Five For Friday -- YAY!

I'm excited to be linking up for the first time ever with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday.  It is so cool to be able to look back at everyone's week from the luxury of the WEEKEND!  Wahoo!!

 

So here are five things from my week that I would like to share:

 

 

(1)  Teacher Appreciation Week:  Unless you were living in a cave this week, you are probably aware that it was Teacher Appreciation Week.  :)  This week, our school's PTO gave us gift cards to Jimmy Johns and our principal bought us a very yummy pizza lunch on Thursday.  It was a great week!

 

 

(2)  Mythology:  We have been studying Mythology in our literacy block and the kids have been LOVING it!  When I began teaching this last year because of Common Core, I was majorly freaked out!  I knew NOTHING about mythology.  But like all good teachers, I hunted down some "experts" on TPT and learned from them.  I am excited to pick up this goodie this week at the big sale from Fork in 4th:

 

 

(3) Biography Projects:  We have finished up our Biography research projects.  On Thursday, my kids presented their findings to the class.  They had to have a visual aid for their presentation and some of my kids got REALLY creative!

 

I love that Anne is holding her diary and a pencil!  So clever!

 

Talk about a bad hair day, Al!  And those "skinny jeans" are a bit disturbing!  :)

 

To earn extra credit, they could dress up like the person they studied.  One of my boys dressed up like Thomas Edison -- he even had light bulbs on his bow tie!

 





 

(4)  A Birdie Visitor:  Last weekend, I bought a beautiful red geranium for my front porch. 

 

 

When I came home THREE separate days this week, a bird had begun building a nest inside of my new plant. (Can you see it there right above my logo?)   Each day, I would carefully remove the nest because there was NO WAY I was going to be able to water it.  Well, today when I went out there, there was a new nest AND two little eggs...

So I guess now the bird won.....It can stay.  :)

 

(5)  PERSONAL DAY!:  Today I took a personal day just for myself. :) I took my dog Toby to the Puppy Spa for his annual summer haircut.....He was NOT pleased...But he looks SOOO cute!

 

 



 

 

Then I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some new goodies for my home office.  I am in the process of redecorating my sewing room into an office, since I seem to be blogging more than sewing, and I wanted the room to look pretty.  So here is what I found:

 

I think I will paint the walls a light turquoise.  It will look GREAT when it is done!

I hope you had a great week and will have an even BETTER weekend!  Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there!