It's a zoo in there!

Well, the zoo came to visit the 2nd grade today!! I had found out that the zoo has a zoo-mobile and had worked hard on setting it all up and collecting money from the children. It would cost us $6.00 a child to go to the zoo so for just $1.50 they came to us! The zookeeper was scheduled to show up at 12:00 and it was to last one hour. Can you believe that my principal scheduled a meeting for the 2nd grade teachers from 11:30 to 1:00 so we had to let the assistants watch the children? Yes maam, we didn't even get to see the zoo visit. The zookeeper brought ostrich eggs, snakes, ferrets, and turtles. We missed every single second of it. Pictures of what I missed are below. You will get to see the bare kindergarten room I am stuck in right now. You might even get to see the midget tables my second graders are sitting get to sit at in this kindergarten room. I am sorry you are not able to see the play kitchen that is in my room. It makes a great book shelf. I won't go into the huge sand tables that are in the room that every time I so much as sneeze in their direction, sand starts pouring out of the spout at the bottom. Awesome. I would love for that to be in a move about the public schools in our country.

You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.... If you notice the girl in the glasses.... I will go ahead and let you know that if I do have a mental breakdown this year, she will have added to it. The smartest student I have ever had but the child has the common sense of a rock. Sometimes, I just want to hit my head over and over again on my desk ( oh wait... silly me, I don't have a desk in the room that I am "temporarily in".) P.S. we all have on pink for breast cancer.... it is not our uniform color.

And of course to end my post on a much happier and sane note.... Chuck had a ten minute playdate with the baby across the street. Some people have renovated and moved into what I call "the haunted house" that is across the street. It sat empty for about 2 1/2 to 3 years and finally all the houses on our entire street are full! Anyways, their little girl is about 4 weeks younger than Chuckman. They were out on a blanket when we got home today so we joined them for a few minutes. Chuck thought it was great.... and then stole all her toys.