fun ended

After having such a fun day with my new machine I had a really bad one! Somehow I got the end of the towel I was working on looped back and under the needle so that I did a lovely embroidery on two layers, totally encasing the hoop in the folded towel. Nothing to do but take it apart, cut the towel in half, and throw it away. I was ticked!! Decided to be cool .... turned the machine off and went downstairs and outside to sit in the sun and fresh air for a while. No sense in getting all hot and bothered! Mistakes/accidents do happen!
I survived!

Class today was ok -- only 3 students showed up and two were late and one got a phone call during class and left for 5 minutes. Very annoying!

We talked about long and short e, read a short story about Laura Ingles Wilder, looked through her books, and did a short exercise based on the story. Alphabetizing some of the new words,
matching words and definitions.

After that, and after they read their journals, we talked about some of the words that had been in the news this past week. Words like....half-mast....military base....lockdown.....friendly fire...shelter in place. (That last one didn't refer to Ft. Hood, but we hear it a lot around here when there is a chemical leak around one of the refineries. We also hear lockdown around here.)

They only vaguely knew about what happened at Ft. Hood last week. I guess if you don't speak the language well you miss a lot.

F was doing much better pronouncing the short a sound.