October is a fun month here. The leaves are changing colors and dropping to the ground. The red, orange, and yellow are so pretty to see! Fall is my favorite season of the year. It cools down nicely and is so pretty.
We have been busy with K.C. and his Fall sports. He started 10th grade this year and is very good in school (we have parent/teacher conferences next week, but he has already told me he has 4 A’s and 1B – in History). He also plays the drums in the Marching Band so he performs at the half time shows at the high school football games. When he is not doing playing drums he is playing soccer. He plays on the Junior Varsity (J.V.) team this year. He is number 21 in the picture below. Soccer season just ended and the team did GREAT!! He is now looking forward to Basketball season – tryouts are next month.
Jack loves school – he calls his daycare ‘school, I play with friends.’ He is doing well. He is drawing, painting, and playing three days a week while I go to work. He is really increasing his vocabulary and starting to talk in complete sentences! He is cuter than EVER!!
This past weekend we went to a Halloween event. There is a little re-creation of an old time village in Flint (about an hour from the house) that has about 20 little houses like a bakery, a blacksmith, a library, a school house, etc. At Halloween time they have people dress up and pass out candy (they do a similar thing at Greenfield Village). The kids (and some parents) dress up in costumes and ‘Trick-or-Treat’ at each house. The idea is that the people in the house give a Treat or they get a Trick played on them (no one really does the tricks anymore, but they used to be like throwing eggs at houses, soaping car windows, putting toilet paper all over the houses) so everyone gets lots of candy. Afterwards we went on a train ride there that had Halloween displays like witches, ghosts, and monsters in the woods. It wasn’t scary for Jack he thought it was fun!! Jack dressed up as Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story and K.C. was Woody. Officially Halloween is October 31st, but most places do these events earlier in the month so that everyone gets to have fun.
Next week I will be going to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (aect). This is an international educational technology organization and each year they have a conference to share ideas and network. If you have a chance to go to this type of conference – GO!! You might have a chance next semester. One of my professors at Wayne State, my advisor actually, is going to a variety of universities (including in Taiwan) and sharing knowledge. If you hear of Dr. Ke Zhang from WSU, go and meet her and tell her you know me!!
Let me know what you are up to,
See you soon,
Stacey
Dear teacher:
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sending these wonderful photos of Ali mountain. They are so beautiful. I am getting very excited and happy about your Bolg. The weather there is beginning to be cool. The trees are changing their colors to red, yellow, and brown.I hope that I can see the Fall's views.
The wonderful photos. You all look so beautiful.
Very soon I will read the contents of your Bolg comprehensionly. Fanny Tsai
Best to you and your family.
I wish I would have a chance to see the different sceneries of Michigan in fall. Here in Taiwan is getting cooler and cooler as well, and it makes me feel much more comfortable, because we don't have air conditioning in our classroom.
ReplyDeleteK.C. really has got good grades and Jack is truly cute and adorable in that BUZZ LIGHT YEAR costume. Being a Mom, Stacey must be very satisfied.
I was a trumpet player when I was in the senior high school, but I always wanted to be a drum player in our school band. My teacher chose me to play the trumpet just because I have a small mouth, doesn't it sound funny?
Usually I teach students the origin of Halloween and how to say "trick-or-treat" chants or rhymes, but this year I'm way too busy to prepare the lessons and change the decorations in my classroom.
Teaching is sometimes chellenging, but sometimes tiring.
Anyway, Happy Halloween to everyone!!!
Dear Stacey:
ReplyDeleteK.C. plays the drums and performs the football games. He has much talent. He plays soccer on the Junior Varsity (J.V.). Number 21 is great. Great! Great! How is he in basketball season. So you are busying. I think that Jack is popular in daycare ‘school. I am happy to hear that he can talk complete sentences! He is cuter than EVER!! Best regards for you and your families
Dear Staceyyyyyy,
ReplyDeleteHAHA! Jack is really cuttttte in that costume and so is K.C.!!! I can't wait to see them next year. I'm happy to know something u wrote about Holloween in the USA. My students must love to know that (even to put those tricks into practice ^^).
There are some classes suspended because H1N1. So....sometimes we have to go to school on weekends :( It really mekes me and students exhausted. I hope everything will get better and better!
Lily, Lily, and lots of Lilies :)
ReplyDeleteIf you click on the pictures you can get a larger version and show your students the boys :)
I hope that you are not working many weekends -- it is unbelievable that you would be asked to do that -- there is no way we would do that here in the US (the only thing we might do is go longer in the summer, but even then only a few WEEK days) You are a strong woman!!