Photographic Update

Before we left for T-day break, my students did story problems Monday and Tuesday to review some of the standards we've covered so far this year. After completing all the problems each student was assigned one to write and solve on a feather for a turkey for their class. Some students had to write down their "Create your own" problem. The turkeys were then posted up on the bulletin board in my hallway. I was really proud!



This week I received my first 'teacher gift'- a cookie cutter filled with fudge! I love my students! :)



Christmas decorations are up! I have Amy to thank for arranging my Nativity figurines... and then placing them in the forest.



The small Christmas tree, cottage figurine, candle warmer, and metal sleigh adorn the kitchen table (along with that teacher gift and sugar cookies from this weekend). In case I've neglected to point this out earlier, I suppose it's rather obvious that I don't use my table for eating too often. And let's face it, there's pleanty of room on that tablecloth for me to join the decorations. ;)


A cutsie little candle holder and companion mugs on my kitchen counter.

My big Christmas tree! Thanks to mom and Tim for finding this one for me. I set this up last Sunday right after getting back from MI. I was determined enough to set it up, light it, and put up the bows and matching red and clear bulbs at once. Since then I haven't put up many of my personal ornaments, but we're getting there. I had about a half dozen of my favorite ornaments that I wanted to pull out and at least those ones are up.

Yesterday Erin, Deal, Amy and I made sugar cookies. We originally planned on doubling the recipe. Shortly into the process we realized that we weren't using the recipe we wanted to and thus had to change recipes. In doing so we had to quadruple our recipe. Let's just say we ended up with a few too many cookies- and we even had to freeze some of the dough!

Here's a picture of a few of my favorite cookies that I decorated. :)



Me with some of my cookies.

Amy and Deal hard at work icing those babies. From this shot you can get an idea of how many cookies we had. Thankfully there was just enough icing to finish the job.