Back in the Saddle Again!

It is Spring here and everything is starting into full bloom!

          Camp and parent-teacher conferences have come and gone. They both have gone very well, praise the Lord! We only have a few weeks left in this semester! As we work hard, the time seems to fly faster and faster! This week we have many exciting things going on! In science we are making a family tree of genetic traits, 3-D diagrams of mitosis, and discovering about the body plans and means of acquiring food for different organisms. In math we have just started to dive into multiplication and division for our two grades! A daunting task for some of the students, but we have started well and the students are really getting excited!

Red Team boys from camp! Apart of the winning team! Go RED!

           I have also started to attend a Spanish church regularly and am truly enjoying the community and opportunity to worship in Spanish. Some of the missionary family that attend the school have planted this church and it has been growing at an exciting rate. While it is still rather small more people seem to attend each week. The church is appropriately named, Mi Esperanza, my hope!

Prayer Requests:

Some of my girls being girls!

- One of my students has had to suddenly leave my class on Friday. Her family needed to leave Paraguay and return to the US. Her father is having severe heart problems and is in need of open heart surgery. Unfortunately this decision had to be made quickly and the children did not get to say goodbye to their friends or the class. Clearly this has been hard on the family and their return date in unknown. At this point we are to assume that they will not be returning for the rest of the semester and potentially not the next semester either. Please pray for this family, these students, and their mission here in Paraguay.

- Please pray for wisdom into my students that I can best show God’s love to them and help them grow and mature!

Firsts:


Marshmellows are both expensive and
 very rare here. So having them at camp was
 a highlight for many of my students.

 - First Parent- Teacher conferences! This last Friday, I had my first set of conferences for both my 4^th and 5^th grade students. It was quite the day with most of my conferences needing a translator into Spanish and half of those needing a translation from Spanish into Korean, Chinese, or Taiwanese! Not only had that but my team teacher for 4^th and 5^th grade also met in the meetings, since the students have both teachers. This opportunity provided a good team to meet with the parents as we were able to discuss and confirm material together. So each conference was quite the party with so many people in the room! Still the Lord was good, and I do believe that the conferences were able to appropriately convey the information and help us to work together more and build up the relationships together!

The RED GIRLS: First to be ready for chapel to add more point
 for our team! Not that we were competitive or anything! : )