Tuesday, September 12, 2006

I Love Scholastic and Other Things

Despite the title sounding like an advertisement, I really love the company. I love the fact that they have good deals on books, I love the fact they work through schools plus...and this is the big one...I love that teachers can build up points from students ordering a get free books. I had a great load of books ordered through my classroom this month and was able to get ten biographies, fifteen Newbury Award medal books, all of the A-Z Mystery books, and more. Then they had happen to make a mistake and sent a wrong book. I am on the phone all ready to get aggressive about it. Instead, the Scholastic person easily ordered it for me and let me keep the wrong book. Beautiful... My mom has started a class website from the site and they do have a lot of good online activities. Okay

In other news, I am reading How To Eat Fried Worms and am noticing that the boys keep calling each other "Finks." I am hoping this word is not offensive now and I keep saying that it is liking calling someone a jerk...but I would appreciate insight.
In even more other news, the storms have arrived. Gone are the rollerblading nights due to fierce thunder and lightening storms. If it is not raining, the sky looks like it could at any minute. It is kind of refreshing and makes me want to snuggle up with a Pumpkin Latte and read a book. The one problem is the high humidity and constant wetness. Though I straighten my hair in the morning, by the end of a day, my hair is flipping crazily around. Oh well. I add the picture to demonstrate the point. If you look closely, you may be able to see the natural fuzz ball that surrounds my head.

And finally, if you want to see some beautiful wedding pictured from Joanna and Kevin's wedding, check out this site http://dueckphoto.smugmug.com/Weddings I got the link from Megan's site and was so happy I did as they are beautiful... as you would expect. Darcen and Susan also almost have their pictures but it is on a private site only right now so you will just have to believe me when I say they are beautiful!

4 comments:

michaelia and jason said...

I think your hair looks cute with that little flip at the ends!! I looked at the wedding pictures (couldn't resist). Man, it looked like a nice wedding.

m+K said...

I was just going to say the same thing as Michaelia about your hair. I also love Scholastic. I saved all my coupons up from three years of teaching in Edmonton and in my last year was able to buy each student a book of their choice. One of the other teachers saved her coupons and bought a DVD player. Crazy! On another note, have you read Holes? It is a newberry award winner and my students absolutely loved it, they wanted me to read through recess. I also think a sequel recently came out. To make this comment even more disconnected, I also quite enjoyed looking at Kevin and Joanna's pics. What a great photographer! Kylie

Susan said...

Their pictures are beautiful..they are a good-looking couple! Amber, I like the pouty look in the picture. :)

Jenessa Fowke said...

Your hot even with frizzy hair! I saw Darcen and Susan's wedding pics last weekend and I thought they were so beautiful.