Teacher Appreciation Week

I feel so LOVED!  I was given so many teacher appreciation gifts this week.  You guys are the best!

On Monday I was showered with the cutest homemade cards.  They were so adorable.  Ella even brought in a holder for all the cards!

On Tuesday I was showered with flowers.  My desk was full of them.  They were all so beautiful.

On Wednesday I was showered with fruit.  The students brought in all types of fruit!  YUMMY!

On Thursday I was showered with CHOCOLATE!

Thank you for all the sweet gifts.  I am so lucky to have these kids everyday in my class!

Yearbooks

On Friday we had our 1st grade yearbook signing.  The students were thrilled to have all their friends sign their yearbook.  I can't believe it is this time of year!

Muffins for Moms

Friday we had "Muffins for Mom" at school.  I saw lots of moms around the building.  I hope everyone enjoyed their muffin!  Here are a few photos that I shot in the room before school began.

 Lynli and her mom

 Elias and his mom

 Ella and her mom

Aubrey and her mom

 Emily and her mom

 Jillian and her mom

 Elijah and his mom

 Trevor and his mom

Lance and his mom

Happy Mother's Day

Some students wrote poems that I thought would be very fitting for Mother's Day.  I just had to share these with you guys!

by: Aubrey

"I love you dad and mom.  You are so great!"

by: Maxwell

Learning About Italy

The students really enjoyed learning about Italy.  We created a masterpiece like Michelangelo.  The students had a great time trying to draw a picture while lying on their backs.

 the purple group

 the blue group

the red group

 the yellow group

 the orange group

 the green group

We made a tasty Italian treat, PIZZA!  Yummy!

Xavier, Lew, Emily, David, & Jillian

 Trevor

Elias, Mary-Caroline, Alex, & Ella

Matthew

Taylor, Trevor, Rufus, & Lynli

Pizza anyone?

Elijah, Zack, Lance, Victoria

Aubrey, Matthew, Hannah, & Jackson

Ella

Benjamin, Maxwell, & Ryland

Happy Cow

We had an "utterly" amazing trip to the farm.  It was very hot, but TONS of FUN!  Thank you to all the wonderful chaperones who joined us on the trip.  You guys are awesome!  Here's a video clip of our pictures.

Carnival

The Concrete Carnival was a blast!  I saw lots of kids from our class there.  Everyone seemed to be having a great time!  Several students came to play our class game while I was working the game booth.

Ella                                          Taylor

Aubrey

Then I found a few of the students out in the field on the inflatables.

Lew

Emily

I found more students back on the black top in the game area.

Elijah

Ella

I was very excited to see our little dancer.  I was able to see her group perform two dances. She did such a wonderful job!

Lynli

I even found a few students having dinner or snacks!

Trevor

David

I waited around to see the end of the silent auction.  Elijah won my date to Hollywood 20.  We are going to enjoy a great movie.  I snapped this picture right after we found out he had won the date.  We are both super excited!

Thank you,  thank you, to everyone for your contributions of time, money, items to the carnival.  It was a huge success!