Monday, September 26, 2005

walkin with a rope


last week, we had a school-wide assembly for peace day, including all the jr high students from the farm school and all the little ones attending the montessori in redlands.  while we were walking to the assembly, i gasped when i saw the kids - LOOK!  HOW FUNNY!!!  THEY’RE ALL TIED UP!!!  then someone explained it to me, and i thought it was really cute the way they walked the kids over - what they do is have a rope with loops in it, and the students put their hands through the loop.  they can hold the rope, or just have their hand there, suspended by the loop in the rope, and they all walk together.  not once did i see any of the kids take off in another direction - they were all guided by this rope. it didn’t necessarily pull anyone along, i think it just slowly guided them.  they even had the 18-month-olds walking like this too!  it was such a simple trick, but it worked to keep all the students together.  amazingness…

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Friday, September 23, 2005

picasso

nicole, chris, ellie, & courtney pose as a picasso painting
so today was field trip friday, and i planned a digital photo scavenger hunt for my students.  one of the items on the scavenger hunt list was to recreate a famous piece of art, and some of the students posed as “the thinker” while wearing halloween costumes in the middle of walmart (2 other items they needed to cross off their list).  however, i think this is my favorite pic of all the ones submitted - these four decided to re-create a picasso painting.

aren’t my students cool?

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Thursday, September 22, 2005

spider mom

spider & egg sac
when cleaning out my classroom before school began, i found this nice little surprise in the room divider between my room and the bio-kim’s classroom…

a spider mom and her egg-sac she was so lovingly guarding!

but, for the safety of my students (and my sanity!), i made the guys take the egg sac outside and destroy it.  i know, i know, i’m mean, i kill parts of nature… but hey, y’know, spiders are poisonous in these here parts, and i don’t wanna risk it!  it turned out to be a black widow, by the way, according to the guys, since i wouldn’t go close to that thing…

i never thought i’d be a wimp about stuff like this, but it turns out i am.  KILL ALL SPIDERS!  hey, when you live amongst black widows and brown recluse spiders (yup, our old house had it’s fair share of both types...), you start getting a little defensive and a little less protective of nature.

Posted by kgrp on 09/22 at 06:20 PM
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

naruto

carlo & me at bob's big boys
just pullin’ this pic from way in the archives (try 9 months ago!)... we were at bob’s big boys with my 50 cousins waiting to be seated… and ryan had this naruto headband thingie that i tried on.  you shoulda seen the craziness with all of us waiting in the front - all the guys pinching each other’s nipples, everyone being all loud, and just plain filipino crazy loudness, y’know?  fun times…

Posted by kgrp on 09/21 at 07:44 AM
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Monday, September 19, 2005

done with work

okay, so it’s already 5pm, and i’m still at school - grading and recording work! at least i’m done with 4 of my 5 classes that i teach, so i think i’m gonna call it a day and go home and take a much needed nap!!!

*sigh* the life of a teacher… class gets out at three, yes, but my responsibilities go way beyond that. i still need to lesson plan for the rest of the week! *sigh*

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Sunday, September 18, 2005

basketball league

ted shoots the free throw
my sundays since the end of july have been occupied playing in the basketball league at the llfc gym… i play with gayle, jaylene, lala, christine, ‘sissy’, natalie, ashley, denise, and i’m not sure if i’m forgetting someone else.  the youth league is in the morning, and then us girls play every week at 2, followed by 5 hours of the guys league… i took this picture 2 weeks ago at ted’s game - he was on fire! and he kept on dancing after each shot he made… his special patented teddy dance =) hahahah!  he’s awesome

today’s game should be pretty intense - we’re the only undefeated girls team, and we’re up against the varsity for the second time!  they play together all the time - and their parents get pretty intense - and there was even pushing involved last time!  yikes… but at least we’ll draw a good crowd =) hahaha… hopefully everything goes ok this time, and no trouble… but also hopefully we’ll win =)

if you can, come on out and support - be there at 2!  cya…

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Friday, August 19, 2005

yay! puen.net is up!

i’ve been thinking about putting up this page for years, and this week, i finally bought the name, got a webhost, and everything else… right now it’s my personal blog but i will be putting up family website stuff here and moving my blog to http://kimi.puen.net or something like that, once i figure out how to make subdomains =)

but yah, just wanted to say what great news this is! =)

Posted by kgrp on 08/19 at 03:34 PM
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