Arms

The arm challenge was back again this morning... fewer kids did it today, but they did it for longer. This time, two of them managed to hold their arms up until lunch time! 3 hours!

My speech about presents worked. By the end of the day, only two kids had their names on the board for missing work (well three, but one of them is a girl who is was absent today). Mr. E finally gave me math midterm grades for the 5-6th graders. It was after school, so I'm not able to send them home today. Monday will have to be soon enough.

Program practice is going pretty good. We're catching on to the songs more and more. We had song practice in the morning like usual and this afternoon we went to church for the first time. We just got the kids lined up in their spots and sang a bunch of the songs. Sunday after church we'll set up the risers and the manger scene. Then every day next week we'll practice running through the whole program over at church.

The Christmas hymnal angels are slowly but surely making their way to homes. A bunch of my kiddos 'wrapped' them in brown paper bags and stapled the tops shut. I only got a few pictures of them after the mass exodus, but here are a few of them (some of the ones already wrapped turned out even better than these! my kiddos like to decorate).