School News

News from school, a former student of mine won first place in a National Art Contest for the International Child Art Foundation. This link will take you to see the drawing it is the 6th from the top. http://www.childartgallery.org/usagalleryfinals/index.htm My student's name is Derreon Woods. Anyway, he and I and our art teacher were all invited to Washington DC in June for this annual art festival. They also asked me to write an article for their magazine called CHILD ART. I submitted my article so hopefully it will be published.

Also, our class and Ms. Kozlen's class, the other 7th grade class, made a video for this morning radio personality named Cornbread. You can see the video on www.wil92.com and click on cornbread's world and then cornflicks. You will need to upload the SLAM video. It is really funny. We made it in response to Cornbread's challenge to the St. Louis SLAM women's football team of which Ms. Kozlen is a member. He challenged the team to a man vs woman rumble on Wednesday 4/25 at CBC high school. For two weeks he has been talking about how he would run over those SLAM women and we made a video to show him what he is up against. Really funny stuff!

On another note, MAP testing is over, YAHOOOOOO! Now only 6 weeks till summer. The countdown has begun.

Recent Events

Posing in front of Lincoln in Springfield, IL

Justin and Sparky on Sparky's 3rd birthday.

Adam at the Blue and Gold Cub Scout Banquet


I have been promising to post some recent pics of events from the past few months and finally here they are. The Springfield trip was fun and quite educational. We have been taking the kids on little SPring Break Trips that have an educational aspect to them for a few years now. We have been to Chicago, Louisville, KY, and Hannibal, MO in the last few years. I am already starting to think about where to go next year. Maybe Memphis or Kansas City??

Adam was very proud of his Cub Scout banquet, he earned his Tiger and Bobcat ranks and is eager to participate next year.

Of course I had to include a picture of my Sparky boy. He is truly mom's best friend. Recently he and the kids and Bob went to the Ozarks for a few days with grandma and grandpa while I stayed home and worked. When they returned Sparky was so happy to see me, he jumped in the air, wagged his tail and licked my face for quite some time. Everyone else was pretty happy to see me but I sure could tell that my Sparky baby missed me.