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

learned from videos: blood pathogens are just as bad this year as they were last year

today was a good day back to work after a long weekend, and it actually went quite well, despite my late start. i had to tidy up some things because there was a note on my door last friday saying that they would be coming through w/ the fire dept to check on sprinkler heads. i guess this is the pros and cons of apt living...at least they're checking. the only thing is that i don't know exactly which day they'll be coming through-it had the entire week listed. boo.

when i say it went well, what i mean is that i got through my lesson for all six classes (remember, elementary school) and got to lunch on time and during specials watched mandatory videos.

nope, not bamboo leaves..nope, not edward scissorhands making a snowflake...it's sharp objects that can cut skin, spreading blood pathogens! woo hoo!

i then stopped at target on the way home because i needed to get some cheap-o photo albums for a 'project.' and since they were on sale, i thought it necessary to purchase $28 worth of halloween cards. i know, craziness. i don't quite know what was going through my head.

ugh! they were just too cute to pass up!!! cute witches..cute ghosts...cute spiders...what can i say?

oh..did i forget to mention the pumpkin spice candle that smells like heaven (if heaven was full of millions of grannies baking at eternal thanksgiving dinner).

it's not just a pretty candle, folks, it smells great too!

i'm just going to guess that the fire people didn't come today because the boys didn't seem too worked up and they didn't mention strange men visiting with staffers.

well, keep your appendages away from any sharp objects, but if you do happen to perforate your protective gear, be certain to throw 'em out and get new gloves! (that's me, lookin' out for you)!

julie