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February 19, 2010
Dear Parents,
Sorry I didn’t write to you last week. I just totally forgot it. We had a great time last Thursday when some of us got to go in and tour while the Men’s Club was making sausage. It was perfect timing for us to go in. We first saw them bringing out the sausage to go to the smoker. Then when we went in we got to see the place where they took the pieces of meat, sprinkled it with seasoning and added a little onion. They then scraped it into a tub, which they carried over to the grinder. The kids were fascinated to see it “poop” out of the grinder into another bin. Next we saw them load the casing onto the stuffer. It didn’t take long and the long casing was being filled up into a long sausage, which they twisted into links. Very educational and something we don’t get to experience any more in this day and age.
The valentine party was a nice way to end the week. Thank you all for the valentines and treats you gave to the class and to me also. Now, let us move on to this week. We are actually to say that this was a pretty average kind of week. We did not have any thing that we had to schedule around. We talked about George Washington and Abe Lincoln this week and worked on a couple of extra booklets that they should have brought home by now. They like learning about things out of the usual routine of our studies.
Most importantly about this week was the start of Lent. We had a great discussion yesterday, when the kids all received a little wooden cross that they got to bring home. We talked about what that cross meant to Jesus and all of the suffering that He had to do in connection with the cross. The kids are asked to look at that cross occasionally and remember what they are doing during Lent. It is like our own little cross to bear.
Have a great weekend!
Peg Scott
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