I took Mrs. Hall's Tea to our Welcome Back Staff Supper for her. Auntie Nicole watched Mady so Shawn could come help me carry all my heavy stuff into the picnic. The picnic itself was SO Fun-kudos to Mrs. B. for coming up with that idea! :) She also gave me a free 30 minute break to "cash in" sometime-something to look forward to! :)
CFA gave free sandwiches all week to teachers just by showing their teacher badge-how awesome is that? We also had a great BBQ lunch one day and breakfast-3 different times from the principals, Kid's Hope & PTSA-how awesome is that? :) Children's Hospital gave us all new, neat lunch boxes.
I also drove friends to lunch one day. :) They are putting new lights in the school. The guys were going to sweep up their mess in my room & I told them they didn't have to do that I would do it. They're my BFFs now! LOL! ;) I vacuumed Mrs. Harkleroad's room for her on Open House so she didn't have to worry about it. :) Mrs. Harkleroad stepped up & planned our 1st "real" week for us & got a ton of our copies together for us. Mrs. Boyce helped with the copying as well-that took SO MUCH off my plate this week & I am SO VERY GRATEFUL! :)
This is a crazy busy time of year & I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how our team works together & shares with everyone. Mrs. Depew & Sebastian gave me some batteries for my label maker. :) I loaned them my fingernail polish remover. :) They also gave me name tags one day when I accidentally forgot them at home. Shawn brought them to me when he came to pick Mady up so I could pay them back. :) Mrs. Lawson let me copy all of her pacing guides. :) I had a VERY bad day the day before school started & I have amazing friends that "talked me off the ledge" & helped me put it in perspective & "get it together", everybody needs friends like that in their lives! :) Mrs. Coode helped make a bad day better by letting me use her awesome pencil sharpener. Mrs. Moody gave me two lamps-I used one in my classroom & let Mady use one at her homework table-they are brand new & green! How AWESOME is that? :) I gave our new teachers on our grade level a little welcome package w/ cards, pencils & a pen. :) We gave Mrs. Huff a cute little goodie basket on Open House & she gave us the sweetest TY note! :) We also donated some extra school supplies to Mady's class. Our class gave P.E. & the guidance class extra boxes of Kleenexes. Jalayiah's Mom donated extra glue sticks to our class-we always need those! :) I shared lots of things with our team this week & vice-versa but one of my favorites was some free, cute TY card printouts that I found. Thank-yous are so very important! :) Julius brought in an awesome gift for Music with stuff off their wish list. :) Mrs. Humphreys let me have zip ties to use for my kids dismissal tags to go on their backpacks. :) I gave Mrs. Goodwin some pirate stickers to go with her class theme. :) I also put some thumb tacks in the mail room for anyone to take that needed them.
Mady let us use her blindfold & her Chicka Chicka ABC book/CD this week for class activities. :) Shawn gave me his old speakers to use in the classroom-we already used them this week-it makes our music sound SO much better! :)
Shawn gave me a sweet homemade gift for our 19th anniversary & I gave him one as well. :)
I gave Auntie Nicole a coupon, and my Mom one as well.
A teacher could not get the massive amount of work done at the beginning of the year if they don't have an AWESOME support team-I am very grateful for mine. Shawn has helped me SO much over the last two weeks w/ numerous school tasks especially cutting laminate. I also would NEVER make it through this time of year w/o my AMAZING mamma! :) The week before school started Shawn did all the laundry & went to the grocery store so Mady & I could spend our last day of freedom at the pool. :)
We gathered a huge bag of box tops & pop tabs for school. :) We also donated a bunch of toys to our prize bin. I gave Mrs. Lawson 5 baby coupons. :) Mrs. Lawson gave Mady a cute wallet & necklace-Mady loved them-that was so thoughtful of her! :)
Our new vice-principal Mrs. Spikes has come up with some really neat positive behavior incentives-"caught reading" & "hard at work". Dustin won the caught reading prize for all of 1st grade & I had 6 kiddos that I "caught" doing awesome AOKs & being Hard at Work this week-that's a GREAT way to start the year! :)
We started our weekly recycle this week-I know everyone will greatly appreciate that! Mr. Posey helped me put the recycle trash in the bin since it was so full-how nice was that? :)
As you can see-we're off to an AWESOME start! :)
Current Total= 90!
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