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Goodbye and Good Luck

I just want to say goodbye and good luck to Jon and Noreen.  They’ve finished their year at Little Campus.  They’re back to the UK for a while.  They are thinking of coming back to teach at a public school.  No matter what they do decide to do, I’m thankful for the opportunity to get [...]

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Liberation Day

Happy Liberation Day!  August 15 is the celebration of the liberation of Korea from the Japanese.
I recently read “When My Name Was Keoko” by Linda Sue Park.  It’s a fictional account of a family living in Korea during the Japanese occupation.  I highly enjoyed it and I think it would be a good book for [...]

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The Gingerbread Man

I just finished reading “The Gingerbread Man” with a group of my 1st graders.  It’s one of my mini-traditions to have someone ship me gingerbread cookies/gingersnaps so my kids can taste them.  I took some my Dad brought with him last Thursday.  They were a big hit with the class.  I passed out the left [...]

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