Thursday, February 16, 2012

What we've been up to plus a random survey

Good afternoon! I wanted to write a quick post of a few fun things we've done or are doing soon in first grade. We had a fun Valentines even though it totally slipped up on me and I didn't do a few things I had hoped to. Here are a few links for you this week...

I haven't purchased this yet but it's happening soon. It will be great to start the year with in the fall.



I sent a few of these to the copy center earlier this week and we used them today. You can never have enough handwriting paper and my kids handwriting is so much nicer on when they use it.

Source: do2learn.com via Lauren on Pinterest


We just finished coins and these little saying and the touch points were so fun to use. I've added these to my little basket of random things that I pull during calendar for review.



And just for fun I pulled this little survey from a blog I read. It takes me back to high school to fill out online surveys.


1. What time did you get up this morning? Alarm went off at 6:00 and I was out of bed at 6:30
2. How do you like your steak? medium at restaurants if I eat steak but my favorite steak is my dad's and I would say he cooks it medium well and it's the best!
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema: Beauty and the Beast
4. What is your favorite TV show? Modern Family, Teen Mom (don't judge!), a lot of shows on HGTV and Bravo
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? On a pretty beach or lake but still close to home
6. What did you have for breakfast? Frozen sausage biscuit and tea from the Keurig
7. What is your favorite food? Pasta, pizza, hamburgers and Mexican
8. Foods you dislike? raw onions and olives
9. Favorite place to eat? There aren't many places I dislike. Some favs are Whataburger, Newks, Tokyo, Pizza Hut, Sams Seafood
10. Favorite dressing? Ranch
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? Mazda CX-7
12. What are your favorite clothes? comfortable dress, sandals, swimsuit
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? Italy
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? It really just depends on the situation. If I take the time to think things through it's half full
15. Where would you want to retire? a cute quaint little town with a lot of activities for seniors haha

16. Favorite time of day? recess and coming home to my sweet puppy

17. Where were you born? Shreveport, LA
18. What is your favorite sport to watch? college football and Rangers baseball

19. What is your favorite fragrance? I don't really have a perfume that I wear daily but like food scents for my Scentsy and candles
20. What is your favorite face cream? I use a Wal-Mart knock off of some kind of Dove something or another
21. Favorite baby/kids products? Two of the sweet kiddies that I've kept since they were little bitty had/have blankies from Little Giraffe.
I love those sweet babies and those soft blankies! 
22. People watcher? The best part of being in public!
23. Are you a morning or night person? Night... I will stay up reading blogs and watching TV way too late.

24. Do you have any pets? My sweet Sadie dog
25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share? Ummm not really...

26. What did you want to be when you were little? Always a teacher except for a short time in middle school when I said I wanted to do something with computers because I thought being a teacher wasn't very cool.
27. What is your favorite memory?   Times with my grandparents that have passed away, hanging out with my family and fun times with friends in college
28. Are you a cat or dog person? Dogs all the way.
29. Are you married?  No... I have a new student who has asked me numerous times this week "Why will nobody marry you?"
30. Always wear your seat belt? Yes because my car beeps like crazy. I used to be bad about not wearing it around town.

31. Been in a car accident? A few that were all minor. Well one that the state of North Carolina considered major but that's another story. 
32. Any pet peeves? Interrupting conversations, asking stupid questions that everyone knows you know the answer to... I have others. I tend to not be very tolerant  of  people so I have a lot.

33. Favorite pizza toppings? any meat, onions, mushrooms
34. Favorite flower? Peony

35. Favorite ice cream? Blue Bell White Chocolate Almond

36. Favorite fast food restaurant? Whataburger or Chick-fil-a
37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test? none.

38. From whom did you get your last email? The last email on my phone is from Petsmart. The last one at work was from our counselor about a training.
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?  francesca's collections or Dillards
40. Do anything spontaneous lately? Decided on a Thursday night several weeks ago to go to Dallas after work the next day. Not that spontaneous but that's all I've got right now.
41. Like your job? My class keeps me going!

42. Broccoli? yes … this recipe
43. What was your favorite vacation? Jamaica, San Antonio, Austin
44. Last person you went out to dinner with? Sit down at the restaurant was with my friend Matt. I ate dinner with the Roth kids this week but it was take out that we ate at home.
45. What are you listening to right now? Dianne Sawyer on ABC World News Tonight
46. What is your favorite color? red
47. How many tattoos do you have? one... it's not visible and is from my freshman year in college

48. Coffee drinker? Yes but don't have to have it. I also drink tea or juice in the morning.