Day 3 - Getting Things Moved

Wow, what a day! And tomorrow is only going to be the same type of thing. School today was good - I had two parent conferences, an observation, and we spent a good part of the day working on our AR points. I am so glad that my students are wanting to read and that they actually love doing it. It is so great to see my first graders [soon to be second graders] reading chapter books! They continue to amaze me with what all they can do.

After school, I headed out to Dollar Tree to pick up some prizes for our Cereal box presentations this week. I am sooo looking forward to seeing all my students' creations - they are going to be great! I will try to share some of them on here tomorrow night if I can get them to upload.

Then Karl and I headed out to Mertzon and boy did we get a workout; Karl definitely more than myself but I did get some working in. We had some yummy food then Karl and I helped his parents move furniture around the house. It was a lot of work but what we did get done looks good. Lots more to do though; looking forward to all of it.

Exercise - Just working out in Mertzon on the house. We worked for the better part of 3 hours.

Word - For today's study you look into how Hannah, Jeremiah, and Daniel prayed to God and how they did so making sure to worship the Lord. Kay Arthur also expressed the deep need for us to know the Word and this was also shown through the prayers of Hannah, Jeremiah, and Daniel. All truth is found in His Word and I want to learn more about it!

To bed - busy day tomorrow!

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