Weekend in Review

Every Monday in my classroom we do a little thing called Weekend in Review. It lets my students readjust to being back in the classroom again and lets me know what they get into over the weekend. Since I started doing it I have noticed that their stories they share have moved from the video games and movies that they have watched to biking and exploring and other adventures they set out on. Some kids have even talked about how they spent one day cleaning up their neighborhood and recycling all they could. One student convinced his family to go camping for the first time in 5 years. I can't take all the credit...but I am going to take some.



So here it is...my weekend in review:

• read an awesome book in the car - man how I would love to just pack up and leave!
• magic show: how did he get that drawing of the card to move?
• the millenium force: 90 mph + pouring rain + the front seat = a sore face
• fortune teller: wanted the Gypsy Queen but I got her dumb blonde sidekick
• hiking 10 miles in the rain - with my own personal guide - fantastic
• teaching a singing Portuguese woman the cha cha on the porch of the hostel
• hanging out with the coolest 5th grader - who hates wet pants and homework
• eating fresh vegatables cooked in olive oil by the greatest chef: Bob
• saw a dozen deer, two toads, some yellow varmit and a pack of coyotes
  
• Singing "I Feel Pretty" when all of us were covered in mud (except Nana)
• hiking another 10 miles with a cool chick from Idaho and 20 people twice our age
• the leaves....ohhh the leaves are so pretty right now

Me all bundled up and ready to take on our annual trip to Cedar Point to brave the harsh elements of October just so I don't have to wait in lines!





Photo collage of the Cuyahogo Valley.....


Lots of waterfalls, one of the rainy day that I hiked, a couple of deer, and some of the leaves that were sooo pretty!


The middle picture is of McKenna looking at a deer.....it's a shame I can't show her face because there are so many weirdos out there nowadays! You can see her muddy back from her bike ride though....pretty tough kid biking in the rain like that!