Reality Check

Even though I've been  counting down the days to summer.... since day like 50... The reality that school ends TOMORROW didn't actually set in until about 1:30 today during our awards ceremony.  I actually had to work really hard to hold back the tears as SEVERAL of my kids were getting their awards! I'm such a sap!  Every year I've had a good group of kids, but I have said all year long that there is something "special" about this group.  I can't pin-point it, but we just all mesh so good together, I'm pretty positive I may shed a few a lot of tears tomorrow. I love my sweet kiddos!!

My kids have been working for about 3 weeks on their animal research project! I will share pictures, hopefully later this week of their journals, but today we had our Animal Wax Museum and my kids were presh!  .... most of them at least!!  :)  I would say that it was a huge hit & after staying perfectly still until their button was pressed performing for ALMOST an hour for 5 other 2nd grade classes and two 3rd grade classes.... they were EXHAUSTED!  It was a proud teacher moment, they really impressed me & everyone else! :)   Some kids costumes were much more detailed than others, but this is 100% authentic KID work... I let them have free reign WITHOUT micromanaging ANY of their costume choices!  I just supplied materials & gave suggestions as they were asked for!  Wish I had videos of some of their actions and facts they shared! 

Wolf Spider

Gorilla

Zebra

Tiger

Falcon

Killer Whale

Orangutan

After this long & hard performance they put on they SO deserved a laid back day and we watched a movie!

I will leave you with a picture of what I was doing about an hour ago! 

Whew... I'm done!  Nothing better than a teacher's procrastination!! I had good intentions, they were printed off 2 weeks ago at least!!  I think the kids are going to L-O-V-E their awards!  I've already thought of a few new ones to add the the selection!

If tomorrow is  your last day.... I hope you enjoy and savor the last few moments with your little ones!!