THANKSGIVING PARTY

Yesterday was the last day of school for a week. On the last day before Thanksgiving vacation we have half day and a party that the room parents put on. The above picture is what the children and us two teachers got. Isn't that napkin pretty? The pilgrim hat was made by a parent. It is a chocolate dipped marshmallow on top of a chocolate coated cookie wafer. Then she piped darker chocolate around it and some yellow chocolate for the brim. Talk about a lot of work! And it was good too!

Here is a close up of the hat. The kids were very excited, as you can imagine, all day. But they did manage to get some work done in the morning.

One of the moms from the other First Grade class dressed in her Native American (aka Indian) dress and read a cute story about animals celebrating Thanksgiving to both First Grade classes. She was very good and seems to enjoy entertaining just like I do.

Here is the last picture of some of our class having their food. I wasn't able to get a good picture of the whole class. The little girl with the brown hair looking directly at me is a really nice girl. The blonde next to her is very outgoing and talkative, which sometimes gets her into trouble :) The boy in the yellow shirt on the left is one of our two learning problem students, but he is making progress. The boy on the right in the very back is probably our top student in the classroom. He is reading at third grade level and he has been selected to represent our class at the ACSI Spelling Bee in January. The other boy, the blonde, in the back row is the nicest kid you would ever want to meet. So polite and his work is always neat. His mom is expecting her fourth child the end of December. The family is all boys and the expected one is too. This family does not watch TV or movies. The parents spend lots of time with the boys and they do a lot of reading and crafts and playing games. It has paid off big time because all the boys are just the nicest, most well behaved kids you would ever want to meet. And ... these parents are HUGE fans of Disney and Disneyland. They both worked there when they were teenagers. She and I always have a lot to talk about :) !!!

So, that's the update for now. This next week I have a two day job at the ACSI Convention in Anaheim. ACSI stands for Association of Christian Schools International. Every year they have a two day convention with workshops and a selling floor for teachers and administrators. An organization that is selling stuff at this convention called our school looking for someone to help work their booth. They needed three people and only had two. The man who runs this organization is good friends with our principal so that is why he called us. Cindy, our secretary, asked me and because it pays $75 a day plus he will reimburse me the $12 parking fee both days, I said yes. Jennifer has school on Monday and Tuesday and I really didn't have anything to do plus it gives me extra mad money!

This Thursday my brother, Bruce, is coming to spend a couple of days at our house. We will have Thanksgiving here and then Friday Jennifer is making candy for the college group to sell and Bruce and I will go out and spend some time at a mall or something.

So, Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who happens to read this.