We had a very busy week. I worked 4 days this week. One was the librarian ( I got to teach the kids doing state reports on the smart board....fantastic fun), and one was the art teacher (that day I had Jacob's class and Emily's class come to the encore class). Very fun! One was the pre-k class. I will never sub that class again. 14 four year olds are 13 too many! I guess alot of illness is going around.

We had a great birthday day for Jacob. He got an Ironman costume with mask....he's been wanting one since last Halloween. He gets home from school and changes into it and sleeps in it. He loves it. We had a terrible wind storm blow through and took out a large tree in our backyard. Fortunately, it was on our neighbors property and just fell into our yard. So, they cleaned it up for us. I'll try to add the photo with Emily beside it.
We had Little Ceasar's pizza to candlelight because of the 2 hour power outage. The next morning it was still out in school...but there was a generator....and they had some power by 9am.

Jacob and Emily are both 6 now....we refer to them as "new 6" and "old 6".
Valentine's day was the other fun day this week. Thanks to all of you who sent special valentines in the mail!
We took the kids with us to Chili's for dinner and ordered the 'molten cake'...they were thrilled. Gene ordered me a dozen red roses...it was a nice surprise. Valentine's morning we had heart-shaped pancakes and made 'secret valentines' and a scavenger hunt.
Tara started playing the recorder in music class. The big news is she passed her 5 min. test and orals and is now officially in the Mighty Math Club. She passed her 11 multiplication test and only has to pass the 12 next week and we will be worry free for awhile. She is doing a report on Jimmy Carter. We did a diarama of the Egypt/Isreal treaty he organized at Camp David...with a peanut bridge (because he was a peanut farmer). The bruce wayne action figure in Jacob's new batman car is dressed in a suit. So, we keep referring to him as Jimmy Carter....so, that maybe by Weds. Jacob will agree to let us use him when the project is due. I snapped a picture when he wasn't looking.
The kids' new thing is knock-knock jokes and riddles. They are getting all those joke books from the library. Some of their favorites were "What did the pig do when the pig pen broke?.....used the pig pencil."
"Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the mud, and cross over the road again?
Because he wanted to be a dirty double crosser"
Aha. If you have any to share, they will love it.