baby melon and a homemade wocket in my pocket?

tomorrow is dr.seuss day at school! so on the way home, i had to stop in at walmart to get something to dress up a little bit for tomorrow...so i plan to come to school as the lorax; i was thinking about some orange face paint (which i bought). so i am trying it out on my hand and letting it stand for the night to see if i can wash it off, or if it's going to leave my skin orange. i can imagine people thinking i get a fake tan or something. not what i need. and it took forever to locate the orange socks that weren't kiddie size.

i may have also gotten a small squishy gecko toy to put some hair on to make a "WOCKET IN MY POCKET"  in case the whole lorax idea is an epic fail. if it's just a medium fail, i'll stick with it. isn't it amazing how you can have this great idea in your head, but then when you try it out, it's not all you imagined? kinda' like being a kid and creating your own costume for halloween...great expectations.

i was happy to find a little watermelon as well! xochitl asked me to make some dried melon, so i'll pull down the dehydrator and work the melon magic (umm..perhaps i should call it something else, like dried watermelon)!

sweet love! and as soon as the words rolled into my mind, anita baker also graced every vaccant chamber of my mind! i need to pull that cd out and upload it to my phone!

tomorrow we will be going over a little data from our most recent common assessment. ugh. i already know the results, and i'm already frustrated with the results; it's going to take every ounce of seussical nonsense to keep me positive tomorrow!

today i took my students out to the garden to make videos about natural resources. they wrote their own scripts thinking about the resources they knew were out there, so i am looking forward to viewing their clips and hopefully next week i can show them how to load them into animoto to create their video project! they were super excited to use them-they love using technology to create!

the boys (new subject, now i'm talking about bruno and chaco), keep wanting to lick my orange-painted hand...they probably think i'm wounded. oh, but they would KNOW if i was wounded! wait, maybe not. i usually go down without a lot of noise...(thinking of the 2 acl tears and the sliced pinky tip).

well, time for bed, (except i have to wait for the laundry to dry so i can take it out so that it doesn't wrinkle..boo..should've thought about that sooner!)
julie

i get weak in the knees! no, it's not love...it's the stinkin' leg press!

oh march! how do i love thee?! we are in our 5th 6 weeks...that means the end is in sight! no snow days, which means we get the scheduled days off! yippee! (not in march, but i don't even care because we do have spring break!).

this afternoon as soon as i got home from school, i went straight to the complex gym to do weights. while i was there i kept thinking about how sore i was going to be this evening and tomorrow. ugh. and i did the leg press-always makes my legs spaghetti. and i was right, i do feel it in my arms as well. i guess that's supposed to be good news.

and tonight i sauteed some onions and peppers, then i threw in some kale and chicken...the better it looks, the better it tastes.
oh march! how do i love thee?! we are in our 5th 6 weeks...that means the end is in sight! no snow days, which means we get the scheduled days off! yippee! (not in march, but i don't even care because we do have spring break!).

this afternoon as soon as i got home from school, i went straight to the complex gym to do weights. while i was there i kept thinking about how sore i was going to be this evening and tomorrow. ugh. and i did the leg press-always makes my legs spaghetti. and i was right, i do feel it in my arms as well. i guess that's supposed to be good news.

and tonight i sauteed some onions and peppers, then i threw in some kale and chicken...the better it looks, the better it tastes.

yum!

and tomorrow is dr. seuss' birthday! i should wear my seuss socks tomorrow...my friend, maria showed me the lorax app with the moving mouth and stache-very cool! i'm sure the kids will be impressed.

and today was my random eval by my principal. great day to be distributing new books to the students for writing... oh well, it is what it is! we followed it up by actually using the book, though, perhaps that counts for something! smile. oh, and in the middle of the period, a student walks in with some jeans that another teacher had sent up to me. nice. as i am in front using the document camera and teaching...holding blue jeans. again. roll with the punches.

well. time for bed again,
julieand tomorrow is dr. seuss' birthday! i should wear my seuss socks tomorrow...