January 8, 2016!!!

This is how we use technology to tell a dad who's out of town that someone just read the most minutes for the month of December and won the Thunder Reading challenge!

                                               Do you sense any excitement in that voice?

Whew!  I'm finally to the year 2016 in my "ketchup" I mean "catch up" blogging process!  These pics were from January the 8th. Yes, it was another eventful day! You shall see by reading and looking below!

The kids are painting with pudding. Cathy Laxton, a former teacher at OCA, always comes and teaches chapel for us at the beginning of the year. She brought this craft for the kids to do. 

We were reading the story "Big Moon Tortilla this week. Each year, on Friday of that week, we make homemade tortillas. Here are some pics. 

Smash the dough into a circle. 

Yummy!  Homemade tortilla with butter, cinnamon, and sugar on top! 

Yikes!  Mrs. Ruff had to stop taking pictures because somehow she sliced into her finger while cutting the dough!  It's hard to believe that I did so much damage using a butter knife!  My little nurse daughter came by to look at my finger and said I needed stitches!  Yikes!  Good thing she came, because I couldn't drive myself. I had to keep pressure on my finger!  How ridiculous! 

 I'm waiting for my stitches! 

Wowie, wow, wow!  Such a big bandage for 3 little stitches! 

 Ha ha!  This is me driving my car home from school afterward!  

This is me resting at home after an eventful day!  Just another day in the life of a first grade teacher!