A dinosaur

The rain comes, but the blessings are seen in the rainbow!

3's Children's Church:


After discussing giving God our money, we discussed other things we can give to God. Then we asked what would be the biggest thing we could give God. (meaning our hearts). And the answer came from a sweet girl--"A DINOSAUR".

Ah, the little blessings in life---Then today, when you're feeling at your lowest of not making a difference. A comment from a parent; that I've been a blessing, more than I can even think of to a young college student.
Also saw my great door greeters today----Oh, God- Thank you today.

Friday's Lesson

Here is our D.O.L. sentences for the morning.

The Cardinals are going to win tonight!

Chris Carpenter will be pitching.

After correcting these sentences, one of my students asked me if we were talking about baseball. Yes, gotta love it!


And who were the Cardinals, except no fans in our classroom---just my teacher and I.

Crossing Over

Crossing over the half way mark of 8 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Simple as a hair tie

It's the little things in life that I am seeing blessings. A male teacher, who needed a hair tie (not sure why, he said and what it was with girls and hair), but he asked if we had one. I simply checked my wrist and found one. The girl lit up when she got it. Trust me, her hair is curly and wild.
Another simple thing is a hug from a boy who seems to always get in trouble during bus line, but this day he simply just wanted a hug from me. Then a girl who always is a gem in my room during reading; is on the wall during recess. Just a little talk to her of how well she behaves when I have her, gave her an A in conduct this week.

The little things. And thanks to my friends for visiting me this weekend and spending the day at Tanner's. It was a blast to run around with a 5 yr. old, and have fun.

Things I mastered in 2nd Grade

1. How to write in 2nd grade writing.
2. Versatile, and Persnickety is one of the quirkiest vocabulary words.
3. The rats will eat anything!!!! I should add more exclamation marks, They were loose this weekend, and ate a shirt and books, and oreo. Good thing I brought my sweatshirts home.
4. Spelling word "Sigh" and "Woeful"---hard concept.
5. "buenas tardes" is like learning greek.
6. Jack and Annie in "The Magic Tree House" gives us exciting adventures every afternoon.
7. Lunch menu for the day must be announced 25 times
8. math facts are fun, but only when we can shout out the answer to the flashcards.
9. Lunch recess is the bomb.
10. Can everyday be Library day?
11.Spelling tests no longer take 40 minutes.
12. "Oh no you didn't"

Choose by Christy Nockels

Holding On to the Blessings today

I am daily reminded of the little blessings in life. Such sweet moments from one of my students on a daily basis, of his kind, and polite manners. He marked on my sleeve one day with his marker, and said "oh, I'm sorry", did I get you". He always says excuse me and I'm sorry, Please and Thank You.

Today, in the midst of hardship, I am thanking God for the wonderful students he places in my life. They may be a pokey class but Lord love them for their effort to learn.