When I was thinking what to title this post, the song that is sung on the train in the movie "White Christmas" kept playing in my head for some odd reason. So, you should be singing the title, not yelling it.
This was the only picture I managed to snap of the snow that blanketed Cache Valley the latter end of the week...of our side-yard...I wasn't going out in that! Not to mention it was foggy...lame excuses I know, the valley was beautiful, so just use your imagination.
To my knowledge, snow was not in the forecast for this past week. Two weeks ago, our church leaders announced that our Stake had been asked to join together in Fast and prayer the first Sunday of February. The focus for this group Fast was for the valley to receive much needed precipitation. On that Fast Sunday, and through the beginning of the week, we heard stories of other Stakes asked to Fast for the same purpose. I wasn't at all surprised when the cold, white flakes started to fall, but did get the chills. I was surprised that Logan got 12" in 48 hours! And it continued to lightly snow and rain after that. I believe that's more precipitation than we've received all season!
Needless to say, church leaders that are in-tune with the Holy Spirit are inspired. Congregation members that are willing to act and pray in faith receive answers. And many are blessed. What an amazing testimony builder for so many.
Little Wof W
Context: There is a cute story about Beethoven (Ludwig Van ;) ) that I have been reading with a couple of my elementary school students to expand vocabulary, make connections and inferences, and work on non-fiction story comprehension. For a pre-reading activity, we drew a graphic organizer on the whiteboard with black that we were going to write everything we already knew about Beethoven, then after the story we were going to use blue to fill in more of the organizer with things we learned. I got almost the exact same response from two different students in two different groups:
'Today we're going to read a story about Beethoven; what do you already know about him?'
"Hmmm...well, I know there's a movie about him...."
I have my black marker to the board about to write 'in movies' when they continue...
"...and he's a dog. Like a really big dog. And umm...well, I don't really remember why he's important, he saves people or something...."
Love the way my students make connections :).
*Disclaimer: "Dog" was not written on the graphic organizer. Also, it was full of flashy blue :).
Little Wof W
Context: There is a cute story about Beethoven (Ludwig Van ;) ) that I have been reading with a couple of my elementary school students to expand vocabulary, make connections and inferences, and work on non-fiction story comprehension. For a pre-reading activity, we drew a graphic organizer on the whiteboard with black that we were going to write everything we already knew about Beethoven, then after the story we were going to use blue to fill in more of the organizer with things we learned. I got almost the exact same response from two different students in two different groups:
'Today we're going to read a story about Beethoven; what do you already know about him?'
"Hmmm...well, I know there's a movie about him...."
I have my black marker to the board about to write 'in movies' when they continue...
"...and he's a dog. Like a really big dog. And umm...well, I don't really remember why he's important, he saves people or something...."
Love the way my students make connections :).
*Disclaimer: "Dog" was not written on the graphic organizer. Also, it was full of flashy blue :).
