Great day at school

We had lot's of fun playing an alphabet game with the first graders today. The game "board" in their book was filled with letters of the alphabet and school supplies. We pushed two desks together and handed out the game pieces (a small round circle with a 1 or a 2 on it.) They listened really well as I rolled the dice and announced the moves. Back and forth, Ones--move to the letter D, Twos--move to the yellow eraser, Ones--move forward 4 squares, building to the finale! The "Twos" were so excited to win the first game! Not surprising, the "Ones" won the second game. Prizes were a small heart, circle, star, rectangle or square shaped sponge--blue for the boys and pink for the girls--inexpensive, educational and safe. Everybody had to say the name of their shape in English. They could hardly believe that it was theirs to take home.

Teaching is made up of so many small successes and the opportunity to start fresh everyday. I wish we had taken pictures, but Stephen was playing with Ricardo because only 11 students were in class today.

Third grade has been reading the Rudyard Kipling story, "How the Leopard Got Its Spots." Tomorrow we are watching a short video of the story--the church has wi-fi and Jeff is letting us borrow the projector he uses for mission trips. One of these days, we hope to be able to find the funds to buy a projector for the school. There are so many exciting things we could do if we had one available on a daily basis. Of course, my mind goes to other equipment like a SMART board in every classroom--can't help it, it's my background--so please pray with us about equipment for the school.

We will take the camera tomorrow and take some pictures . . . . I owe you some shots of the kids! Be prepared--they're cute and you will love them like we do.