Snips N Snails, Gibbons Tells: November 2012

My little Student of the Month

Student of the Month

Elijah James Gibbons

So Proud of this boy!

A few short months ago I couldn't look at Lone Jack School Center without wanting to cry! Thankfully I had ignored school starting until the week before so I didn't have time to shop around and decide where to send Elijah. I think if I had started to think ahead and plan it out I wouldn't have chose to send him to Lone Jack.

Of course just a few months into Kindergarten we still don't know much of the staff, just our teacher, her aide, the speech therapist and the office ladies. As you can tell I still don't really know their names but I do know that I LOVE these ladies. They have shown nothing but kindness and love to my boy and have (very quickly) turned my little scared boy into a good student who loves his teacher and dare I say loves going to school!?

One day he told me he had something for me in his backpack that I was going to love. A few minutes later he got out a Snowman shaped Hershey cookies and cream bar that his friend gave him and I figured that was what he was talking about. Then he handed his little card/pin to Daddy. Student of the Month! My sweet little boy is the Student of the Month November!

Rotten Boys!

So of course then on November 30, I had to get some pictures of him and the board before they changed it! I love these little rotten boys SO very much!

Pinterest KnockOffs

I am addicted to pinterest.com. Of course who isn't? This holiday season Pinterest is booming with ideas, projects and recipes! So excited to try some of those during my time off work. Today though I am showing you my Snowman tower made from boxes! I turned some of last years wrapping paper inside out (you can see the bottom box was skimped a little) and wrapped up some of my FedEx and UPS boxes. Elijah drew on the snowman's face and gave him some buttons. Then I added a little mesh for sparkle and gave him one of my scarves and a toboggan.

BUT do you want to know their secret!? They have the gifts I've already purchased wrapped and tucked neatly inside! The boys are none the wiser! Hopefully my secret is safe until Christmas Eve!

This little 24 days of Christmas books was also found on pinterest. I found some really cheap ones from booksamillion in October and had them tucked away, and we had a few Christmas books on our bookshelf. I added in some Christmas movies and hope to hit the library for the last five books we need!

The best part is we get to begin opening a book and reading tomorrow night! I've really been looking forward to this because Elijah's Kindergarten class has been reading 20 minutes a day in order to earn a pizza from "BOOKIT." Reading is fun! (And Elijah has been learning so quickly.)

Zachary, our Elf on the Shelf

Day 2

He was found in a Christmas candy dish filled with miniature marshmallows. Elijah says he bets everything at the North Pole is made of candy!

Day 3

He got into our bathroom and wrote a message for the boys, "Be Good" in toothpaste on the mirror.

Day 4

Then he was found in the kitchen cabinets with a straw in a syrup bottle, chocolate on his face and wrappers everywhere. Apparently he had also started writing a note, "Dear Santa, Elijah and Levi, Z"

Day 5

Day 6

Thankfully after these two messy days he chose to play on the printer/scanner and he made copies of himself. The pictures turned out really cool.

Zachary decided to try to make Elijah look like an Elf in his school picture!

Day 7

Day 8

Playing a little game of cards with Woody and some soldiers.

Another note was found "Dear Santa, the fishing is great here." He was sitting in a little purple "boat" fishing in the frog's tank.

Elf on the Shelf

This is Zachary

The boys LOVE this little guy! I think he is pretty cute too! Looking forward to a month of mischievousness from our little Elf on the Shelf (with the help of pinterest). Just hope he doesn't try to kill us in our sleep! LOL.