A Little Recap. That's All.

I know many of y'all are on Spring Break, but I am not.  In fact, I think I need ANOTHER week off.  We are just getting back in the swing of things after an ever so glorious, albeit way too busy, Spring Break.  {tear, sniff}.  I can smell Summer just around the corner and the fragrance is OH so sweet.  Sweet, sweet summa-time.  

Now before I start daydreaming about being poolside, I'll go ahead and recap what we've been up to these last few weeks.  

We had lots of presidential-sized Kindergarten fun.

As you can see, we're working on our handwriting.  That to be said, heck if I'm not so excited that my littles are getting their thoughts on paper...and I can read it all, too!!!!  

These are a favorite every year, but even more so this year.

 

And it's all because of this...

 

I kid you not when I tell you that most of my kids said they'd keep CHEESE in their hats.  WHA?!?!!?

Right after presidents, we learned all about the GREAT{est ;)} state of TEXAS!!!  I didn't really change up too much of what I did from last year {you can read about that HERE}, but I did end up our unit of learning with a Rodeo day this year.  One of my sweet teammates brought her horses up to school and the kids got to ride them {with permission slips signed, of course}.  AND...my FAVORITE part of the day...making and eating {er, devouring} a class bowl of Armadilly Chili!!  YUM!

Our kids worked their little TAILS off for an amazing performance in the school Texas ABC Play.  PRESH.  My oldest took part in it, too.  He played the part of George Strait.  I'm not gonna lie.  I shot pics through the lens of tear filled eyes.  He has my heart, this one.  And I swear I'm not trying to be a braggy momma, but darnit...he did SO good!!!  For being a little introvert, he really surprised me!  Smiled, sang, and played his part just GREAT!!!!

We had a BUSY spring break.  A visit from my best friend and her kids...golf cart rides...a day at the beach...family fun night...redecorating...celebrating my sister's birthday...and a day at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.  My boys have been to the carnival before, but this was their first year to go to the rodeo...and they LOVED it!  Especially the calf scramble and mutton bustin'!  HA!

Speaking of being surprised, I about fell out when my shy child exclaimed that he wanted to ride the mechanical bull.  I mean, he BEGGED us to do it.  He even happily waited in line...ALONE...for half an hour.  Who is this child?!  I took pictures through tear filled eyes on this one, too :)

And the boys were SO dang excited to get their faces painted. That was another first!  They've never been interested before.  I couldn't get them to wash their faces for a few days after that!  HA!!!

We hit the ground running on Monday with lots of St. Patty's Day shenanigans.  Of course, our Loopy Leprechauns had to be part of the day.  This one was my favorite.  I'm a sucker for little boys who write about their mommas.

You can see these loopy little leprechauns in action in my first grade classroom HERE.

And you can find the template for them HERE {in case you want it for your files :)}

I found precious mathtivity from Erin over at Eberhart's Explorers...

I mean, is that not darling or what?!

Anyway, LOVED it so much, but I ran out of construction paper and didn't have enough to finish the task, so I had to do something just a little different.  These are nowhere NEAR as cute as Erin's, but they did the trick and the kids had SO much fun adding their "magical" gold coins :)  #winning

Last but not least, I've added my Rock Your Fluency ~ The First Grade Edition ~ to the shop.  And it's on sale until tomorrow.  2nd & 3rd grade packs will be added by the end of the week.  Whew!  

Have a GREAT night!!!