The Christmas Break brought gifts from our custodial and maintenance department. Improvements to our floor, the heating system, and carpeting all brought us much cheer. The floor in the Elem Room was cleaned and waxed and is now looking much brighter. It is a temporary fix as the floor will ultimately be replaced, but it gave the room such a face lift. The heating system, which was overworking and keeping us in tropical conditions for months now, has been redone, and we now have a working thermostat, that we can control! Imagine my glee when I checked in just before school started up again in January and saw the temperature reading about 71 degrees F. We had been consistently at 86 degrees F for a long while. Funny, but we got used to that, and I have found the need to dig out my boxes of winter clothes and keep an SCS sweatshirt on the back of my chair for when I feel cold now, and I have been wearing sweaters and long sleeves regularly again.
The pillows all came back to my house for a run through the washer and dryer, and our office rug got a cleaning too.
The floor waxing resulted in an unintentional mishap as 42 books were accidentally damaged when they came in contact with a floor wax spill. God has a way of turning losses into gains, and we have been humbled to see the book, video and DVD donations pouring in this week from multiple sources, beginning on the very day we got back from vacation and started to assess the damage. Useful, gently used items valuing easily as much as or probably significantly more than the amount of what we lost have been coming our way without any recent pitch from us. Our state allocation order also came in, all pre-processed, and in short order Mrs. Nunez has those 172 new books ready to hit the shelves, as well as some of the donated materials.
Other newsworthy events...
...The Picturing America exhibit has been "flipped" to show the images on the "A" sides of the posters. If you haven't seen them, come in and take a look.
...Our BrainPOP subscription was approved, and students had a chance to be our "beta testers" over vacation. Since we have been back, several teachers and classes have already been making use of the wonderful educational resources on there. BrainPOP is a web-based educational site, with resources for grades k-12. We have 24 hour access for BrainPOP (gr. 3-12), BrainPOP jr., BrainPOP espanol, and are beta testing BrainPOP ESL.
...We added to our Bible study materials with great Bible reference materials, and are looking to add more.
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