Ms. D is a Chick Eater!!

This may look like a cupcake wrapper filled with chocolate rice krispies to you, but to a group of kindergartners, this was a nest for chick eggs... and I ate them :(

Let me explain... Like any other day as an elementary school teacher, I am barraged with sweets and candies. Not that I'm complaining, of course. Today it was one of the Early-Fives girls who came in with this scrumptious treat. It started out as a chocolate ricekrispy nest with 3 chocolate eggs inside. They gave me one, one for the kinder teacher, and one for the aide.

In the time that it had taken me to devour one of the eggs, the kinder aide had convinced four of the kinder girls that the eggs were real chicks that would hatch if they were REALLY quiet. She was pointing out a crack in one of hers, solidifying the point that they were real chick eggs.

I was popping the second egg into my mouth as I saw a little blonde-haired five year old giving me a murderous look. She looked at me like I had just killed a baby bird in front of her! We explained that they were just chocolate and I PROMISED they weren't real chicks- but it was too late... She just stared at me. Without forgiveness.

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Yummy!!!

And so... the treats begin...

Celebrity Status

Today the PTA "Surprised" us with a Teacher Appreciation day. It was actually REALLY cool. They decorated the whole school like a Hollywood Award show and started the day with our celebrity stars. They also had a school-wide ballot and gave us each "personality awards." Here's mine :)

It turns out that I am "Wonderful, Beautiful, and a Good Helper!" Nice. Then, when the kids were coming in, I was given a lovely pink boquet of roseswith the most adorable card and a cup of hot coffee! What a way to start the day!

In her own handwriting, a student wrote this in the card:

Ms. D

Roses are pink,

apples are red.

I know you like apples

and this is your card

Sooo cute!

Then, we were told that there would be parents to cover our lunch! OMG. That was the best gift EVER. (I haven't had a lunch in over four weeks...It was heaven.) So I go upstairs to the faculty lounge to eat lunch to find that they've decorated up there too. We even got a red carpet and everything! I was expecting pizza but no, we had a full-out buffet for lunch. There was so much food that we'll probably have some left over for tomorrow (yess!!!).

It was a fun day, and the school really got into it. The older girls even came up with the idea of asking us for our autographs! haha. Well, I wish everyday was teacher appreciation day. However, then everyone would want to be a teacher! We can't have that!

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Teaching is a lot of Calories

No, I didn't mean that teaching burns a lot of calories, I mean that there is a lot of calorie intake! Especially in the lower grades I think. Parents think it is imperative to bring in lots of sweets for birthdays and the like or else the kids will be disappointed. Case in point: yesterday a parent brought in twenty those individual clown ice cream cones from Baskin Robbins. They were delicious. Last week we had these scrumptious cupcakes with LOTS of icing. On top of the birthdays in OUR classroom, whenever a student in the school brings in sweets for their birthday, they bring one for every teacher too! I don't even want to think about it.

Today we're making upsidedown cake for the letter U. It's endless. But hey, I guess I'll take one for the team. ;P

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