Last week of school

The kids last day of school was last week.  School not only ended with the Olympics, but also with spirit week.

Dress like a teacher day

Crazy Hair Day

Team Jersey Day

The last week of school also included the end of the year program.  This included the kids singing some special songs,  each teacher passing out awards for their class and recognizing teachers. 

Olivia and Miriam

Olivia receiving her class award.

Olivia, Josiah and Joseph receiving their Olympics certificates.

Josiah receiving his class award.

Olympics

Every year, to end the school year, NSMS hosts the Olympics for the kids.  It started the week before with the ever-popular egg drop.   Then, the day of the Olympics they split the kids into 2 teams and give them time to come up with a team flag and cheer.  I wish I had a video of Josiah and Olivia's team cheer because it was hilarious! The kids both broke school records - Josiah in the 40 meter dash (we don't have enough room to run 50!) and Olivia in the long jump and the 40 meter dash.   A fun time was had by all!

Can you tell our kid's eggs didn't break?!

Team cheer,  it was something to do with Ninjas in case you can't tell.

Football accuracy

Long Jump

40 meter dash

Jump Rope

#1 fan

Character Day & The Pinewood Derby

The kids have been busy.  A while back they had "character day" at school.  They decided that they were going as a pair.  Can you guess who they were?

Yep, they love Calvin and Hobbes as much as their parents!  Josiah is Calvin (he wanted me to dye his hair!) and Olivia is Suzy Durkins.

The next activity was the semi-annual pinewood derby.  The kids (and dad) did a great job on their cars.  They are both super creative.

Calvin & Hobbes are ready for the race!

Pure joy!

Not sure what we're going to do without our "race guy" Ron!

Josiah's Flight

Josiah was able to go with Chad on an emergency flight a while back.  It's always fun to see a flight through his eyes with his pictures.  He LOVES to see me post his photos on here with his name as the photographer.  Enjoy!

This is from a different day when we visited a local "zoo".....they are too good not to share them with you!

Chad flew a girl, not too long ago, that had been bitten by one of these!  Those are some serious teeth!

First day of school

Last Thursday was the first day of school at Nate Saint Memorial School.  I think summers are getting shorter and shorter!

The school was blessed to have enough teachers, as the newest "recruit" arrived last Monday!   We were so excited to have Mrs. Johnson agree to come out of retirement, all the way from Canada, to teach Josiah's class.   Please pray for next semester, as the Johnson's have only agreed to be here until January.  If you are a teacher and are feeling like God is wanting to S T R E T C H you, would you consider teaching at NSMS?  Whether it's this year or next - we would love to have you!

Carnival

Yesterday marked the end of Carnival.   Carnival is the celebration immediately before lent.   It's an excuse to party before you have to give everything up for lent!  Here in Ecuador it's all about water fights, which sometimes can turn into people throwing oil, eggs, flour, etc.  Anyone on the street is fair game!  At Nate Saint Memorial school we have a water day the Friday before Carnival.   The kids love it!  They split into two teams and have organized games until the very end, and then it's a free for all!

 

 

Josiah loves his teacher!

 

The feeling is mutual!

 

Hat Day

NSMS had "hat day" on Friday. Olivia was a bunny and Josiah, of course, picked a football theme.




Josiah's teacher posted this picture on Facebook and had this to say...."This looks like the start of a bad joke: a football player, a cowboy, and a clone trooper sat down for Science class...can you finish it?"!!

Karate

There aren't too many options here for extra-curricular activities. So, when a karate "studio" opened up in Shell we were pretty excited. The kids just got their uniforms last week in time for Grandma to take some pictures. By the way, our kids are the "fair skinned" ones!








Olivia and Josiah are in the front of the video. The other two "fair skinned" kids are fellow MAF kids.