Teacher Appreciation

School's Out! Can't believe it. It's been quite a year. We let them finish out the year at Wright Elementary, but next year they'll be attending their new school. I wanted to make subway art for their teacher's gifts, but Siope didn't seemed too thrilled about it. I asked him what he thought we should give their teachers and he said, "Mommy, if I were a teacher I would want my students to give me soda." Mote chimed in and exclaimed, "Yeah Mommy, my teacher is always drinking Diet Coke." So it was settled, we ended up giving my subway art AND the boys soda.

Cut out some personalized tags

and added them to 1 liter sodas

bought some inexpensive frames and painted them red

memo to self: remove jewelry BEFORE painting

added subway art

and voila!

Spelling Bee!

Siope participated in his first Spelling Bee this year. As soon as he found out about it he went right to work studying his list of words. He told us all that he wanted 1st place, nothing less. We were all so nervous and excited for him. His class held their competition and when Ti picked him up Siope came marching out to the car with his trophy in hand. He did it! He won first place. We were so proud of him.

The following week the top 3 from every class went on to The Spelling Bee Championship. Wow, was it intense!!! Slowly the number of kids started to dwindle down. Before we knew it, it was down to 10 kids and Siope was still in it... then he made top 5.... and then it was down to 3 kids... including our Siope! The words started to get more and more difficult. He ended up taking 3rd place and came home with another trophy!! It was so exciting to watch him compete and we are so proud of his hard work and accomplishments.

Muscle Beach: Santa Monica CA