Working with ELL Students

I will begin working with ELL students next week, sound like fun. I have already met three of the students and have done some activities with them. They are great kids, so eager to learn and love attention! We played hangman with their spelling words and even worked a little on math. We even began a research paper on where chocolate comes from! I look forward to hearing them present to the class. They all work so hard and really want to be there, very exciting to watch them learn and grow!

Finished my Web Page Today!

Today was an exciting day as my Web Page is officially finished, YES!!! It looks as though I am not quite as dumb as I thought with technology, just took a few repetitions and I figured it out! Now on to Garage Band, not sure what that is or how it works, we'll see if I can figure that out next class.

Had a great evening with my boys, such beautiful weather to be outside! My flowers are blooming, the birds are singing and this semester is almost over! I look forward to some down time with my boys and enjoy the Great Outdoors.

Glogster

The news for the week is that I was able to figure out glogster and I did this one myself. It was really a lot of fun and I showed my 11 year old son how to use it and he loves it! I may even create a few more, who knows!!

Fontenelle Forest

The boys and I had a great hiking experience at Fontenelle today. We saw two snakes rustling around in the leaves right off the trail and a giant beetle on a decaying log! The weather was perfect and we had a great time out in Gods beautiful outdoors. I highly recommend taking a walk off the boardwalk because there is so much to see!
www.fontenelleforest.org

Fun on children'd Spring break!

My boys and I have had a great time of fun outside this week. First we went to the zoo on Monday! The weather was awesome and the animals were out and active! We also took a trip on base and had lunch and went bowling.

Took the boys to see "How to train a dragon"

My husband and I took our three boys to see "How to Train a Dragon", this was a great kid friendly movie for ages 6 and up. There were a few places where my 6 year old held my hand and once he even jumped, but then so did I. He couldn't wait to see this one and it didn't let him down. My older two even enjoyed it and I heard them laugh out loud several times. It was fun to go see as a family, Pixar didn't disappoint. If you have young ones at home and they like adventure and cute dragons this one should be a hit for you as well! I think we will check this book out at the library, should be a good bedtime read for us all!

Working with the 5th graders

This week was great with the 5th grade class. They were on Skype talking to a 5th grade class in New York City! They were going back and forth reading Dr. Seuss' books for his birthday. It was great to see how excited both classes were to see kids their age in another part of the United States!!!

I Love Sunday Mornings!!

Our church is doing a sermon series on being "Fearless" and the topic of today was knowing your worth in Christ. It was a great reminder not to be concerned with what others think of me and knowing how much God loves me and what I am worth to Him. It is so easy to become consumed with this world and what it thinks of as important and worth your time and foregetting the areas in which God sees worth and what is truly worth our time and energy.

February 16, 2010

Well, I found my blog spot, so that is progress!!! I had a pretty good day today. Our pastor from Shadow Lake Community Church came to speak at Chapel today. Although I had already heard this sermon, it was a good one to hear again. Learning how to hear God speak is a skill I have yet to acquire. It would be great to have a pillar of fire or a cloud to follow around, they didn't realize how good they had it with that!

I did it!!!!

Well, I actually was able to start up a new blog with almost no help, yea for me!!!

We took the boys to see "The Tooth Fairy" this weekend. Although it is a secular movie, it was really clean and we found ourselves laughing throughout the whole movie. I don't recall bad language, nobody was sleeping with anyone they were not married to. It was great for both boys and girls to watch, and of course kept us as parents laughing. I would highly recommend this movie for anyone who really needs a good laugh, you don't even need kids to go, but grab one if you know one and have a great time!!!