Trying Tuesday

Well... it was still a rough go of it today! We had the chatters all day long!! But, as usual, we managed to pull through and still get things accomplished. We continued working on our short "o" words, and spelling list. In math we did some fact practice. I encourage you to visit the site: www.mathfactscafe.com . It is wonderful!! You can print off ready made fact practice for your child to do at home for reinforcement. In science we talked about the parts of an insects body... the head, thorax and abdomen. We also talked about things that all animals need to survive. Our devotion time today was on Proverbs 3:5. We're learning about what it means to trust God in different situations. Just a reminder... book orders are due tomorrow if you choose to participate. I'm hoping to have the order arrive by the end of the month. Oh, and a quick thanks to Maggie Quimby for walking with us to the JV pep rally! It's always nice to have an extra set of eyes and hands!

Startin' Slow...

Well, we had a rough go of it today! It was quite a noisy place in first grade. I guess we all had great weekends and just weren't ready to get into the swing of things at school. We struggled with listening today, and that made for a long day of redoing things from papers to standing in a quiet line... but we made it, and I'm confident that tomorrow will be a better day for all of us! We did have a really great devotion about John 14:6. We talked about mazes and how life can be confusing, but also how Jesus said that He "is the way, truth, and the life." It was fun to hear what the kids thought that verse meant. I love devotion time... I wish every one of you had the opportunity to be blessed by it the way I do. It's so great to be able to share the love of Jesus with my students every day... and I feel so honored by it!

We've "Bean" Busy!

Today seemed to go by even faster than yesterday! We read our story, "Pig in a Wig" today. We also worked on a lot of our workbook pages about short "i" sounds. We studied for our spelling test tomorrow too! In social studies we learned about which continent, country, and state we live in! We found AL on a map, as well as all the states it touches! In science we we talked about insects, and we looked at our bean plants to see if they have grown. We're about 50/50 on them... some just haven't come out of the dirt yet... we hope they do soon! But, we've had fun watching the ones grow that have! In devotion time we read a book called, "The Grouchy Ladybug," by Eric Carle. We talked about how when someone treats you unkindly we have two choices... to treat them unkindly back, or to show them Jesus' love through acting nice to them as we show them the Fruit of the Spirit of Kindness in our lives.

Working for the Lord

I walked into my room today... and SURPRISE!! My table had been worked on and covereed with white board material! I'm SO excited, and I can't wait to use it... after the glue dries of course! Thank you to the helper that worked on that... I'm not sure who all joined in to do that, but I'm VERY appreciative of your hard work! Today seemed to fly by in first grade! I can't believe it's already Wednesday! (It helps when you don't have Monday though...) Everything went smoothly today. We continued working on our short i words, and we are getting ready to read "A Pig in a Wig" tomorrow. I'm sure we're going to be in for some laughs. The rest of the day went well, and we talked about community laws and leaders during social studies. Today during devotion time we read a story called, "Lazy Ozzie." After the story we talked about this verse:

Colossians 3:23 (NIV)

23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Just a side note... the book orders are due back to me by September 10th. Thanks for your cooperation on that!

Two for Tuesday!

It was sure nice to see all of my busy bees today! I missed everyone after a long weekend away! Today we had a visitor with us all day... my friend Miss Amanda. She came to visit from IL on Saturday and due to the hurricane her flight on Monday was canceled and rescheduled for tomorrow! We had quite a fun time having two teachers in the room to help today! Despite all the fun we had, Amanda has decided to stick to teaching high school science instead of 1st grade! ;-)

This week in reading we are working on short "i" words. I have updated the spelling words so you have them on the site as well. We're still adding in math... feel free to practice addition facts with your children at home when you can... or even in the car! In social studies we learned about our citizen hero Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Science was a great time as we learned about how animals move. We played a game of animal charades as we acted out the movements of different animals. We had some real monkeys in there today! Haha!