Patriots 7

Panther Nada!

USA Olympic womens beach volleyball, cold. Thanks Visa.

DawnsEarlyLight is just sitting at her computer too.  How are things in Ohio lady?

I have no idea what is going on in the game, but I have seen most of the commercials.

"I always wanted to be a Clysdale, but I was born a donkey!"  That's funny.

A farting horse, not so much.

and now Cedric the Entertainer gets a bikini wax.  Good thing he had that Bud Light.

So far the Pepsi bear ad was pretty funny.

I am not actually watching the game.

I started "doing" FLYLady in August.  One of my friends from college does  "Circle of Friends" letter to help about 35 of us keep in touch.  We share what we have been up to in our lives.  One of the girls told us about FLYLady and CHAOS, it was as the FLYLady calls it a God Breeze".  This letter was written for me.  And thus I began.

And almost as quickly school started and I stopped.  I am as they say a payroll SHE, and my job takes over my life.  So at Christmas break I went crazy.  I cleaned and flinged and was amazed at the results.  I haven't been so good about following my routines for the last week or so, but my house still looks presentable.

Next week it is my turn to host the Wellness Week, with my partner and another team.  Wellness is the VEHI's way of keeping VT teachers active during the winter.  So each team at my school hosts a week to promote wellness.  I suggested the FLYLady's theme of Less is More in 2004.  And they went for it. So we are doing a week of organization, stress free activities and things that make our life easier.  I am very excited to be spreading the word of the FLYLady (it really does sound like a cult doesn't it.)

We will have a bulletin board of Less is More in 2004 things people want to have less of (debt, weight, stress) this year.  A home 27 fling boogie table, a super fling boogie of our classrooms, easy foods (prepackaged lunchbox snacks, individually wrapped candies, crock pot cooking) to have on hand, and print outs from the FLYLady page.  I am also going to bring in my home control journal and the start of my Tech Lab control journal.

I am so excited to be doing this.  I work with a lot of BOs, but mostly I think we are SHEs.  Anyone who has ever been in an elementary school (as an adult) knows teachers save everything for someday.  The difference between a BO teacher and a SHE teacher is the BO can find it the moment she needs it and the SHE teacher needs to start looking a week in advance.  I have started being more organized in my classroom, the problem is, sometimes I look in the wrong place for the item I need.  I put it in a "too safe" place.

i am at school. i don't feel like working on computers, so i am blogging. but nothing interesting has happened so i don't have anything to say.

TGIF

Currently in Third Grade Literacy we are reading about disasters.  We have read a non-fiction book and an article about the Titanic, a historical fiction/non-fiction book about Pompeii, an article about Mt Saint Helens, and today a story about a volcano in Mexico called "El Monstruo".  Next week we read about the Great Molasses Explosion in Boston.  We will still have 2 weeks before vacation, so the kids are going to read a Magic Tree House book.  They can choose from Tonight on the Titanic, Vacation Under the Volcano, or Earthquake in the Early Morning about non-weather related disasters.  They are looking forward to this (because they love me) and so I am preparing by reading all the books to generate questions and vocab.  Fun for me.

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