Mega Monday!

Well, I didn't get to blog on Friday, so I owe ya'll extra fun today, right? =) Friday was a lot of fun... especially at the end of the day. We had so much fun making our animal masks in science class. A BIG thank you to Mrs. Albritton for coming in and assisting us with those! We always appreciate an extra pair of hands during projects! Here are some scary animals... see if you can guess who's behind each mask!

Today went well for a Monday! Our new math series finally arrived at the end of last week, and you will see homework in your child's red folder every Mon-Thus night. Please help your child complete the back (side B) of the worksheet that we did in class and return it to school the following day. Every 10 days there will be an assessment. Daily work will be graded on completion, not correctness (as we are just learning some things for the first time =)

During devotion time today we read the Creation story from the children's Message Bible, and then colored a storybook of it. It's always fun to reread how God made everything around us!

Just a question... do you (or anyone that you know of) have a TV that works and is compatible with a DVD/VCR player? We are in desperate need of one in the elementary building. If you have any ideas, please pass them along to me! Thank you!!

9/11

This post is dedicated to the most important time we had today: devotion time. We talked about September 11, 2001 and what happened on that day. It's so hard for me to grasp that my kids weren't even born yet... and that I was still in college earning my teaching degree! We talked about the events that occurred and how the people must have felt. After that, we read Proverbs 18:10, "The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and they are safe." We talked about how buildings and towers in the world may crumble, but that we can always count on Jesus to be our strong tower. We drew pictures of the 9/11 attack and wrote our Bible Verse on the top. We are a blessed people in the United States. Hug your babies tonight and remember your strong tower. Be blessed!

Wacky Wednesday!

Let me start with a BIG THANK YOU!!! Thank you to Julie Woods, for ever so graciously volunteering to watch my class from 12-3 while I was in a reading service with all of the other elementary teachers! I REALLY appreciate it so much! Today was short... well, as far as my time with the kids went! We worked on our reading, spelling, language, and some math and then it was time for Miss Ginder to hit the road! On a sad note, Audrey has withdrawn from our class and we will miss her dearly! We were glad to have her for 2 weeks though!

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!