Currently: December!

I am linking up with Farley at Oh Boy 3rd Grade for yet another Currently!!!  I feel like I JUST DID THIS!  I can't believe November is already over!  Here I go….


Listening:  I am watching CMT Country Christmas.  :)  I love this season.  It is truly my favorite time of year!  Tons of star singing Christmas music!

Loving:  I love that my house is completely decorated and that I am sitting here by a fire with the Christmas tree lights on.  It is amazing!

Thinking:  Our new Elf, Merry, is a bit of a trouble maker.  She locked my desk drawers this morning and then started a CD on the stereo system in the classroom.  I am wondering what kind of trouble she will get into tonight.  Hmmm…..

Wanting: I want to get everything ready for our NorCal Blogger Meet Up!!!  It's all over my dining room table!  Now I just need to get it put together!  :)

Needing:  200 followers!  I found this AWESOME giveaway!!!!!!  The only catch is that the company only gives this particular item to bloggers with 200+ followers!  Ekkk!!!!!!  I am hoping to get to that point so I can give this awesome item away!!!!  :)

Giving:  Every year, I keep a stack of blankets in my car and pass them out to the homeless.  This year, I am going to do the same.  We are also having a food drive at our school, so I will be donating food to that drive as well!  :)

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ElfAntics!

I decided to give the Elf on the Shelf a chance this year.  I am now teaching 2nd graders that actually believe in Santa and I love it!!!!  Our elf came into our room the day back from Thanksgiving.  The kids were all yelling, "It's an Elf on the Shelf, it's an Elf on a Shelf!!!"  They were SO excited.  Under the Christmas tree (yes, I teach at a Catholic school, so Christmas trees are allowed) there was a gift all wrapped with a massive bow!  The kids opened it and it was the book and movie.  We read the book and named our elf, FROST.

Frost hid all week and watched over our class.  Everyday the kids came in so excited and immediately started looking for him.  It's been great.

Then on Friday, the unthinkable (sort of) happened.  One of my students touched Frost.  Oh man, the world was ending!  I had one of the girls come running to me at lunch to tell me and when I look over, the boy who touched him was in tears.  Following with the "rules" of the EotS, I went in and sent Frost back to the North Pole before he lost his magic.  When the kids came in after lunch and saw that he was gone, I had many in tears again.  Over the weekend, I have received emails from parents with pictures of the letters that their kids have given to their home elf to take to Frost and Santa.  It's SO cute.  Tomorrow, with the stockings all hung, we are hoping that Frost will come back to us!  I suppose we shall find out!

Stay tuned!!!

Brianne

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