Day in D.C.

General Robert E. Lee

We spent the day in D.C. with the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Our first stop was the Madame Tussauds wax museum. It was a very interesting place because, unlike many wax museums, you could touch the wax figures.

Bob Dylan

The Oval Office

After the wax museum, I took five sophomore girls through the National Gallery of Art. I had a splendid group for that. They were interested in the art and trying to find paintings and/or painters with whom they were familiar.

We interrupted our visit to the art gallery to make use of our tickets at the Air & Space Museum, but the girls voted to go back to the art gallery when we had more time. So, we walked across the mall again.

We ended our day in D.C. with a talk by a Holocaust survivor at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. We arrived back at school about 7:30 this evening.

Loyalsock

We spent the weekend at Loyalsock at a cabin. The children played in the Loyalsock much of the weekend. It was a relaxing weekend although I graded about 10 author projects while I was there. Bob's boat was a major attraction Saturday afternoon and evening.

The Loyalsock

the back of the cabin where most of the action took place

Gwenna and Cordell taking their turn to enjoy Bob's boat

Warren grills the pork chops for Saturday evening supper

under the careful scrutiny of Paul, Austin, and Clair.

Josiah and Cordell show off their roasted crayfish.

Liberty Martin

Besides Teaching

Every year there are numerous responsibilities that we as teachers have in addition to teaching. As the freshmen homeroom teacher, I am responsible to chaperone the spring freshmen social. That class is rather inexperienced in planning and carrying out such activities, but this particular class has good student council members. These three young teens took their responsibility well: they planned the games and meal, gave leadership to the group throughout the evening, and cleaned up after the social was over. That was five hours of activity that they were responsible for, but they put in more hours than that in planning and preparing for the evening.

The EGG Toss

Oops! She missed the egg, but the egg didn't miss her!

Unity supper

Newspaper Scavenger Hunt

Free time between games was rather noisy and active.