random musings...

FYI if you do not want to read about some of the random thoughts running through my mind at the moment, or any moment in the past two days just keep scrolling down, this is not the blog post for you!

i don't know about y'all but sometimes you just have to let your little brain relax and watch all of the silly reality shows you love so much! Calling the television a "boob tube" is certainly an accurate description of what happens to my brain when I flip it on after school each evening.

There are currently a couple of silly shows that I am an avid viewer of and The Voice is one of them!

I love this show! I remember being so disappointed when it was released that Christina and Ceelo weren't coming back to the show this season. But holy cow! I think Usher is a great addition to the show, just love him! I think watching Shakira is pretty interesting. In the beginning I had reservations about her, and during the blind auditions it often felt like she would turn her chair when she saw others turning theirs... {just an opinion}. Now during the live shows, it is quite interesting when Blake, Usher, or Adam have performers on stage Carson will go to the other two men and then the coach. It totally seems like they are avoiding going to Shakira for her opinion on the other artists. Just an observation, if you disagree or think Shakira is the bee's knees I certainly don't intend to offend!!

This weekend I decided to try a new recipe... Thanks to one of my favorite bloggers, I found this delicious and not super healthy recipe for a tortilla stack! it was so flipping good {of course I loaded it with immense amounts of salsa at each bite!}

When I heated up some of my leftovers, I used one of the avocados in my kitchen to whip up some avocado cream... wow! this is incredible!! of course once again loaded down with salsa and paired with the tortilla stack! Yuum!

{I replaced the sour cream with greek yogurt and it was great! anything with greek yogurt is fine by me!

I have made my bed for the past three days, if you know me and my lack of bed making desire then you will understand that this is quite the feat for me! I guess this is what happens when you hear your alarm clock going off and get a bit nervous that you will sleep through it entirely if you hit the snooze button and get a few more minutes of shut eye.
and it certainly is nice to fold back the covers and sleep in a freshly made bed... maybe this is one small thing that I will try and make habitual!
And I did my laundry!! who am I?! a small pat on my back for productivity at home! Now to get back in my class and be productive at school too!

Now a "teachery type" thought...

What do I do for my kiddos as their end of the year gift. I know it's late to be thinking about this, but with everything else I have to do I would like them to leave the year with a little "yay! you survived kindergarten!!" gift. I have seen some cute gifts, like crayons and a little bow; but I gave each of them a heart crayon for Valentines day. I would make the same frames and word art that I made for my class last year but I'm afraid it would not be something that 5 and 6 year olds would be as interested in as fourth graders were...

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

And if my favorite coworker ever finds this blog I want to give her a little shout out, happy day of birth to little Linky!!! so exciting!

Can you say random babbling?! goodness I need to find a focus for my next post!

thanks for taking your time to read!

Mighty Monday

{this type of post is 100% inspired by Babbling Abby from a few years ago! Thanks for the inspiration for Monday postings when it can be so hard to find motivation to do so!}

Here are my *might have* posts for today and beyond!

I might have gotten to have a sub in my classroom today so that I can continue to assess my kinderbabies on their knowledge of the Common Core State Standards.

I might be playing a one way version of phone tag with one of my little sisters...{you know who you are!!!}

I might have gone ahead and bought my mom her bountiful basket so that she could have fresh fruits and veggies this week!! {her site keeps getting sold out before she can get on to buy a basket!!}

I might be excited that we are almost down to single digit numbers in counting down to the end of the year!

I might have been offered to do a week long worm study with one of my awesome coworkers, but was way too grossed out by touching the worms to allow this to happen... creepy crawlies are not my thing! Having caterpillars in my class is probably the closest I will get! Yuck!

I might be about to fast forward through all of the weather reports on the Today show today so that I can watch Willie Geist then Hoda and Kathie Lee! What can I say, I know what interests me and  watching POI being made is not something that I feel like watching today!

