It May Be Too Cold To Go Outside To Play-but NOT For AOKs! (1,707!)

It's been EXTREMELY COLD outside so we've kept very busy doing AOKs INSIDE!  :)

I gave a coupon to Mrs. Stewart.  She gave our class some Band aids because we were out.  :)

We donated some kitchen supplies to a family very much in need.  :)

We got new secret pals this semester & I've had fun donating 2 gifts to her so far.  :)

We had some letters left over from Mady's BD party so I put them in the treasure bin @ school.  :)

We did a BD card for Tanner-Taygen's little brother-he's turning 1!  :)  We also did some Happy New Year cards for our friend in Africa-Miss Ellyn.  We did some Get Well Cards for Mrs. Coyne's mother & Mrs. Ternes's step-father.  :)  I sent a Sympathy card to one of my friends whose father passed away unexpectedly.  :(

I got 4 love notes this week-they make me smile!  :) 

Ioana donated a Junie B. Jones chapter book to our class this week.  :)
Mrs. Smith let me use her plant project to make copies & as an example this week.  She also loaned me a dollar when I didn't have change.  :)  We shared our story for the week on tape with her class so they could actually hear the author read the story.  :)
Mady loaned the class her copy The Very Hungry Caterpillar book to read this week since we'll be studying caterpillars this week.  She's also letting us reuse some of her decorations from her BD party to create caterpillars using our bossy r vowel patterns this week.  :)
Finally, even though it was FREEZING we HAD to take recycle out b/c it was SO FULL!  We recycled for K & 1st grade.  :)
Current Total = 1,707!

Getting Back in the Groove of Things! :) (1,601)

It's warmed up a bit & we've actually almost completed one whole complete week of school!  ;)   We've been VERY BUSY this week!  :)

Makayla sent in a bag of treasure box goodies which was great b/c we were running low.  :)  We had a student send in extra school supplies which we really needed.  :)   I got 3 love notes from my kiddos-these always brighten my day & make me so happy.  :)  Shayla S. brought in a lucky rabbit's foot for me to have.  :)  

I gave Mrs. Crawford some owl (her fav.) wrapping paper I had.  :)

We sent 10 cards to the elderly members of my Mom's church. :)

My FAVORITE thing we did this week was send Mrs. Winton (a mother of one of my Mom's friends) BD cards in a preview of our 100th day of school coming up.  She will be 106 on her BD!!!  The kids said (in voices of awe)  "Mrs. Holloway!  She's older than YOU!"  *Just a little boys & girls!  Just a little!*  LOL!  They also thought it was QUITE IMPRESSIVE that she was 100 years older than some of them!  :)  

Mrs. Smith helped me out with a stressful situation today & I REALLY appreciated it!  She's such a good friend to me, I don't know what I'd ever do w/o her!  :)

We also had 4 faithful volunteers come in this week!  What would I ever do w/o them?  (I hope I never have to find out!)  ;)  

Finally,  I won't be @ school tomorrow b/c of Mady's 5 yr. old checkup so we went ahead & recycled today for K & 1st grade.  :)

We got a new student & I've been SO PROUD of my kiddos & how welcoming/helpful they have been to her!  :)

I've got some cards planned for next week if we get to them.  :)  I was super excited to find out our friend Miss Ellyn (a missionary in Africa) got some of the kiddo's cards this week-she was SO EXCITED/HAPPY which of course made ME SO HAPPY!  :)  

Current Total = 1,601!

The Weather Outside is Frightful but Our AOKs Inside Are Delightful! (1,536)

I only worked one day this week b/c of the Polar Vortex & Mady May's BD Thursday but my goodness we did a LOT of AOKs yesterday!  ;)

I loaned Mrs. Crawford a book-just in time for her little guy E. to have surgery-hopefully it came in handy-it's one of the best books I've read in a long time!  :)

I gave 6 baby coupons to Mrs. Stewart & 1 to my Mom.  :)

We had one kiddo in class that got sick Thursday & the kids wanted to make him a Get Well card.  :) That got the ball rolling-I think almost a fourth of the class thought of someone they wanted to make a card for-it's almost like they had just been waiting to get back to school so they could start doing AOKs again.  It made my heart happy!  :)  We did 5 Get Well cards.  :)  We also did a Welcome to CBES card for Aaliyah's cousin.  :)

Mrs. Smith let me use her lesson plans for next week so I won't be a week behind everyone.  :)

Next week we should be able to get even more done!  We are well on our way to reaching our goal of 2,000 AOKs! :)

Current Total = 1,536