An Angry Bird Halloween

 Pretty Blue Angry Bird

 Smiling Red Angry Bird

 Mama my turn!!!!   She wanted her picture taken over and over and......

 Yellow Angry Bird

  Angry Bird Family Shot

 King Pig

 About to twirl Blue Angry Bird

 Blinded by the sun Red Angry Bird.

 Silly Yellow Angry Bird.

 Deflated Yellow Angry Bird Shot

 The Bomb Bird

Angry Birds ATTACK!!!

New Family Member

 Good bye Durango with no air conditioning and gas mileage of a semi-truck.

Hello newest member of the family.  (okay not the new, we have had it for two months now)      Buick Enclave with captain chairs to separate all the spawn!

Hello world.  I exist, I am exhausted.  The End

So, I have been teaching for two weeks.  Why haven't I written anything about these two weeks you ask?  I don't have an opinion yet.  I have a wonderful group of kids (WAYYYY TOOO MANY OF THEM-39) but wonderful.  However there is drama in a way that I didn't think would exist.  The boys have wayyyyy more issues than the girls.  I can't separate the bad from the bad in my room because.....there is no room.  My students also know way less then I ever could have imagined.  A 6th grader should be able to write a paragraph and know their multiplication facts, alas this group does not.  There is no room (did I mention this yet) and no time to work with these kids in small groups or one on one.  I have no idea what to do yet.  The class is still self contained so I am teaching all subjects.  I wish I could just work on one or two subjects a day so that they can practice an important element over and over until they understand.  Bleh, sorry again I have no real opinion of this job I have always wanted and I am still not sure how to help these kids.   (on the upside, their classroom management is almost spectacular and the other 6th grade teachers are envious)

2 year olds

Melody- Mama, I want to see nakedness.
Mama- You want to see WHAT?!
Melody- I want to see the nakedness
Mama- What? Please point to what you want.
Melody- points to my neck..Mama the nakedness.
Mama- Oh.....the necklace........

Lots of district arguments.  At first I was going to teach 6th grade self contained classroom.  2 weeks ago it changed to classrooms swapping and I would be teaching social studies.  Somewhere it did not get approved so now we are back in self contained as of one day ago.  Bleh I wish these people would make up their minds so that I can plan!  I will post pics of classroom soon!

Squash!

It begins

I went to my classroom today to check out my space and to take some measurements.  Very empty but lots of space (i say that now cause there is not 30+ kids in there yet)  I am starting to get really nervous.  I asked the principal, who is new, questions about text books and curriculum.  I got next to no answers.  I don't know if the kids have text books, I don't know if we do our own chapter books for language arts, I don't know what I am supposed to be teaching, and I don't know when I will get my answers to these questions.  Starting to freak out!

My training starts next week but I still feel like I won't have enough time to get ready for these kids.  I need to just breath and write down tons of checklists and questions to organize my thoughts, so that when someone has answers I will ask the right questions. 

Unexplainable cat pictures

I saw this idea on a link on facebook and it was just so weird that I had to share it.  Some of the pics I took from the link, I added a few new ones, and edited out some that involved naked guys with cats.  Sorry if that is something you are interested in, you will have to look those up on your own.  Enjoy.

New Burns

 Here are some frames I burned for my babysitters that had babies within a month of each other.

An "oriental" dragon burn for a friend's wedding present.