lorax for a minute

oh my goodness. so...yesterday was dr. seuss' bday, and i must give a huge shout out to our librarian, ms. murphy! she did an amazing job promoting it and getting everyone involved. the students really enjoyed it! there where hidden hats all around the building (i'll bet more teachers were trying to locate them all than students!), there was a picture station, and seussical readings. many teachers dressed the part and got their students involved as well. good times!

so this was how i started the morning, as the lorax, only it was much too warm to do all day long (fake foam mustaches do not stick when you sweat)

 when i went to walmart the night before, i just got 3 yd of orange fabric and made the easiest costume i could! it reminded me a little of when gigi helped me throw together a dorothy costume a couple of years ago! gigi's the bomb at this kind of thing! anyway, once i took the outfit off, i went for the improvised wocket in my pocket (no matter that he looks more like a gecko than a wocket...)

our data meeting went as planned...rough. but hey! everything with a grain of salt (or a salt shaker full)...once we disregarded the info we felt was useless, we figured out what we really want to focus on, and it's forward march! (as in march, st. patrick's day, spring break....) yep, there is growth, but again we want so much more for our students!

yesterday after school, we went to the standard pour, which was quite relaxing. thanks to xochitl and lindsey for good conversation, but next time we may need to steer clear of the cheese tray. the udderly spreadable cheese was one of those that i felt i needed to keep picking at even though it was far from enjoyable. "stick with the corn and the squash babies," that's what she said.

this morning, i was up early-because the boys were up early...so i got some small stuff done while i was waiting for the right time! when 9 am rolled around, i jumped in my car to go to the bullet trap. this is the first time i've gone to shoot by myself, so i was excited about it, and a little nervous. but once i got in there, i was feeling right at home. i just wish i'd had more ammunition because 50 rounds goes way too fast!!

all lanes were full, so when i went in, i had someone to my immediate left. it was an older lady, and i looked at her target and hoped i could do better...and once i got started, i was so engaged in what i was doing that i didn't even notice when they left! 

i'll be spending a lot of time here over the course of the next year, as i need to make the most of my membership!

 and while i was waiting in line to checkout, i looked to my right and saw all of the knives for sale, and this one caught my eye! i haven't had a hairbrush like this since i was little...actually i've never had a hairbrush quite like this-the brush pulls off and it becomes a knife!

so..a mugger comes along and i say, oh, just a minute, let me comb my hair really quickly before you take my money!

anyhoo, this afternoon on the agenda:

1. purchase dog food- i ran out. today i fed the boys some 'special' dog food that i had left over for chaco when he was on his prescription diet and i could only buy his food in a 20 lb bag (he only eats a 1/4 of a cup a day)...it's not bad for them, but it's full of stuff that fattens them up-not what bruno needs!

2. take the dogs to the park-the one by petsmart- see if the ducks are out, change things up.

3. clean out the car- got to get ready for the drive to mo.

4. go to cabella's to see if they have the ammo i need to take with me to mo.

i think that about covers it for today!

julie

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