what in the world is a flaming "o" anyway?

 so, today i received a small package with 'thank you' vouchers for scholastic books from the publishing company that we used. the books should arrive shortly. the last couple of years we have received walmart cards as a thank you in order to purchase items for the classroom, this year  they changed to scholastic, and they gave us less...but it is certainly a wonderful gesture and they don't have to do it, so...much appreciated.

i'm sure i'll find something to use it on!

i love my coffee...i love having coffee at school. that's why i got the melitta single serve pot...the only problem is that one pays more for pods than just purchasing regular brew coffee and i have to go online to get good flavors (which cost a bit more...plus the shipping costs more than the product...unless you buy $99 worth or more-what am i going to do with that much coffee?) therefore i decided to make my own pods...yes, it's true. now, does it take a bit to prepare them? sure, but just knowing that i CAN is gratifying.

 this morning i took a quick trip to walmart (love it that they are 24 hour). i had to get some sheet protectors for my students because they have difficulty keeping papers in their binders from getting ruined..maybe they play rugby with their binders...i don't know, but hopefully this will help. anyhoo, while i was there i decided to check on thank you cards. a small selection, and i really liked these!

i do have some people to thank. smile.

 yesterday i was pleased to find that our school had a soothing water feature installed. i'm not sure if that was included in the bond work or not, but it's always nice to have some peaceful brick waterfall in the background! umm...until the tile falls from being too water-logged.

and sure enough, at the bottom there is a wonderful reflection pool...

i have picked up on the fact that i should probably do a quick mini lesson on the importance of spacing with words, or deleting spaces that shouldn't be there because after my students turned in a grammar exercise, one of the answers was supposed to be about a pink bird that is famous for standing on one leg...unfortunately one of my students left a space at the end and what should have been flamingo became an overtly gay letter of the alphabet...a flaming "o"...don't ask.....(don't tell?) or maybe it was an "o" that the firemen missed...regardless, we need to work on that.

julie