Month: December 2011

School Christmas Program 2011

Tonight was the school’s Christmas program. The Kindergarten program was first followed by the Elementary program.

Isabel has been excited about it for the past several days. I think she’s just excited for the cookie’s afterward!

The program from the performance.

Before heading out the door at home, we stopped by our tree for a quick photo.

Merry Christmas!
So cute!

After arriving at school we drop her off  in the music room and then head into the sanctuary of the church to find a seat. Hope we get a good one! Only then do we realize that we forgot the video camera. Bummer!

Both Kindergarten classes sang together as a group and sang about 5 or 6 songs. Each of the kids had a speaking part. We practiced Isabel’s line each and every day.

While everyone else is singing…wonder what she’s thinking??? Haha!!

“The angels sang beautiful praises to God.”  that was Isabel’s line. She said she got shy and forgot her lines.

It was a great program, the kids did a fantastic job singing and reciting their lines. Afterward we headed over to the gym for cookies and other goodies to eat.

Kindergarten: Day 61

We had a lot to gather this morning as we headed out the door. We even had 2 dozen cookies for the Christmas program tonight as well.

Today was Chapel and Isabel said they practiced for the program tonight and they got to use real microphones! They aren’t allowed to hold the microphone, it will be kept on a stand but they can adjust it to speak into.

The work from today…

The opening activity was a coloring picture of Saint Nicolas.
I love how colorful this is!

Phonics work with the letter “Ff”.

Back: “Ff” writing practice.

Isabel brought home a lot of past work…

She didn’t work on this today but another day, she couldn’t remember.
She did a great job writing the numbers and could recall the times on each clock as I showed them to her.

Back: Number practice with the letter “8“.

This project they did toward the beginning of the year.
The tree is her arm and then sponge painted on leaves.

This was actually from earlier in the year as well.
I took a picture of the whole bulletin board here.

This they did just a few weeks ago.
The turkey is her hand and thumb print. The feather’s and feet  are prints from a very large potato!

This week’s Bible verses:

“Mm” – “My son, give me thine heart.” Proverbs 23:26

“Ll” – “Look unto Me and be ye saved.” Isaiah 45:22

“Kk” – “Keep thy tongue from evil.” Psalm 34:13

“Jj” – “Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“Ii” – “If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:14

“Hh” – “Honor thy father and thy mother.” Exodus 20:12

“Gg” – “God is love.” 1 John 4:8

“Ff” – “Fear not for I am with thee.” Isiah 43:5

“Ee” – “Even a child is known by his doings.” Proverbs 20:11

“Dd” – “Depart from evil and do good.” Psalm 34:14

“Cc” – “Children obey your parents in the Lord,  for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1

“Bb” – “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:31

“Aa” – “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

Kindergarten: Day 60

It was only 24° when we left for school this morning.

Isabel was anxious to get to class this morning to see if Mrs. Boettcher was back. When she entered the classroom, she was glad to see her and gave her a big hug.

Today was All-School-Open and they practiced for their Christmas program, which is tomorrow night.

When I arrived at school to pick up her up after school, they were still practicing over in the church and arrived back at the classroom late.

Isabel said they did have snack time and did get out to recess today but otherwise they just practiced.

This week’s Bible verses:

“Mm” – “My son, give me thine heart.” Proverbs 23:26

“Ll” – “Look unto Me and be ye saved.” Isaiah 45:22

“Kk” – “Keep thy tongue from evil.” Psalm 34:13

“Jj” – “Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“Ii” – “If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:14

“Hh” – “Honor thy father and thy mother.” Exodus 20:12

“Gg” – “God is love.” 1 John 4:8

“Ff” – “Fear not for I am with thee.” Isiah 43:5

“Ee” – “Even a child is known by his doings.” Proverbs 20:11

“Dd” – “Depart from evil and do good.” Psalm 34:14

“Cc” – “Children obey your parents in the Lord,  for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1

“Bb” – “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:31

“Aa” – “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

The Hunt

The hunt for the right Christmas tree began after school today. We picked up Isabel, stopped and got some lunch before heading to our local Christmas tree farm.

The Christmas Tree Farm barn.

The Farm has 6 different species of Christmas trees available: Douglas Fir, Fraser Fir, Grand Fir, Turkish Fir, Noble Fir and Norway Spruce. The first year, we didn’t get a tree but have gotten our Christmas tree from here for the past 2 years! Last year we got a Douglas Fir, very soft and full. This year, we decided to get something different. After speaking with the owner, we decided on getting a Grand Fir, which is the most fragrant of trees!

Which way should we go??? Norway this way. Fraser over there. Douglas that way. Norway back there. We got to find those Grand Firs!

What a gorgeous day to go hunting!

Heading back to see the Fraser firs. They are an O.K. looking tree, stiff branches for holding those heavy ornaments but not very smelly…

What a beauty! It would work… seriously!
It would just have to sit in the middle of the front room and it would take up the whole room!

Isabel found a “cross” laying on the ground.

O.K. this is more our size. This one looks good… or not.

We headed clear over to the other side of the lot (all those trees begin to look the same!) before stopping at the bathrooms and coming back to this first area again. Gino spotted a perfect tree but got there to late; another family was cutting it down! So we keep hunting…

We found it!

Getting down to work.

Trying to lift our tree.

Can you drag it back for us? Use some muscle!

Our fresh kill. Our hunt this year was a 7 1/2 ft. Grand Fir. It’s a beauty!

Getting a good shake and getting tips on how to make the most of our fragrant catch (pop the pimples!).

After payment and hauling it to the truck, we stopped by the beverage table in the barn for some delicious hot apple cider to warm us up! We enjoy this place and what a great way to build memories during this time of year! Let the decorating begin….

Kindergarten: Day 59

Today was just more practice for the program next week.

They did get back to the classroom for snack and free-choice Friday! The whole school was on 1/2 day for a teacher’s work day.

The opening activity was a maze. Isabel did a great job coloring her “Cc” for cake maze.

Phonics work with the letter “Ff“.

Back: phonics work and writing the letter “Ff“.

This week’s Bible verses:

“Ll” – “Look unto Me and be ye saved.” Isaiah 45:22

“Kk” – “Keep thy tongue from evil.” Psalm 34:13

“Jj” – “Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“Ii” – “If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:14

“Hh” – “Honor thy father and thy mother.” Exodus 20:12

“Gg” – “God is love.” 1 John 4:8

“Ff” – “Fear not for I am with thee.” Isiah 43:5

“Ee” – “Even a child is known by his doings.” Proverbs 20:11

“Dd” – “Depart from evil and do good.” Psalm 34:14

“Cc” – “Children obey your parents in the Lord,  for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1

“Bb” – “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:31

“Aa” – “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

Kindergarten: Day 58

I completely forgot to do this day!!!

This week’s Bible verses:

“Ll” – “Look unto Me and be ye saved.” Isaiah 45:22

“Kk” – “Keep thy tongue from evil.” Psalm 34:13

“Jj” – “Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“Ii” – “If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:14

“Hh” – “Honor thy father and thy mother.” Exodus 20:12

“Gg” – “God is love.” 1 John 4:8

“Ff” – “Fear not for I am with thee.” Isiah 43:5

“Ee” – “Even a child is known by his doings.” Proverbs 20:11

“Dd” – “Depart from evil and do good.” Psalm 34:14

“Cc” – “Children obey your parents in the Lord,  for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1

“Bb” – “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:31

“Aa” – “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23