hansel and gretel were a bundle of energy yesterday. colin and i played with them most of the morning and they were so funny. running, jumping and rolling all over each other. finally when it was time to put them in their little bed, they were sleepy.

last night was our first slumber party with catherine. she was so good!! we had such a wonderful time. after dinner auntie erica gave her a little bath. she had a super fun time playing in the tub. next we played for a long while with some toys. then erica read her and before we knew it she was asleep. catherine slept until 7:52am this morning, i thought that was pretty good!! can't wait til the next catherine slumber party!

tonight is a colin slumber party!! its been a day of playing with the kitties! he is so gentle with them and such a good listener!! im so proud of what a sweet kind boy he is!!

the sweet kitties came home...

last night i had them in lucey's little house to snuggle and sleep in. this morning it was turned upside down and gretel was sitting on top of it. so, tonight erica had the idea to put them in the bread basket. we took the bread basket liner out and put a folded sheet into the basket. they loved it, curled right up and went to sleep!! little dollies!!

we had such a wonderful weekend. slumber party was super of course!! we went to the liverpool village animal hospital (my vet) on saturday and colin helped me pick out 2new babies...here they are!
hansel

and gretel

colin chose the names...

we will get to pick them up hopefully this week sometime.

Yesterday was my last day with my second graders. i was sad to say good bye but im so excited about the falltime!!
here are the treats that i made for them.

wow, i can't believe how this week has flown by!! we had our last scienc review, then our last science test and a final math year-end assessment. the kids did quite well considering it's the last full week of school.
today we had the baby shower for mrs. madigan. she was so surprised. the kids worked so hard on the album. each page looked so wonderful and little baby girl madigan made an appearance on every page.
i have a bunch of fun activities for the kids on monday. i've still got to get their treats put together!!

hailey was one of our honey bears in 2000/2001. she is graduating from 5th grade next tuesday. she has become quite a beautiful and sweet young lady.

what an exciting week it was!
it started off quite hot, blazing actually. the class room had to be close to 110. luckily dad gave me two fans and that helped a little!
i went in early on tues and wed to do some dra testing. this tests the childs comprehension in reading. over the summer i'll be taking some dibbles training. dibbles tests for fluency.


on thursday we went to granby elementary in fulton for an old fashioned field days. it was so much fun and the weather was gorgeous!! the kids had a blast!
on friday we had our elden field days. it was alot of fun but it was 2 hours in the sun and 90 degree heat. lucky for me dad gave me his golf umbrella to use and it helped so much. i did get a sunburn though...

omgosh, yesterday was miserable! the morning was ok, steamy but not as bad as the afternoon! The kids were miserable. They all had headaches and stomach aches. I kept
the door open the whole day, the lights off and the fan on. I let them fill
their water bottles as much as they wanted to. We did the math test in the
afternoon and then we basically just read. They read silently and then I did
a read aloud. Mr. Cardamone came in and said not to try and teach but to
just let them lay on the rug.

They are predicting 93 for Monday... :(

I'm hired!! Hooray!! Im the new 2nd grade teacher at Elden!!