MN Quilt Show - Duluth

First, let me apologize for not having the names of the talented quilters who made these beautiful, eye catching quilts...

I do know Claudia Clark-Meyers made this award winning dahlia quilt.
This is just a small portion of her quilt.



There were bursts of color with prairie points, pinwheels and lanterns:



There were studies in green and red:



There was humor:


There were big ships! This one is the largest ship to sail the Great Lakes!
It was amazing to watch it glide by us and slip under the lift bridge.
Marsha and I took a walk one morning and got a little distracted
by all there is to see in Canal Park! It was a delightful trip.

Well, Happy Birthday to ME!

Okay, it is NOT my birthday, but we were celebrating today in my classroom unbeknownst to me! Little did I know there was a surprise afoot when I thought about making BIG hats with the kids to celebrate the end of our school year together... then, Ms. Arkell arrived (aka student teacher extraordinaire who finished with us in early May) AND she brought her beautiful daughter, Yemi. Yemi wrote out a couple of Morning Meeting greetings for our group that we got to 'show off' this morning.

So, I'm lining kids up for lunch and there is all of this hubbub near the door with Ms. Arkell poking her head out in the hallway and this shows up! A yummy chocolate and white mosaic horse cake!

Then, the pizza arrived! WooHoo! Well, then, there were the hats!



These are the hats Yemi made for us! Aren't they something??
Thanks to Marsha for the hat making bands (that she all prepped and hanging out in her basement... the joy!)

You just gotta love working in Room 10 Maxfield School!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 is our last day together... it has been a very good year teaching!

Ahhhhhhh.....the cabin.

I am so blessed to have a refuge at a friend's cabin in Ely. Early one morning over Memorial Day Weekend, Cate got up early and took these photos... Can't you just feel the calm? It is so marvelous.


Thank goodness I had such a view to behold while I worked to sew in all of the ends on this sweet little pain in the butt to finish baby sweater. It is possibly the most poorly written pattern I have tried to follow, but the result is so very sweet. I'm blocking it now and I'll have to find some wonderful little buttons for it.

Thanks to Cate and Richard for planning the food, cooking it up, helping with the annual 'putting in the pump' ritual, reading, walking, laughing, driving, encouraging words when it was time to go 'jump in the lake' and listening to grumbling about trying to decipher a pattern. Absolutely the best company a girl could wish for in one of the most beautiful places on earth! Thank you!

Happy May Day!

So, our class organized these wonderful little May Day bouquets to deliver to every staff person at Maxfield. We did the actual assembly on Thursday. Our classroom looked like the back room of a florist's shop and smelled heavenly! We divided up all of the staff names and organized delivery with the two other Learning Center classrooms. It was a fantastic surprise for the staff! Again, thank YOU!

2009 MN Horse Expo Field Trip

To say this is my favorite field trip of the year is putting it mildly. Some of you might remember that I was unable to attend the trip last year due to some pesky emergency gallbladder surgery... I was actually whining to the surgeon on the way to the operating room about missing the Horse Expo!

We wore our cowboy hats and bandanas and had a great time talking to horse trainers and owners. Almost everyone rode a horse and a pony!

I am very thankful to all of the friends who volunteered for this trip. Their participation made the day successful for every student! Thanks to all!

If you would like to see some photos from the trip, please follow this link:

http://maxfield.spps.org/Ms_Monroe.html

Click on the 2009 MN Horse Expo Field Trip to see the photos.

Thank you for making this possible...

K-1 Eric Carle Author Unit Thank You!

I would like to thank you for making this project possible! We made beautiful Hungry Caterpillar T-Shirts!

Check out the pictures at:

http://maxfield.spps.org/Eric_Carle_Author_Study.html

You Drive, I'll Knit You Some Fingerless Mitts....

So, Marsha drove most of the way home from Lincoln, NE last week and I mostly made these fingerless mitts for her. They are yummy soft (Cascade Cash Vero) and warm. I finished them back here in St. Paul and she modeled them at breakfast on Friday. It was a win-win situation!