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 :)

Crafts and cute buys

I survived my last day of summer school yesterday! The kids did an awesome job at our end of summer school show. They were all community helpers and recited poems about each helper that we learned. It was super cute and I was so proud of them!

 It feels great to have the rest of the summer off but there's still so much left to do. I finally started some of my crafting that I've been putting off. I made these scrabble coasters for my boyfriend (addicted to words with friends) and I'm looking forward to him getting here tonight so I can give them to him. :)

I also made a trip to target and went a little crazy with the dollar deals. I couldn't help myself, they had all these cute star name tags and stickers. We call our students the sparkling stars so all of these cute star tags go great with our theme. I also bought some crates so that I can work on my next pinterest project (crate seats).

 I'm heading to Vermont on Sunday to spend most of the week with my wonderful sister and god son Oliver. Oh yea and my brother in law too. I'm super excited and already have her birthday gift basket made. I got her a magazine subscription, two Alex and Ani bracelets (one that says sister and another pretty bead one), a Starbucks gift card with mug, and a really cute wine glass (mommy's sippy cup). It came out really cute and I hope she likes it.

 I can't help but post the picture of this cute little pup. She is all snuggled up beside me as I have been writing this. How can you not love her!

Well my wonderful boyfriend is here so I must go. I'm off to watch the Olympics opening ceremony. :)