Today was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I put in place a new discipline/reward system with the kids that I came up with in the middle of the night. Essentially I'm using all the thousands of pennies I have in my classroom, and one of the glass jars a student dontated for a science project. I'm putting pennies in the jar for good overall class behavior. Then each of the kids gets 10 pennies at the beginning of the day. They can earn pennies, and they can lose pennies, according to their behavior. At the end of the day they get to put whatever pennies they have into the Penny Jar. When the Penny Jar is full, they'll get to decide as a class whether they want a movie/pizza party or a short, inexpensive, field trip. They really did amazingly well, especially since my "aide" got pulled into the 5th grade teachers classroom for the majority of the day. My little "M" got down to just two pennies (he'd earned back some too) but he still got the chance to put some pennies in the jar. We'll see how long this lasts.

After school I went to Albertson's and got some banana and milk. Eeek! I hate buying milk when its not on sale - $2.19 for a 1/2 gallon (and that's the store brand!) I could've gotten the gallon (on sale) for $2.99, but it would have more than likely have gone bad long before I used it all.

Tonight was the "Premiere" of 'The Princess and the Pie War" a Veggie Tales film. Our school was asked to be one of the premiere sites. Of course, we couldn't do it till after Spring Break, and it apparentally was already out in the stores sometime last week. It still was pretty cool. There was a really good turnout - a lot of people who don't have kids in our school, but do attend our church. I love the Veggie Tales movies. They are so funny and so clean cut, although sometimes they really mess with the structure of the Bible story. For example, tonight's movie was about the story of Ruth. I guess to me the story of Ruth has enough drama and intrigue? for any movie without being tweaked. I really don't know if I care for how they changed it around. But it still was humorous, and it got the point across about caring for others more than for yourself. They showed previews of a new one coming out around Thanksgiving that center's on Larry's hairbrush. That is probably one of my favorite Veggie Tale's songs: "Where Is My Hairbrush" "Oh where is my hairbrush?" "Oh where, oh where, oh whererererere, Is my hairbrush!" Hee!

Oy vey! I am tired. Didn't sleep very well last night, and then got up extra early this morning so I could be ready for the day (after not having done anything all Spring Break -like, not even graded papers that are 6 inches+ high, gulp!)

Ok, am going to actually try to read that Reader's Digest article. Then maybe watch SuperNanny, and go off to la, la land.

Spending Log:
Albertsons: $6.31

Keeping It Frugal In Texas,
Laura