We continue with the advanced pace at the school heading to the end of the school year. This week we had our normal events like “Reading with Barnabas” and classes, but we added in our Math Competition which I have been working on for the last two months and a sort of surprise school parent…
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Spelling Bee a success!!!! Plus Rashida Jones reads to our kids this week.
It seems every week I have a lot of items to go over in this blog. The first is about the spelling competition I have been preparing for the last two months has finally happened and I have to say it was a big success. I wish I had not been in charge so I…
Teaching Duty, Kids are going to Vomit, How to make a Virtual Mission Trip and Sarah Silverman reads to our Kids
So this week was another very full week at the school. It started with end of month testing and finished with a tribal conflict in the village that required Police presence. Yeah that kind of fun. sometimes it is just exhausting to be at school The first three days were filled with the kids taking…
Weird Weather again and Lily reads to our kids.
This week we encountered some strange weather. After a couple of weeks hitting into the 100s the weather broke Monday afternoon in a strange wind storm that made visibility about 5 feet due to the sand storms. Overnight it started to rain and by the next morning the temperature had dropped to the 50s where…
So much going on!!! Reid Scott with Storyline Online and Lila (friend’s daughter) read our stories this week.
This last week has been overflowing with activity and so many big things started that I am going to have work them all into the next couple of blogs. First up is our normal Reading with Barnabas segment. This week we used two videos. The first was a second video made by my High School…
Our First Successful Virtual Mission Trip from High School Friend’s daughter
I had a friend from high school be the first to help me out with the Virtual Mission Trip I proposed back in June. He recorded his daughter reading Dr. Seuss’s “Hop with Pop.” The kids really enjoyed having someone close to their own age read a story to them. But I think what was…
Snakes, Kevin Costner and Jillian Estelle read our story, bad english books and two surprises
I want to start off this blog on a positive note because it will take a dark turn (for me-you will probably laugh) later. This week our story was read by Kevin Costner and Jillian Estelle and was called “Catching the Moon” written by Crystal Hubbard and illustrated by Randy duBurke. It is the childhood…
Travel, food, churches and having Kiernan Shipka read to our kids
First I thought I would bring up a story I told everyone last June about Kindness and how difficult it was to wake her up on the bus ride home. I really wish I had a video of the teachers trying to wake her up after she fell asleep in the debate class Thursday afternoon. …
Schools out for two weeks so a cleaning i will go
The school is officially on a two week break that started on Monday (technically the school closed on the Friday before but normal weekend activities took place leaving me to the break activities starting on Monday). Part of the two week break will consumed with the required trip out of country. It really is a…
Conversations with Barnabas: Seth; and Viola Davis reads to the kids.
I thought it was time to bring back this segment of the blog now that I have been able to develop some background on many of our kids. So I thought I would introduce you to one of the students at our school. Seth is a young Maasai boy living near our school who most…
Steve and Barnabas 