Summer Is Here!

Looking into my room from the door.

Friday was our building day.  This is the one day you get paid to close up your room.  This is a big day!  Everything you haven't had time to put up during the year, all the odd pieces from different centers that have been found, all the stray supplies, and everything on top of moveable furniture has to be put away for the summer.  In our school everything has to be moved off the carpet and onto the tile in order for the carpets to be cleaned.  Then the opposite happens, everything is move onto the carpet so the tile can be striped and re-waxed.  We are losing one of our custodians so they will be doing the work of three people.  I don't usually move my own furniture, but I did this year to help out.  Today I spent all morning at a workshop about centers.  We watched a video made by a lady who wrote two books about Literacy Centers and Math Centers.  Then we had a good discussion with a plan to meet more times during the year to check progress, get ideas, and troubleshoot.  Then we went to lunch.  A good day with fun girls!

Clouds looked like cotton balls.

Yesterday, we had some weather.  These are the clouds outside our house before the tornadoes came to Shawnee.  There are more storms and tornadoes today.  Moore just got hit.  Two elementary schools in Moore have been demolished and they were in school today.  I am so glad our school year is in the bag.  I have heard about 2 deaths yesterday in Shawnee.  I am afraid there will be more today.  Prayers for the tornado victims.  My sister texted me this morning to see if we were okay.  This would not usually surprise me, except she is on a trip to Israel.  Kayla didn''t listen to the news, but a college friend remembered she had family in Shawnee and called her to ask if we were ok.  She was taken by surprise, so she called.  We had lots of people check on us.  We are blessed to have so many people care about us.
I am working on some roman shades and they are done except for all the details like all the rings on the back for the string to pull them up and the eye hooks and boards to hang it on.  I also have to make a door curtain.  I am still trying to organize all the new material and the room in general.  I have a few other lesser labor intensive projects going on too.