H&!! Week

The weekend and week after Special Olympics was CRAZY busy!!! That weekend I had to chop up candy and cookies for the Ice Cream Sundae the Fighting Falcons were having that following week. Each of us try to be in charge of one major fundraiser...that was mine. On Monday I had to spend the afternoon buying enough ice cream to serve three hundred people. Tuesday was the Open House. I had never really been too involved at our schools open houses. It just so happened this one turned out to e one of the biggest. The PTO had a hot dog supper and show choir performed. The Fighting Falcons had the ice cream sundaes, t-shirts on sale and more of our art by Jerry Foster that we have been auctioning off. Here are just a few pics of that night.

Thank goodness we had some Zeta girls that came out to help. We could not have done it without them

. We all had to scoop out the ice cream then we separated for our other jobs. Nicole and Donna had to sell our shirts up against the PTO's superstore. Jan, Jessica and Juanita sold the art. Thankfully Jessica also was our official dishwasher.

This is some of the art that has been donated by Florence High School art teacher Jerry Foster.

The next day after Open House I had to leave bright and early to go on a field trip with the second grade. We went to the Botanical Gardens in Huntsville. Right now they are having this large bug exhibit all over the gardens. Their were these huge statues of bugs everywhere. The botanical Gardens was a beautiful place. It is just hard to enjoy something like that while keeping your eye on four children in different classes throughout the area. Oh and I should mention it would go from bright sunshine to pouring down rain in a matter of minutes. You could tell we were in the South that day. Here a few pics from the day. I hate you cant see more of the kids.

We also did a little catch and release fishing while we were there. The fish were microscopic.

The week ended with our third Kid's Night Out. Despite the terrible weather that night we had a great turn out. I think the kids enjoyed the dance party in the lunchroom the most..you have to something to do in the rain when you can't play on the playground. Most of my kids at the climbing wall just wanted to relax.