May and Ready????

Ok, I have a ton of pictures and a super cute video to post, but the lack of time and no internet at home is holding me back right now. I will get those up soon! We have had guests non-stop since Easter, and that has been both amazing and crazy. Luke is getting to the end of his semester, and I am nearing the end of another school year! Wow...where did the time go? We are purchasing our plane tickets for Haiti today, which means we are going! We do not have all our support yet, but God is so in control of that!

So, I was making my lesson plans for next week and realized that it will be May next Friday! WHAT?!?!?!? May already? That is crazy for a number of reasons, but seriously...it's crunch time! Like I said Luke is nearing the end and working non-stop, and me....what am I up too? Well first there is school...teaching and Grace Camp has kept me busy, then there is our Spring Musical! What fun, but way to much work if you ask me! Then there is all the stuff I need to stuff into this upcoming month....... academic crunch month (also known as: May). My poor students have no idea the tornado they are about to walk into :) They are amazing and will think it is fun....maybe :). Then packing and driving to NH, and from there Haiti, then back to NH to drive with mom and Cindy (Cindy doesn't know she is coming yet though). Then we are back in TX for another school year...wow.....there goes my summer!

Forever

Ok, so I know that is had been pretty much forever since I have updated this, but let me just tell you how fast this year has gone!! I am currently sitting in the library of Luke's school using their Internet because we cancelled ours at the house. Luke is sitting across from me doing him homework like a good boy. I cannot remember the last time that I just sat with nothing to do; even during spring break, I made myself a list of things to do. It is nice to just chill.

This school year is almost over for us! I cannot believe how fast it went! I know that I have told people that last year went by fast, but this year is way faster! My students are amazing, and growing too fast! The things they say and come up with have me laughing all the time! I love just hanging out in our classroom and talking with them! Their dreams and issues going on in their lives right now are so interesting to me and I love how they think! This year I have 7 boy and 3 girls. It is a perfect size class! Next year they are anticipating about 15/16 in my class......great! I know that is still not a lot compared to a public school, but I have not taught that many before! I cannot wait!

So, lately Luke and I have been working on school stuff, and trying to prepare for Haiti this summer. Lots to do! Hope to fill you in on more soon :)

Playing Cards

Luke and I were playing cards the other night and realized that Riley does not like it when we shuffle the cards. She started barking and freaking out. It was really funny. Tonight we sat down to play a couple of hands. I began to shuffle and Riley started her usual barking, but this time jumped on the couch and saved me from those dangerous cards :) She is awesome!

Christmas Break!

Wow, I know it has been a while, but there is pretty much nothing that can be squeezed into my life during the Christmas rush! Between teaching, Grace Camp, music practices, and our music performance, I was jammed packed! This year during the musical I was needed to run the music and lighting. I have run music before for my old school, but not lighting, and it seems that every place has a different system, so I had to learn how to do everything! It was a little nerve wracking, but I did it :). The cool part about running the music and lighting is that I got to be in a little box where I could not hear anything unless someone spoke into the microphone. It was pretty entertaining to hear each grade go up and sing! The second graders were fun because they had some high notes to reach and two of the boys nailed them! They sounded great, and they were boys you would not think could do that! My first graders were AWESOME! They were my favorite (I am a little bias). They did everything they were told to do, and had so much fun! They sang great, and did an awesome job with the hand motions. Then there was the Kindergartners.......these guys were so funny! They had sticks that they would hit while singing their counting song, and I cannot figure out which one it was but every time they hit their sticks they were suppose to say the number they are on. Some one instead of counting would spit! I was laughing so hard in my little box! It was awesome.

After the musical the teachers got up and acted out the 12 Days of Christmas! It was so much fun and I got to wear a cow costume!! What could be more fun then that?

These are the second graders! I had some of them last year!

Second Graders again.

My First Graders :)

Some of the play

Me in the box

Me as 8 maid milking :)

I was also the 12 Drummers Drumming :) Too much fun!

Luke and I are now done, and so looking forward to going home tomorrow!! See you guys soon :)

20 Years

So this week my class time has been consumed with making all the Thanksgiving crafts you can think of! One of our activities was to color a leaf and tell what you are thankful for. When we do these activities, I also do them! They are so much fun, and I love to color. I sit with the students and we all color, talk, laugh, and make a mess!

When it came for us to write down what we were thankful for; my students looked at me and asked me how I learned to write so fast! I was laughing and told them that I have had a lot of years of practice. They then asked me how much practice....I had to think......and then came up with the number 20. I told them I have been writing for about 20 years...they all said "wow! Mrs. Perkins, you are old"! They kept talking about it for a few more minutes and I went back to my desk trying to process how old I really am :( . Sad day for Mrs. Perkins!

My Morning

Well today is Tuesday! What a great day it started out to be until I got to school...... Once I got here and got myself organized I thought I would run to the bathroom before my Before School Care duty started. I went in and noticed a small cockroach in the corner of the last stall, but thought he was dead, so I proceeded on to the stall on the other side of the bathroom. Once I was done and heading for the door there it was! On the door was a gigantic cockroach just waiting for me to go over to it so it could eat me! I was stuck in the bathroom with two cockroaches, one could have been dead, but then I started thinking that the dead one looked a little funny; probably because the bigger one ate some of him to prove to me what damage he could do! I felt like I was in one of those movie dungeons where there are skulls and rats all over the place! The only thing I had to defend myself was paper towels. So I took one, crumpled it into a ball and threw it at the gigantic cockroach, but then I remembered that I cannot aim to save my life, and this was definitely one of those situation where I needed it to save my life! After several failed attempts to hit the cockroach he finally got off the door and walked over to the wall, where I had 2.5 seconds to make my escape! I went for it and was FREE!!!!

About ten minutes later I was in Before School Care sitting with a three year old on my lap reading a story and having a great time, when all of a sudden he started throwing up on his lap that was on top of my lap! I quickly closed his legs to try to save my skirt, and ran him over to the trash can where he continued to throw up! Poor little guy...he went home and I started my school day....yup, it has been crazy!

Booggers part 2

Well after my crazy experience yesterday I decided that I wanted to stay away from boogers for awhile! Let me tell you that lasted for about an hour this morning! We were in chapel and I noticed one of my students holding his nose. He gets bloody noses a lot, so I wanted to make sure that he was ok. He said that he holds his nose so it stops running, but he thought there was something up his nose. I told him that we could get a tissue when we got back to class....well the next thing I know I feel a tap on my side! I look over and there is my little first grade boy holding the biggest booger I have ever seen! He had an accomplished smile on his face for getting the obstruction out of his nose, while I was trying to hold back from gagging! I got up and got a tissue for him, gave it to him, and then he gave it back to me when he was done cleaning it up...giggling and all! When I asked him why he gave me the tissue back he said that he did not want to hold that....(well I did not want to either, but oh the joys of being a teacher) at least he did not eat it....blah :P