AHH! How is it Saturday!? I used one of my personal days yesterday and now I am all kinds of thrown off! I thought yesterday was Saturday (because it felt like Saturday) and I forgot to do all of my Friday to-dos, including linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching! So here it goes!
This week has just been crazy, in the best way possible! We are full swing in our last 10 days of school countdown. Field trips, field day, class parties, it has been exhausting but so much fun!
This was probably the highlight of my week! During "Marker Day", part of our countdown, a couple of the girls in my class started a "station" on their own for kids to make me giraffes. They know me so well :) They plan to glue them on to a large paper and make a background for them. I can't wait to see it all finished!
Okay, so I'm going to vent for a moment. Remember last week when I showed the before and during photos of my backyard in progress? Well I spent $150 on soil, fertilizer and grass seeds. Spent countless hours in the backyard pulling weeds, laying soil and planting grass. Only to find that our hose doesn't actually attach to the spigot, because of this stupid attachment.
I have no idea what this attachment is. We have also spent money trying to find ways to either remove it or in the wise words of Tim Gunn, "make it work". Nothing. I am so frustrated. The grass didn't grow and is dead because we can't water it. And now we have to start all over. :(
Does anyone happen to know what the heck this is!? Or how I could make it attach to a standard hose. I don't wan't my vegetable garden to die next!
As part of our countdown, we are making an ABC book of advice for next years 1st graders. This is by far my favorite!
"Good people say nice words. Great people let you play" Look out Confucius, we have a new philosopher in the house.
I spent my personal day yesterday going downtown to the Rose Festival. I love Portland, it is such a beautiful city. I had so much fun walking around in the amazing sunshine, riding the rides, eating the delicious foods and enjoying this GIANT snow cone. It took me over an hour to finish it! #snowconesfordays
Perfect way to spend a day off!
I finished these end of the year gifts for my kiddos! Remember those compliment stars we did? Well, I typed them up into these word clouds and framed them! They turned out even cuter than I had hoped.
It was so sweet typing/reading the compliments the kids left for each other. SO sweet. It is nice to focus on the positives. Great way to end the year :)
I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend! I am checking many things off my list this weekend! Feels great to be so productive!
OH! And I ordered Guided Math: A Framework for Mathematics Instruction and Daily 5 (Second Edition) this week as well. Can't wait to join the book studies that are going on this summer! Anyone else doing those book studies!?
Ok...so you may have already tried these things on your hose. I had my husband look at it...cause he is handy that way. He said it looks like, it is difficult to tell just from a pic, the end piece was added on. He said he would put one pipe wrench on the end and one pipe wrench on the pipe itself. They may have used to JB weld to put it on, so it would not be easy to get it off. His other suggestion to try would be turn off your water. Then unscrew the collar and remove the entire hose bib and install a different to the pipe (that is inside the wall). Hope those make sense and you find a solution.
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We finally caved and called our contractor haha but thank you so much for the tips!
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