May Pics - Part 5 - Buddy Field Day, Last Day of School, Delivering Legos to Covenant, and More!!!!

5-24-16 Buddy Field Day!  It was water day at school!  The kids had a blast!!!

Trace, Jacen, and Paxton :)

Jacen is on the right of the water bucket filling his water gun up!

Sponge Races! - He is on the right!

This was his favorite water slide!!!

I love the happy facial expressions (he is in the front of the pic)

His favorite slide again!

The big slide!!!!

Mrs. Dulin in the dunking booth!

Hot dog picnic for lunch!!

That morning my students had Free Market!  Here are few pics!!

That afternoon we went outside for Buddy Field day!  I went on one of the big slides 3 times :) Thanks Megan for convincing me to go!

My students about to throw water balloons :)

5-24-16 After Buddy Field day, it was time to serve at St. Benedicts.  Jacen helped for a while, but then lost interested and decided to play on Daddy's phone :)

Darla and Vicki, two of the sweet ladies on our St. Benedict's team, knew I had won teacher of the year for Bennett, so they got us cupcakes from Cake to celebrate.  They were so yummy!!

5-25-16 My 5th grade Homeroom class!!!

5-25-16 I put Jacen to work on our first half day.  He got to sort out Free Market money, so it will be ready for next year!!

5-26-16 The last day of school!!!

Jacen wanted us to take a selfie :)

Jacen giving Mrs. Dulin her end of year gift!

I gave my students a Beach ball with a saying the saying "You worked hard this year, have a ball this summer" on it from Pinterest of course!  The idea was to have them sign each other's as an end of year idea.  They enjoyed more than I thought they would.  Then of course the boys decided it was more fun to throw the balls instead of sign them :) 

The girls following instructions :)

Then we played Disney and NFL kahoot!  The kids had a blast!

After school pic with Mrs. Dulin :)

5-26-16 After leaving school, we met up with Daddy at Covenant to deliver all of the Legos that were donated at Jacen's party.  The Child Life specialists were really sweet this year.  They wanted us to unpack them all and take some pics for their website.  I snapped some pics too while they did!  We are not allowed to go to any patients rooms anymore because of patient confidentiality, so he didn't get to actually deliver any.  They were very appreciative and said they were just talking about being low on Legos.  They said those are very popular with the kids.

Daddy got Jacen a Lego set from the store.  We are so proud of Jacen for asking for donations instead of gifts from his friends at his birthday party each year. 

Our evening walk to see the horses!

Jacen and Justice watching TV :)

May Pics - Part 4 - 1st Grade Awards, Teacher of the Year, and More!!!

5-18-16 Jacen and Mrs. Dulin the morning of the 1st Grade Awards assembly!!  We have loved having Mrs. Dulin this year!! Jacen now loves to read!!!

Awards Ceremony!!!!

Jacen and his classmates after the awards ceremony!!!

That afternoon, our 5th grade student teacher Ms. Smith brought her snake to school to show to our 5th graders.  Mrs. Dulin's class (Jacen's class) also joined our class!  The 1st and 5th graders both loved seeing the snake!

Jacen, his friend Kellyanna, and my student Ethan :)

When we got home I had Jacen take pics with his awards.  Here is one of the pics :)  He got an Accelerated Reader Award, Writing Award, Math Award, Science Award, A Honor Roll, Prompt and Regular Attendance, Technology Award, Reading Award, Friendship Award, and a Gobstoppers Award for always having "gobs" of great work and ideas!!!

5-19-16 Our 5th graders had their graduation!!  This is me with Halli one of my students!!!

That evening was the Frenship Awards Banquet.  I received Teacher of the Year for Bennett Elementary.  I did not win for the whole district, but I still received a cool bell!!!  And I am very honored to be nominated and picked by my coworkers at Bennett.  There are so many deserving teachers that I am blessed to work with.

5-21-16 Daddy and Jacen putting together a bookshelf!!

Reading to a Pre-K student!