Thankful Day 1-12

I am doing the 20 day Thankful posting on Facebook and I wanted to share it with everyone on here too...here is the first 12 days!!!

Day 1- The BEST husband in the world.

Day 2- My beautiful Daughter, Lily.

Day 3-The Conroe Police Department for hiring my husband.

Day 4-My parents!! Without them I would not be who I am toady.

Day 5- My Saturday's off!!

Day 6-My church...Family Faith Church.

Day 7- (I guess I forgot to do this one) This is was a Monday...I got coffee before school, so I will say I am thankful for Starbucks...they get my mornings start just right!!!

Day 8- I am thankful to work at a wonderful school but hate the commute.

Day 9- I am thankful for my great teaching partner...Kacy Bunte

Day 10- I am thankful that Thursday was over (long day) and Friday started my mini vacation to my parents house.

Day 11- I am thankful for the men and women who have served and still serving in the military.

Day 12- I am thankful for the wonderful house I live in...helping my parents move makes me not want to move EVER again!!!

I hope you enjoyed my 1st 12 days!!!

MUDD Run...Let's Get Dirty

Houston MUDD Run...Let's Get Dirty!!

We had a blast...I can't wait to do it again:)

Bruce, Me and Kane before the race!!

Us ladies...Andrea, Cathy, Miriam, and I before the race!! We are missing Maria in this picture:(
Kane and I after the race...alittle on the dirty side!

Bruce and Kane!

Bruce, Me and Kane

Us Ladies afterwards!!

Lily and I after the race!!

We had a great time running the race!!! I can't wait to do it again:) The best part was running it with my wonderful husband who helped through the obstacles and some fantastic ladies that I teach with!! It will defiantly be something I will do again!!!

Snails

So our big event for the year is Nature Trails and Snails. The kids LOVE the snails!! Each of them wanted to hold it and play with...they really enjoyed this activity. Here is our snail activity in pictures....

One of the snails!!

Measuring how long the snail is...

Our Snail Book where we tool ALL our notes!!

What does the Snail prefer to eat? Grass, Carrot, or Lettuce...they went for the Carrot!!

One of my students with a snail crawling up her arm!!

The kids had a wonderful time with our Snail adventure!!!

Delay

A few people have asked about the Easter cookies, Easter pictures and everything in between...I promise I will find time this weekend to post them!!! Between TAKS testing this week...fun fun...and coming down with a cold...I have ZERO energy to do anything!!! Have a great week:)
Jaime

Nature Trails

In the post The Woods I told you that I taught outside to our 3rd graders at Nature Trails. Well every year, our ONE and ONLY field trip is to Nature Trails. The students get the chance to explore Simple Machines out in Nature. It is alot of fun, but alot of work on us teachers. The kiddos have a blast at it:) Unfortunately, I can not post any pictures of the kiddos, so I will leave you with this one.....

The students had to use a compass to navigate through a series of questions. Yes, compasses are not simple machines, but it still is a tool the students must know how to use!!!

I wish sometimes I could teach outside everyday. It is a good change from teaching inside all day!!!

Snow Day..HAHA

This post is long overdue, but owell...I still want to share our Snow Day with everyone.

Well all week we had been experiencing much colder weather then we usually have in Texas. It had already iced over in the Dallas area. Well, they were expecting between 1 to 3in (I think that is what it was) of snow on Friday, Fed. 4th. I was glad when my school district decided early to cancel school on Friday. I commute an hour to school and I wanted to take advantage of the sleeping in:) Therefore, Thursday night Kane and I went to Randalls and loaded up on comfort food for our BIG snowstorm we were going to get!!!

Smores to make by a nice hot fire!!!

Lily and her Smore:)

Kane helping Lily make her Smore!!

Hurry up and make my Smore:)
We also made Valentine Cookies!!!
Can't forget the big pot of Chicken and Dumplings...yummy!!!

Well, lets just say that snow storm that was going to blow through never happened. We did get some ice on the roads which made the roads messy. I am thankful that my school district did close the schools, because I would not have driven to school with the roads iced over. But we were ALL disappointed that we did not get ANY snow at all:( Overall I was glad we got the day off because I sure did need the break!!!!

This was Lily and Kane on that Saturday raking the backyard. As you can see NO SNOW:(

My beautiful baby girl!!!

So there you have that is what we did for the BIG Snowstorm of 2011:)

The Woods...

The woods...that is where I taught science today to about 80 third graders:) That is where I will teach tomorrow to the other 80 third graders!!! I will post pictures this weekend!!! Even though its an educational field trip the kiddos had a blast!!! I am worn out for being outside ALL day, so I am off to bed!!!