You blinked, didn’t you?
May 28, 2008 Leave a comment
And now you can't find the picture of Kelsey on the farm (on the home page) on the school website? Yes, that is the one problem: they are too darn good at keeping the site updated!
So, instead you probably clicked through to a picture of the older kids at Glacier Bay. They took a field trip there last week after working for almost a month to earn the 130,000 ISK (that's $1780 to those of you in the States). They washed cars, babysat, walked dogs, held a yard sale (for which our movers are supremely grateful), hosted a restaurant night at the school and taught basketball.
The kids worked tirelessly around their regular classes to raise the money for their trip. They met their goal and hired a bus to take them to the Glacial Lagoon for a one day trip. It may not seem academic to some, but I was very impressed with both the efforts of the kids and the organizational skills of their teacher (Cait's second grade teacher).
Lest you think poor Cait was the only one not going on a field trip, that is not at all true. Grades 3-5 had a surprise trip to the farm this past Monday. I have attached a photo of Cait and a new friend. As you can guess, this is pretty much all we heard about Monday night. I