It's getting cold!

The past week flew by so fast, I hardly realized the weekend had arrived!
Whoop and I took our morning walk during the 7°F sunrise. It was a frigid sight to see :)
School has been keeping me very busy. I am trying to get as many learning objectives completed before Christmas break as humanly possible. I am worried about the two week gap--will the kids retain any of the information taught thus far?! I feel as though it is difficult coming back after a three day weekend... this should be interesting!
A couple of funny things have happened over the past couple of days:
When covering words that end with -it we made a list. One of my brightest students raises his hand, points directly at my forehead and exclaims, "ZZZ- i- T, zit!" Truth be told, I most definitely had a zit on my forehead but I got out of it by saying that Whoopi and I were jumping on my bed, I fell off so my mom called the doctor and the doctor said no more Miss. Smidt's jumping on the bed. Oh my goodness, if they weren't giggling they were concerned about the stability of my state of mind. "Your mom called the doctor?!?! Up here at IHS or the clinic in Mission?! Did you have to go all the way to Pierre?!" I thought my para was going to lose it!
I cut my hair. 7+ inches are gone. The first day back to school, one of my boys says, "You look like you're from the 80's." So I responded with, "It just so happens that I am. I am from 1986." Big mistake on my part. Now half of my class calls me "eighty-six". Humorous, but not too great.

After three weekends in a row of having company, this past weekend was spent relaxing with Whoopi. Saturday evening I went to Mission to watch a movie and play cards with some friends, but other than that we laid pretty low and enjoyed every second of it.
I am working on training Whoop to walk on a leash without pulling and to "sit". I am too much of a softie to train him, so I'm thinking I may leave it up to my daddy, the dog whisperer.
Christmas is indeed coming!!! The only gifts I am going to buy (minus one that I must buy in Vermillion) have been purchased and are wrapped or en route via the interweb. May I just say (10 years late) that eBay is addicting and no one, I mean NO ONE, should have an account. I spent half of Sunday making and watching bids. Wowzas!
Well, I suppose I should really get to going over my lessons for tomorrow. We will be making snowman ornaments in our classroom for our class tree that will be displayed in the gym. Most other classes paid to  order ornaments through Oriental Trading, I however saw this as an Art Integration activity. As someone who lacks artistic ability, I am excited to see how it all turns out and will keep you updated.