Tuesday

Happy Thanksgiving.

We brought a lot of joy to the residents of the Woodlands.  I have included lots of pictures below.

This morning we also made cards for a woman from church who is ill.  Then we did Bible time and sang through our Christmas songs.  We also colored two Nativity pictures to share at the Woodlands.  We did math #53,  Counting dimes and pennies together.

THANK YOU Phoenix for the delicious Jimmy John's subs for lunch.

THANK YOU drivers for accompanying us on our trip.

The kids loved the ice-cream sundaes when we returned.  We watched some Tumble  Books and the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving movie.

Have a lovely weekend.  Give thanks to the Lord for He is good! Ps 107:1

 

We weaved our way in between tables.  The residents listened in surround sound.  :)

Monday

Greetings.

Welcome to a  short week.

Bible:  Read 1A  Pharaoh Refuses to Obey God.  Memory Treasure Lk 11:28  "Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and obey it."

Reading/Writing:  We did lots of work in our  Journal today.  That is homework tonight, to read it and sign the pink star.  Return it tomorrow!  Thanks.

Math:  Lesson  52

Gym:  More dancing.   Music:  Boom Wackers.

We also sang through the  Christmas service.  It is sounding better each  day.  Your children sing it with joy in their hearts, too.  They follow along in their songbook, too, so it is fabulous  reading practice!

Phoenix is providing lunch tomorrow for the class.   His  birthday treat is  Jimmy John's  Subs and chips.  The students may have milk or water.  Please still send a snack and fruit or veggie to go with lunch if you choose.  Thanks.  NO HOT LUNCH as there is a funeral dinner for Pastor Witte.  If your child does not want a sub, please send something else.

FIELD  TRIP tomorrow to the Woodlands.  We will leave at 11:45, sing at two buildings during the residents' lunch hour and return to school.  I will have "build your own sundae's" for the kids. Remember to send CAR SEATS.   My drivers are D. Looker, A. Evraets, N. Feltes, C. Jahnke, A.  Perry, K. Hodgden, O. Halbur and myself.

Blessings,  Mrs. W    

Friday!

Happy Weekend.  Blessings,  hunters.  Be safe!

Chapel:  Mr. Rosenthal shared  a message  of  God's never  changing  love.   We also watched Kid's Connection.

Superkids Reading:   We read in pairs to share our ziploc bag  from last night.  We also took  our spelling test and finished our unit 6 workbook.  Peek at it.   It should have been brought home.

Math:   We did lesson 51 both sides  today, so  no homework!

Art:   We finished our turkeys.

Spanish:   Today we learned some  animal names and enjoyed the book  Tortuga in Trouble.

The class earned COOKIES, too.  The chocolate chip cookies I made were well  received  during  afternoon recess.  

Thursday

Happy Birthday Noah.   Thanks for the Lego Guy bday treats.

This is the table from our Math Activity.  We estimated and then measured the actual number of cups of water 5 different containers would hold.  The kids were so excited when they estimated the actual number!

Bible: We  reviewed God  Calls  Moses.  The kids recited the 1st Comm.  

Superkids:  We read Ettabetta's poem today.  She pretended to be a princess.  What fun to share our  favorite way to pretend at home during morning meeting.  Did you know you have "cliffs, motorcyles, ships, and cannons" at your house?  The students wrote about if they were a knight, princess or giant. 

Math:  We did the Estimation activity and practiced a problem solving strategy (see sheet).   

Social Studies:  We read more about communities and specifically considered the directions (north, south, east and west).  

Spelling Test tomorrow.  A Weekly note was sent home, too!

  

Wednesday

Nov. 18th already.  Where is the month going?   Below you will see pictures from the day.  Two 8th graders came and shared a devotion with us (a Wednesday tradition, but today we had 2).   At the end of the day we played a Superkids Spelling game with our 5-8th grade Buddies.

Christ Light:  Read 13 B   God Calls Moses    Mem.  Treasure:  1st Comm.

Superkids:  Review Spelling words (on back of homework chart).  Read ziploc bag books.

Math:  Test today.  No homework.

Gym:  We learned two dances.  Music:  Ask about it.

Field Trip note was sent home.   Sign and return.  Thanks!

Tuesday

Greetings from  First Grade!

Bible:  We reviewed Moses Leaves Egypt and discussed how we can make decisions God's Way or our (sinful) way.  May Jesus fill us with his love and power to make the right choices.  The children each recited 1 Pet 5:8

Superkids:  What fun to review "The Foolish Giant."  Thanks for having your child read it at home last night.  Everyone wants to read orally.  I am  proud of my confident readers!

