melt: theme song for ice cream and crayons and young children made of wax

(quick update! i had to put the fish up for a few days because they're the coolest! please feel free to feed them by left clicking!)
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh (that is a sigh of relief-had it been frustration, it would have been capitalized). last call for summer camp! aaaaand DONE!

i did score some great extras to use in my classroom, though! i LOVE posterboard and chart paper!! i am pretty certain that my car is exponentially heavier because of all the paper! of course, when i got home, my hands were full bringing things into my apartment because i had some perishables (heat advisory until 8pm-boo).

i only need one melted crayon art-piece for my simile example-this is why i brought up all crayons and markers (i probably ought to look through and see if there is anything else

not only was today our last day of summer camp, but we had a field trip to top it off! we went to the library downtown and we had an illustrator and a student author speak to our group. the illustrator was interesting! if you've ever read the book esperanza rising or gracias the thanksgiving turkey, joe cepeda is the author, and he was phenomenal! he has illustrated many children's books and he actually wrote and illustrated the book swing, which he read to us-EXCELLENT book to read to your students!!

i picked up some great drawing/writing tips for our students! they don't know it yet, but they should be very excited! i'm gonna' make authors of them yet!!

SWING

as you may have noticed, i did not include the other author's name because i was not impressed (so instead of wasting time and space on her, i'm wasting space explaining why i did not write about her...hmm).

and we got back later than usual. i still had to get all of my stuff together and ready to go-i was SO hoping to get out before 4:45 so that i wouldn't have to play 'parking-lot-chicken' with parents picking up their "car kids." well...i didn't have any parking lot problems because i didn't get everything cleaned up and packed up until 5:05. ugh. (i went the extra mile and clorox wiped all of the desks...better than i found them).

it just crossed my mind that if i have to change out my car for another, i'm going to have to unload all of that junk...i need to look at the cut-off date again and pray that i have until the beginning of school so that i can unload it there and not have to carry it up and down these 3 flights!!!

here's hoping that your summer gets cooler and you don't feel like a melted crayon screaming to get out of the car!
julie