Happy Friday, Everyone! The weather is supposed to be beautiful this weekend and I can't wait to spend most of my time outside. Here are a few reflections on my week:
1. Receiving Girl Scout Cookies. Mmmm. Enough said, right?! I always have many students approach me about ordering cookies and I end up ordering from each student. I give my boxes away to my family and keep a few for myself. Cracking open the first box is always the best...they're dangerously addicting. These are my favorites...
2. Receiving an unexpected Teacher Appreciation Gift. I received an unexpected gift this morning from one of my students. He's one of my quiet and shy students and he was so excited about sharing the delicious goods he brought in for us. His note was pretty adorable too:
3. Surviving our field trip today. If you're a teacher, you know that a lot of stress and planning goes into field trips. We only go on a few field trips a year and today was our biggest (most stressful) one. We traveled to New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I love this field trip because it connects perfectly to our Social Studies curriculum on Ancient Civilizations. The other amazing aspect is that we allow our students to plan their itinerary for the day. We had a lot of headaches this week and I came home exhausted today, but it was a huge success and I'm so happy that we made it home safely.
4. Saying goodbye to our student teacher. We showered our student teacher with love yesterday and it was really hard saying goodbye to her after our field trip today. She was such a great addition to our class and helped us so much. We're really going to miss her! Hearing her stories about her upcoming graduation made me miss that exciting chapter in my life. Time flies!
5. Being featured on Yesterfood [Treasure Box Tuesday Link Party] Facebook Page! We love being recognized throughout the blogging community and on Wednesday, Joy, blogger of Yesterfood featured us on her Facebook page! We're so incredibly honored! Thank you, Joy!! :-)
Tonight we are linking up with Lauren Elizabeth and the ladies that host 5 on Friday. Click over to see more awesome stuff!
Well ladies this was my first experience in years for Teacher Appre. Can I tell you I was totally shocked when one kid brought in a bouquet of crazy colored daisies AND a Red Lobster gift card? Oh my goodness....tears I tell ya! I never get anything from students so when that rolled in I just felt like breaking down and saying - you really do think of me???? Then one of my EC kids brought me two long stem roses and promised to be good all day. He was about 80% but I was thrilled. Sorry I had to share because I feel like you guys would relate! Oh and we have a field trip coming up in two weeks and I'm about to go insane thinking about it.....ugh.
ReplyDeleteHi Brownie!
DeleteWe're so glad you stopped by! Your story melted my heart! We can totally relate... these little moments are the ones that we treasure forever! We have field day in a few weeks too.... we hear you... ugh!!! :-) Great to hear from you!