3 WEEKS!

I now have just 3 weeks left of teaching before my first year is over! WOW! I never thought this would come so soon! It has definitely been a CRAZY year, but a learning one also. I will miss my class (even with all the drama), but know that things can't stay the same forever! :) I can't wait for my summer break, but I am excited for next year too. I definitely know what I want to change about things I did this year, so it will be fun to try them out. I am kind of stressing right now though because I need to start boxing my teaching stuff up to move out to a portable next year. Yes, I am going to be in a portable. It will be very different, but every teacher at our school next year is going to stay in their own rooms instead of moving around and it just happened that 4th grade got 3 portables, so guess who is moving out?! Yep, me. I don't know how I feel about being in a portable, but I think it will be kinda nice, as far as not worrying that my class is too loud or something, but it will be annoying going in and out of school just to go to the bathroom or make copies.

Anyway, I feel like the end of the year is way busier than the beginning! It's crunch time, even though testing is over! I just thought this was going to be a time to relax and do whatever, but there is so much going on (school-wide), I am having a really hard time cramming things in that I want them to do! Like, we are finishing up our Utah History by doing counties and county reports, but it has been hard to find time to have them do research! The good thing about it though is that they are sooo excited to do them! It is so funny! They are so excited that some of them are bringing stuff from home to put in their reports and they are always coming up to me and showing me the things they find out about their county. As a school, we get these books that are called "bare books" that are basically books that are completely blank that they can write in. So, that is what I am having them use to put their reports in. I will have to let you know how they go...

We are also trying to practice for our 4th grade program that is in 2 weeks! They have to know a bunch of Utah Songs and Recorder Songs, so we have been busy with that as well. We are also going to This is the Place State Park this Wednesday for a field trip, so I am excited about that! Hopefully it is good weather!

Anyway, after all of that, I went camping this weekend to Beaver with the singles ward and it was actually pretty fun! I got to meet a lot of new people and just have fun hanging out and getting all stinky from sitting by the fire! :) There were these Indian drawings on a rock by where we were staying, so I took a few pictures of them because I thought they would be fun to show to my class! They are way neat! Makes you wonder what they say and how they have survived for so many years! Also, we hiked up this HUGE rock! It was kind of scary, but fun at the same time. I didn't have my camera while we were hiking, but took a picture of the rock for visual purposes!