oh, why it's a hen. thank you..i don't even collect hens, but i will collect this one.

 when i was in elementary school, we never really did anything special for our teachers...like Christmas gifts and such. now, there was one teacher who we liked a lot and she had an owl collection (3rd grade mrs. van horn), so my friend and i got my dad to make a cool owl out of wood, perched on a real branch with googly eyes. but apart from that, we didn't get random things for them. fast forward to today, one of my students gave me what i thought was a coaster, but i just got one...so i asked if it was a coaster for drinks or artwork. she said she wasn't sure.

i don't collect hens, but she said she made it.

tomorrow we have our spelling bee at school-i don't think it will last too long...just a commentary on spelling in america today (as i continue to insist on non-capitalization).
 we're also looking forward to tomorrow afternoon; we'll have some 'holiday reading.' so that should be fun. we haven't done it in a couple of years, but the students loved it the last time we did! i mean, who can say no to the grinch?

that's kinda' funny. the headline on the drone that landed in iran obama says:GIVE IT BACK. the only reason it's funny is because we were reading today in social studies about the gonzales battle in tx when the mexicans wanted their cannon back and the texans put up a flag that said: COME AND GET IT and there was actually a tile mosaic of the incident. so this is the modern day battle of gonzales-who's making the mosaic? will they give us the come and get it flag?

random thoughts:
i have a shady date coming up with jude law and robert downey jr...i am very excited about the new sherlock holmes movie!
a commercial was on the other day and it said: there's only one place to find the kim cardashian line this Christmas...and i said: thank goodness!
and
today in class i wanted to know what my student was working on and the phrase came out a little awkwardly, "how far along are you?" of course i was the only one chuckling amongst 4th graders.

julie