Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration 2016

Holden's class invited families to attend a Thanksgiving-themed play and feast.

 Holden was the chef who searched for the perfect turkey.

The Battle of Verdun (11/12/2016)

We spent a day in France at the museum and memorial for the Battle of Verdun.  The battle took place during WWI.  It lasted over 300 days and more than 300,000 French and German troops lost their lives.  The town was ruined, and many thought it would be the battle that ended all wars.  It wasn't.

 The museum

 The ossuary

St. Martin's Day 11/11/2016

We celebrated St. Martin's Day by joining in our village's walk through town with paper lanterns.  The walk ended at the sportspark where a rider dressed as St. Martin's circled a bonfire and cut a cloak in half to share with a person in need the way St. Martin did centuries ago.

Happy 10th birthday, Joseph! (11/3/2016)

Cupcakes for school

 A little celebration at home

 A laser tag party with friends

Halloween Season 2016

Classroom party cupcakes

 Trunk & Treating at the base hospital

 A trip to Frankenstein's Castle with the USO

 A hike around Frankenstein's Castle when the monsters inside got a little too scary.

Nana and Grandad visit (Oct. 2016)

Pumpkin Festival at the Gartenschau in Kaiserslautern

 A trip to Bastogne to the memorial museum in honor of the Battle of the Bulge

 The church in the rocks in Idar Oberstein

 Burg Trifels

 Pumpkin picking

 Fun with science at the Dynamikum in Pirmasens

 Visiting the old chapel ruins in our little village of Mittelbrunn

 Fall in Mittelbrunn