Teacher Valentine Treat

Anybody who teaches children under the age of 6 deserves a raise, a medal and a special place in heaven. Actually all teachers!

The tutorial to make these marshmallow pops can be found here.

100 days of school!!

Tomorrow is the 100th day of second grade for Logan. The elementary schools make a big deal about it. Logan asked yesterday for something special in his lunch for the 100th day. I'm not really sure what he had in mind, probably 100 m&m's :) Instead I made him a lunchbox note that I think he will LOVE for a couple reasons. First, he loves money. Not for the obvious reason, to buy Legos. He likes to collect it, read about, quiz me about it. Right now he has two state quarter collections going on after he finished two with grandpa. Second, he's working on a report on Benjamin Franklin so since I don't have several hundred dollar bills laying around the house, he'll get a kick out of seeing this one.

Happy 100 days!! Maybe I need to start keeping track of my days of working out and then celebrate when I get to 100...or maybe just 10.

UPDATE: To celebrate the 100th day of school, Logan's teacher gave them a snack every 100 minutes. And she turned it into math problems figuring out how long til the next snack and at what time. He LOVED it!

Back to School Traditions

Back to School is an exciting time around here. My oldest LOVES school! Every aspect of it...the learning, the friends, the routine.

So we celebrate the big day!

Butterscotch pancakes for breakfast

Posing for first day pics

Measured on the closet wall

And at the end of the big day, a favorite meal of mini sloppy joes.

Those are some of your back to school traditions. How about you?

I ♥ lunchbox notes

Hello, My name is Sharla and I'm a lunchbox note-aholic...yes I do love lunchbox notes, so while the blogosphere is buzzing with back to school stuff, I keep noticing all these cute printables.

I think these are my current favorite...can't go wrong with apples, right?

http://www.howdoesshe.com/wp-content/uploads/HowDoesShe_school_printables.pdf


http://www.scribd.com/doc/36030529/Lunch-Box-Notes-Printables



http://www.skiptomylou.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/customlunchboxnotes.pdf

I thought these were TOO CUTE!!!! Logan loves a good pun!
http://www.skiptomylou.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/fruitlabels.pdf

This site has EVERYTHING Disney, princesses to the Jonas Brothers!

http://disney-stationary.com/printables/lunch-notes.php



http://www.readingrockets.org/content/pdfs/lunchnotes/lunchnotes3.pdf


http://www.parents.com/holiday/valentines-day/printables/print-it-lunchbox-lovenotes/

Really thought these were fun!

http://fun.familyeducation.com/lunchbox-notes/lunch/64045.html?detoured=1
These are ADORABLE design your own notes!!

http://www.alenkasprintables.com/lunchboxnotes.shtml
These are cute customizable notes too!

And sometimes, all you need is a joke or two!

http://familyfun.go.com/assets/cms/pdf/printables/0903_jokes.pdf
Some fun jokes arranged for easy printing and cutting out

for the little ones: Blues Clues (does anyone even watch that show anymore?) and Do-Do-Dora (which could be fun for a bigger kid who really liked Dora back in the day)
http://www.nickjr.com/printables/blues-lunchbox-notes.jhtml?path=/printables/all-shows/all-themes/3-4-years/index.jhtml

http://www.nickjr.com/printables/dora-lunchbox-love-notes.jhtml?path=/printables/dora-the-explorer/all-themes/all-ages/index.jhtml

***Just Added***
These are cute too

http://www.mariahdemarco.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2010/08/Lunch-Notes.pdf

http://www.scribd.com/TweedleDeeDesigns

http://www.executivehomemaker.com/gingham-lunch-note-cards/

http://printable.tipjunkie.com/lunchbox-love-notes-printables-for-kids/