St. Patrick's Day in Second Grade

With St. Patrick's Day last week I thought it would be fun to do something in my second grade class. I student taught with a great teacher who does something fun in her class. I called her up and she told me how to do it. I wanted to test the water and make sure my students would believe that there was a leprechaun in our classroom or else it wouldn't work.
On Tuesday morning we showed up to school and found that a Leprechaun had danced in our room the night before and messed up our schedule and lost his shoe somewhere in our room. We found his shoe and while we were at lunch, he came back and left us some gold chocolate. (The shoe was made by my amazing husband)

On Wednesday we got to school and the Leprechaun left a note on the board saying that he didn't think we could catch him so instead of leaving us gold, he left us some cookies.
Thursday (St. Patrick's Day) was the day that I was waiting for all week! We got to school to find that the Leprechaun had left us some "magic potion" (some green kool-aid with sugar hiding it so they couldn't see the green) He told us to just add 4 quarts of water. During our group time we added 4 quarts and it magically changed green! We all had a drink of this magic potion (the kids all insisted that I drink it first!) He also left us a book to read. So, I picked up the book and put the note on the back of the book. It had something else written on the back that said "P.S. if a teacher drinks this, their feet turn green...." Well, I had a drink of the magic potion so the kids all wanted to see if my feet were green. Sure enough, I pulled off my socks and they were green!

The kids screamed (yes I am sure the whole school heard them)! That was all they talked about for the rest of the day. We had such a great time trying to find the Leprechaun (we never caught him though).
I love teaching but I especially love when we do things like this. It is something that those kids will remember for a long time to come!

Birthday!

I celebrated my 24th birthday on the 26th of February. It was a great day (and week). My dad and sister came to visit and then we had a snow day the day before so I had an extra long weekend. We went to the Temple with some good friends the night before and then I woke up Saturday to my favorite breakfast in bed...french toast! I was able to spend all day with my husband. We test drove some cars, and walked through a very nice house (someday we would love to build a house like it!) We went to dinner at Olive Garden where they told us the wait would be 60-75 minutes but we ended up only having to wait about 30 minutes!

I was blessed to get a sewing machine, a way cute bag that my mom made, a 2 year subscription to family fun magazine (this is very exciting when you are a teacher...helps with creative ideas!), an adorable lunch box, some bead watch bands that my mom also made, and lots and lots of love from my family and friends!

Dad and Becca Visit!

We were able to see my dad and little sister Becca for a few days. My dad had to meet with a client in Columbus so they stayed in Dayton to be closer to us. We were able to go to dinner with them every night. They enjoyed visiting the Cincinnati Aquarium, the air force museum in Dayton, and seeing Gnomeo and Juliet during the days. Becca was able to come to my school for a few hours on Thursday. She got to meet my second grade class and watch them in a performance that night. She also got to meet my after school kids. Darrin and Becca were able to spend an hour swimming in the hotel swimming pool! Becca sure enjoyed that! :)
We were so excited to have them come out for a few days. It was nice to be able to start celebrating my birthday with some family here. Thanks, Dad and Becca, for your visit!!