Show 'N Tell

In Mikayla's class they only get to have show n tell when it is their "Handy Helper" week. Mikayla was the handy helper this past week so she got to bring in her dogs for show n tell. Jeff had to go home from work, get the dogs, bring them to her class at 2:45, take the dogs back home and then go back to work. (Oh, and Scooby, who sometimes gets car sick, proceeded to throw up on the way to school!-so Jeff had to clean that up too!) Mikayla was on cloud nine though so the trouble was worth it. I snuck out of my class and took some pictures.


I am very glad the week is over. It went so much faster than last week, which lasted an eternity, but by Friday night I am just so exhausted. I have decided that as much as I look forward to the weekend, I don't like Friday night. I get home and just want to go to bed! Jeff wants to rent a movie or something and I just want to go to bed. His busy nights are Sat. nights as he does his final prep for Sundays, so then Sat. nights are shot. The weekend evenings are pretty much boring.

Today in school one of my kids made it clear to me that I have to go into detail about every little thing that is said, and written. On their back to school supply list they were to buy "red pens", ok, seems easy enough. So today as the kids were going through their corrected assignments in their "Friday Folders" a boy came up to my desk and I could just tell that he wanted to "prove" me wrong on something by the way he thrust a paper in my face. At the top of his paper I had written, "Please use a red pen!" (we correct their assignments in class sometimes and they need to use a red pen to do that) And he brought his pen up and said, "I did use a red pen!" I scanned the paper and saw that the ink was blue. Hmmm...??? It hit me, he and his parents thought that the color of the outside of the pen needed to be red, not the ink!!! Sure enough, the outside of his pen was red, but it had blue ink. So I tried to explain this to him. He finally understood it. Sigh...it's going to be a long year.

Well, that 's all for now. I hope you have a great weekend and Labor Day!