little hair decorations were so cute, I had to get them all! One picture is twins, I bet you can tell. Just love that!

June Photo 24

B and her friend were making up a skit for the little kids at our Circus Day at our summer preschool. It was silly, but they had fun doing it.