Back to School Tomorrow

This break has been so wonderful, and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my mind around getting up and heading back to school tomorrow.   I look forward to seeing my students and hearing about their Christmas and break, but 5:45 is going to come way to early.  I have thoroughly enjoyed the two weeks we've had off as a family.  It's been a time of relaxation and rejuvenation.

It's also been a time of denial.  Below is a photo of the work I brought home to get finished over the break.  About a tenth of it is what I accomplished.  I'm hoping to get their big writing assignment edited/commented tonight, but it still won't be nearly what I hoped I'd complete.  I'm trying to be ok with that.  I love that work didn't invade our family time.  However, it's only two weeks until the end of the quarter, which means report cards and comments on top of grading the rest of these assignments.  Not to mention all the new exciting stuff we'll do in the next two weeks.  It's a good thing I LOVE my job!   Ready, set, here we go again!

First Day of School Labor of Love

I don't know what I was thinking.  As if I didn't have enough to do to prepare for the first day of school tomorrow.  Today I found a fun starter/ice breaker activity using Skittles.  Now I could have just handed out candy at the beginning of the activity, but I decided that I needed to make something cute to hold the Skittles and brighten their desks for the first day of school.  

I whipped out my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge and cut these fun little bags.  The half circles were the inside of the handles.  Originally I also cut little tags to go on them with their names, but decided tying all those on would be too time intensive for tonight.  I just wrote their names on the bags.  In addition to these, everyone will get a bookmark and maybe a pencil (I have to see what I have when I get to school tomorrow.  

I'm hoping for a fabulous start to the school year tomorrow!  

At Albertsons on the way home tonight (when I stopped to pick up the Skittles), I saw this in the parking lot.  It made me smile, and of course started the jingle running through my head.  The only bummer was that by the time I picked up the boys and went back, it was gone :(  They did tell me they saw it driving down the road on the way back from the movies with Grandma.