Math:  Lesson 49.  We learned more subtraction problems today.  A  number - the same number (6-6=0) and a number - 0= the same number (5-0=5).

English:  We reviewed adverbs and adjectives and enjoyed the "jingles" to help us learn them.  Today we also learned the three articles (a, an, the).  We classified 6 sentences.

Social Studies:  We read more about "Community," and read a map key and identified the symbols on the map.

We ended the day with math and reading stations.

Finally, we have begun singing the Christmas songs.  You may hear some new songs at home.  

Monday

Welcome to a new week.  It was fun to hear about all our eventful weekends this morning.

Bible:  We learned Moses Leaves Egypt.  Memory Treasure:  I Peter 5:8

Superkids:  We reviewed long and short vowels.  Character dialogue and setting were discussed.  We also read our new story in Superkids.  Your child will read it to you tonight.

Math: Lesson  48 B  Today, we started telling time to the one hour.

Social Studies:  We  started a new unit on Community.

I did church attendance orally this morning.

Gym:  I had the whole class sweating in gym.  We did lots of running and dancing (Chicken Dance and The  Freeze).

Music:  We started singing our songs for the Christmas program today.  It will be beautiful!

Thursday

Good afternoon!

Bible:  We reviewed Moses' birth and recited our Memory Treasure.  The kids loved singing "Wake, Awake," our hymn this week by following along in the hymnals.  They are all getting the hang of it.  That hymn will be sing in church this weekend.

Superkids:  We started the Long Vowel sounds today.  Ask if your child can name a long vowel word for each vowel.  (cake, eat, kite, Rowan, cube).

Math:  Counting dimes.  It is easy to look at five dimes and think= 50 cents.  When going the other way, "How many dimes is 80 cents? it was a bit trickier.

Social Studies:  We spent time on the Plimoth.org website for an interactive lesson about the first Thanksgiving.

We reviewed writing sentences and identifying Subject nouns (SN), verbs (V), adverbs (Adv) and adjectives (Adj).

We ended the day with reading stations.

Many kids "earned" their prize today for reading for 15 nights.  Some children need a few more nights.  Thanks for listening to reading each night.  Another bag was sent home today.  I will have to figure out our new prize.

This afternoon we called Shirley T, Mrs. Monroe's mom.  She is very ill and will go to heaven soon.  We sang the Servant Song and I am Jesus Little Lamb.  It brought her Jesus joy!

Wednesday

Happy Veteran's Day

The Buelows!  Feb.  2015

We called Mr. Harold Buelow.  He is a dear friend of mine from the first church I served.  He is a WWII vet.  He was a navigator for pilots.  He is 90 years old.  This morning he was out golfing. :)  We interviewed him about being a soldier.  We also sang The Servant Song for him.  He was delighted! Harold and Marge live in Columbia, TN.  Harold helped design the Saturn Car company plant.  They go to Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church (where I taught for 4 years).

Bible:  We learned about Baby Moses.  The 4th Commandment is due tomorrow.  Your child circled it in his/her binder.

Superkids:  We reviewed and had a Spelling test today.

Math:  Test.  No homework.

Hearing and Vision Screening:  Volunteers from church screened everyone.  I have no notices of trouble.

We studied The First Thanksgiving more.  Finally, we ended our day with Reading Stations.  Ziplocs went home.  Happy Reading!!!

Tuesday

Bible:  We had our final story of Jacob's family today.  They are settled  in Israel in the land of Goshen.  God has promised them 1) the family will return to Canaan someday and most importantly 2) a Savior will come from the line of Judah.  The children recited Jer 29:11!

Superkids:  Thanks for having your child read "Yuck! Yuck!" last night.  We reviewed it and read it in pairs today.  We discussed the story and did comprehension pages in the workbook.  We also practiced our Spelling Words.  TEST  tomorrow.  The words are on the back of the homework chart.  Your child should also have flashcards (white) in the money pouch.

Math:  Lesson  45.   We reviewed -1, and did math stations.

English:  We practiced Adjectives and Adverbs.  Today we made a chart with "Cheesy," a fish and wrote down HOW he swims.  Happily, quietly, slowly... were just a few adverbs.

Social Studies:  This week we are learning about the First Thanksgiving.

We ended our day with reading stations.  Ziplocs were sent home.  Happy reading!

Ask about the new job chart.  

