What is LoVe?!?!?!

According to 3rd Graders!

At the request Katey...I'm going to post some of my students thoughts on love...we did this activity clear back on Valentine's Day=). Here are just a few favorites...

Student 1: Boy

Love is sick, disgusting, vomiting ! Love makes me want to barf! Love is a battlefield. Americans versus love and well, no Americans win, yay! And I hate Valentine’s Day except for the cards and candy. But I hate the love. I like stuff that has blood and guts coming from your body. Not love and sweetness. But I especially hate Valentine’s Day.

Student 2: Girl

Love is care. And it is about families and friends. And love each other. And give candy to each other. And you love your cousins. And being sweet. And you cheer each other up. And helping each other when you are sick. And visiting your friends in the hospital and to care.

Student 3: Girl

Love is a crush. A friend. A mom. A dad. A family. You have a crush on someone who do you love. If you want a friend to be your Valentine on Valentines day. If you love your mom you might give her a box of chocolate on Valentine’s day. If you love your dad you might give him a Valentines card that to show you love your dad. If you love your brothers and you might give your brothers Valentines card too. If you love your family loves you but nobody can take your love away from you family every body parents loves you too but nobody parents can’t take away your love.

Student 4:Girl

Love is full of caring! Love is a battlefield. Love is about giving stuff to people. Example: My mom cares for me and gives me stuff. Love is when people have a crush on someone else. Love is my dad give my step mom chocolates and get stuff for each other. Love is giving my teacher what she needs like when she says be quiet, be quiet. Love is listening to our parents when they say. Love is being sweet and kind. Love is being good to sick people.

Student 5:

Love is caring for someone you love or caring for your friends and family. Love is visiting the people in a homeless shelter and going to the hospital and visiting the people in there. Love is to make love for people. Love is to show sweetness. And love gives you a great feeling. But especially love is having friends and family near you and by your side.

Student 6: Boy

Love is something no one can take away from you. If you give all your love away you can always get a refill. Love is so wonderful. If there was no love in the world, people wouldn’t be nice or say nice things. Love is the most important thing in whole wide world. Everyone has a lot of love in their heart. Love does not mean to kiss or hug. My family shows my sister and brother and me love by standing up for us. Love is to care about people and being kind or nice. If someone didn’t have love they wouldn’t love anyone. Valentines day is made to celebrate love.

Student 7: Boy

Love is care. And kind loving and a crush means you have a feeling about love. Love means caring. Loving feeling happy and happy means you feel good.

Student 8: Girl

Love is a crush. A friend. A mom. A dad. A family. You have different types of love. For my mom I have a special love for her. And I have a different love for my dad it’s not that I love another one the most it’s just different love. My brother and my dad think that they love me the most but I tell him it’s just different love. My mom and my dad have a different love for each other and our parents have a different love for their kids because it’s just different love. And I always thought that they loved my brother the most but they said different love. My mom demonstrates her love to me by cheering me up. My dad hugging me. My brothers fighting with me that’s how he give me love. My dad laying on me and that what love is about.

Student 9: Girl

Is being sweet! A mom shows love to you by making your bed, giving you lunch, buying your clothes. A dad shows love to you by…teaching you how to ride a bike, building things to help you, helping with homework. I can show love to my animals by… giving food to them and water, playing with them and giving them a place to sleep. My animals will show love to me by…cheering me up when I am sad. Being really funny. I will show love by…standing up for people. Helping people feel better. Helping little sisters do reading and homework. Giving people care, being sweet, and truthful. I love to have love all around me.

Student 10: Girl

Love is romance, kindness, standing up for each other. Love is sweet happiness and loveliness. Love is showing respect to others. Love is agreeing with others. Love is friendship. Love is being a friend. Love is someone that is kind, respectful, and a friend. Love is someone you care for. Love is a thing that you love. Loving a person means that you are a big friend to you.

PS I have a lot of girls in my class!!!! I am not trying to be bias:)!

Happy Birthday JOEY!

Today is my brother Joey's Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is 21! So weird! Just yesterday I was teaching him to drive stick shift! (That's what he said in his email to me this morning...after I reminded him that I taught him how to ride his bike, lol) So crazy! My brother is entering adulthood for real now...

