Open House

Wednesday night was open house at school. That's the time the parents are invited to visit all the classrooms to see projects and visit with teachers. My kids love this night. They're so excited to show us their artwork and such. Plus some rooms serve cookies. Here's Tyler with his teacher, Mrs. Yarborough.

Spencer came straight from a hockey game (they lost, but Spencer got 3 goals!); here he is with his teacher, Mrs. Skinner.

He was very happy to see that his invention won first place in his class! All the 5th graders have to invent something, and they have judges come in during the day to talk to all the students about their projects. That's the highlight of open house night. We always love to walk around all the 5th grade classes to check out the inventions. Anyway, Spencer invented this thing that stops the spread of oil spills until they can be cleaned up. It's a series of buoys that surround an oil spill and pump soap into the center to prevent the oil from spreading. (Thank-you for helping him, Troy. The irrigation soakers worked great!) He got extra credit for inventing something that helps the environment. His majorly environmental teacher was very pleased.

I always like to get pictures of my boys with their teachers at open house, but Dallin's teacher Mrs. Young has been gone for a month because her son was recently diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. We hope she can come back soon; Dallin misses her so much, and he prays for her and her son at every prayer. Here's our wonderful principal, Mr. Yee. We LOVE him!! He knows all the families at the school by name, and he even subs when needed. His favorite subject to teach is math.

As we were leaving they had to show us what they do every day after school. This explains why they come home soaking wet every day.