Happy Friday! Do you see the numbers in the date? I love when numbers do fun things like repeat in the date. I am so excited about the weekend, so let’s get to today’s favorites!
Favorite 1: OLYMPICS!! I know the opening ceremony isn’t until today, but competition has already started!! I watched snowboarding, ice hockey, and curling on Thursday. I love it so much!! I have been bouncing between the official Olympics app and the Peacock app to stay on top of what’s happening. Unfortunately, I had to teach on Thursday and again today which will take up some of my Olympics viewing time. 😉 If you are looking for me over the next 17 days, I will be watching the Olympics when I am not sleeping, driving, or teaching. I hope you are ready for this…
Favorite 2: SWIM!! Saturday was a great day of swimming for Luke! He made our state meet, qualified for finals in both events he swam, and his school won the championship! It was awesome!
The boys have another meet this weekend and I am looking forward to cheering them on to some fast swimming!! You can bet that I will be taking my phone charger so I can keep up with the Olympics when they aren’t swimming!
Favorite 3: HAIRCUT!! I usually get my hair cut about once a year, but my last cut wasn’t quite short enough and I was ready for another already. I cut about 5 inches so it’s pretty short. I’ll try to keep it straight for a day or so, but I then I feel the need to wash it and I’ll be back to curly. I’m braced for school today with shorter, straight hair. The big kids comment on it with brutal honesty and it throws the little kids for a loop. I’ve had kindergarteners cry because it looks different in years past. We’ll see what happens.
Favorite 4: BOOKS! We started our schoolwide book club on Monday and we are reading Clementine this year. It is a hit already! I love when our whole school has the option to read the same book at the same time. We have so many great conversations and the kids love hearing that their teachers are reading the same book!
Favorite 5: HEARTS!! I’ve been rocking my Valentine’s Day clothes this week. I’m starting to stress a little because next week is the 100th Day (I have a shirt), the Olympics (I have some gear), and Valentine’s Day (I have outfits). How will I wear all the things???
Hello Monday
Currently & Hodgepodge
Like I said already, I have two plans for the weekend – watch swimming and watch Olympics. That is it! I’ll read when I’m not watching. I was hoping to get a walk in outside, but it looks to be arctic again! I am over this cold weather friends! I hope you are staying warm where you are! Have a great weekend full of sunshine and books!
Congrats to Luke! Such an awesome achievement! Love the straight hair 🙂
Oh shoot – didn’t realized the games had started. I don’t want much daytime tv so I didn’t know – or regular tv really! The opening ceremony starts at 2 today! Yay!
I can just imagine KG’s crying at the seeing a change in your hair! (That’s why I don’t sub for KG- change rocks their worlds too much and as a sub, I represent change…). I like your hair straight- it’s amazing how a style changes how you look. LOL on your outfit dilemma! How will you get everything worn?? Congrats to Luke- what an incredible accomplishment. Have a great weekend!
I made it through with no crying. Thank goodness. There was a lot of “why does your hair look like that” and “why did you do that” but it just makes me laugh. Kindergarten subbing is a brave job!
Ohh! I never noticed that with the date because over here it’s 6/2/26. Your way is much more fun!
I am planning on watching the Olympic opening ceremony but I didn’t realise it had already started.
Luke really is awesome, you must be so proud and your new hair cut looks great! I hope the little one’s are good with it.
Thanks for the complements on my hair and for Luke! We are so into the Olympics – I actually watched the Opening Ceremony twice yesterday. Enjoy!
How do you do one book for your whole school? I’d love to start this at my school, but am so intimidated! Does K-5 all read the same book? Do they read as classes or at home? Do you do a celebration at the end? How do you decide on the book? I’d love to learn from your experience!
At my school, we give the book to every family Pre-K – 5th grade. We send a reading calendar home (usually one chapter every other night) amd reading guide for families to use at home. It is completely optional and the reading takes place entirely at home, but many families participate. We ask a question on the morning announcements after each chapter to encourage students and teachers to talk about the book. We do a celebration at the end and have done it in different ways. One year we had a night celebration at school with a few different stations. We had the celebration at school a few times when we’ve had the author come to visit because they were already on book tour. We typically partner with our public library for an evening celebration there. In my town there are 5 elementary schools and we all do the same book so the library plans one celebration for all 5 of us. The school librarians are there and help, but the public library takes the lead on this one.
We pick our books in a variety of ways. Some years we’ve lucked into a $1 book in Scholastic book clubs. Other years, we look at the ReadToThem.org list and pick from there. This year, we picked Clementine because I love her and think kids can relate to her.
I am happy to share more information with you if you’d like. Feel free to email me – sarahcparsons@gmail.com – and I can share our list of books and some resources. It’s a great program and I am so happy we do it!!
I love that you have a school wide book club; that is so neat! I’ve started wearing all my heart things this week too but have realized (today) that I probably don’t have enough to keep it going through next week too.
Love your hair! And you’re right…kids notice everything haha
We watched curling yesterday. Hayden was really into it! Congrats to Luke!
I like your hair cut!!!