Spirit Week

Yes, more homecoming stuff.  I'm finally getting around to looking through pics from my camera.

Friday = Green Out/Spirit Day (you can see the original post here).  It was also our pep rally.  Here's a few shots from the day.

My door, decorated by some of Shelly's students

Shelly and Cammie, Homecoming coordinators

me, Shelly, and Leslie, rocking the East/Murphy building together

Homecoming Quotes

Tuesday = Olympic Ring Day (see original post here)

Here are a few more shots from that day, along with some student quotes.

"Are you dressed up for Halloween?" (he honestly didn't realize I was dressed up for Homecoming)

"I'm too scared to go in the classroom!"

 "Are you going to change before you start class?  I won't be able to pay attention to you!"

And my personal favorite, from a student in the hallway to one of my students:

"Is that your teacher?  Man, I wish I had her!  Is she cool?"

PS, the answer's probably no, but it's nice that I was considered "cool" for a moment. :)

Kelly Green Never Looked So Good

Friday was Spirit Day, also known as Green-Out Day.  Since everyone was in green, it was hard for science to stand out...

...until we discovered Party City had green tights.  Yeah buddy!  And yes, my eyes are closed.  What else is new?

Science was taking pics around the "L" and math came to join us.  Wave hey, everybody!

Hmm, Should I Be Kate or Pippa?

Thursday was British Influence Day.  We decided to dress up like British royalty at tea time.

A super-duper large shout-out to Gabe for this picture since, believe it or not, we were not all present for this picture!  Thursday was a crazy day (I had not one, not two, but THREE meetings after school!), so Gabe kept his camera in the same place, took our pictures, and actually stitched the picture together.  Crazy!

For instance, this was the actual picture with me in it...

That man has skills!


Another special shout-out to my friends Kristen and Amanda for letting me borrow their shoes and hats (respectively) to help make my outfits.  I don't know what I would have done on country day or British day without y'all!

"Texas" is a Country, Right?

Wednesday was "Favorite Country Day."  Of all the days, this one seemed to give us the most trouble.  How can we go all out (which if we were going to dress up, we were going to dress WAY up) without being a stereotype?  We certainly didn't want to offend any of our students.

Weeks went by, and at a group lunch, it was brought back up.  "What are we going to be for Country Day?"  Then, all of a sudden, Chip said, "Country Day?  Like country western?"  *light bulb!*  We'll just say that our favorite country is "Country Western."

Yeehaw!  Thanks again to our resident photographer Gabe for the photo.

My PLT (professional learning team for those not in the 'biz), aka fellow Earth/Environmental teachers

And my fave picture from the day:

Gabe's caption on Facebook: "We obey the laws of physics in these here parts"... Hilarious!

Be Afraid... Be Very Afraid

Day 2 of Homecoming was Olympic Rings day, where each class was assigned a different color of the Olympic Rings.  The staff were assigned black.

We took "black" as dress from head to toe in black, wear scary goth make up, and freak out your students.  Mission accomplished.

Here's a close-up of me...

Where's Our Gold Medal?

Homecoming 2012 (London Olympics-themed) started off great for the science department.  For Sports Day, we went as the macho-est sport we could think of -- rhythmic gymnastics.  I'll share more photos once Jason gets a chance to edit them, but here's the "official" picture courtesy of Gabe (the excited one holding up the hoop).