Phew!

It's here!  We are off to Seattle this morning and we are excited.  

Yesterday was quite a day at school.  (They are all quite days it seems.)

The students were very amped up and I had altered expectations for the day.  We did some legitimate work and some Thanksgiving math pages and Thanksgiving writing pages and we made snowflakes for the door.

(I had everyone pick up 30 things off the floor when we were finished.)

I was very ready to send them home when it was time because they were pretty much bouncing off the walls like they do when there is an upcoming break.

They all basically looked like Olaf in the above picture.

We had teacher Turkey Bowling after school.  We set up pins and bowl with frozen turkeys and it's bizarre and fun.  We each got a practice bowl before we actually bowled against someone in the bracket.  I went against Lacey and we both had gutter balls (no gutters, but you get the idea).  We switched places because we'd both veered in opposite directions.

Noemi, the vice principal, said, "C'mon Thelma!  Put some faces on those pins!"

I hit a strike which does not reveal any violent tendencies on my part...I promise.

We laughed a lot and it is ridiculous things like that that make me love working at that school.

Mark came to help me decorate my classroom for Christmas.  Matt had said we could all go home early and he stopped at my classroom and said, "Thelma, I said you could leave a while ago."

I said, "I have stuff to do!"

Mark said quietly to me, "Does he have to stay until you leave?"

No.  That would be crazy.  Because teachers tend to stay late and come early.

Mark hung up snowflakes and set up my Christmas village while I decorated the tree and hung up some other things.

He took a picture of the village.

I'm excited for my students to see it all.

I'm hoping I can keep a certain someone from messing with the Christmas village.  I can already predict it....