Nov 15, 2005

November 15, 2005

This is slowly becoming a Monday newsletter instead of Sunday. Not sure why I am so slow. Oh well. We got our first snow last night. It was very chilly! Right now it is 39 degrees and we expect 1-3 inches of snow tonight. I was truly hoping the snow season would at least hold off until Christmas. No such luck.

Yesterday was a very busy day. Marisa had to drop drama since it meets the same time as the Geography Bee team. She is so excited for it! There are only 3 people on the team, but she is so excited for the competition coming up next month. She also had her choir concert last night which was fabulous. I couldn’t help but think of my amazing choir teacher Mrs Edwards. I am so thrilled Marisa can be in this great program.

Kayla also had volleyball. She has a smaller group this session with less aggressive players which is giving her the chance to play and hit the ball even more. I got to be a chaperone on Kayla’s field trip last week. We went to see the Grant Wood museum. For those of you who don’t know, he is the one who painted "American Gothic" (The girl and guy with the pitchfork). Anyway, he was raised here in Cedar Rapids. It was a cool exhibit and we got to see the actual "American Gothic" painting. Did you know the people in the picture are Grant Wood’s sister and his dentist?? Thought that was interesting. I also learned that I do not enjoy being on a bus with 70 4th graders screaming. I thought I would never shake the headache I got from that. When my students go on field trips, I think I will opt for following in a car!!!

The girls had an Activity Day Recognition evening Saturday night. However, when we showed up we found out it was a fancy dinner. We had already eaten and were way underdressed, so we went back home. Oh well. Instead we got to watch "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Bob.

Tyler earned his yellow belt!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so proud of him! Now he will start working for his orange one. He is loving school and loving his hamsters. Alayna is busy being busy. We did get to take the hamsters into her class since they studies pets last week. Her class is also taking a trip to Petco this week.

I will be taking the final for my second class in the next week and also am almost half way through the 3rd class. It will be nice to have them done. Although, I am loving this class on children’s informational books! You gotta love a class that makes you read awesome childrens books all day huh?

Well, I guess that’s it for this week.
Love-kris and family