A great visit and a crazy afternoon

This last weekend was amazing! So many things have been going on and October has proved to be a crazy month!
Josh, my pretty cool boyfriend, came and visited to me on Tuesday night and stayed until Sunday afternoon and we had a great time. He came to school with me on Wednesday and we had a major adventure! I decided (somewhat in an informed manner) to try to do two differnt art projects at the same time, one with K and one with grades 2-3. Needless to say things were crazy and paper was flying, but Josh did an amazing job keeping up with the chaos. He also honored us with some guitar playing and my students might actually like him better then they like me!:)
We headed to Kalispell after that and stayed with a famliy there and that was a crazy but very fun time as well. Then to the airport on sunday.
Now that he has gone back to Iowa i have attempted a few other crazy things. One of my studnets invnited me for supper yesterday and that was fun, it is always fun to hangout with them outside of school.
Then today i decided it would be a good idea to paint on the table and make some monoprints. I showed the students some work by William Blake and htat was intresting to find picutres that would really work for young studnets. But we painted on the table and make some monoprints that way. My studnets are so awsome! They even cleaned up thier own mess!:) We had a blast. So with 6 kids totally fun, but i imagine with more students it could be chaos. But where else are you going to get to paint on the tables other then at school. Well, back to planning, grading, and creating report cards! what a crazy week! THis weekend with be very boring, iwth lots of time at school, but the sunset is beautiful!

Eats, shoots and leaves

Today this small town Montana teacher taught her students rules about commas. There are five of them. Her students have a hard time grasping the concept of not just, throwing in, commas, willy-nilly. So this teacher read the book Eats, shoots and leaves to her class. It was an illustration of how not using commas in the correct way can change the meaning of a sentance. The students in this multi-grade class loved the book. So with thier imaginations sparked, the students began work on thier very own sentnaces. They made up some wonderful sentances and will be illustrating a book. It is wonderful to see the creative process.
This teacher, because she is young and inexperianced, allowed her studnets to play dress-up in her clothes. This proved to be hillarious as her 7th/8th grade girls dressed up in her long flowy gypsy skirts and her 7th/8th grade boys dressed up in leggings and capris. You may ask "why were they dressing like this?" the answer is that they were hoping to portray people from the colonial era. Miss Eckardt has a fun closet! Only in a small town school....
The best combination of sentances from today was as follows:
"Wrap up, Tom!" said the teacher.
"Wrap up Tom!" said the teacher.
and...
"Tickle him silly, Fred!"
"Tickle him, silly Fred!"
hahahaha! Hopefully they are as humorus to you and they are to this teacher!:)