A few more people stopped in today to pick up their Silent Auction items. We had a very successful day... all the items went home with someone and our grand total for the auction was $2281.50! Not sure how the dinner went, but it was always busy and we didn't run out of food.
The bell songs went well; our melody player got a little shy and we lost her for a moment or two, but she found her way back and it still sounded good. The singing went all right too. It turns out the ladies' choir was also singing during the service... they like to have me join them when I can, and they had a practice before church started, but I was in the Silent Auction room getting last-minute items added, so I didn't have a chance to look over the song. Right before we had to sing I quickly scanned the music, and thankfully it was a familiar hymn. Miss N had been sitting by me and she even joined us singing! Mr. D gave a children's message. It was about building on a firm foundation, and making sure that the rock you were building on was firm. He had two rocks, both that looked real, but one was fake. He slammed the fake rock into his head! That got everyone's attention!
After everything was over, some of the 5th and 6th families helped me bring the leftover Silent Auction items to my classroom. We tucked them in the closet. Man that thing comes in handy! Hopefully everyone stops by this week to get their items so we can get the books closed on that fundraiser.
As for classroom stuff today... oh it was windy. So windy we had to be in the gym. They all wanted to play hockey, but they get a little crazy with hockey and they were already in a crazy mood to begin with, so I said no. That went over well. We did go outside for a little bit to find leaves. In science we classified plant leaves according to simple/compound and monocot/dicot. We nearly blew away!!!
We've been praying for the grandma of one of my students, and we heard that she passed away yesterday. Their family is going out to Michigan tomorrow for the funeral and such, so our classroom will be down one for the rest of the week. There's only two more days left this week; we have the Lutheran Educator's Conference on Thursday. Our school is in charge of making gift bags and introducing some of the speakers. And it turns out we also have to help do the offering and usher people up to communion during the worship service. The worship service is the very last thing of the day, and I know a bunch of us teachers at ILS were planning to skip out early to get to our various other plans for the weekend... I guess not anymore! Worship is supposed to be over by 5:30, so it won't be all that much later in the day that we get to leave.
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