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  This week it is all about getting back to school.   This is my special aide and her two.  This child is on verge of reading! Yes, finger painting is still a fav. All the children love their new backpacks from Bodynetix. We can read! Yes, soap making!! Marie teaching us about how to make soap. My new plant babies. Cold and wind closed school today. Well, here we are in the second week, half time re entry.  Yesterday   I had the most, 8 kids!  And then today, we are closed!! So much for consistency!! Heat in my place back on.  Broken pipe fixed, and water.  At noon, I heard a big bang, my hotwater tank actually exploded.  The police and fire truck came. They are working on it!! Guess I am sampling all the experience the north can bring. It all continues to be an experience--and I am doing my best to accept every day as it comes because I have decided that this is a one year, one shot deal.  I submitted my resignation for May 30. Hav...

 Hello all What a ride!!  School finally opened on Monday January 31.  We are working only half days.  The grades 3/4 come in the morning, then students go home.  Grades 5/6 come in the afternoon only.  The k-2 will start next week.  School continues to be only half time until further notice.  I do not know what is happening on the secondary side. The school bus is broken, so kids have to get here on their own--so needless to say, attendance has been somewhat spotty.  I had no students on Monday, 1 student yesterday, and 2 students today. Right now, there is one heck of a blizzard.  Winds of 100 miles an hour, and the temperature is about minus 50.  School will be closed until this storm is over.  It is kind of interesting watching the blizzard out my living room window. This morning I took some pictures that hang on the school walls---they tell the story of the history of the place--hard to know how people survived!!  The...