Family Photo Shoot!

Another beautiful day for pictures

and another beautiful family to photograph!

We headed up to Red Rocks for this photo shoot. 

(this one is secretly my favorite...it might be a little artsy for a frame in the living room, but I like it :)

A Calendar Song For You

In Kindergarten we are practicing everyday how to read a calendar.

We know that a calendar teaches us the month, the day of the week, the date, and the year.

We're working on knowing what day it is...because in Kindergarten they think everyday is Friday...which is sort of depressing when it's only Monday :)

Enjoy our singing! (don't mind my new student in the front row...he's still trying to understand what it means to be in school, i.e. we don't roll around on the floor during our song :) 

Every Girl Needs a Good Hat

Today was hat day at school...

  

I would have liked living way back in yesteryear when people wore hats everyday. I like the idea that people took care in how they looked, never going outside in their pajamas or sweat pants.  Women dressed to impress....especially to impress their husbands.  Maybe I'm just old fashioned...but I like that idea. I like looking nice for Martin, I wish I took more time and care into what I wore or how I did my hair.  But the mornings are getting so dark and cold that I usually throw on the most comfortable looking outfit and push aside the fact that I desperately need a haircut.  

Okay...starting tomorrow legs will be shaven, hair done, clothes ironed. 

On another note, did I tell you Martin and I are escaping to the Northwest corner of our country for my fall break?  I can't wait! For now I'm just trying to get through the week before a vacation, which any teacher knows is exhausting. 

Morning Sun

Don't you just love it?

I wish the sun stayed like this all day...

Suicide of a Crawdad

Remember my fish tank in my classroom?

Remember how I can't seem to keep any fish alive?

It's currently empty, except for a big green fuzzy Japanese algae ball. 

It was completely full Tuesday evening. 

I had three new fish and a thriving crawdad who was appropriately named Captain Hook due to his one claw. 

Wednesday morning I checked on my tank and two of my fish had perished.  I didn't see my crawdad, but didn't think twice about it because he liked to hide under the plastic bonsai tree. 

School started and someone of course needed a bandaid for a microscopic cut.  As I wandered over to get a bandaid, I noticed something odd on the floor.  Is that a leaf?  A wood chip? What is that?

I leaned closer...

 ummm yeah, that would be my crawdad.

I have no idea how he crawled out of the tank, jumped off a table, and crawled 50 feet across the classroom.  I felt so sad for him.  He thought he was crossing over to greener pastures and instead ended up dying on ugly multi-colored carpet.  


Martin told me I should have brought him home so we could have eaten him.  I think I'll pass.  
"Hey kids! Sorry about the crawdad! But don't worry Mr. Wolfe and I enjoyed him for dinner last night."


Maybe the fish were teasing him because of his one arm and he wanted to get out of the tank. Who knows. 
I'm just sorry I didn't find him sooner...