The Eclectic Company

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HEY YOU GUYS!!!!

Remember that? That's how "The Electric Company" used to come on. Maybe I'm just old - - - but I remember my kids watching it and loving it.

Well, this is going to be my FIRST "Eclectic Company" post - - - full of fast paced little eclectic bits, so HANG ON TO YOUR HAT folks, 'cause here we go - - -

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("Eclectic Bit One" for those of you who are, like me, texting challenged)

It's Friday night and I'm home alone, sitting at my lappy screen, in my comfy jammies blogging. That is how I spell J-O-Y!!!

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Miss Shelli has been at it AGAIN!! Surely you remember Miss Shelli? She's my (in)famous photo journalist/friend/Little Miss Innocent/prankster. Last year during parent-teacher conferences every time I left the room for a "little girls room" break she hid all my stuff (that's teacher talk for important conference items). Then she sat at her table looking all innocent and "unaware" of me searching for a few minor things - - - like my grade book, my P-T forms, my CHAIR.


Once I returned to my table to find a parent patiently waiting for me with my chair TURNED UPSIDE DOWN ON TOP OF THE TABLE!!! Uh - - - yah - - - that would be Little Miss Innocent who was responsible for THAT.

Well, this year Miss Shelli came into my classroom on the day of P-T conferences and left me THIS little "gem":

I'll say this for her - - - she was a good girl and only marginally disrupted my P-T "stuff" this year.

(Small disclaimer: In case you are NEW around here and don't know my sense of humor, please know that I love Shelli to PIECES or I wouldn't be telling this - - - besides, she might READ my blog so I've GOTTA say I love her.)

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People, this one is PURE genius, and soooooo typical of our community. Our "founding fathers" decided to beautify this fall by constructing a limestone fountain on a small triangle of land near a very busy intersection.

I guess no one told them about ice wedging mechanical weathering or the use of an antifreeze technique to prevent it.


I also guess no one told them that there was NO HOPE of beautifying that particular triangle unless they tore down some billboards, power poles, parking lots, and several less than attractive buildings.

Typical, typical, TYPICAL.

EB 4

One day this week my sixth graders and I found various stray items around our science lab, then put our noggins together and invented this:

Don't tell me you don't recognize a perfectly good seismograph when you see one!!!

Oh, and please don't tell me you did this with your pre-schoolers either. WORK with me here. I teach 5 different science preps a day - - - grades 6 - 12 - - - and I'm doing the BEST I can to keep it mixed up, fun, interesting, AND chock full of science CONTENT - - -

Besides, we had LOTS of fun doing it.


Here are my THOUGHTFUL young scientists - - -


And here are my REGULAR sixth graders!!!! Hehehehehe

If you can't see by these pictures, let me just tell you - - - this is one AMAZING group of students. They are a JOY every minute of the day.


And here is ONE thing I did today to "mix" things up a little bit. Dont' YOU hang football ornaments at this time of year too????? Hmmmmm??? ;-)

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In one of her posts this week, Patti showed a little Christmas keep-sake book called "A Cup of Christmas Tea."

I'm not sure if I have that book or not - - - it MAY be upstairs in one of my Christmas boxes, I'm not sure.

But what I DO have are two little china "Cup of Christmas Tea" collector's treasures. The napkin ring shown above, and - - -


This little tea cup ornament.


And here they are together on a "regulation" size place mat so you can get a feel for their size.

And that, my dear bloggy readers, concludes our FIRST edition of The Eclectic Company!! If we can keep our sponsors and our Nielsen's up - - - we'll be BACK!!!

Wink, wink.

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