Field Trip

We did have a great time on our trip today.  The BUS ride was a first for many children.  How exciting.  Ask about your child's bus buddy.  On the ride home, I shared a treat.

The play, Junie B Jones, had a School Theme.  My favorite song was the Backpack  Song.  The School Supply Song was cute, too.  Ask about them.  She has a very wild imagination and it does get her into trouble at times.  Read more Junie B Jones books to keep the fun going.  They are chapter books.  Barbara Park is the author.  (I do not like her incorrect grammar, but I am trying to get over it).

THANKS to many parents for joining us at McDs and at the play.   It was a memorable day.  I am trying to text or email pictures to everyone.

Bible:  Jacob and His Family Move to Egypt.  Hooray,  Joseph and his Dad were finally united.  Read 12A  and practice Jer 29:11 It is due tomorrow, too.

Reading:  Please have your child read "Yuck! Yuck!" in Superkids.  We enjoyed it this am.

Thursday!

The Weekly note was sent home today.  Check it out.  The Faith Alive is not being sent home digitally.  The honor roll list for grades 2-8 was not correct.  \

Bible time:  We had a lovely review of Joseph Forgives His Brothers.  We discussed how we forgive those who sin against us.  It is hard!  May Jesus fill us with his love and the strength to forgive others.  7 children knew their memory treasure well.  The rest had to practice more during some recess time.

Superkids:  We did more reading and work with our spelling words  and pattern words.  Test next Wed.

Math:  Today we reviewed counting be 10s.   Lesson 43 is due tomorrow.

Social Studies:  We are doing more work in our "School" unit.  Today we read and talked about Ruby Bridges.

Jump Rope:  I made the whole class jump rope first recess to polish our skills and enjoy the last bit of this beautiful weather.

School Pictures:  These went home today.  :)

Family Literacy Night is tomorrow.  Can't Wait.  Our class will do poetry!

Wednesday

Welcome Bailey Norris.  She was our "Teacher for the Day" to assist Mrs. W.  Bailey is a senior at WLA.  She helped  us practice our poems for Friday's  Literacy Night. 

The kids did a cool math assignment today.  Ask to see their paper. Great spatial reasoning skills put to work.

Bible:  Hooray!  Joseph finally revealed himself to his brothers.  Read 11B.  We practiced the 5th Comm (whole thing).  I printed the commandment, cut it into phrase pieces and then the students assembled them.

Superkids:  We reviewed the story, Monster Under the Bus.  New ziploc bags were sent home.   Spelling words are on the back of the homework chart.

Math:  Lesson 42 B

Many children did receive the flu vaccine this morning.

We had gym (outside!) and music, too.  We ended our day in stations to illustrate our poems and preview our ziploc bag books.

Have a great evening!

Tuesday

We  had a busy day!

We started the day writing and drawing in our journal about tow fall events (raking and dressing up).  
Bible:   The kids are getting to be Joseph experts.  I have sure enjoyed sharing this amazing true story from the Bible.  His brothers passed the test!  Tomorrow in our next story they are finally rewarded.  The kids each recited the memory treasure,  Eph 4:32.

Superkids:  We read a new story today,  The Monster Under the Bus.  It is their homework to read it to you tonight.  Sign the chart, too, please.  :)  We practiced our new words, too.

Math:  Today we practiced the +0 facts.  They seem easy, but I explained how what we learn today they will need to apply even for 3rd grade math.   We did 206 + 183= vertically.  :)  Do lesson 41 tonight!  We also did both sides of the fact practice page.  I "timed" them today to speed them up a bit.

English: We reviewed subject nouns, verbs and adverbs today.

Literacy Night:  Please plan to attend Friday night.  The kids are practicing poetry.  I will be fun to read and recite that night (during the 20 minute segment of time in class).

Adopt a Student:  Adam Rohde was adopted by our class!  See the note.  Thanks.

Monday

Happy November!  We certainly started off with a lovely day.

The musical, Beauty and the Beast, at WLA was the highlight.  Here are a few pictures.

Quintin gets a hug from his sister, Madame de le Grande Bouche.  Quintin's brothers, Sebastian and Jeremiah, were also in the play. 

Eli is proud of his big brother Mayson, Gaston!

Bible:  We learned the Bible story Joseph Tests  His Brothers. Eph 4:32 is our memory treasure

Superkids: We started a new unit today.  See the new list of words is on the homework chart.  

Read the library books and ziploc books!

A November calendar will come home tomorrow!  

THANKS to our drivers!  We sure enjoyed the play.