Grateful Friday

 I really love the Christmas season and I am grateful it is here.  I love Christmas at school and I love Christmas at home.  It will be GREAT to have a Christmas vacation and 2/3 of my children here.

I love the traditions at school.  Yesterday some of my students finished up their paper dolls.  When we were cleaning up, I said, "If there are any pieces that still seem usable, put them on the table."

So they did.

I mean, I guess these pieces would be usable if we were going to make confetti....

As usual, the paper dolls are turning out very cute and I love them.

Other things I'm grateful about:

Yesterday we were singing our skip counting songs, like we do daily.  I had them pick how to sing them and someone picked opera and picture me leading 27 extremely off key and over the top dramatic children singing 8,16, 24, 32 and 40, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 80 to the tune of This Old Man in an opera style.  It is a party.

Also, my heat was blasting when I walked in the room and I 1) located Riley and 2) convinced him my cheerful disposition couldn't last another day in the mid 80s.  

He said he would do what he could.

He was able to get it working!

I saw him later in the day and told him as much.  He shushed me and told me not to jinx it.  We are running on superstition I guess, which may be part of the problem....