Up at 05:30 for a substitute teaching assignment for Amy in the fourth grade
at St. George, I was out of the house before seven o'clock. Chairs were set up under a sun/rain shelter near the flagpole for the guests who were attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the "miracle gym". Amy was a very big part of the planning and fundraising for the gym so she was going to be busy with the setting up of the ceremony and smoozing with the dignitaries and contributors, so I would be trying to keep her fourth grade students on track with their math and social studies. So we did some math and had recess and did some other stuff and by then it was time for the groundbreaking. Archbishop Brunnett, Bishop Tyson, Fr. Fellino, deacons, Knights of Columbus, and altar servers processed in between lines of older students wearing their sports champions t-shirts. The fourth grade, with help from older choir members had a
couple of songs to sing. Mrs. O, the bishops, Amy, and a representative from the Shea family, the major contributor to the gym project, all made short speeches. The Archbishop blessed the grounds and two teams of nine each took ceremonial shovelfuls of dirt. The only downer was the rain which had held off all morning until the ceremony. Most of the guests were under shelter but the students were outside; the bishop finally had them all squeeze under the rain shelters. The groundbreaking was followed by a reception for the guests in the school hall while the students went back to their classrooms for lunch. In the afternoon, the fourth graders worked on their Washington State History "books" for literacy day. At the end of the day there was a ton of food left over from the reception and I took home some chicken satay skewers and some sandwiches.
at St. George, I was out of the house before seven o'clock. Chairs were set up under a sun/rain shelter near the flagpole for the guests who were attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the "miracle gym". Amy was a very big part of the planning and fundraising for the gym so she was going to be busy with the setting up of the ceremony and smoozing with the dignitaries and contributors, so I would be trying to keep her fourth grade students on track with their math and social studies. So we did some math and had recess and did some other stuff and by then it was time for the groundbreaking. Archbishop Brunnett, Bishop Tyson, Fr. Fellino, deacons, Knights of Columbus, and altar servers processed in between lines of older students wearing their sports champions t-shirts. The fourth grade, with help from older choir members had a
couple of songs to sing. Mrs. O, the bishops, Amy, and a representative from the Shea family, the major contributor to the gym project, all made short speeches. The Archbishop blessed the grounds and two teams of nine each took ceremonial shovelfuls of dirt. The only downer was the rain which had held off all morning until the ceremony. Most of the guests were under shelter but the students were outside; the bishop finally had them all squeeze under the rain shelters. The groundbreaking was followed by a reception for the guests in the school hall while the students went back to their classrooms for lunch. In the afternoon, the fourth graders worked on their Washington State History "books" for literacy day. At the end of the day there was a ton of food left over from the reception and I took home some chicken satay skewers and some sandwiches.
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