A Lot of Helping Going On
By Judy Standafer
The first semester of school has been a busy semester of people helping others in the school. At the beginning of the school year, Joanie, the principal’s wife, visited from Washington and helped the early readers in their SFA class.
My class learned all about the periodic table for science and below Katherine helps Helena make a large periodic chart for the hallway.
Our own VBC and AEC president, Ellen, helped to make the school Halloween carnival a success.
As we got ready for Thanksgiving, my junior high math class helped the intermediate class do a scale drawing of turkeys. Tia is asking Molly where to begin drawing.
5 year old Chelsea Ida helps Molly and Alicia learn the body systems by offering to have her body traced to draw and label organ parts.
Both my science classes pretended to be surgeons and nurses. Nurse Julia helps Surgeon Cynthia with her gloves as assistant surgeon Katherine looks on. Nurse Sean helps surgeon Stacey and assistant surgeon Angela with a tough spot working on a hinge joint.
Julia shows visiting district office personnel how the smart board works with an interactive knee replacement surgery.
And finally, the junior and high school help with a practice run of the Christmas Café to open to elders and parents the following two days. Tia takes Lloyd’s order.
It feels good to help each other no matter how old you are.