April Currently

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

The elementary students enjoyed celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday this month.
K5 listened to One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and played a concentration game.
 First Grade listened to Tim Tebow read Green Eggs and Ham and made a tic-tac-toe game.
Third Grade listened to The Boy of  Fairfield Street.
Fourth Grade listened to Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!  

We used these apps to take pictures with the iPads.  

Currently

It's hard to believe March is already here.....

100th Day of School

We celebrated the 100th day of School in the library by looking at 100 books.  The students then tried to guess how many books were in the library!  I used the app Pic Collage to make my collage.  I learned all about Pic Collage at TCEA.  

Currently....Finally

I love the Olympics, it is finally snowing it Tyler, I loved TCEA--but I need to take the time to look through all my notes, I've been out of town the last 3 weekends and I'm looking forward to a peaceful weekend, maybe if it is quiet this weekend I can get caught up, hmmmmm I've been to Uganda, Megan lives in NYC, and I've never eaten peanut butter nor do I ever want too!! 

TCEA

We are registered and ready!!! 

This week has been really cold--so snow books seemed to fit perfectly.

First Grade listened to me read Jan Brett's Three Snow Bears.  Then we took the AR test together to practice test taking skills.  We finished by watching a video from Jan Brett's website.  I love the way she talks to the students about why and how she writes a book.  We didn't watch all of this but got to see the real polar bears, her trip to the Arctic Circle, and the beginning of her drawing a baby polar bear.




Kindergarten Students enjoyed listening to Snow by Uri Shulevitz, and then All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle.  I told them I wanted them to be prepared if it ever snowed in Tyler.  We finished library by creating our own snowmen.  

January Currently

I really love college football. This is fun time with my husband

My daughter was home from her job in NYC, my son home from Texas A&M. We spent lots of time with my brother and his family and our friends.  Christmas was relaxed and fun.

My life isn't perfect-- but I can see God's hand in it.

I love decorating the house--- but hate taking it down.

I really need to spend time in my closet--maybe that can be my summer job.

My family has always eaten homemade tamales for Christmas Eve.  This year Matt got us some from a little Mexican shack under a railroad bridge-- he swears they have a current health department inspection.  These were the best tamales ever--they were wrapped in banana leaves not corn husks!