Work Fun and the Bubble Run!

Life has been sort of crazy with work and fun, but manageable. For work, I had the students do a paper Mache project, for earth day. We talked about recycling and keeping the world clean. All the kids brought in newspaper to reuse for the project. They loved it and it was quite fun, yet really stressful. I knew the kids were just gonna go crazy with the newspaper, the Mache, the paint, whatever! It was bound to happen. I had the kids sign contracts upholding to the responsibilities and rules during this project. Most of the kids did great. I had a few though, that painted on their faces and threw stuff. For those wrongful actions were terrible consequences, such as referrals and cleaning my classroom. Although, there was bad behavior in some classes, the kids really did enjoy and had fun with the project. The CRT’s were that week, big testing, so I thought it would be good to do something fun and stress relieving for them. And it was! The first week, each kid got their own balloon to mache, then the second week, each kid got paint their balloon. We painted the earth! They turned out pretty awesome! However, I did have 500+ mached balloons in my kiln closet as well as a disaster of a room! But it ended up being really great for the kids!

During that same time, I signed up for a 5k with some friends. It was a fun run, like the color run, but this was The Bubble Run! Which, in my opinion, was way cooler and way more fun than the color run. I wasn’t in the shower for hours scrubbing stained flour off my skin and out my nose! It was super fun! I ran with a bunch of friends, but most of them walked, so my friend Jordan and I ran the entire thing. We ran it pretty fast, surprisingly, because we took our time and had fun. Kind of weird to explain. Anyway, here are some pictures of the awesomeness! Enjoy!