What a Week

It has definitely been a wild week. Monday was my brother's birthday. Then on Tuesday, the reading coach asked me to be part of a planning video that she had to make for our state regional reading coach. For this video we had to plan a lesson together and discuss the things we planned to do. The state regional coach would then come to the school on Friday to watch the lesson we planned. For Black History Month we have speakers coming into the school every Tuesday and Thursday to talk to the children. Therefore on Tuesday afternoon, we had two ladies come to talk to the students. One of the ladies was a basket maker and the other lady was a quilt maker. It was very interesting to hear how theses ladies make baskets and quilts. I thought it was very cool that the lady that makes baskets told us how she cuts the trees and strips them herself.

On Wednesday we had a guy come in trying to sell the school some cool new technology and she used my class for the demonstration since my classroom has a projector. the other two first grades came into my room and then both reading coaches and the computer teacher all came in to watch the demonstration. Talk about a packed house. :) The guy was selling an eLearning pad that the teacher could use a projector to project the things on their computer onto a screen and then through the cool pad the teacher can write on the pad and it will show up on the screen. He also had remotes in which the students used to answer questions. I love all of this technology it is so exciting. My kids really enjoyed using the remotes to answer his questions.

Then on Thursday, we had another program for the kids. This time our principal and PTO president talked to the children and was encouraging them to always do their best and that they can be anything they want to be. And then today, Friday, was the big day. Our state regional reading coach came and was ready to watch our video and then immediately after watch the first grade reading coach and myself do a side by side lesson with my students. Thankful everything went very well and my students did a good job. God is good all the time.

I do have some prayer request for the week. Our resource teacher's husband had to have triple bypass surgery last week and now is thankfully home recovering. It is a great blessing that he is home and went through everything well and she was able to return to work this week. Another prayer request is for the workers at Weyerhaeuser. Yesterday the men and women working in the sawmill part of the mill lost their jobs. I am unsure on the number of people but I know it was a lot for a small town like Camden. Among these workers were my Uncle Donnie, our preacher, church members, and many more in the Camden area. This will be tough for some of these families so please pray that they will lean on God for the strength they need to get through this time. We always have to remember that we have a great big God and little bitty problems. So I have no doubt that with prayer God will be with these families. My last prayer request for this week is for one of our kindergarten teachers. She received a phone call this afternoon at school telling he that her grandfather had killed himself. This is a very sad thing so please pray that God will give them comfort and peace during this difficult time. It makes me so sad when people do this because God loves everyone and is always there for us. We can go to him at any time and can talk to him about any thing.

While on the topic of prayer, please remember to pray for our country and it's leaders. On the way to school in the mornings, I like to listen to American Family Radio and this morning on Jump Start they were discussing that Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D. Mich.) has threatened to hold hearings on "right-wing" talk radio. It is sad that they are already trying to push christian radio off the air. If you would like to know more about this topic then go to www.afr.net and click on blogs and then click on Jump Start. They have all the information there about this topic and the stimulus package.

Any way I just ask that if you will please join me in praying for all these things and remember that God loves us and that there is no greater love.