Sarah Grubisic led our morning devotion time. She read from the
Children's Daily Prayer the opening information about Saint Vincent de Paul. She also led us in our prayer time together. Thank you Sarah.

For religion time, we referred to the Gospel lesson from Matthew: "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." We are called to pray for workers in God's garden of humanity. As we pray, we become more tuned to hear God's call to us. Father Frank's homily today reminded me to not "load" ourselves up with the stuff we think we need, but rather keep our lives simple (and more free) so we will place our trust in God.

In Geography 7, students finished their geography term definitions and drawings. If not completed in class today, it is homework. The due date is tomorrow.

6th Grade Math students are working on the "checking for understanding" page 23. They are assigned problems 3-13. This is due tomorrow. We are soon ready for the end of the unit test. But, I feel that students still need double-digit division practice so will provide some extra practice problems before the test. Students have shown progress positioning numbers correctly in double-digit multiplication. I am calling when students need the benefit of support at home. Please call me if you have concerns.
Because of all-school liturgy practice, students will present hunter/gatherer visuals tomorrow. Thursday is the due date.

8th grade English students wrote journal responses to "trust" partnership. They were asked to answer the question: What if your life depended on the trust relationship with your partner? How does that raise the stakes of a relationship?
After journal writing, students were given the beautiful necklaces and bracelets we received from Father Michael Kellett. He was one of the Franciscan missionaries from the Amazon River Basin who gave a presentation to the jr. high two weeks ago. In response to our letters of thanks, Father Mike sent necklaces made by the Munduruku Indian People of the Amazon. The little figures were carved out of a small nut of a certain type of palm tree, called "tucuma." The seeds are from a jungle plant. Fishing line is used to string the nuts and seeds. We are grateful and thrilled for these gifts; the people of Brazil are close to our hearts. We will continue to pray daily for Father Mike and Father Alex and their ministry in Brazil.