I might be excited to have three fun science experiments planned {one for each of the next weeks! Thursday, next Friday, and the last full day of school!}

I might also be starting some yummy salmon for dinner in the next few minutes! FOOD!! YUM!!! ***It was delish***

*I might also love the fact that I only know who Paul Anka is because of a Gilmore Girls episode from a while ago... {FYI that's what they named their dog! for those of you that weren't cool enough to watch my favorite show!}

And I might be.... scratch that! I am definitely relieved that my long time friend Brittany is safe and sound! Scary things are happening, and it is always a sigh of relief when you find out people you care about close by are healthy and in one piece!

I hope you all have a MIGHTY fabulous week! and those teachery-type of readers out there, I hope you have a fantastically quick last few days of school!!

P.S. Feel free to post your own similar type post! Leave a comment and link and I will be sure to ch-ch-check it out!!

instafriday

Life this week has been crazy... This weekend I found some motivation for the remaining days of school! {Thank goodness for TPT sales, and the amazing ideas they share and inspire!}

This week I am linking up with Jeannett over at life rearranged, for her instafriday linky!
Check it out

I started getting to work on the fun centers for my students to practice new skills and review old skills, and this began with cutting, laminating... and more cutting and laminating!

And I also enjoyed my first Sonic Soda in 5 months to keep me working in my classroom! It certainly helped!!

ahhh! at least it was diet {no calories} the other problems associated with diet coke are being ignored for the time being!

Not only did I work on the stuff that I purchased on TPT, but I used the G.R.E.A.T. Cara Carroll as inspiration to create a few new "Ice Cream and Popsicle" themed items for my crazy kinderbabies to work on during center time!

my fun *HUGE* ice cream cones and popsicles to measure!!

the happy little worksheet I made for my kiddos to use when measuring the larger and smaller then life ice cream and popsicle shapes!!

With this newly reinvigorated teaching outlook I have, I have even started making fun crafty things to put in my classroom... still trying to decide if this new addition was so wise to add to my classroom full of 30 five year old goofballs!

I am so proud of my hand painted leopard print! Cannot wait to leopard print it up for my classroom next year!

On Monday morning, about 15 minutes before I needed to go outside and pick up my kiddos I decided that I needed to fix the insane pencil situation that goes on in my classroom. I quick sharpened 32 brand new pencils, printed out a list of my students first and last names {only their first last name, since many of them have 2! One even has the same last name 2x! insert little giggle here!} quickly cut and taped their names to the end of each pencil and put them at their desks! Here's hoping they last through the end of the year, but in the meantime the amount of "he took my pencil"'s being blurted during the day has decreased! *Phew!*

Wednesday, I couldn't take it much longer... My {ONE} child... Every classroom has at least one like this, and if you are not a teacher just use your imagination {picture the child who screams and throws huge fits in the middle of the mall surrounded by people and cannot be soothed... oh wait, that is something I did growing up! Sorry Mom and Brother!}! Because it was one of those days, I treated myself to a Sonic Drink!

I have been revisiting some of my favorite blogs, starting from the beginning! It's pretty funny that I do this, but I am a nosey rosey and love reading about the lives of people I will never meet! haha!  In revisiting BabblingAbby I happened upon a post she did and borrowed it to do with my kinderbabies! It turned out so cute and the babes loved guessing it!

our chart well before it was done... each one had three crayons that belonged under it!

the beautiful rainbow of crayons!! I love that one is called "purple mountains' majesty" because we are singing America The Beautiful! which btw the babes are amazing at singing!! LOVE it!!

the goal for the day was chugging coffee and writing about our fabulous crayon colors!

It was quite the busy week, and I loved every minute of it!
I like to include the day we are on when counting down with my kinderbabies so that I will not be disappointed... according to our countdown chain there are only 12 days left! {as I ask my students, How do we write the number 12? a 1 and a 2!} I sure am gonna miss these sweet faces next year!