Away From Home
May 15th -- The Beebes
"Welcome from the land of cloudy
weather,"
All week it has been fairly hazy and
cloudy, Sunday is no exception. Weep not -- it is still
85-89 degrees. I don't know how it does that down here
and I just finished 2 weeks of a Weather Unit in my
classroom. Must be a third-grade issue. Next week is the
Oreo Cookie writing project as we are officially in that
period where the kids' heads are just about full up and
all the cute stuff I do gets a "been there done that
reaction."
This past week we read Cloudy with a
Chance of Meatballs and did the pizza dough recipe
challenge. The kids had to write down a recipe
with everything in order and correctly. The
challenge was that at the end of the week I drew a
recipe from a hat and whatever it said to do... I made
it. Fortunately I drew a recipe that didn't get
the 4 cups of flour mixed up with the 2 Tbs. of salt.
When I make the dough, I adopt the good
old Julia Child technique and falsetto voice. (The
one I used to get Sissy to take a bath when she was
little). Well the boys in the class were stunned
and kept muttering about the "girl" voice. So I
asked the boys whether they had a problem with girls --
a touchy question in 2nd grade. There was a moment
of silence and Alejandro Panizo piped up, "We don't have
a problem with girls Mr B. We have a problem with
YOU being a girl." It brought the house down.
The pizza dough came out great, and the
writing project as a whole went very well.
Quiet week on the home front. The girls
are slowly packing up all the knickknacks, and we
watched "Because of Winn Dixie" at the movies. So it's
on to Oreos and 5 more weeks of school.
Ajo, Keith
From
Carrie Gentile...
My dear friends,
Colorado had surprised us with snow in
May!
I attended the Soulforce protest on Focus
on the Family in Colorado Springs. It was quite a
moving experience for me. I met lots of nice people.
The best part was the opportunity to
visit with Pastor Tom, Summer and Jennifer, and Vickie
and her daughter Natalie. It was like being back at a
coffee hour at SUCC. Oh how I miss those Sunday morning
coffee and friendship get-togethers.
I was also happy to see the Hills and
Frank Iuro and to meet AJ. I also had the opportunity to
meet the Hills' son Troy who lives here in Denver.
Tom shared with me all the wonderful new
things that are happening back in Suquamish.
Soulforce plans another protest next
summer in Colorado Springs, and I plan to attend and
hope some of my Suquamish friends will too.
On April 4, 2005, my grandson was born --
David George Hackett the second. He is a welcome
addition to our family.
Kyleigh and Jessica both got braces two
weeks ago! They are doing quite well with them.
Hope all is well...maybe I will get to
Washington next summer.
Love and blessings to all,
Carrie
M. Gentile
