June, 2012

I have to comment on the two 4th grade Language Arts teachers at my school this year. They are wonderful. Not only are they fabulous teachers but they made Battle of the Books so successful for me this year. They bought in to it like I have never, ever, had teachers buy into anything I have done before. They planned all their lessons together, and read, discussed, and dissected eight of the 15 books with their classes. I have never had students so prepared and knowledgeable about the battle books in 13 thirteen years of being a Media Specialist. I was so grateful I gave them both a 2012 battle book to start reading this summer, a gift certificate to Barnes and Nobles, and I made them these cards. I love you Ms. Salguaro and Ms. Irving!

Father's Day was Sunday, and the boys came for a visit. Brooke had a girls only weekend, so Adam, Jack and Bennett were here with us. Those two little boys are so delightful and we had a ball with them. Jack is completely potty trained and goes all by himself. Such a big boy!! The two of them are fish. They absolutely love the water and you can't keep them out of it. I guess they come by it naturally since both their parents were on swim teams growing up.
Here they are with grandpa opening his Father's Day present.

Poor Katie. Jack surrounded her with his cars. He is totally obsessed with them, just like Adam and Alex were when they were little.

Bennett, looking out the window at the fish in our pond.

I have been working on pages for my scrapbook. I did 6 pages today. All I have to do to catch up is Jack's birthday, Bennett's birthday, and our trip to Disney for the flower festival. Here are the ones I finished today. I still need to journal on some of them.

For the above page, I cut sections of the flowers and leaves out and inserted the mounted photos. I like the look.

I finally did my Christmas pages-they are Tami Potter's Mosaic Moments pre-cut pages. Sure makes it quick and simple and I like the look too.

I need to journal on these pages. They are of Sasha in different dance outfits. I need Frances to send me info on it. I know it has to do with her school, but that is all I know.