First Full Week and a Center Activity!

Whew!  I have survived the first week!  And by survive I mean "holy wow why do school districts adopt new reading and math curriculum in one school year"?!  I am beat.  And feel like a first year teacher all over again.  Eesh!

On a positive note though, I am IN LOVE with my kiddos.  They are so much fun.  And funny too! 

TRUE STORY:  We have begun our first fundraiser of the school year and it's selling Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough.  I know right?  :-)  Anyway, I told all of my students that if they all sold 1 tub of cookie dough, I would give them a pizza party.  (Hello $5 pizzas from Little Ceaser's!)  This morning I had a student open her bagproudly and announce to me that she did exactly what I wanted her to do last night with the cookie dough.  I told her "yay, you sold a tub already?"  She looked at me puzzled fora second and said "No!  I brought in the cookie dough so we could have a pizza party!"  She proudly handed me a roll of dough.  It was SO hard not to crack up but I held my composure and said "Does mommy know you brought this in?" and she said "Yeah, she took me to buy it last night!"

FACE PALM!

It truly gave me a Friday morning giggle!

I know some of you are going back to school just now so good luck with your first full week next week!  I will be thinking about you all!

Now for the new goods!  It's a great center activity for practicing nouns.  :-)

Go to my TpT store to see more images and a description.

Also, look what I did last night!  So much fun! I went with a couple of friends from work to a canvas painting class and had a blast.  It was FSU vs. UF night!  I was totally painting Osceola!

I am on the left standing right next to the "Gator Lover"!  :-)  My painting has FSU going down the canvas.

If you ever get the chance to do this with your friends, GO!  It's so much fun!