alexia gets married

This past weekend I went to Austin for Alexia's wedding. Saturday's weather was absolutely perfect and the ceremony was very sweet. If only there was gua gua music during the reception!

4th grade olympics

Last week we had Olympic events and gave out a gold, silver, and bronze metal. Events were held in math, science, and spelling over the course of three days. The top overall athletes were awarded metals. On Friday we had a closing ceremonies and sang the National Anthem. The kids were very excited about this!

pics from san fran!

efforts in houston

museum of natural science

In January, the 4th grade took a trip to the Museum of Natural Science. We have been studying our solar system, and at the museum we were able to see some really amazing things. The kids were really excited to be able to recall information that they had learned.

For the past few weeks they have been writing a research paper on one of the planets in our solar system. Presentations are this week; the ones so far have been great. They even made paper mache planets in art to have a model while they present. Yay for first time presentations!
I'll try to post some pictures once everyone has presented.

teacher outing

Two boys in my class earned a teacher outing and they chose to go bowling. Last weekend they had a basketball game, so we went and watched them play. Afterward we went to Chi-Fi-La and then bowling.

They had a lot of fun, and completely creamed us at bowling. One of them scored a 145! Is that even possible at 10 years old?!

new roof

Apparently Hurricane Ike decided to mess with our roof. There have been people at our house replacing it, which is very exciting though not so fun on a Saturday morning when it sounds like Snuffleupagus playing hopscotch.