So much to do!

I have had a great week! I was able to meet with many of my parents and plan to meet with most of the others this week yet so that will be very good! At least conferences are over for now... we'll start this round up again in January but that's another day. This weekend I actually finished up the fire pit! Now, if it will just cool off enough to start a fire... at least we had rain. Ahh, Texas, two seasons- blistering hot and not. I still had to water the garden today, sigh. C'mon rainy season! I got my 3rd Bundle in order, just in case Mr. Gagne comes in and asks me about it. He does things like that sometimes. He keeps me on my teacher toes! Have I mentioned how much I love those bundles in this post yet??? You know, usually during parent conferences I say something about how these grades are probably the highest they will be since traditionally we review first grade the first 6 weeks but after I said it once, I realized that it wasn't true this year at all! The bundles got us all off to teaching grade level requirements right away! What a great realization! AND that my students did so well, was even more awesome! I'm happy about the things that we are doing in the classroom. If you ever look at the list of TEKS we are required to teach during the course of a year, you might feel a bit overwhelmed like I do every year but this year with the bundles, I feel like I can do it. It really is easy to wrap my mind around a three week unit of study and it's becoming easier for me to make connections between the subjects which makes it easier for students to understand as well! A win-win situation.

I spent all day on the computer because I realized that the Best Buy TEACH Award grant was due TODAY, not Wednesday as I had been thinking! Not to worry, I got it done--you know I really am lucky I get as many grants as I do since I usually wait until the last minute-- now let's all cross our fingers and hope we get it!! It'll be 5 digital cameras, a color printer and a camcorder for our classroom...!

Speaking of grants, THE BOOKS CAME IN!!! I'm so excited! I just know the kids will love these science sacks(ok, I really need to think of a cute name soon). Mrs. Woodall and Mrs. Wedge helped me to sort them out and they are as excited as I am!! Yes, we'll share with them, they're friends and we have more than enough to share! Hmmm, I spent a lot of this week on school, not very balanced... but it was just that kind of week, next week will be better.

Hey! I did go to COSTCO with my mom and spent a significant portion of Saturday on the phone working out the details for my mom's birthday coming up in two weeks. Hmmm Let's see anything else? Oh, if you're looking to try out your new portal for your child's grades, I put some in there for you! Until next week!