Santa is GOOD!

Does he KNOW ME or WHAT??

Merry Holiday!

Enjoy time with your family!

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."  --Jane Howard

After watching the animated movie Ice Age, my dad, "Pop Pop" (pictured on the far left), named our family "The Herd."

Merry Holiday!
From OUR Herd to YOURS

Santa, Dear

Santa and his red-nosed reindeer were having fun playing "reindeer games" today!  EVERYBODY plays these games, including Rudolph!

station 1 -- Balance the wrapping paper tube, balance the yardstick on the tube, balance the ornaments on the yardstick.  PRACTICE BALANCE

station 2 -- Put your hands in the oven mitts and unwrap a chocolate kiss!  PRACTICE PERSEVERANCE

station 3 -- Fan the ornament with the Christmas present.  PRACTICE PROBLEM SOLVING

station 4 -- Participate in a Penguin Race!  Stretch the exercise band under your feet.  Pull the band with your hands and side step to your destination.  PRACTICE STRENGTHENING

station 5 -- Make a tent with the Christmas cards.  Blow the cards gently to move them across the table.  PRACTICE BREATHING

station 6 -- Put the cookie on your forehead.  Use the muscles in your face to move the cookie to your mouth.  PRACTICE STRETCHING

station 7 -- Put the Christmas ornament in the spoon and walk to your destination without dropping the ornament.    PRACTICE BALANCE

Holly Days

Here's another of GG's creations!  She wore this hat and vest when she volunteered at Lexington Extended Care or at Midway Elementary or Pleasant Hill Elementary Schools.  Hope you are enjoying your HOLLY days!

Penguin Pantookahs!

In a Dr. Seuss frame of mind, we are having silly fun w/ PENGUINS today!  The weather cooperated .  .  . it was 30 degrees during the 25 minute morning duty in front of the school .  .  . MY FLIPPERS WERE FROZEN.  We read Worried Arthur by Joan Stimson with 2nd Grade Friends!  We reminded ourselves to (1) talk to a grown up we trust when we worry and (2) BREATHE to calm our worrying selves down.  We practiced our Santa Belly Breathing -- HO! HO! HO!  Next up, Penguin Races!  See you at the South Pole .  .  .

CRANK it up a notch!

At Judy Freeman's book workshop on Thursday, I learned about the great book Crankenstein by Samantha Berger!  I shared w/ Family Yoga participants Saturday and received this email this morning:

"Thank you for the yoga on Saturday, I really needed it and the boys always enjoy it.  We were able to refer to crankenstein yesterday at dinner. J Much different than the “bad attitude” road my husband was about to go down with our son."

Never underestimate the POWER of a good book.  MEHHRRRR!!!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

Get your JINGLE on today!

This hat DANCES!  Can you see the movement?  

May your Friday DANCE and JINGLE ALL THE WAY!

WE LOVE BOOKS!

These people LOVE BOOKS!

from left to right

D'Etta Broam, former library lady, current school counselor & creator of Zipadeebee:  Books, Brains, Bodies

https://sites.google.com/site/zipadeebee

Val Byrd Fort, Library Goddess at New Providence Elementary & University of South Carolina, "Master of Social Media," & good, good friend

http://valeriebyrdfort.com/

Judy Freeman, library lady, children literature troubadour, book reviewer, presenter, author, musician & dreamer

http://judyreadsbooks.com/

We had the pleasure of spending the day together!  Mrs. Judy Freeman travels with the Bureau of Education and Research to share her favorite children books published each year.

Stuck?

Santa maybe STUCK, but you don't have to be?!  Talk to someone when you are confused or otherwise in need of direction!  Mrs. Broam is always available to get you MOOOving again.

It's a TREEmendous Tuesday!

Use your IMAGINATION on Monday!

RUN, RUN . . . FAST as you can!

Little people were looking for Gingerbread Men and building Gingerbread Houses today at PHES!

Thank you, Watch D.O.G.S.!

Breathe into your SANTA BELLY

Breathe deeply!  Work your diaphragm, not your shoulders.  The diaphragm is the sheathe of muscle that separates the breathing parts from the digesting parts of you.  Breathe deeply and think more clearly this HO!  HO!  HOliday!    

Learn like your hair is ON FIRE!

It's a COLLABORATIVE DAY!

DIVE IN, HEAD FIRST

to 2013 Holiday Fun!

THANK YOU to the THOUGHTFUL COUGARS who shared this hat with me!  You made me SMILE BIG on Tuesday.  :-)

Enjoy the start to a "DEER" Holiday!