ice chunklets from heaven posing as snowflakes...losers

so when i woke up this morning, on the news, they were saying that it was snowing in some parts of dallas. so when i got to my car, i looked real closely for this 'dusting', and i found this little cluster of wanna' be snow...pseudo-flakes. i'm betting they all got together before they left the cloud and said, "hey, let's make sure we stick together, since we're not even the real deal...that way, maybe someone will actually think we're a full, beautiful snowflake and not bastardized ice chunklets!" 

sorry, it was dark out, you can see the little line just right of the center...they didn't fool me!

it was another good day at school- i feel like i've been pushing the kids so hard on these book-stories that it's thursday or friday! oh to be friday! but alas, we're only half-way through...BUT tomorrow i get tamales!! yippy-ki-yay! (sp? who cares) we did notice in social studies today that mr. man-from-early-texas should have fired his portrait painter...

look at those fly-aways at the back of his head! they look like crab claws!

when school was over, i got a few things done in my classroom, then we made our way to fair park and got started on the fun and games! we helped pack a bunch of bags with another couple of schools.

i didn't take a button because we're teaching our kids to read and i don't want anyone asking me about it.

there was lots of ribbon and it was kind of a race to get the ribbon into the little tag to tie on the bag before the bag-knotters snatched the bag and did it themselves. they didn't trust us to tie ribbon into a knot apparently. snooty.

this is a Christmas gift. please notice the chains, grapples and hooks..and the name of this action figure-"tortured souls'...creepy-no one would bag it!

we were so thankful that our principal drove because she is much more familiar with the area! we got back to our vehicles at school at about 7p.m. and on the way home, i had to stop to get this pic because i love this little area near my neighborhood! they do such a great job.

and this is only a small portion of this little park-it is so great! it really puts me in the Christmas spirit!

alright, it is getting late, and i want to get some puppy-time in...it's been a long day!
julie