February is nearly over and March is right around the corner, which means that spring break is coming! England and Ireland here I come! I am meeting up with my family in London and we are taking on England and Ireland together. We have not had a family vacation in 4 years since we went to California and Arizona. I am unbelievably excited to see their faces and to share this adventure with them. Plus my inner Harry Potter nerd is absolutely excited to see iconic places like Kings Cross and the HP tour.
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| In the words of Sweeney Todd no there's no place like London! |
School wise things have been good. It is stressful at times but as Olivia Pope would say, it's handled. All I can do is put one foot in front of the other and keep trying different ideas. Some days lessons are awesome and then other days some lessons that you put so much thought and effort into completely flop. And while that can be frustrating, all you can do is be like Taylor Swift and shake it off and try again tomorrow.
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| I updated my bulletin board again! So now technically I don't have to change it again until the end of April woo hoo! I found these gumball machine templates online and with Q-tips I had them paint on 100 gumballs. Some of them got a bit overzealous and did more than 100. A lot of them were not keeping track and would ask me, "Miss Kellie I forgot how many I have. Can you count?" I got a lot of practice counting to 100! |
Yesterday we celebrated our 100th day of school! I might be off by a day or two because I was talking to some of the other teachers and they were saying it was next Sunday or Monday. Honestly I am glad I got to celebrate it yesterday because it was the end of the week and it is exhausting getting everything set up for it! I just remember in elementary school how the 100th day of school was always a big deal. My kids were so excited for it. We have been counting the days with straws and all week they have been like "4 more days until we get to 100 Miss Kellie!" or "1 more day until we get to 100!" For homework I asked them to bring in a collection of 100 things.
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| A giant aluminum 100 with little candies on it! I forgot to hand out the candies to them which they reminded me multiple times throughout the day. So they will get the candy on Sunday. |
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| One of my students wrote down 100 different words. "I have been working so hard on this Miss Kellie!" I was very impressed. And his penmanship is much neater than mine. |
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| 100 stickers! My students were like "We get to take the stickers home right Miss Kellie?" Um no. |
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| 100 pictures! |
I was on Pinterest for days looking up ideas for the 100th day. Apparently some schools have the teachers and kids dress up as what they would look like when they are 100 years old. We did not do that but they drew pictures of what they would look like if they were 100 years old. We had our 100th day trail mix where I brought in 10 different things and they had to take 10 pieces of each item. We made 100th day crowns because we are 100 days smarter! We did different activities like writing your name as many times as you can in 100 seconds, I would eat 100 _____, I can tally up to 100, etc. They had a blast and the looks on their faces when they saw all the goodies they were getting for their trail mix was priceless.
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100th day treats! Complete with marshmallows, goldfish, chips, gummy bears,
M&Ms, hershey kisses, popcorn, cheerios, cornflakes, and the least popular plate which
was shredded wheat! Popcorn and gummy bears were two of the favorites. Tip for
next year: get mini marshmallows instead of the regular sized ones! I think
one of my favorite quotes was "Miss Kellie I am not going to eat the chips because
they are not healthy." But she chowed down those marshmallows! |
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| Miss Kellie is 100 days smarter. |
Wednesday we had our very first field trip! It was a very fun and eventful week for my teacup humans. We saw Alice in Wonderland at the theater in the souq and the kids loved it. The movie is up on Youtube and each day during lunch I let them watch 20 minutes of it to compare to the show we saw. I had them decorate white rabbits with cotton balls and decorate teapots with patterns as little activities during the week to get them excited about it. They were even excited for the bus ride and were singing for the majority of the way there. They sang their ABCs at least 10 times, The Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and even Jingle Bells. Fortunately they started playing I Spy and took a little break from the singing. The funniest part was that they have absolutely no concept of time. We were on there for 5 minutes and the questions start. "How many more minutes until we are there Miss Kellie?!" "We have been on here for HOURS." "Are we there?"
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| Welcome to Souq Waqif. Where seeing a man riding a horse is common and acceptable. From far away I first thought it was a camel! |
Then we got there and the show was great. It was fun and interactive and got them up and dancing every now and then. And they were familiar with some of the characters. "It's the Cheshire Cat Miss Kellie!" Actually I think they were calling it the treasure cat. We had to do about 10 minutes of walking through the souq to get to the theater and I think between that and all the dancing the kids were exhausted. It was a popular school trip and there had to be kids from at least 4 other schools. Most of my teacup humans took a little nap on the way back. And it blew their little minds that we still had school left when we got back. 2 hours left until they could go home. I think they definitely slept good Wednesday night!
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| Alice in Wonderland! |
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| Alice loved to dance. |
It was a jam packed week. We also had our school photos taken on Monday. I am curious how those are going to turn out because they had the kids take their pictures in groups of 2 or 3. I think they are planning to put all the pictures of the groups together in one big photo. At least I hope they do! We had one of the time slots in the afternoon and my kids were definitely getting restless. But I cannot wait to get a picture of my first class!
We are past the halfway point of the year which is an exciting accomplishment. Just another step closer to having my first year under my belt!
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