Friday Favorites

School Spirit

We had our first assembly of the year this morning and introduced a new character to our Beverly Bobcats. Meet Bob...

So, I know you are thinking that this is a pretty cute bobcat. Here's what makes it even better...our amazing art teacher, Mrs. Morley made the entire thing herself. She tried to explain it to me once, but I was so mesmerized I don't think I understood a word of what she was saying. Let's just say that if I had tried to make a bobcat head, he might look more like a Blob than a Bob. Check out this Flipagram to see the progress from start to finish...

Kelso's Choices

Kelso is a cute little frog that helps kids make good choices. It is a conflict resolution program that our school has used for many years.

 By 5th grade, the kids can pretty much name all the choices and tell all about Kelso. For their lesson this week, I had them create some sidewalk art with chalk. I told them that the younger students in the building would really be looking at their art during recess, so they needed to do a really great job. I took this time-lapse video of one of the frogs being drawn. What a great example of collaboration.

Everything Pumpkin! 

First grade has celebrated "pumpkin week" for years. They weigh the pumpkins, graph, estimate, explore, write about them, read about them. If you could pumpkinfy an activity, we did it. We always carve a pumpkin after graphing which face you would want to see on the pumpkin. We also estimate how many seeds are going to be inside our pumpkin. 

My first year of teaching,  I set out to carve my pumpkin with a basic kitchen knife...left handed. My mom (our instructional specialist at the time) walked by and looked horrified. I guess I looked like I was about to cut my fingers off in front of my class? She quickly came to my rescue and carved the pumpkin. It became quite the tradition.

As you know, carving a pumpkin is no easy task. So one year she got creative...

If you've never carved your pumpkin with power tools, you are really missing out. The kids got the BIGGEST kick out of it too! 

Dry Shampoo

I saw this on Facebook the other day and could totally relate...

I use Dry Bar Triple Sec pretty much daily, even on clean hair. It's a great volumizer and texturizer. Plus it smells delicious. 

Kickball Thursday

I have played kickball for about 5 years. I look forward to Thursday every week to get my kickball fix. Right now, we are in playoffs. We didn't have the best regular season we've ever had, so we went into playoffs as the 16 seed. And let me add that there were only 16 teams in playoffs, so we were playing #1 last night. We won that game and the next and are on to the next round. This team is awesome! They make me laugh and we all support each other.Win or lose, it's always a good time. #butletsgetrealiwanttowin #cinderellastory

This pic is from two seasons ago when we won the championship...