it's over

today was the last day of oklahoma core curriculum test.  thank goodness!  5th grade took tests for 4 days, their easily-distracted brains were fried!  one of my kids was griping about having to test today while the 3rd graders next door weren't.  so another girl said, "we're still testing because we're older and smarter."  a boy heard her comment and replied, "well, i don't know about older, but we're definitely smarter!"  wow.  {and this was before we started the last test!}

i knew they couldn't handle anything too difficult today, so i made my students part of my creativity project today!  i was planning on showing them a movie this afternoon while we had our popcorn and dr. pepper {that was our reward for having the cleanest classroom last quarter!} i didn't want to be showing a movie just to be babysitting, so we added some art and writing objectives.  i had the students draw a picture of themselves as monsters.  they had to give themselves a new monster name and write a description of themselves as a monster.  some of the monsters were really awesome while some were just gross {imagine that with 5th graders!}  

so now i'm going to take all the pages and put them together into a book and call it mrs. hayes' little monsters!  of course i made a monster, too.  i am a bright yellow, shaggy monster named pluffy.  i have an extra set of arms because i like to give lots and lots of hugs.  i'm a happy monster, not a scary one.

and i wore my happy socks today!  for some reason my day usually seems better when i wear happy socks!

photo of the day #107

more happy socks

quote of the day:  One can never have enough socks. ~Albus Dumbledore