Cruise Pictures!

For those of you who read my blog and haven't seen these on facebook, here are the top 6 cruise pictures. It was magical!

We saw pirate ships, had towel pets made for us, went zip lining, saw birds on a cool rock, pretty scenery, and Justin made faces at a monkey. Hands down the best cruise I've ever been on. :)

T-Shirts

I love funny t-shirts. A few websites I like to look at these funny t-shirts on include threadless.com, snorgtees.com, and roadkilltshirts.com. Roadkill is a little more scandalous than the other two, but there are some funny t-shirts on there. I just wanted to post some pictures of some of the t-shirts that gave me a good chuckle tonight.

Cruising Bliss

I went on a cruise!!! It was so wonderful! I relaxed, slept a lot, ate a lot, and played in the ocean. As it turns out, the ocean is a little terrifying. I lived though. I also loved it so much! I will hopefully get around to posting some pictures someday.

Top Ten Reasons I Love Batman

Today I have a day off school. Thank goodness! School has been a little crazy mostly because the students haven't been able to go outside and have a break. It has either been too cold or the air quality has been dangerously bad so they've been inside since they came back from Christmas Break. They're going nuts! So anyway, I'm grateful to have a day off work.

For my day off I decided to watch some Batman. I bought myself the The Dark Knight Trilogy for Christmas and I have been super pleased with that decision. In order to celebrate that I thought I'd tell everyone just why I love Batman so much.

10. No guns, no killing. I like that policy in someone who stands for what's good.

9. "I'm Batman" is SUPER fun to say.

8. He doesn't have magical powers. Magical powers are cool sometimes, I do super love X-men, but Batman just does it all with sweet technology.

7. The movies are incredibly well done.

6. Alfred is wonderful.

5. Fancy cars

4. Phenomenally evil villains. They have interesting stories, they're terrifying, and they aren't stupid villains.

3. Commissioner Gordon and Officer Blake, both such excellent characters. Plus I really like the good guys.

2. The Bat Signal is awesome.

1. Christian Bale.

The Best Jokes

I have a really good sense of humor. Some of my favorite jokes revolve around buffalo.

I learned a new joke today in Highlights magazine (I read classy literature). I would like to begin this series by citing some of my original favorite buffalo-related humor.

Q: What do you call a lazy buffalo?
A: A buffa-loafer

Q: What kind of shoes do buffalo wear?
A: Buffa-loafers

(That's kind of a two-fer)

Q: What did the mama buffalo say to her baby buffalo when he left for school?
A: Bi-son!

And last but certainly not least, this new gem of a joke I found today.
Q: What do you call a truck full of bison?
A: A buffa-load

And there you have it folks. This is why I teach Elementary School.

Crazy Hat Day

This week at school is Red Ribbon Week. Today's dress-up theme was "put a cap on drugs" and students were invited to wear a hat. I, of course, ended up wearing a giant frog hat for part of the day because I don't have any hats. If I get a picture I'll post it. It was pretty neat. The best part of the day was when we were at the kick-off assembly. I looked down at my students to see if everyone was minding their p's and q's and lo and behold a student had underwear on his head. He wasn't wearing those 2 minutes before that! I asked him to take them off then he had a nice little chat with the principal at the end of the assembly but he seriously thought it would be okay to wear underwear as a hat, so he just had to put them in his backpack and wear the hat he wore to school. Seriously though, underwear on your head at school? In fourth grade?! He sure is creative, I'll give him that.

My Exciting Life in Fourth Grade

I want to be a bit better about documenting some of the things that go on in my classroom. I really love teaching and I feel at home when I am in the classroom. It is such a wonderful blessing to have found a profession that doesn't feel like a job, despite all the 12+ hour work days I have put in thus far and will continue to put in the rest of my career.

This week has been eventful. I had a student who decided to act like a dog, which led to him biting another student. Well, one thing led to another and he ended up being wheeled to the office in a ball bin. He's fine, he just threw a fit and decided that would be a good place to go.

I also have a student who likes to cry to try and get his way. It doesn't work. I even make him stop crying (I'm so mean!) and do his work. He's in fourth grade. The kid needs to stop crying. Today my drama with this student was that he has been drawing graphic pictures involving guns.

Amidst the dogs and crying, there are many little rays of sunshine however. Today I was giving my class a firm talking to because they are struggling with raising their hands before they speak. One student raised his hand and said in a voice of admiration, "I love you." This student likes it to be quiet when he works so I am sure the few students who can't keep their comments in have been bothering him. It was so cute.

Yet another student wrote me a note on the back of her assignment saying, "Miss Winn, thank you for all your support." She's cute.

My class has a really good sense of humor, which I appreciate. Today a boy was sitting on top of a desk (he was allowed to do this) and he kept having a hard time balancing for some reason. Somehow he fell off and it was so fun to be able to laugh with my students. They were quite surprised that I actually laughed as well, which added to the fun.

Fourth grade is a blast. It's keeping me plenty busy but I love it! Yay teaching!