It has been a busy start to 2012! Here are some of things that have been happening in the past few weeks.
Visitors are a normal part of life at CSC. It is always fun for them to be able to get to know our kids and experience a little of life at CSC. During the past few weeks, we have had many visitors. Starting in the first week of January, a group of 9 arrived from my hometown of Cambridge, MN. It was cool to see how many connections we had- two of the couples had daughters that graduated with me. One of the men was my high school principal and his wife was one of the teachers at my college. She helped teach a few of my science classes while she was here and the kids had a blast engineering spinning tops and puff mobiles.
We have had many other fun activities at school as well. Both Level A and Level B have presented their morning meetings. The kids performed songs and dances for the audience, and we all played a few games. The Level B performed a shadow play to the story “Esther” from the Bible. It was the first time any of our classes had done that and it was really neat to see how it all came together!
My reading class, Level C2, just began a reading unit entitled, “Going West”. In it we learn about cowboys, Indians, and what life was like in the western United States in the 1800s. It is a fascinating unit and the kids always enjoy it! Two weeks ago we read about the buffalo. Our culminating activity for that every year is to “hunt” buffalo ourselves. We have a styrofoam cut out of a buffalo and some bows and arrows. The kids had a blast trying to aim and hit the buffalo. Admittedly, none of us were very good. Jonjon was probably our best hunter, but I think overall we would need a lot more practice if we truly wanted to survive on buffalo meat.
So far in January five of our kids have celebrated their birthdays. At one of the birthday parties, I sat near two of our newest kids. These sisters both agree that they do NOT like vegetables. After some convincing, both of them went up and got a small amount of vegetables on their plates. Here is a picture of the first bite. Notice the plugged nose. :-)
Amazingly enough, she ended up going back to get 3 more helpings of vegetables. I guess they aren’t so bad after all!! 
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