Conference in Des Moines

Today, all day, I was at a conference in Des Moines called "Passing the Baton". It was about mentoring and coaching our students. It was pretty good, but all of us were making our long "to-do" lists that we need to do in our rooms yet before Monday!!! We are feeling crunched! I wanted to introduce you to all my co-workers. They are a great group of ladies, and I can honestly say that with them an 8 hour conference was actually fun. Here they are:

Front row: Jenna-3rd grade, Rachel- Pre-K(Haley's teacher for this year), Tami- middle school Math and Computer, Joy- Kindergarten(Mikki's teacher last year)

Back row: Nichole-2nd grade, Jen-1st grade (Mikki's teacher this year), Rhonda-Pre-K, Diana-Middle School Science and Bible(Jenna's 5th grade home-room teacher), JoDee-Middle School Language Arts and History, and myself, 4th grade. I think we are a pretty good looking bunch.

I am exhausted, I woke up at 4a.m. with Haley crawling into bed with us, and my alarm was set for 4:30a.m. so I just stayed up. It has been a long day. We are babysitting a little boy tonight. He is actually Jenna's teacher from last year that had a baby and then I took her place in 4th grade. She and her husband wanted to go out so we are watching him, he is about 7 months, soooo cute. I miss that age! He is a doll and went right to sleep in the pack n play when I put him down to bed.

Tomorrow is my last weekday to work in my room. I will probably have to go in on Sat. to finish up. I will try and post pictures of my room tomorrow night for you to see. I am heading to bed now...it's 8:25! Oh well, it's going to be another busy day tomorrow!