Easter

We had a pretty good Easter. The food was amazing as usual. I ran to old navy and stocked up on some tanks and stuff before heading home to do lesson plans. I feel better now that they're done but the Sunday evening blues have hit me hard. I accomplished a lot this week and I know summer is right around the corner. I wanted to share a few things I've painted/distressed so far. I can't wait to do my table. I may start the chairs next weekend. The first is a shelf that I literally pulled from the side of the road somewhere. It was the first piece I did and was relatively easy. The second is an antique radio cover that my grandma gave me. My family has tons and tons of old furniture and wood from my great grandmas house so there is plenty to work on.





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What I've been up to

I'm thinking about getting back into blogging again for about the 100th time. I haven't been successful so far and my life is pretty boring. Today (Easter Sunday) makes 4 months without my brother and I don't know how long it will take for holidays not to suck so bad. My sweet great aunt came and gave my house a major overhaul. I got new furniture and curtains for the living room and I no longer have miscellaneous crap in the guest room or office closet. I went with bonded leather because it's so much easier to clean. Faith sheds a ton for a pit bull and the bonded leather doesn't scratch.




I'm working on refinishing my dining room table and chairs. All of my furniture is espresso colored and I've had it awhile so it's time to paint and distress a little so everything isn't so dark. I broke down and bought a pretty nice sander so that should make things easier.





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School

Is it really almost Monday again? Ugh. This past week was crazy. We got a new student in the middle of the week. I had two kids that had poop accidents, my evaluation from our facilitator was terrible. She came on a day when we had recess inside, no one was cleaning their centers, and we ran out of time during the lesson. It doesn't go in our file and I know this is my first year in head start but I still feel like a huge failure. I'm such a perfectionist and I want to make sure my kids are getting what they need. There is a lot of freedom to teach whatever in head start and I'm just not used to it yet. The principal I had last year could be downright hateful so I'm still kind of afraid of getting fussed at. The facilitator was so nice and offered help if I needed it. I tried posting some photos of the kids but apparently it's not working . Please Lord let this week get better. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Hurt

"My brother died last week" does not say enough about how I feel. Thursday, December 8, 2011 a piece of my heart went to heaven. I had a typical day at school, my kids were just starting to get the pre Christmas crazies. We got our school iPads that day and I sat in a training for an hour or so. After that, I went and met my parra and we bought critter hats. I walked in my house about 4:15 thinking I could take a quick nap. I had just settled myself down on the couch when my mom called and told me they were taking him to the hospital. While we were talking she had to let me go because his friend he was working with was calling. My heart knew then that he was gone, I can't really explain it other than its like a part of you is sucked out. She called back about 10 minutes later. Now I remember that she didn't actually get the words out, but I lost it and my grandma came to get me. We had to wait until Sunday to get his body back because he was working in Pennsylvania. All we know is that he had an enlarged heart and died peacefully in his sleep. He was only 24. I'm officially done with Christmas this year. My grandma is still going to do her thing and cook. She says that it would break his heart to feel like he ruined Christmas and she's right but i can't get rid of the feeling of wanting to rip my tree down.

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Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was an interesting one to say the least. My mom is still recovering from having a colon resectioning and my grandpa just got out of ICU today after having surgery on his carotid artery. I have a lot to be thankful for that they are doing better now. I spent Thanksgiving in Houston and will be trying to avoid Black Friday as much as possible.

What's on my mind now:
Nearly went postal in giant 2 story Forever 21 due to over abundance of teenagers
I hate Houston traffic
Dogs are driving me crazy (7 total staying here)
This week went way too fast
Still need to do lesson plans, get kids a tree and ornaments
Home is waiting with 100 loads of laundry
Tried sock bun curls. Cussed. A lot. Will see when I wake up.
Tired. Goodnight.



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Life

I can't believe Thanksgiving is almost here. Pretty soon we'll be working on the Christmas program and ringing in the new year. School has kept me so busy lately. We are working on home visits this week and next. My parents have been pretty cooperative which is great. This is a short week at school for me since I'm off tomorrow for my mom's surgery (she's having a cancerous part of her colon removed) and Friday is Veteran's Day.

I'm loving the iPad and the kids have gotten the hang of it. At first they seemed kind of afraid to touch it and werent pressing hard enough. We've been working on Starfall and ABC Trace for the past few weeks. I need to find a number trace app because we just started working on writing numbers.

I officially adopted Faith on October 22nd which is also pit bull awareness day. She finished up her classes for CGC and all we have to do is work some more in public places so she can get used to distractions and we will be all set to take the test.


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iPad apps

As promised, I will share a few of the iPad apps my district has recommended. They are mainly early childhood and sped.

Little Speller- this app is very customizable. You can include your own pictures and input your own spelling list as a scramble or for younger students, include the letters in their proper place to teach students to drag letters. Sound can be turned off or on.

Sock Puppets- can record voices, choose different characters and settings then play your puppet show. Great for story retelling.

Sas flash cards-very easy to customize

Answers yes or no- great app for sped. You can customize questions ad answers with pictures.

Autism apps- collection of apps to assist children with autism. Unlike the previous apps I posted, some of these are not free. I highly recommend some of the ABA flash card apps that have great pictures.

It's getting late and on top of that, I'm starting to get sick. (the day before we foto the pumpkin patch no less) so I will continue this list later.


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