Friday, October 31, 2008

I've been Boo-ed

Lisa over at Final Score: Boys 3 and Girls 2 Boo-ed me!


Here's how it works . Go to as many of your blog buddies as you want and tell them they have been boo-ed . Have them pick up this picture and add it to their blog and say with the link who boo-ed them . Put the picture in your sidebar if you want so then others know that you have already been boo-ed , if you post lots and it's not on the main page where everyone will see your boo-ed post!

Ok gang no time to go visit blogs today, we have a big game up in S.C. tonight so we hit the road as soon as school is out. Grab it if you want it, consider yourself boo-ed!

Sky watch Friday 9

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All of my Skywatches this month were from when Gustave was rolling into Mississippi over Labor Day.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen things that I have been for Halloween!

1. Clown
2. Half Angel, half devil
3. Naughty Bo Peep
4. 50's Sock Hop girl
5. Ladybug
6. Madonna
7. football player
8. baby
9. cat
10. dog
11. Diego's mom
12. ghost
13. zombie

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Teddy Bear Teddy Bear turn around

One of the things that I love about the Pre-K program that is at our school, is the monthly family nights that they put on after school.

Each month there is something new and fun for the parents and children to learn about and do.

Last month we recieved Pocket for Corduroy, as well as a Word Whammer.

This month it was all about nursery rhymes. We made stick puppets for Old McDonald, Teddy Bear Teddy Bear turn around, and Old Mother Hubbord. DJ made a spider out of a brownie, twizzlers, and M&Ms for Little Miss Muffett, and then played PattyCake with playdough. Plus we got free flashlights to remind us, to Turn a Light on Literacy. Talk about a great night for all of us.

But the highlight of the evening was the special visitor to act out Teddy Bear Teddy Bear with the children.
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It pays to have a forestry station just down the road from the school!

For some reason though Smokey would not do the part about Teddy Bear Teddy Bear stand on your head! ;)

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Danger Icebergs! Projects

A few weeks ago we studied the story Danger Icebergs! in our third grade reading unit. I assigned the following nature program to my students:

Write a Nature program about icebergs to present to the class.

Each member of the group must have a speaking part.

Each group must have a visual aid to support their findings.

Questions to be answered by the nature program:
1. What an iceberg looks like above and below the surface of the water.
2. Famous Iceberg events?
3. How an iceberg is formed?
4. How an iceberg travel?
5. Why do sailors avoid icebergs?

The students learned a great deal about icebergs and had a good time doing the nature programs.
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As you can see, some of my students had more help from home, as far as finding the extra information that was not given in the story, and putting together their visual aids. I even had one girl and her mom make a model of an iceberg using candle gel, and strofoam, which I thought was pretty creative, of course the day of the presentations I had left my camera at home, so I don't have a picture of that.

The coming week's big project is animal cells, similar to our plant cell project from last month. It should be neat to see what they can come up with this time, especially as the other two thrid grade classes both did the plant cell projects after we did ours, so they had "bigger and better" ideas based off our ours. Hopefully those ideas will have inspired our students to go bigger and better with this project.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Changes are afoot...

I decided this past week, after a faculty meeting that I needed to make some changes in my classroom.

Our principal was praising us on our beautiful our classrooms look, as far as decorations, and arrangements of everything. But then she asked that we try to work at keeping our desks cleared off. Our own teacher desks that is.

I have realized over that past several weeks, that my desk has become a catch all. If it gets handed to me, it went on my desk until I had time to deal with it. Some times getting burried for a week or more, because I just never sit at my desk.

Literally. I never ever sit at that desk. I was looking for a form that I needed to fill out and turn in on Thursday, and it was burried. When I was frustrated because I knew it had to be there, one of my girls even said, "Wow Mrs. C, I think thats the first time I have seen you sit at your desk, in your chair."

Yeah, changes needed to be made.

And not the changes where I am sitting down at a desk either.

Don't get me wrong I do sit during the day. Its just not that often. I will sit on a student desk, or in a student chair off and on all day, especially during read alouds.

On Friday, I decided to get rid of my teacher desk, and started cleaning it out. By 4:30, it was GONE!

It took a lot of rearranging of other things in my room, mostly the shelving unit behind where my desk was at, as that is now where I have the things that I looked for most often.

Man talk about a different room! The kids are not going to know what to think when they come in on Monday!

I moved my filing cabinet, and helpers chart as well, and on Monday morning I want to go early enough to rearrange the student desks to utilize that new space. We should be able to walk around know without running each other over! Plus now I should be able to bring in my rocking chair and put it in the library area to sit in during the read alouds.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Please keep Mrs. H's grandbaby in your thoughts and prayers!

One of my parapros had to leave work early today. Her grandbaby was admitted to the hospital with a severe case of RSV (they thought at least when she was leaving work).

If you could keep this baby in your thoughts and prayers for healing and strength, as well as his parents and Mrs. H, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Long day! again

We left the house at 6:25 AM.

We got to school at 7:08 AM.

