Five for Friday - 9/6/14

I had decided I wanted to do this {again!!!} - because I really want to keep track of the good things happening in my classroom. But today, the first one has nothing to do with that.

I am so thankful that my hub-bub didn't have a heart attack last night. When he actually said to me, I think we need to go to the hospital, yikes - that's enough to scare me. They aren't sure what the problem was, but after finally getting a pain shot two hours into our visit, he felt better and this morning is his usual old self. Thank you God!


I even thought of it, but didn't do it then, and didn't remember - 
I sure needed before and after pics -
I went up to school for 4 hours this morning and tore through my closet. Got rid of a BUNCH of stuff that when I actually looked at it, said why in the world am I keeping this? Emptied out 3 big boxes and put things I thought I might use in places that I might actually remember them!
When I went in at the end of the day after my DRA testing {we get a sub day for that}, several of my kids asked if I was going to be there on Friday. I was a little annoyed, and was thinking Duh. But then I thought, I think they missed me, those little sweeties!

This is such a silly thing - but my 2nd grade team has changed a little - one person left, and another person from the school moved to her position; and we got a new teacher - anyway, I'm loving it. After eating alone in my room for 2 years, I now have 20 minutes of adult conversation every day. It's so nice - either to do a little vent about kids or curriculum, or share what's going on in our lives.

I had meant to do an insect unit at the beginning of the year, but things just didn't work out. So I went ahead and did some this week. I read this book:

to my kids on Friday. It's one of a series I got through Scholastic books theme sets. It starts out by asking, Are you a Grasshopper? And then tells you all the things you would do if you were a grasshopper. I actually hate the little buggers - most years they tend to eat my vegetables before I can get to them {My favorite grasshopper saying is "The only good thing about a grasshopper is that it doesn't want to come inside the house!"}. Anyway, this is a pretty engaging book - We'll also read about dragonflies, ants and bees.

Enjoying my weekend, even if it is a work weekend!