Monthly Archives: February 2010

Daily Photo, February 25, 2010

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Reading to Headstart
Reading to Headstart

Reading to Kids

This morning I took the opportunity to go to the local Headstart school and read a story to a group of four-year-old kids.

The service project was presented to my Rotary Club and I signed up not really knowing what to expect. They were recruiting readers for all of their classes this week.

I arrived 5 minutes early, checked in, and was taken to a nearby classroom. The book (about 15 illustrated pages long with a couple of sentences at the bottom of each page) had already been selected. The teachers gathered the kids and I read the story. The whole process took maybe 15 minutes and I was finished.

The classroom had a teacher, two teen-age volunteers, and two other adults to assist. There were about fifteen kids in the class. One of them refused to come over for the story and hid behind a bookcase. I told the story (instead of reading it) in a loud voice so he could hear. About halfway through the story he emerged and moved into his assigned place so he could hear the rest of the story.

The story itself, for an adult, was very inane. It told about a Saturday when it rained and how grumpy everyone got until the rain stopped and the sun came out. The teacher told me after I finished the story that the kids were next going to finger paint pictures of “happy” and “sad” based on the story I had just read. As I left they were setting up the finger paints for the kids, most of whom seemed quite excited to make a picture from the story.

That was definitely a good experience!

Olympics, Missionaries, and Other Stuff

Roland's Rambling Random Ruminations
  1. My sister-in-law Pamela has been blogging literally every day this year. I’m really impressed. That’s some great dedication, S-i-L!
  2. I’m kind of being a bachelor as Nina is currently in Chandler, Arizona visiting with our daughter Jaelene and family. She’ll be there long enough to go to a baseball Spring Training game. That should be a lot of fun.
  3. Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon our oldest grandson Christopher, who is preparing to leave on an LDS Church mission to Singapore / Malaysia, came up from North Salt Lake to spend the evening and this morning with me. I had a great time … he’s a fine young man and really fun to be with. He went with me to my weekly Rotary Club meeting, then went along as we did our weekly Amateur Radio Emergency Service radio network exercise. We then had dinner at Chili’s and ended the evening watching the woman’s Olympics short program on TV. He went back home early this afternoon.
  4. The Olympics have definitely dominated my time since they started. I love the winter Olympics and the competition has been outstanding. This year I’ve been very impressed with the snowboarding events. What a great addition to the Olympics.
  5. Last Sunday grandson Christopher was the featured speaker in his Ward’s Sacrament Meeting. He had about a half-hour of time available to him and he used it to perfection. Even though I’m a bit biased, that was one of the best departing-missionary talks I’ve ever heard. Since Nina was going from there to Chandler, we drove down in two cars. I went over to Soda Springs to pick up my mother so she could be there for Christopher’s talk. She really enjoyed the visit. We stayed until Monday morning and came back north while Nina went south.

And that’s the way it is. Ta Ta for Now!