I had students in my room starting at 7:25 AM, until 3:10 PM.

Then I had a reading training/meeting until 5:15 PM. Where we were basically made to feel like we are not trying hard enough to help the kids learn to read. I really wish that someone would clue the parents into the fact that they have to read with their children too.

Next I got to go back to my room that my children let DJ treat like his own personal playground, and attempted to do lesson plans. I have planned until Wednesday, but I need to revise Wednesday's plans as I will be in Macon at a math training all day, and then Friday's need to be written for a sub, since thats when Jerry is supposed to have his surgery. (Yeah, no going to South Carolina for me that night for the game!)

Then, we had the PTO meeting at 7 pm. Where I must admit that I have one of the best parents in the school as a parent as one of my students. As Mrs. P stood up at the meeting and encouraged her fellow parents to teach their children to follow the directions of their teachers without a question, and to READ, READ, READ! Mrs. P you rock!

Finally we had READO for books in the school library. That we could not skip, because DJ has heard about BINGO all week, and we had to go play BINGO.

I signed out from school exactally 13 hours after I signed in this morning.

I am very tired, and grumpy.

Tomorrow will not be much better, as its homecoming at Kelsey's school. Sooooooo we will be staying at school, while I finish lesson plans, then getting something to eat, then going to the game. The dance is after the game, which of course Kelsey wants to attend, and I have agreed to letting her have her friend Bubbles come home with us for the night. I have no idea what time the dance is over, but I will be up late.

Is anyone else ready for it

to just be November 5th already?

After almost 2 years of "The Election" broohaha, I am over it!

I am tired of hearing what each candidate thinks.

I am tired of all of the "polls" over who is going to win, and what we the American people supposedly think and want.

I am tired of the news, all the news being on the election, and what is going to happen based on the outcome of the election.

I think 99% of the people who are going to vote, already know who they are going to vote for.

So I am just ready for it to be November 5th already!



Even though I know, that there is going to be a group of people really upset that day, and not willing to accept the vote that goes against their candidate. No matter who wins, someone is going to be upset.

Monday, October 20, 2008

I guess I don't have a "recession" safe job

Dallas schools lay off 375 teachers

I told Jerry just last week that I felt good that we had jobs that were pretty much "depression" proof.

I guess I was wrong.

Now the worries start all over again..

Sunday, October 19, 2008

DJ and the StarLab

Wednesday at school our science speciality teacher arranged to have the Starlab brought to our school to show to the 2nd and 4th grade students.

(Excuse me a minute while I pout that we, the third graders, didn't get a chance to go. Of course the solar system is not part of our standards.)

DJ's pre-k class was lucky enough that after circle time the star lab had a time frame for them to go and see.

As we were walking my students out to the bus ramp at dismissal DJ saw Mrs. F, standing at the door to the library.

He looked up at me and said "Momma, after circle time today we got to go to the library."

I said, "Wow for what DJ?" thinking that the library had been closed all day.

"We got to go crawl into the clubhouse, and watch the animals and the lights on the roof! It was dark and Spooky! But then the lights came on in the club house and they showed us the animals and the STARS!!!!"

We walked outside to his teacher Mrs. H and she said that he was a bit timid to crawl through the tunnel to get into the dome, but once he was inside he did a great job.

DJ made sure to thank both Mrs. H and Mrs. F for the great time in the clubhouse. Which of course cracked them both up.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival

Is this weekend!!!

This past spring they had old fashioned music, dancers, hayrides, crafts and food galore!
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We had a great time this spring, but with our money situation right now, I don't think we will be going. :>(

But if you are in the area, you need to go check it out! Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival

If you are coming from North of Warner Robins on I-75, take the Hwy 96 exit, and turn left, follow 96 to Lake Joy road and turn right, from there follow the signs.

If you are coming from South of Perry on I 75 you can either get off in Perry and follow the signs, or follow the directions above.

If you are in Warner Robins proper, the easiest way I know to get out to the site, is to go down Lake Joy.


If you are coming into town for that, be sure to head to the Museum of Aviation Saturday night for the Lee Greenwood concert, and the opening of the WWII hanger! The concert is free and the new exhibits are wonderful!

PS if my sitemeter refferals are any indication, I think I should get a free pass, or something as just in the last week I have had about 100 hits on this search term. ;)

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Wings and Wheels, Musuem of Aviation Car Show

This last Saturday was the Museum of Aviation's 16th annual Wings and Wheels Car show.
Natalie, DJ and I went over in the drizzle to check it out. The museum is one of DJ's favorite places to go, so I knew that even if he didn't like the cars he would have fun.
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DJ told me to take a picture of the shadows:
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The model that was making the shadow:
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We even went all the way to the Great Wall of China to visit Uncle Matt.
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DJ knocked on General Scott's door, but no one was home:
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DJ's favorite car at the show:
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The museum holds the car show every second Saturday of October.

Aunt Donna and Uncle Mark, Natalie says that you need to bring one of the cars down for it next October, because she says that your cars would kick hiney. ;)