So a new building is more of a nessecity now.

3 day, holiday weekends (Memorial Day weekend) are supposed to be fun and relaxing, right? Not so much today. We were helping Jeff's older brother move to his new townhouse out here in Sandy when Andrea, the school's secretary, called me. Our school got vandalized sometime during the night. Whoever did it threw large rocks through several windows, 2 of the windows were to my classroom. Wow, what a phone call to get. The vandals had thrown rocks through my windows, the other 1st grade room's windows and 2 other classrooms' windows. The windows are plate glass so there were shards of glass everywhere. Nothing in the classrooms was stolen or broken. What an amazing blessing. Jeff and I went down to the school as soon as I got the call to help and to clean up my room. Jeff got to help board up the windows and clean glass out of every nook and cranny in my classroom. It is amazing how far all the glass pieces went. We definitely need a building now. The possible new building is in a much better neighborhood. Our poor school has been vandalized 5 or 6 times just this school year.

Here are my broken windows. :( So sad.

The end is near!!!

Only 10.5 more days to go!! I think I can make it but I am not sure if my sanity shall remain intact. First grade has had some exciting times lately. I think my kids are just sick of each other and so they are arguing a lot. It is just a little annoying (okay, it is a lot annoying).

We have had some good excitement, too. In first grade we study the frog life cycle which means we get to raise tadpoles. (this is my favorite unit since I love frogs :) ) Some of our tadpoles have matured into froglets. They are so cute and tiny )about the size of my finger tip). Today I released them back into the pond that the tadpoles came from. Here are a few pictures of the froglets. They are a little like a hidden picture, you have to find the baby frogs.

Hint: There is one by the stick and one in the water.

Can you see it on the big rock?

Okay I know it is blurry but this is just to show you the size of the frog baby. (It is hard to take a picture of something so tiny with my little digital camera. It can only do so much.) They still have little tails left.

Well, I think the frogs are exciting anyway and so I thought I would share. Some other exciting things for my little school are that we might be getting an actual building with a roof and walls and staff restrooms (currently I use the same one that the kids use and they are not always the cleanest. yuck!) and a multipurpose area so that the ankle biters would not have to eat lunch in the classroom anymore. Please pray for us that we get a building. We only have one more year to be at our current site but with adding a second 4th grade next year we are out of room. It will mean a lot of work this summer if we do get a building but it is so that the school can stay operating and I would still have my job. I will keep you posted on building progress. Well, I am going to end this one for now. I will post again soon.

Is It Over Yet?

18.5 days left of school and the count down has begun. I can't wait for this year to be done! I get to pass my little chittlins (not sure if that is word but oh well) on to the second grade. (Yeah!!) We are pretty excited about summer. We are planning to go up to Alaska for the first week in July. I got to see it in the winter. I am excited to see their summer weather. We are going to visit Jeff's Mom and step dad. I can't wait to get away and relax. On another note, Earl was the Survivor winner this season. (In case you are not into Survivor you may want to skip this part.) We like our weekly fix of survivor. This season was not the greatest but it got pretty interesting toward the end. One guy, Yau-Man, gave the 60,000 dollar truck that he won to another player for immunity. But then Dreamz, theguy who got the truck, decided to go back on his word and kept the immunity. It was all quite crazy. But fun times any way. Well, we will update again soon. I will let you know how the count down is going (if I survive). :)

New Niece

Sorry we are so bad about updating our blog (it has been awhile). We have a new niece in the family. Jeff's sister Paula just had a baby girl. Sadie Josephine Booth Born: May Day, 2007 21" tall ~ 8 lbs. 15 oz. Parents: Jeff and Paula Booth :) Here are a couple of pictures of the cute little girl. We will write another post again soon. We hope everyone is having a fantastic May!!!