Premier Invitational

April 2-3, 2016

LVPSA played in the Premier Invitational, which their club hosts.  We played so well, the team they were to play last forfeited and headed home. LVPSA '98 won the tournament.

Spring Break 2016

Sunday, March 20, 2016

After church we headed up to Paragoonah to stay the night.  We played games, including Seth's favorite - Apples to Apples, and watched a movie.

Seth and Camryn stayed with Grandma and Grandpa, while Dave and I took Lex up to Price.  They had a fun day going to water aerobics with Grandma (Seth forgot his swim shorts and his jacket so he had to borrow stuff from Grandpa.  The shorts had a hard time staying up.), they rode the horses, in the afternoon it snowed and they even got to make a snowman.

We went up to Price to tour USU Eastern.  We got to walk around the campus and see the classrooms and dorms. We met with the women's soccer coach and Lex got to practice with the team too.  She gave the coach a verbal commitment to come and play for their team. She is excited to be able to go to school in Utah and to continue to play the sport she loves.

We drove back to Paragoonah. We hit a big snowstorm and it was pretty slow going.  We picked up the kids and visited with Grandma and Grandpa for a few minutes and then headed home. It was a short trip but it felt good to have Lex settled on a school.

Friday, March 25, 2016

Lex worked most of Spring Break, but we talked her into getting up early Friday morning to dye eggs.  She painted one for her new school.

The kids are more into painting than dying.

It's definitely more creative, but also more messy!

We made a lot of eggs, A LOT!

That night we had a sleepover with the cousins. We met up with Jo's family at Mountain's Edge Park. The kids played on the playground and we had a picnic dinner. After dinner, they all played a little soccer

and rolled down the grassy hills.

Back at the house, we made a fire and roasted marshmallows

and played games until bedtime.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

The next morning was the Jenkins Family Egg Hunt.  We started with breakfast burritos, which were a lot of work to mass produce, but they were delicious.  Then the teenagers went out to hide the eggs.  Lee put $5 in one of the eggs so the kids were pretty motivated to find them.

The little ones were so cute.

Ryan brought out the confetti eggs - -which are fun but I find that confetti around the house for so long afterwards!

The teens were too cool to play.

Chase, Ethan, Sydney, Lex

It took a while to find so many eggs and the $5 egg was up around the porch roof and was tough to find too. We finally got them all and rounded up all the kids for a picture.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

The kids got new church clothes from the Easter Bunny. It was nice to have a whole week off and we struggled back to school the next day.

Field Day

Friday, March 18, 2016

This year Field Day was early, fairly cool, and had an Olympic theme. Kids were encouraged to decorate a white shirt to represent the country their family came from. Seth made this shirt.

Seth participating in all the activities.

I helped man the gate for parents to sign in and out, ran the prep time movie, and played in the teacher/5th grader softball game.  I got two hit but the PE teacher, who was pitching, caught both of them to get me out - but at least I hit!

Nevada Reading Week

February 29-March 4, 2016

The theme for Reading Week this year was READ: Read Explore And Discover.  We stuck with our year long adventure theme. We kicked off the week early with an assembly where Mr. Wobeck dressed p like Indiana Jones and the kids heard a story, saw the teacher pie-in-the-face from the previous year, and watched PSA's we had made about reading. We were hoping to get there kids excited to participate.

Monday - Monday was Mix and Match Day. We wore awful outfits and the kids played a game where they saw a picture of the teachers with their faces behind their favorite book and they had to guess who was who.

Tuesday - Next was Tops and Toes Tuesday, where we had crazy hair and wore crazy socks. The kids did activities about different authors in their grade levels.

Wednesday - Wordy Shirt Wednesday included a contest to see which kid in each class had the most words on their shirt. Seth wrote the beginning of Wonder on his shirt and won for his class. We also played Book Bingo at the end of the day. 

Thursday - Book Character Day had Seth in our Cat in the Hat costume and I was the mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.  That night was Literacy Night.  The music teacher got sick and I had to run the performances in the MP room.  We had each grade level sing a song about literacy to get more students to come out.  I think it worked and more families came than the previous year.

I took a pic with Bretlyn because she loved my costume so much!

The 4th and 5th graders singing their song.

Friday - For Relax and Read Day kids could wear their pajamas and buddy read with kids from another class. It was an interesting day, because also that day, the administration put out a survey on whether the staff wanted to continue to have a librarian or if they wanted a technology teacher instead. The vote went my way, but it was very discouraging to feel so unappreciated by the administration, especially after all the extra work I had done to make Nevada Reading Week a success.

Throughout the week I told stories around my "campfire" when students visited the library.

I tracked student reading minutes, by putting this chain up around the school.

The students read enough to earn pieing two of the teacher's faces.

Students also could earn a free book and chocolate coins as a "treasure" if they filled a  treasure map up by participating in the activities all week and reading each day.

It's always a rough week but the kids love it!