Time to Go Back to Workie

My long break is over. It's been SOOOO nice! I've had a lot of nightmares about the first day of class so I will be happy to put those to bed. Reality is much better than the scenarios my brain comes up with in my sleep. I'm anxious to start a new semester. I have a lot of returning students that I'm not excited about and a lot of new and unknown. I am ready to get the first day over with. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want to do tomorrow. I have a semester plan laid out so I'm glad about that. Teen 2 is harder for me all around. I don't enjoy the curriculum as much and the students only want to cook (Teen 1) and they don't want to sew. The rewarding part of Teen 2 is that the most students enjoy sewing more than they think they will. It's especially fun to see the boys get into it, but teaching a classroom of students how to sew is SO FREAKING HARD. 

The break was really great. I had enough time to be totally lazy, to visit family, to deep clean and organize, and lesson plan. It's been really nice. I am anticipating this coming week to kick my butt a bit as I get back into the swing of things. 

Geography bee update, I stole this from from Facebook: 

Scott got inspired by the movie “Captain Fantastic” and he decided he wanted to challenge the kids to a geography bee. They had to buy in with their own money and then if they scored high enough on a graded scale he would double their money. They studied for 2 weeks and took the test today. Scott is trying to help our kids not to be ignorant ethnocentric Americans. I represent the ignorant ethnocentric American. See results in pictures below. Piper got the most improved score since she went from knowing 3 countries to successfully identifying 185. Another victory was Corbin thanking Scott for the challenge.

I helped Noel make some cookies.

It snowed a ton on New Year's Day in Utah. It was beautiful. It made for a scary drive from Carole's house to Nana and Papa's house. Luckily the roads were clear for our drive home the next day.

Geography Bee

Piper celebrating her victory.

Results

The kids had a fun time teasing me while I was taking the test.

I was craving my Christmas décor so I bought decorations for a January station. Still warm and inviting on these winter nights.

Ryan getting comfortable to do some reading to earn his roaring springs pass.

Cutest puppy.

Charly makes it  hard to get up sometimes.

I decided to add a wreath to this mirror decoration. Why didn't I think of it earlier???

Ryan is going to take a retake on his geography test. He was supposed to get 50% of what Scott got. Scott has been studying with him.