News/Notes

This past Thursday and Friday when the students were home, the faculty was busy at the Northern Wisconsin District Teachers' Convention. The opening service is always a highlight for me. The voices praising God, hearing the Word, receiving the Lord's Supper…it doesn't get any better than that!

Most years I am a "listener" as teachers from around our district present various topics. This year I was a presenter. The topic: enrichment...the educational and fun things we do in our classroom that may or may not have ties to core subjects. The teachers that came to my sectional took home many URLs as resources for:

• Our worm investigation
• Bucket Buddies
• Paper bridges
• Speed Stacks
• Juggling
• Chopsticks
• Origami
• Stamps Teach
• Balloon Animals
• Tinikling
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Others that at this moment I can't remember :)

If you are interested in any of the URLs that I use in class for our enrichment activities, it's on the front page of the classroom website. It's called February Convention Document.

This week we'll be watching When Freedom Comes. It is the monthly electronic field trip from Colonial Williamsburg. Anyone can watch the hour-long presentation. It is on WPNE at 9am on Thursday, February 16. The EFT deals with slavery, the Civil War, and the Emancipation Proclamation.

But as we head closer to Ash Wednesday, the title of that presentation takes on a different meaning: Our freedom comes from and through our Lord Jesus. Praise and thanks to the Father for sending His one and only Son to rescue me from the slavery of sin.

God Bless your week.

Psalm 103:1-2

Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits.