National Children's Book Week

This week is National Children's Book Week. We will do lots of "bookworm" activities this week. I picked four authors to choose between as our favorite author. We LOVE Jan Brett so she is one, then Eric Carle, Laura Numeroff, and A. A. Milne. Tuesday to Friday, we will have an author of the day, and Friday we will pick our very favorite.

We will have guest readers (Uriah, one of the high schoolers, is our only one so far) I invited all the parents to come and read to the class. I might ask some other's too! We will definitely have to read Mouse Paint, a favorite of our class that we did not have. My sister Sarah sent us a copy for our classroom. We will also have a book exchange so each child can go home with a new to them book on Friday.

I will post some pictures from our activities when the week is over. Let me know how you or your kids are celebrating Children's Book Week. I would love more ideas!

I'll take a wack at it!

For Halloween, the High School and Jr. High made Pinatas. They invited our class to come and pick up candy. We even got to break up one of the Pinatas. All the kids got to take a wack at it! And check out all the candy...trick or treating started early this year!

Tag your it!

I have been tagged by my sister Heather, but I will post my tagging on my personal site, www.melzingersmusings.blogspot.com

BTW...I don't know who is it.

Mel

Here are some crazy pictures we took when we took our class picture.

Back row from left to right: Marlin Denezpi, Karl Bigman, Alejadro Xicotencatl, Myrin Denezpi

Front row from left to right: Winona Begay, Cameron Hanley, Tamary Benally, April Scott, Staci Martinez

And that is me in the middle!

Here it is - our class picture. Unfortunately, Jaymeson was absent that day. So when we are all together again, we will take another one.

News and More Prayer Requests

I may have mentioned before that this week we go to Colorado Springs for a teacher's convention. Please pray for a good time and safe travel's.

From the convention, Ruth Bloom will fly to North Carolina to speak, I think at a women's meeting there. Please pray that all goes well for her and that her speaking is encouraging and uplifting for the ladies there.

We will be having a special speaker in a couple of weeks, at Immanuel Navajo Chapel. Andrew Begay has come up here before, and he is an intresting speaker. Andrew is a cousin of Lorena Herbert, one of the Navajo Missionaries that live and serve here at the mission. Andrew's father was a medicine man, and he often speaks on the Navajo and Native American religion's that are common in this area. It is helpful, since we can get an idea of where the people in our community are coming from and have a starting place for presenting the gospel. Please pray that the meetings go well and that many come from the community.

Thanks again for praying

Thank you for praying!!!

Sorry to take so long to write!

April came back the very next day! Her mom, Cassandra, had been sick, and so they had not come. Cassandra comes in each day to help out with the teachers.

Jaymeson was back a couple of days later, but please continue to pray for him. He is out all this week with a bad cut on his hand that has to be checked regularly, and at other times his attendance is very inconsistent. We would definitely like to see him more often!

Next week is the teacher's convention. We go to Colorado Springs this year and stay at Camp Elim at night. It will mean lots of driving. Please pray for safe traveling and that we (the teachers) would benefit from the seminars and conferences we go to.

It has been a good first five weeks. Praise the Lord for safety and a smooth transition back to school.

Up next in Kindergarten....Apples!! We will have a whole unit on Apples (Units usually last a while in my classroom, as we do only a few things at a time. We will have open house soon, and we make lots of Apple things to show mom's and dad's that night. Please pray that we have good attendance to the open house, since this may be the first (and only) time we have contact with some of the parents.

Thanks again!!!

Mel