What's In My Pocket

I decided to start a weekly addition of what's in my pocket to show some of the interesting things I collect from my kids at school. Today I have a penny, package of salt, and a googly eye.


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One Week Down

My first week in class with the kids is over. It was an easy one because we only had 7 this week. I will have 17 total. Everyone is doing great with procedures but they are getting so spoiled by being such a small class. My theme for my room is safari and as soon as I can get to it, I'm going to post some pictures. I got some really neat fonts for the newsletter and folders at fontspace.com under the animal category. I finished their take home folders yesterday and I decided to use

Safari

And

Families

Are

Responsible and

Informed

since I teach HeadStart and we're all about family involvement. I thought this one was cute also:

Little

Experts

Organizing

Practicing

And

Remebering

Daily

Skills

I got this from smithsroom.com under Moose acronyms. They have so many cute ones.

I'm trying to take it easy this weekend because my brain is a little mushy but we have to start screening on Monday so I've got to get a few things together plus I need to go through my cd's and make daily ones so I don't have to waste so much time changing cd's all day.

Back to School

This is where I've been for the past few weeks. This was the before picture. I sent this to a friend along with "HELP!!!!" She replied back with "I see potential". It's all coming together and hopefully I will have an after picture to put up here soon. I thank God every day for my job and can't wait to meet my students for the year.

Things are looking up

I got a job!!! I'm so excited and I feel like a huge load has been lifted off my shoulders. I found out Friday. Next week I'll be getting my classroom into shape and working on things at the Media Center.

On another note, I'm fostering this cutie pie for the local pit bull rescue. She is an absolute doll. I got her today and she's fitting right in. Hopefully I can get her adopted before I fall in love with her too much.

Coupons

I'm really not into all this extreme couponing business. I don't have the patience to sit, clip and organize all of that. It's kind of a shame because my house is pretty organized and my classroom always was too but I guess having to make that big ol coupon binder just is too much for me. Plus, I don't need 700 bottles of Powerade or 200 cans of oatmeal. I don't have the place to store all of that stuff. I did however, get roped into liking RainingHotCoupons.com on Facebook by a friend. Today's deal is a free $12 voucher from cellpig.com. They have a few iPhone cases and car chargers so I decided to get a case. I have the iPhone 4 and normally keep an Otterbox on it because 1, I'm destructive and 2, I let kids play on it all the time. I have an iHome dock which of course does not work with the Otterbox on it so I needed a smaller case so I don't have to dock it naked. Even switching the cases back and forth freaks me out but heck it was free. The deal ends today so mosey on over to raininghotcoupons to check it out.

What I've been up to

Still no word about a job for next year. I had two interviews but there are so many administration changes in the elementary schools so hiring is taking longer. Gotta love Louisiana and the value they place on education.
To keep myself busy I've been working on healthier eating at home. I got Hungry Girl 300 under 300 and I'm working my way through the recipes. I've also rededicated myself to my old 6 days a week at the gym so maybe I can shed all the extra pounds I packed on last school year.
In addition to all of that, I've been working on redoing some furniture pieces I've had for awhile. I basically just sand them down a little bit then paint with sponges to make sort of an antique look. To seal it i just spray with a clear coat. The chair and stool are for my future classroom. I will be so glad to get rid of all my teacher stuff that's taking up so much space. Pardon the mess in my kitchen, I'm in the process of organizing and overhauling my entire house. I'm almost done.








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Summertime

I've wanted to blog more instead of just stalking other blogs but this summer hasn't provided much in the way of excitement. I'm working 2 CASA cases and I've been working on a benefit for a friend's niece. It's on Saturday so we've been collecting donations, baking all sorts of things for the bake sale and running around like crazy people all week. After doing all of this, I'm reminded once again what a great community I live in. People as far as Lafayette have donated. Right now, K and I (thank God she lives behind me) have been funneling baked goods across our yards all morning. My oven is baking the second batch of beer bread and she's baking what feels like 10 million cookies in hers. I still haven't found a permanent teaching position but things are looking better than last year so I just have to continue to pray and have faith that something will come up.