Busy busy days!

I had major plans of making today Lamino City Day.

You know, the day when you become a citizen of laminating city and go crazy and print, print, print and then laminate away followed by many hours of cutting your finished products.

I was fully prepared.

I went to Costco a few days ago to fill up my ink cartridges and had some left over laminating pouches. I woke up all excited today (please tell me I'm not the only one who gets beyond excited to laminate stuff?? Thanks.) only to print my first sheet and see this come out of the printer:

Uh?! Where's the rest of the ink?! And what's up with that blue smear?

So apparently my cartridges are not properly filled? Am I missing something here?

I now have to go back to Costco tomorrow to fix this whole situation.

Needless to say I was bummed :(

I'm going back to work in last than 3 weeks (say what?!) which means I have no time to waste!!

Anyways.

My printing and laminating of Hope King's Classroom Decor will just have to wait...

Since I couldn't go to Lamino City, I decided to work on something else. I will be meeting my kiddos next Friday for the first time, right before their Spring Break. Just to break the ice before I'm their real teacher the week after that! I'm going to spend an entire period with them and I was trying to come up with a fun little activity I could do with them. I finally decided to do a little mystery box type of thing. I used to do mystery boxes a lot when I taught English as a Second Language and it was always a lot of fun. Inside, I'll be putting an object that describes me (which has yet to be determined...) and students will have to guess what the object is.

Here's what my box looks like:

I used an old Christmas box and covered it with construction paper and tape. It's nothing too fancy but I still like the way it looks. It's not completely finished but I wanted to share :) I also want to prepare a little handout to go with it.... I think.... anyways we'll see!

I figured I could use the box in my teaching in the future so it was a win-win!

Hopefully we have a whole lotta fun with this activity and it will make all of our jitters go away! Because yes, major jitters over here about going back to work in the middle of the school year!

My teaching contracts have always started in August so I've never known what it was like to be the second teacher. But I'm really positive so that must count for something right? ;)

That's it for me today!

I've got a baby (who's looking more like a toddler these days....YIKES! Please stay little forever for a little while longer....) who needs to eat supper, The Bachelor to watch, lesson planning to do, a dinner to eat, hair to be washed.... holly molly! 

And because you've only seen pictures of Sophia as a newborn, I felt like it was time to share a more recent one :)

Oh yes! Before I forget, you can now follow me on Instagram (@misselementaryblog)! See you there!

Until next time,