Dave’s Blog

I stayed in OKC and Monday morning drove to Justice School. It is a dependant K - 8 school outside of Wewoka, OK. It was an inservice day for the teachers and they had a number of things they were adressing. I had about two hours to do string with them.

We had a ball. They were ready for some relaxation and hands on stuff. We talked about the educational benifits of the string games and how it reaches so many learning styles in different ways. We did things for the youngest to the oldest kids at the school but mostly just had fun ourselves. They were great risk takers.

The Superintendant and three or four of the teachers remembered things from their childhood. There is a very high Native American representation in the staff and student body and they appreciated remembering some of the things from their childhood.

They bought things for the school and their classrooms as well as for their grandchildren. They learned many things and can teach them but also want me to return and work with the children. I am excited to return since the teachers have such a good grounding in the benifits of these activities. I am sure there will be a lot of follow through.

Dave

I have been remiss in not blogging. Ready to start in again.

I had a great time at Encyclomedia in OKCl It is a Conference for librarians and teachers and I have been going for 28 years. I know lots of people so it is a great lot of fun to see everyone. Boy do some of them look older. I wonder what that is all about.

Lynna helped me at the booth in the convention center. We greeted, handed out strings and taught some figures to people. I also talked to many people about bookings. Many of the small schools are so strapped for money that we tried to get creative in our thinking.

Many churches want to reach out to their community so if we partner with them and have an evening program at the church and a day program at the school we are keeping church and state seperate. But, we are allowing both to have the string experience and allow the church to help with travel expenses and maybe more.

By the end of the two days my legs and feet were very tired but it was fun to see everyone. I drove from there on Friday afternoon to fly to St. Louis to speak at a spiritual retreat on Saturday. It went well and I got to sight see in St Louis on Sunday before I returned to Oklahoma.

Dave