Biggest Loser

So we started the biggest loser at work.....and while doing this we have started working out 2 days after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have been doing walk slim....and it is a lot of fun....i really like it! And people may say...a walking video, how much good can that do you...but it makes you work and it hurts the next day for sure!

Robot

So i'm re-decorating my classroom.....I've decided to go with a robot them!! This is the first one i made this morning! I think he is cute!

Pink Panther

In case you didn't know what this is...its the police coming down out of their helicopter to stop the pink panther because he is driving to fast! But i'm sure you all knew that!

Crayon Box

Several of my art projects i get from Mrs. Brown' art blog. This is one such project that i got from her...i did it a little different but it still turned out cute! We read the "Crayon Box that Talked". Its is about the different colors of a crayon box not getting along but when they work together to make a picture all the different colors see that every color has their value. Anyway, its pretty cute!

Warhol Puzzle

Today in art. I split up this picture into 9 parts!


The students then had to copy their part of the puzzle onto bigger paper and then we taped it all together...
this is what we came up with! :)

RID

so i had to go get some RID today....for those of you that don't know its a lice killing shampoo. there have been several kids at school these days getting sent home with lice. yesterday i went on a field trip with some 2nd graders....one of the ones that was in my group and who held my hand, and gave me several hugs and sat next to me all the time, got sent home with lice today. although my friend jennifer checked me i thought i would take the no lice precaution! this has been happening all year...there are two families that have about 11 kids in our school that can't seem to get "rid" of it!! (i crack myself up!)

Opera Singer!

So i have started weight watchers online! I think its going to be good because i can keep track of all that i'm eating...i've done this method before and it worked pretty well. There are several teachers here at school that are also joining the online program. It is pretty funny because we are all on each others backs about what we are eating and if we have been good. Note, it has only been 2 days so hopefully it works out!


I'm enjoying taking pictures with my phone and e-mailing them to myself...and since i'm at school, i've got some more school pictures! This is what was left after the third grade class left my classroom this afternoon.

Sure does look to me like this is a crayon bucket!!

This is my biggest pet peeve!!! Its drives me nuts!



The beans are for bingo! :) not crayons!

Art Contest...so my students are entering a Turkish art contest. I thought the deadline for the contest was today and when i just looked it isn't until next Friday (woohoo, because i was a little panicy!) Anyway, i had all the students bringing back their art work today and i think this one turned out really well....

(this picture was actually taken with my iphone and i e-mailed it to myself...so much fun!)

In the style of picasso....

Here is most of the Choir that sang today at the grand opening! Aren't they cute!

So the 2nd grade art class was doing an under the sea art project.....as you may guess, they were drawing animals under the sea....i'll just post this one and see what you guys think it looks like. I just started laughing when i saw it!

so i have a lot of elementary school art....as many of you could probably guess. some of it is pretty funny and some of it is pretty good. most of them aren't good at all but i'm going to show anyway! here are some self portraits from one of the kindergarten classes. :)




This is my favorite self portrait....think fry guy from McDonalds!! hehe!

I would just like to say that kids are getting more and more mean. Kindergarten is one of the meanest....and they tattle all the freakin' flippin' time. Today a teacher friends brought me a letter from a kindergartener. This letter was going to another kindergartener in this little girls class.

"Fine don't be my friend. I will find someone else. Do not love....(and the little girls name)"

I actually kind of find this funny...but really mean for kindergarten.

Then there are the kindergarten class that is saying things like this.

"who wants to come to my house and play guitar hero? but you can't come" (and he points one of the little boys at his table....)

Now i remember stuff like this in middle school when i was growing up...but not kindergarten.

Our school is in DESPERATE need of subs!! If you know anyone that would be interested in subbing please let me know!!

Happy Turkey Day to everyone!!!

Kids make me laugh sometimes with what they say...

today i overheard this in one of my 2nd grade classes.

"Adult vampires are the only ones that can turn into bats"

I wish i could remember some of the other things right now...but i can't :) Stay tuned for pictures of the giant paper turkey!

So todays art project is listening to music...we are listening to the string quartet arrangement of the cures lovecats....and talk about what we think when we are listening to it and then paint what we think. So i had a student come up to me and say....

"Mrs. Bounds, This music reminds me of Thanksgiving and indians because indians love thanksgiving!" Maybe its just me but i found very cute and humorous!

Something that is driving me nuts here though is the students that aren't able to say the name BOUNDS....so several students call me Mrs. Bowlands....i'm not sure why that bothers me so much but it really does!

So school has been EXTREMELY busy.....Tuesday we had talent show auditions after school....it really was a nightmare. We had about 35 acts actually show up....45 signed up....and we cut it to 13. All day yesterday i had students crying.....some of my biggest pains in the butt were crying....but after October 10th it will be over.....but it will be really cute...there are some very cute acts going to participate!

Okay...i'm going to go set up for my next class! Happy Thursday!

work: yesterday i about had a breakdown. i went to the school, and my room was the catch all room for the painters....so it was a disaster! i was about to walk out of the school, because there was really nothing more for me to do...and i met some of my fellow teachers. they were nice...but all three of them had cars full of stuff so i helped them move it all in. then i realized, i have NOTHING!! thats when the panic set in! now i realize, i'm a music teacher and music teachers tend to leave the stuff the school bought at the school and i haven't taught in 2 years and at that time i taught strings, not general music. so i was still in a panic and decided to go see what lakeshore had in the way of music things for bulletin boards and decorations! NOTHING...they had nothing! so i truck it over to mardels.....who has a quarter or a section of music decorations and really nothing i could use!!!!! this was even more frustrating. its a good thing i'm creative and have awesome friends who can help with figure out how to accomplish my ideas....hopefully on monday i will have a pictures to show you of what we are about to do to my classroom!

this morning i was a little on the nervous side. i'm sure most people are when they are starting a new job...but it went well (other than being a little boring)!! i think it is going to be a great year...and from what i can tell of the staff they are going to be awesome too. i think it will also be fun to have such a small school and a smaller group of teacher and administration to get to know!
so i will keep you all informed on how things are going!

for now...more wedding pictures! :)

So this morning on the way to work i was thinking about teaching music....and wondering what i'm going to do to keep from going completely insane with childrens music...surely their has to be something out their that is okay. Then it hit me....They might be giants has a childrens album....although i haven't heard it, i'm very excited about this idea....i did look at the song list and it seems like something i could work with...and it looks as though they have at least 3 childrens albums and are coming out with another. Then I got to thinking....Jack Johnson, he has the album Sing-a-long and lullabies based from the curious george soundtrack...this is awesome. And i'm finding all kind of musicians that have made childrens albums...including the barenaked ladies. I'm going to check them all out and i'll let you know if they any good!

Yesterday...i got the card that states my last name has officially changed....its weird. I decided to practice before signing it...i signed my last name great....but i totally messed up my first name....isn't that how it always is! :)

1.5 days of work left...woohoo!!