ANOTHER 365 TUESDAY! :)

Wow! I can't believe that is has been a whole week since I have blogged. This past week has been absolute CHAOS! But, among the chaos, there have been some great memories. Here we go...

Thursday January 29, 2009
This was probably the longest day of my life! My teacher had to do some T.P.R.I. testing today, and I had ANOTHER sub! We had been so busy with other things, my teacher and I hadn't planned for the next week. I stayed at school until about 6.30! I worked an 11 hour day!

Friday January 20, 2009
What a great day! I started today out laughing at my wonderful sister Ali. This is a picture of her right after she woke up. Check out her sweet hair...

We also made a road trip to Snyder, and she kept me laughing all the way there. Check her out...

Sunday February 1, 2009

My dad and one of his good friends is putting in a new business in Snyder. It's called The Hit Zone, and it will be indoor batting cages. More on this later, but for now, here is the building that is being transformed into The Hit Zone.

Monday February 2, 2009

Today was the 100th day of school!!! We had sooo much fun doing "100 day" activities. We rotated classes in the afternoon, so all the classes could do a different activity. The students were also asked to make "100 day projects." I was sooo impressed with some of them. Check out my smart kindergartners...

"100 Fish in the Sea"

"Army of 100"

"100 Flowers"

This one is my FAVORITE!! He cut small dixie cups (that you use when you brush your teeth) to make 100 flowers. HOW FUN!!!

"100 Sunflower Seeds on a Baseball"

Tuesday February 3, 2009

So, Ali and I have a new visitor or maybe two. Last night, I had a night class, and Ali texted me that she had seen a mouse under our kitchen table. She freaked out and didn't move from the spot she was in until I got home an hour later! Being girls, we had no clue had to set a mouse trap. So my wonderful friend, Brandon, came and set not one, not two, not three, but TEN mouse traps for us!!! We haven't seen the mouse anymore, and we haven't caught anything in our traps, so we will see what happens.

Also today, I started teaching math. We have been talking about different types of measurement, so today, we talked about how thermometers measure temperature. We made our own thermometers, and the kids loved making them. I think they learned a lot about their "mometers/hamometers" as they would call them. We taped a straw to some card stock with numbers or "degrees" on them. We pulled some red and white yarn through the straw, and to make the mercury rise, you just pull the red yarn to the top. VERY FUN!