Crazy Year...And it isn't even April yet!

So, as many of you know, this has been a crazy year for me.  The poor Kindergarteners had many subs and so many sub days, all due to my medical situations.  Now for a few weeks, they have a new teacher....my Mom, Margie.  She took over my class after I had surgery and will be staying out here at the mission until the end of April.  Please pray for her.  My kids are just a tad bit wild.  They are beginning to get used to her, and vice versa, but they are still a very active group.

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