We have been working hard together in Nate's office to get everything organized! We just worked four hours on the inventory and the filing cabinet. We haven't had time to organize since Nate first came to the Philippines, so there were boxes, papers, and who knows what. Since we stayed here this summer we were able to sort through all the music, lesson plans, resources, books, binders and papers. What a project! Whew!
We made labels for the instruments and a system in the computer for tracking with them. At one glance we will know who donated it, who has played it, what condition it is in, and who has it currently checked out. 
I also organized the books for Nate--piano, strings, band, archives....it is becoming quite a wonderful music library! We are really weak on CDs and DVDs so if anyone out there wants to send us a collection we will put them on our empty CD shelf! We need to collect samples to use in teaching of all kinds of music. DVDs for teaching would be great--even to get kids into another world (example:symphony--we don't have that here so they could see it on DVD). Anyway, this wasn't meant to be an advertisement but a praise! God has helped us prepare, and He has provided many resources for us to use. We even put a binder together with dividers in one for each class, so we are all ready to start our lesson plans. Staff meeting is tomorrow and school starts Wednesday! Thanks for praying for our first couple weeks of school--they will be exciting!
3 comments:
WHEW is right, guys!! Wow, way to go on cleaning! (Nice to have an office, huh, Nate?!) I feel your sweat and joy, I've been up to the same in Indy! Woo-hoo, music teachers! Hey, Becca and I will pray about the music teaching supplies, as I know very personally how they can be such a blessing when available... Love you guys - Mike (and Becca)
Hey Guys,
Looking good! I always love to be able to organize stuff (as you know J), so that is cool that you had the opportunity to do that together. May God Bless you guys in another rich school year!
It looks great guys! Nate has a wonderful organizing partner! I remember when he was assigned the job of organizing the bookshelf when he was little. He would start out doing well, but then it wouldn't take long 'til he had found a book(s) that interested him and he'd be distracted for hours after that just quietly reading somewhere with a pile of books still laying on the floor waiting to be put back on the shelf!
Good luck during your first week of school! You're such a blessing to your students! ~Jess and Tim
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