That gives me a lot of practice so I can kind of catch up to guys who have been playing for 20 years and it helps me see a lot of hands.
It's at points terrifying but again, I have great faith that God will get them through this.
We'll take the good with the bad and move on. I think we were trying to play it too safe, trying to do too many things right and not just having fun and playing the game. We got in that rut and took that nosedive again. We've got to get over that.
You see their faces light up when they finally find an egg and it just makes you feel good. Marshall has a knack for finding eggs, and he should, he's always the one who finds my keys around the house!
Two thousand hands, and everyone of them I could have gone broke on. I really had to pay attention.
The unit really ties in to all areas of the curriculum. The fairy tale is the center of the thematic unit, but it really is just the vehicle we use to teach all of the other subject areas.
You'll be amazed by what they can come up with when they compare the different cultural versions of the same story. They can point out similarities and differences in the characters and plot.
This is above and beyond, to know that my children cannot eat, cannot have water to drink, have no place to sleep except to lay on concrete.
Its devastating to think of them going through---what they are going through as far as just getting their job done, helping other people and in the back of their mind they know they have nothing to go home to.
We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. We took stories like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and studied at least five versions of each so the students could compare and contrast them.
