Me Time

Whew. This blogging A to Z has taken over my blog! And a few other things have taken over my life so it's been okay that the A to Z has done that. I can now officially announce that tutoring has ended as of this past Thursday. More free time! I can be home before 4pm again in time to catch a little bit of the Nate show (haha) and just in time for Dr. Oz. :)
We had a field trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  For some of my students it was their first time there ever! We got off to a rough start and ended later than intended but the children had fun. I got to walk through without any students! It was awesome. Here are some pics I got to take.

 a baby leopard shark (just like the ones I saw when I was at Elkhorn Slough!)

 one of my favorite exhibits, the aviary.

 my next favorite exhibit, the jellyfish!

 these are upside down jellyfish

 another favorite, an eel. :)

 this guy lived with the eel!

 everyone's favorite, the penguins

And of course, Nemo and Dory, always a kid crowd pleaser!

While I have been a to z'ing, I have been busy knitting. I just finished a shawl (no pics yet). It is waiting to be blocked. I am also in between a shawl and a cowl.

 the shawl

the cowl

Neither one is an easy project. The shawl that I actually completed was actually pretty easy which is probably why I finished that before either of these two!

We will begin our state testing this week. How to entertain about 75 Kindergarten-1st graders, I am soon to find out.  I can't believe the end of the year is already here! I intend to get cracking on my narratives now so I'm not complaining about them in June!

Happy Earth Day!