My House is Clean!

My house is clean, ready for guests to arrive, they're just not here yet. It's nice to be able to just sit and know that the house is clean, but at the same time, I keep looking for things to pick up or do. Two of my best friends are coming to stay the week with their two children and I am so excited! Sure they just came four months ago and I just went and saw them three months ago, but I used to see them every day so I'm excited. I worry about being a hostess, I don't think I'm very good at it...that's one thing that usually holds me back from inviting people over (funny thing is that I usually don't worry so much if you invite yourself over). I never know what to do to entertain those I am hosting. I'm usually content doing things that others probably see as boring, especially with more than one person like reading a book orworking on a small craft project. So, I apologize to all those people out there who wish to be invited over, I just am not creative enough to keep you entertained unless you are patient enough for the randomness to work itself out and create an adventure. Maybe that's why I'm so excited for my friends to come and visit...we were very entertaining as roommates mostly because we were so random. Yeah, that's it...or part of it anyways :)

My students have started a count down as to when I will start teaching again, at least my math class is. I had two students approach me last Thursday to ask for a little help with their math before the test on Friday. When I went to go get them for our little review session, they had invited two other classmates and when we were leaving, two more asked if they could come as well. I wasn't surprised, it happens every year. Dividing fractions can b

e difficult especially if you're used to a certain math teacher teaching a certain way. I had three more ask if they could meet with me Friday morning. I haven't seen their test scores yet, but hopefully our little review session helped.

We just finished our unit on Ancient Rome. To wrap everything up, we built a cross-section of a Roman road down the 6th grade hallway. On it, we placed busts

of famous Romans (emperors, philosophers, etc.), structures, and paragraphs about famous cities. It looks amazing! It was difficult to take a picture and get it all included as it is 52 feet long (we measured). Here are a few shots of the great work done! To top it all off, and since we had time, energy, and creativity, we made a bust of our principal as well. He was out of town last week so he hasn't seen it yet. I think he was a little worried about leaving Adam, Garrett and I at the school with "nothing" to do and him not around to supervise. I think he'll like it.