kids gone wild...

...and they said it couldn't be done!  Yes, finally we had an ALL green day which in St. Christopher parlance means we were as close to sainthood as it gets.  Congrats first graders...let's do it again and again and again... 

election day at st. chris...oy vey

Election day 2012...passions and enthusiasms...and a lot of hard work by the St. Christopher 5th grade and their awesome teacher Mrs. Amber Barker.  From start to finish the 5th graders have been impressive and as far as I can tell they had a "hoot" doing it all...tomorrow will truly be a post election let down for them all.

The poll workers were poised and professional...

...and then 1st grade arrived...hence the "oy vey" in the title!

Everyone is taking this VERY seriously.

The Obama girls...

...and the Romney girl.

...and you know those annoying poll workers who try and persuade your vote at the last moment...yes, we had those too (no offense Ben).

Two voting booths...hand made with love.

First up to vote...that pen was taped down so well that there was no chance a first grader could walk off with it...those shifty first graders.

Notice the voter ID (our lunch tickets...with pictures of course) and notice the tape on that pen!

My absolute favorite moment of the whole experience was when I was helping one of my first graders fold his ballot for the ballot box and I noticed he had voted for BOTH candidates.  When I asked him about it, he looked at me very seriously and said, "well, I put a check for the one I wanted and an x for the one I didn't want.  
Reason #8456 why 6 and 7 year olds should never get legal voting rights!

Results:
Obama 143
Romney 88

Now we wait...

wiggle....

I love when the kids start REALLY writing sentences and stories...especially when their writing tickles MY funny bone!  Every week we have four new vocabulary words with a test on Friday where they have to use one of the words in a sentence...there has been blood, sweat and tears but we have arrived where we can start doing a little publishing.  Our word this week was "wiggle"...I knew it would be fun!

Kate made this statement and I said "prove it"...

It took several photographs to get her to wiggle her nose without going completely cross-eyed...but we did it (apparently nose wiggling involves mouth scrunching).

RayLawnce always takes things to a higher level...upon reading this I may have had a little coffee come out my nose!

She knows she's funny but one of our other words was "bashful" and she has that down pat too.

I'm with you on this one Tawawa...even wiggly fingers coming my way causes "the tickles and the giggles".

See...

...and that's the truth up until last night.  

Old snaggle tooth no more...Case has had a dangling tooth way too long so his sentence was kind of a celebration...I l.o.v.e. this!

Sour pickles...wiggle?...creative!

Kloie just tells it like it is!

Stay tuned because in two weeks one of our words is BUSYBODY...can hardly wait!

boo...

On Halloween we let the kids come in cute and appropriate t-shirts and jeans to "kinda" celebrate the holiday.  I took groups out into the hall to pose with their awesome witch drawings and...well, get a look at how they "pose" without any directions from me.  These kids are NATURALS in front of a camera...some more "hammy" than others. 

Of course they ALL told me they had glow in the dark t-shirts but when we experimented...Ben was the only "authentic" one in the bunch...

Isn't he the cutest?

Must say they ALL came in dragging today either from their late night or a severe class of blood sugar dropping...either way it was kind of quiet in my room...tomorrow...who knows?