June 2, 2008

Well, I'm in the home stretch of my school year. I cannot believe that this is the end of my 15th year of teaching. How is that possible? There's no way I've been teaching that long already.

Today was a really good day at work. My students were great! I am so proud of them. They really worked hard on what I gave them as assignments and they really enjoyed their time using the learning centers. I managed to get all the paperwork done that I can possibly have done at this point. And, I have gotten quite a bit of things packed up. I should have most of the rest of the week to take down, pack up and clean my classroom. I am beginning to feel like the year really will end.

I took Michaela to gymnastics tonight. It was the first night of the summer session. The whole group of parents has changed. It was weird. One mom there had a 4 yr old boy with her. He was playing with these TINY remote control cars. One was Lightening McQueen and the other was Mater. She said she got them from The Disney Store. Our Disney Store is closing and she said they were only $4.00.

I ran out there real quick while Michaela was busy in gymnastics and picked up four of them. I got jazzed up Lightening and a Mater for Caleb. I got Aurora and Ariel for Michaela. I'm going to give them to them the first day we're home together for summer break. Then, I got them each a shirt, too. Michaela got an Ariel shirt and Caleb got a Power Rangers shirt. I only spent $32.00 for all that.