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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Pops Concert 2016

The Saugus High School Marching Band and Color Guard performed their Spring Pops concert this week. They always add in the 8th grade band in one piece, so Cameron got to join in the performance! So happy to have both older boys share the same concert! They played great!

Cameron on the end

Ethan in the middle

Ethan with the cymbals

Reading of siblings

Snippet of the performance

Ethan playing the bass drum

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Ashton's Day Off

This week was conference week for Ashton. His conference was Monday and has done a tremendous job since the fall! Brought up his grade in two classes! We are quite proud of him! Wednesday was a day off so I had him make me a list of what he wanted to do for the day.

We got our snuggling in! My baby is so big!

Monday, March 14, 2016

Pot O'Gold Soccer Tournament - Thousand Oaks

While Derrik was away at a conference in Seattle, I took Cameron to Thousand Oaks for his second soccer tournament. It was so fun to watch him play! They ended up placing 3rd in their division.

Breakfast in between games

Much needed nap before game #2

Advanced Band Performance

At Open House last week, Cameron and the Advanced band performed.

Junior High Visitors

Since the junior high had a minimum day, I invited some of my former music students currently enrolled in band to come over and talk to the 6th graders about band. They shared their instruments and talked about how great band has been. Makes me happy to see music making them happy. :)

These two are both 8th graders and shared about
Advanced band. Cam did a great job!

Cam joined Ashton for lunch!

Galaxy and Homework

Our March is full of activities! Here are some quick shots of what's been going on:

On Mondays, Derrik comes home early to spend time with the boys before he heads back to work for evening appointments. Here he is helping Ashton with some social studies!

Galaxy games have started and these two have season tickets!
They headed down to Carson for game one.

I Will Sing for Dr. Seuss

I have wanted to make one of these for a few years now. A singing Dr. Seuss hat! The kids loved reading it in my classroom.

Ashton Field Trip

Ashton and the 5th grade class headed to the California Science Center in downtown LA last week! They watched a film about astronauts, saw a cool space exhibit and went on a spinning ride for astronaut training! I didn't get to go on the trip but a friend was kind enough to send me some photos.

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Our grown-up boys

I took this photo while at lunch with the family last week. They are growing up so fast!

Making Rhythms in Class

My third graders are making rhythms and after creating some with popsicle sticks, they wrote them up on the board. I took a photo and put it on facebook. The school facebook page picked it up and then the district page picked it up! WOW!

I Won a Contest!

Autographed by the author

I never win contests - ever. I was reading through a Music teaching blog and saw she was holding a contest to win the newest Freddie the frog book. So I thought, what the heck? I entered and then found out I WON! Very cool! My kids at school will LOVE this!

Monday, February 15, 2016

Swimming in February

Ashton's been asking for a swimming trip and this last weekend we had temps in the 80's! So fun!

Valentine's Day!

I did get flowers from my Valentine!

While Derrik and Cameron were in Bakersfield, Ethan, Ashton and I celebrated Valentine's at home until they arrived later in the evening.

Ethan got a bouquet of dollar bills and Ashton got another
Lego Dimension set!

Cameron got a new soccer ball!

Soccer Tournament #1 Bakersfield

Cameron is the goalie for a U14 Saugus tournament team! They have been practicing for the last month and had their first tournament in Bakersfield. Derrik drove him up and the whole team stayed overnight in a hotel. The team played 5 games - 3 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday. They ended up coming in 3rd out of 8 teams!