teacher appreciation week

This week is teacher appreciation week. One of my students brought me a gorgeous plant as a gift! It is a black-eyed susan vine. It's a bit different than a normal black-eyed susan plant. It's orange with black centers. The centers of this plant are quite unique. They are sunken in. Here are a couple of pictures....



I think I will plant them in a big pot and put them on my deck. They can climb up my deck. I think that will be glorious. :-)

I also received this drawing.....


I'm not sure if you can read what it says....

"Dear Ms. Howe
Thank you for teaching are class. I like you too. You have pretty hair.
Love Elissa"

Apparently I need to teach "our" and "are". ;-)

prom

Senior Prom.....April 28, 2007

Grandma took her for the nails on Friday....

John and Lisa took her for the updo....




I helped with make up and false eye lashes...


The dress...

The flowers...



The phone...


The couple...

best friend

A kiddo in my class made this for me this past fall.
Wow.
It makes me keep my job.

iowa weather

I snapped this picture in my classroom last week. This little man in my class just couldn't decide if he wanted shorts or jeans....so it seemed only appropriate to do something between. What a peculiar, yet somehow cool invention. After last week, the "snow glories" are blooming, the magnolia tree in our courtyard at school is trying it's best to wake up, but yet this week it's going to get into the 20s at night. Isn't Iowa great?