Chapel

Here the 3rd graders are leading the audience with worship songs. The nice tall, skinny lady in the front right is NOT me, in case you're wondering how Cambodia has helped me to grow and slim down! LOL That is our elementary music teacher. :)
Our theme was I John 4:19, 21 We love others because God first loved us!
Pre-K 4 also sang 2 songs. They did such a great job!

Our guest speaker, one my student's dad. He did an awesome job of engaging our students. :)

Students listening quietly

Some of my 3rd graders reaching out for the candy that our speaker threw to the kids

Wanting candy too...

Valentine's Day 2011

3rd Grade had our Valetine Party today!!

broken heart pancakes for snack! We had to break them in half to have enough to go around...

grimace...

Not only can you see my food, you can see my tonsils!

Peace!

diggin' in...

How sweet...she did this on her own initiative, pouring all the soda to pass out to everyone :)

The 3 musketeers....showing the food in our mouth seems to be a theme with the 3rd graders...actually they are just clueless, when you come take pics, they just smile! LOL

look at that delicious food - which they all brought themselves!

these kids LOVE to party!!

flowers from my 3rd graders

The 9th & 10th grades delivering a singing telegram to me from Tim :)

the first time I've ever had a singing telegram delivered!! so sweet and kind of embarrasing...my kids were bummed cuz they were out to recess, so I video recorded it with my camera so they can see
later :)

Oh no! PDA!!!!

Logos Annual Carnival - Feb. 5, 2011

After all that planning, I had to miss it because I was sick! So I used pics from others for this blog. :)
The infamous carnival committee! We had a blast planning it. Boy do I look tall here; now keep in mind I'm only 5'2 1/2" :)

Here's my TA - 3rd grade's Clown Toss

3rd grade Clown Toss

Tim with his 10th graders doing the Jail Face Painting

Here's some of the sheriffs that "arrested" people and brought them into a room for face painting

A teacher showing the kids how it's done!

Indian Cuisine at the carnival

World renown Mango Smoothies made by the 6th grade class! well...mostly by Mrs. Bridell, the teacher's wife :)

Below are pics of the some of the sponsors. Legos

Sarpino's Pizza (a Canadian chain with excellent pizza)!!

World City - new subdivision

Border Clashes/Fighting

Thai, Cambodian clashes resume at disputed border

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/thai-cambodian-clashes-resume-830128.html

We are not close at all to the Thai border and feel safe here in Phnom Penh, but please pray for this issue. Of course we are not the only country with protests and disputes, but this is closest to us. :)

It's been a busy month! Sorry we have been so lax on blogging but most of you have kept up with us on FB. :) I've been sick for the last 2 weeks - started out as a cold and ended up with a sinus infection. It's slowly clearing up. It doesn't help that I continue to go to school and work, but I've never been one to miss school unless I just can't get out of bed. :)

At school I've been helping to plan our yearly school Carnival!! It's been fun, but unfortunately I was too sick on Saturday to attend. Working all week took its toll and by Saturday I had to get some rest. I slept all day and most of the night and it was just what the doctor ordered. I rested on Sunday and did some laundry. But anyways...from what everyone has told me the Carnival was a huge success! I will post a blog later with just carnvial photos and videos :)

This month is a busy one for the third grade! Besides the carnvial, we also have a Valentine's party next Monday, Feb. 14. We always look for an excuse to have a party! :)

Feb. 16, 3rd graders get to lead chapel. Tim and I have misplaced our camera, so hopefully we'll find it by then, will be able to buy a new one, or I will have another teacher take pics. :)

Feb. 22 is our field trip to a zoo, an hour away. Fourth graders are coming with us :)

So we'll have a huge van loaded with about 48 students, 5 teachers and parent chaperones will have to take their own cars! :)

Feb. 25 is Field Day, of which I won't be there because Tim and I already planned our personal day on that day before I knew it was Field Day! But I have a substitute and will insist she take photos. So soon y'all will see many photos on future blogs!

After this month I will be able to breath freely for a bit. We get a few days off in March, then SATs begin late March, early April! Then after we're done with those, we get a whole week off! Whew!!! And after that we'll only have about 6 wks of school left and then we get to come home for 2 months!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!!

I borrowed the video below from a fellow teacher - thanks Bob! I get to see this scene quite often outside my 2nd story classroom window. This was taken from his 3rd story window. :)

This guy is cheating though; he has a ladder attached to the tree. In West Papua New Guinea, where I was born, the villagers used to shimmy up the coconut trees with their bare feet! :)