Here Goes Nothing!

What a week! A Sarti Party is truly a party now thanks to Amber Tyson over at http://artysonfamily.blogspot.com. She is a friend from growing up and we haven't been in touch much over the years but I read her blog and she generously offered to help me create mine when I quickly realized I was out of my league! Bear with me here, I'm a newbie :)

This week was great and crazy all at the same time. I came back from Spring Break recharged and with TONS of cute ideas for my classroom thanks to the many blogs I happened across. There are some amazing and dedicated First Grade teachers out there with blogs and ideas that put me to shame! My kiddos are a unique bunch but they have a lot of academic needs, Title One, enough said. They also lack some life experiences and exposure to many things I took for granted growing up. Which makes it even more fun to provide these experiences for them and watch them light up and learn something new.

Wednesday was our field trip to the Phoenix Art Museum. It seemed at first the kids thought the bus ride was the field trip, oohing and aahing over the freeway (racing other cars), the airport (Mr. Sarti was flying all 13 we counted apparently), baseball stadiums, water tanks and storage facility. No such luck sitting quietly and singing "The Wheels on the Bus". Oh well, forget the migraine that was brewing. The art museum was great, they are generous enough to give us FREE admission and reimburse us for the busses! They were down a docent so we had to rearrange our groups from 10 kids to 1 adult, to 15 to 1. Yikes! I handed my best 5 over to Miss Swygert and took on the other 15. Together we battled being quiet, staying still, following directions and nude paintings and statues. I'm exhausted even thinking about it. I kept telling myself "they're 6, they're 6, they're 6".

The highlight was the picnic in the beautiful courtyard (last year it rained to beat the band and we were hovered under an overhang in wind and cold, not recommended). The migraine continues and nausea sets in on the bus ride back to school. Luckily I made it through a longer than normal recess and an hour where they wrote amazing stories about their favorite part of the art museum. Job well done Mrs. Sarti :)