chickadee

I was concerned that the dozen eggs we were incubating in our classroom were not going to hatch and I was going to have to pull a switch a roo on the kids and just go buy some but today I heard a peeping coming from the incubator! I walked over and saw that one little egg had started to crack. We watched all day and finally right after the kids got on the buses he hatched! I brought him home tonight and introduced him to Ginger. On Friday the little chickadee got to meet my favorite kiddos ever-the Wall kids. yay!Hannah was too cute. Love them and their mama!

Reasons I love to teach

Zachary picked a freshly bloomed daffodil. I was mad at first..I said Zachary! Don't pick the flowers! And he hands it to me and said I picked it for you Ms. Scott.... forgiven :)

Emma was waiting her turn to dig in the raised bed and she weeded... she called it picking flowers for me.
Best job in the world... obviously!

Little green thumbs

Yumm chocolate smelling mulch and blooming flowers... perfect!


Gloves:check, Lots of newspaper:check, Parents to help out: check, Most fun Friday yet: check!



Friday was one of the most fun days I have had at Fishburn so far. Friday is our greenhouse day so Nicholas's mom came in and planted rosemary and lemon balm with the kids. They loved rolling their sleeves up and getting dirty. After that we went back to the classroom long enough to get our gardening gloves and talk about what they were going to be doing to help get our big garden going. We walked outside and starting laying newspaper. It was orderly at first but then all of the MD kids came out and it became a free for all- literally. The news was there, school board members and the PR people from roanoke city and of course none of the other teachers were going to get the kids in order so I started yelling :) finally I got all of 1st grade and MD in a line and things started to run smoothly. It was really cool- the kids laid down stacks of newspaper and then later in the day the older kids spread compost on top. Well after order was restored and things were going well the news guy came up to me, I was trying my best to avoid eye contant but he found me anyway, asked if I was a teacher and if he could ask me a few questions. Ugh. So he went through the whole interview and then realzied his mic battery was dead. While the camera man went to get a replacement I had to make small talk with him and it also gave me enough time to get nervous. Long story short I ended up on the 5 oclock news sounding like an idiot :)

Spring time!

Spring is finally here and I'm pretty excited about it.
This has been a pretty busy week.
On Wednesday the leprechauns visited our classroom. The kids had talked about it all week. They colored everything I gave them green and came up with plans of how they could catch a leprechaun. Wednesday morning they came in and were disappointed when the leprechaun hadn't been there yet. They did notice the little trail of gold and green stars though and word in the hallway was that he had already been to Mrs. Hollie's room so we just had to wait him out. He finally came while they were in library. I made sure to keep the lights off and only destroy things while no children were in the hallway. The 2nd graders were almost as excited as my class and every single one of them stopped me in the hall to tell me the leprechaun had been in my classroom. All of the kids absolutely loved collecting the gold and cleaning up. Adorable.

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.

This was a status update I just read on facebook and loved. Maybe tomorrow I can come up with something profound... maybe.

Spring is almost here... I was very excited for all the snow but now I'm ready for some warm, flip-flop weather. I opened the windows and cleaned some today-it was nice. Of course Ginger enjoyed the sunshine too!
I talked to Leslie at school on Friday about a trip to New York and it turned out she was planning one during spring break so I called Holly and planned my trip too! She is going to take vacation that week and I am finally going to visit her!!!!! It's going to be so much fun, I can't wait. I am going to spend the next few weeks trying to find cute luggage and some new clothes.. which brings up the other thing I am going to do before I go. I figured that if I could lose 2 pounds a week I will have lost 10 pounds by the time I go. I have to get serious! Either way I'm sure I will find many reasons to love New York in a few weeks and I can't wait!

I've been a bad bloggger..mainly because I have been a bad photographer. Not a lot has been going on other than school things...A LOT of school things. We had our fashion show and sale last weekend. I went to church with Mary and shopped with Mom-both fun.
Today was Read Across America day and there were guest readers in all classes and lucky me Rita came to read to mine. She commented to me twice in the 15 minutes she was there about how I shouldn't try to worry about the RIF... makes me nervous she knows some bad news is on the way. I'm trying to freak about it this year and see where I end up.
I am really working the faith and trust thing and this just might be a test- one of many lately it seems.