First Day of School 2013-14

Today was my first day back to school, with kids. I have ALL of our 7th and 8th grade students for English Language Arts- totaling 168 students. Yes. one hundred and sixty-eight....oy! So, it's 10:30pm, I'm exhausted and I'm going to bed. Here are the photo updates of my classroom. All I have left to add is my curtains that are soooo cute, and should be finished by the end of next week. Goodnight!

Blogger fail...

As mentioned in previous posts my computer has some type of virus. I don't really know but I'm seriously slacking in the blogging department so I have spent the past 3 hours getting caught up using my iPad! But, now that I've found the blogger app I'm hoping I'll do better! Anyways....

Today is our last Friday of this school year! Ahhh!!! I just can't believe I've finished my first year of teaching! It's crazy!! Also, we had some great news today- ALL of the 8th graders passed the LEAP! Hallelujah, praise Jesus! I was/am so happy! So, technically the kids have 4 days of school left & I have 5! And I'm going to a PAID workshop in June that's only 4 days total & I get a free retina display iPad, case & keyboard! Yep, great things happening around here!! I am super excited about the next school year but I can't wait to spend this Summer with my sweet baby boy & wonderful husband! I have some fun projects for Beckham and I to do thanks to Pinterest, plus I have already started planning his first Birthday party!

 Yes, in just 57 days (hubby informed me tonight of the count) our baby will be 1 year old. Ugh it makes me so sad to think about him already being a year! My gosh where has the time gone? People really don't lie when they say it flies by. Anyways I plan on thoroughly enjoying the next 57 days while my baby is still less than a year old!

Here's a photo dump of our life lately!

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT BECKHAM IS WALKING! Yes, at just 9 months old he started walking! It was the craziest thing, he'd take a few steps here and there but the night before Butch came home from Alaska he really started walking, and thank goodness I was face-timing with him so he got to see it all as it was happening! So, yeah it's official, Beckham is seriously trying to to grow up way too fast. I mean come on, crawling at 4 months, walking at 9; he's trying to kill me! 

His first bobo. A big old goose egg because he thinks he's grown & can do grown-up things, like jump off the bed.....yeah, long story.

Walking

Climbing

Swimming

Eating dirt

Being sweet! (5/17/13 10 mo old)

A Good Read

I am in the process of choosing my Summer reader for the upcoming Eighth graders and I think I may have found a winner! Variant by Robison Wells. I started it Friday evening after work and finished it Saturday evening. It was a great read and although it is considered Young Adult; I would recommend it to all ages! I didn't know until I was finished that it is Book 1 of a series. I'm not sure how many are in the series, and since this one just came out last Monday, there's no telling how long it will be until Book 2 comes out. Anyways you can find it here for around $10. I'm thinking this will be the choice and I am eager to see what my future students think of it! Hopefully they'll make it into a movie and we can take a field trip! :)