{A Visit}

We were excited to be able to spend a day with Grandma Walker and Grandpa Will on Monday. They came to Vegas to deliver a few gifts they brought home from Italy for our family and spend the day with us.

The boys also got to be taught a fun 2 person Italian card game that they continue to play together each day and Grandma made cinnamon rolls with them too. That was the one thing they asked if she would do with them while she was here. There was a time when every visit to our house she would make cinnamon rolls with her. And this is on of their fondest memories of time spent with her.

We are happy to have them home again and excited that we will be able to visit with her more often now.

{Spirit Week 2010}

At school we have Spirit Week and each day the scholars get to dress up in a themed outfit (normally we wear uniforms to school so this is great fun for the boys).

First day was cultural day, so we went hawaiian...easy comfortable and part of us.

Second day was mismatch day. K wouldn't give in a look like a fool with the rest of us so only E and I dressed up.

Third day was historical day, pick something from the past to dress up like so we went with togas.

It was lots of fun and gets us out of our uniforms for a few days.

{Elected}

K wanted to run for class treasurer of the 5th Grade. He figured that not many people would run for that job so he could have a better chance of winning if he ran for treasurer.

So he ran put up his poster and gave a 3 minute speech.

That afternoon he came walking into my classroom and didn't say anything about it. I gave him a few minutes to see if he would say anything before asking. I figured he must have not won if he wassn't going to say anything. But I asked anyways...and he said "oh yeah....I won." and started talking about something else. He isn't a bragger and doesn't like to make others feel bad about losing.

We are proud of him for trying something new and still being calm enough to remember others feelings when he won.

{First Project of 2nd Grade}

This is E's first project in 2nd Grade. He needed to make an "All About Me" poster for his class. This was a great way for his teacher to get to know him and was an easy project for him to do the first week of school.