My parents bought tickets to Brazil last week and will be leaving May 27th to go pick him up! I am so excited for them! My parents deserve this, they are amazing parents, who have worked really hard to raise such a good kid like Joey! I don't think they've ever been on a big trip like this besides their honeymoon to Disneyland/the Mexico boarder. Yay! Well the count down has begun! I'll let you all know when his homecoming is! Probably the second Sunday in June....

Coming Up!

I will be going to Logan in a couple weeks to meet the founder of http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ , thanks to Katey:)! I am interested to hear more secrets and to step in the "sole" of society. If you haven't read or heard of this blog site before, beware, it may not be for you. People from around the world send in postcards to this guy with some of their deepest, darkest secrets... some being more gruesome or disheartening than others. I like this blog for two reasons. One, people can openly share their sole and get things off their chest and two, it helps me realize that we're all human, we all make mistakes, we all have thoughts we regret or ones we would never share... I guess I just think of the blog as a mini therapy session, lol. Anyway, just beware that if you check it out, it is not rated G and you have be one who can think outside the box:).

She said..."CRAP!"

I don't even know if I have any blog followers... I haven't blogged since Feb. 20th, that's a world record for me! Life's been busy and when you get out of the habit... it's just hard to start again, lol.

This school year has been rather interesting to say the least... I have so many stories to share... For starters, I have an EXTREMELY difficult, defiant little rascal in my class this year... all the other teachers feel bad for me... well today he wouldn't do any of his classwork, like most of the days of this school year (he may be smart but his report card is going to have straight N's, aka F's). So today I looked at him and said "I'm not putting up with this crap anymore, you need to do your work." The class went dead silent... I've never used that word or any other "bad" word for that matter in the classroom, it kind of made me chuckle inside. Needless to say all of my students kept on task for the remainder of the hour:).

Trimmmed Hairs and a little bit of Dye!

Seriously, have so much to blog about!!!!!!!!!! I just haven't felt like blogging at all lately... so here's the newest hair-do. I'll update ya all someday soon!

Tagged by Amy Bird!

I've been tagged by Amy Bird! She let me know on facebook...we never get to hang out anymore...she just can't fit me into her busy schedule...so I must update her via her tag, lol! Just kidding! (Really, I just need to call her!)

Here are the rules:

1) Post rules on your blog
2) Answer the six '8' items
3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment. (Not sure I have time to follow this rule:()


8 favorite TV shows


1.Little House on the Prarie!
2. Lost
3 The Office
4. Biggest Loser
5. American Idol
6. What Not to Wear
7. Full House
8. NBC News!

8 things I did yesterday


1. Slept in.
2. Showered, yipee
3. Ate left overs.
4. Watched the rest of Borne Identity.
5. Attempted to go rock climbing.
6. Put clean sheets on my bed.
7. Folded Whites.
8. Went to Gateway and to Costco.

8 things I'm looking forward to

1. Summer
2. Joey's Return
3. Bahama's.
4. Moving Apartments.
5. Getting my tax return.
6. Sleeping without setting an alarm clock.
7. A long summer.
8. Back Massage...

8 favorite restaurants

1. Chili's
2. Cafe Rio
3. Peking Wok
4. Subway
5. Olive Garden
6. Chipotle
7. Panda Express
8. Apple Bee's

8 things on my wish list.

1. No more scrapping the windshield in the morning.
2. No CRT testing for 3rd graders.
3. My students to do their homework.
4. Big Hunk's knocking at my door (and not the candy bar!)
5. Big hunk's knocking at my sisters door too.
6. Continued Health and a desire to work out...
7. An awesome tax return....
8. Travel the world.

8 people I tag

Leslee Finley
Niki Corpron
Tisha Marsh
Carolyn Detro
Natalie Redd
Halceyn Klinger
Allison St. Louis
Kira Cox
Rebecca Septon

Have you ever????

Have you ever been talking to someone on the phone and then when you hung up with them, you started talking about that person to someone who you're hanging out with?

If you haven't, good for you because you're a better person than I am...although I think you might be lying if you have only x chromosomes... So the other day I am talking to someone and then my phone stops working. I couldn't hear the other person on the line and it looked like it wasn't connected. I thought maybe that person had hung up on me... turns out they could hear what I was saying the whole time! It was my sister! Good thing! I was still embarrassed as ever and I hadn't said anything really mean, just an opinion... she just laughed and thought it was funny and said that I should be grateful it was her and not anyone else...fhewwwww! That'll teach me!