Keep Boston in your thoughts and prayers

Words can't describe how heartbroken I am about yesterday's bombings at the Boston marathon. I learned about the news when I got a text from my boyfriend asking if it was true. Followed by a phone call from my mom asking if I was safe. Shocked that something like this could happen here in our city.  The victims and there families  are in my prayers and I thanked god repeatedly yesterday that my family me friends were all safe. You never think something like this will happen in your back yard. Boston is an amazing city and the people here have so much heart and are so kind. Thank you to all the first responders and runners who ran straight to the hospital to give blood. While watching the horrific news you could see those amazing people helping and I think that's the positive image we need hold on to. 

Keep praying for Boston

<3

Another Snowstorm

We've been hit with another Noreaster. Don't get me wrong, I love the snow and living in New England it's expected that we get a lot but the snow days are adding up and now we'll be in school until June 28th. This is a little sad because as much as I love snow, I love summer even more and the thought of being in school until July doesn't make me happy. 

It's been super busy in our classroom during the past month. We changed our dramatic play area into a post office for the months of February and March and the kiddos love it! The are having fun writing letters to each other and mailing them. Every Friday we deliver the mail and they are so excited to get letters from their friends. 

This is the mailbox and the postal worker hats they made to wear when they pretend to deliver mail.




We were also busy making shaving cream snowmen and celebrating our 100th day of school. Which happened to be on March 1st because of all our snow days.

  

 One of the nice things is that I have been able to do a lot of reading while snowed in. The latest book I have read and would recommend is The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Her happiness project really inspired me to think more about what daily things I can do to get the most out of every day in a realistic way.

Well I have a cup of hot cocoa and some laminating & cutting waiting for me. I'll leave you with this image of my snuggle pup who is definitely enjoying her mama being home with her on this snowy day. 

Happy Friday! :)

~Miss F

Happy New year and Currently!

Happy New Year everyone! It has been a busy couple of months especially with the holidays so I have some updates. Our classroom became nature spies this fall and we ventured out on our nature trail quite a bit. We collected pieces of nature and made really neat nature collages, we worked in pairs and compared leaves we collected, and we also read the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert and made our very own Leaf Man! Here are a couple of the ones that the kids made.

My co-teacher also found out about an awesome gingerbread man exchange and since we do a big gingerbread unit it fit in perfectly. We had all the kids make a gingerbread man and we sent them out to 13 different pre-k and k classes around the U.S. The kids were super excited when we started receiving the gingerbread men in the mail. We mapped all of them out and it was tons of fun!

 Some of the gingerbread men we made.

 

 

 

The ones we received all mapped out.

 

The holidays were wonderful spending time with family and friends! I made a whole bunch of crafty pinterest gifts and they were a big hit. My brother got vinyl record bowl, my little cousin a personal lego briefcase, hot cocoa with bailey's for all the adults, and cute scrabble ornaments which were used as gift tags for everyone. I only have a picture of the scrabble ornament because unfortunately I forgot to take pics of everything else. 

Here's one of the ornaments.

I'm linking up with Farley for January's currently because I love these!

I love the new Dave Matthews CD, my sister got it for me for Christmas and I love it! 

Downtown Abby is coming back on Sunday and I'm super excited! It's a PBS show that my sister and mother got me hooked on, I love shows/books set in the past and this one is wonderful. 

Lately I have been feeling very blessed for all the people I have in my life and also for the fact that I have a great job that I really love. 

I am in need of a chocolate fix desperately and I have a recent obsession with hot cocoa. It will be happening after I finish this post. 

Oh the laundry has piled up to an embarrassing amount. Especially since I was home for a week. What can I say the week was better spent spending time with my wonderful family and beautiful godson.

My One Little Word is Positive because it's something I want to remain throughout the whole year. Not really a resolution but a word I want to keep in the front of my mind every day when I wake up. 

That's it for me....now time for that hot cocoa!

~Miss F :)