Fluent Fliss

Today Felicity's teachers sent us this...

We are so proud of our little Arabic speaker. Keep up the good work Fliss so at least one of us in this family will really know this language :)
Ok, ok...maybe two...

And a shout out to all of our teachers...we could not be learning this crazy language without you! You are Tie-ar-ra!

Tie-Ar-Ra

In our country the word for airplane is Tie-ar-ra...roll your rs and you've got it ;) 

It's also the word you use when someone does something amazing or when someone is just plain awesome...

Our Arabic teacher is Tie-ar-ra. For real.

We celebrated her birthday in our class today because my friends and classmates are Tie-ar-ra: 

They made a cake, made sure we all knew the words to the birthday song, and wrote a message to her on the board. Can you say Tie-ar-ra?!?

Poor Dan missed the fun because he took a tie-ar-ra to a conference. 

He probably would have missed it anyhow because when he gets back, he's "skipping a grade" and moving up to the next level of Arabic. Let me tell ya, there's no mistakin'.  He is tie-ar-ra. 

I'm not sure where else to go with this, but any day with chocolate cake for breakfast is worthy of a tie-ar-ra...and if you are still reading this, so are you!

Ta-Ta! Tie-ar-ra!

Perfect Timing

It's that time of year...

warm weather + one more month of school + a full year of learning/creating curriculum for a new grade level + 27 kids who know summer is near = Though I AdOrE my little darlings, I'm ready for a change of pace...Bring on the gardening, sleeping-in, and good books!

It's that time of year...

The PeRfEcT time of year to find this in my school mailbox on MoNdaY morning:


It's the time of year when SwEeT fifth grade darlings, OvErCoMe by warm weather and the prospect of summer, seem at times to be more interested in AnYtHiNg but their teacher and her CrEaTiVe lessons. It's the PeRfEcT time to know they were thinking of their teacher on the way to school...at least long enough to stop and pick these...

It's the PeRfEcT TiMe to have SwEeT DaIsIes beside the stacks of homework waiting to be graded...

I LoVe my JoB. The InCrEdIBle KiDs I teach are more than enough to give me JoY in what I do, but it never hurts to have lovely FloWeRs on your desk...KuDoS to the SpRiNg TrAiL PTO, my students and their wonderful parents...PeRfEcT timing.