A life full of faith, hope, love, and laughter.
This afternoon Isabel was trying to “teach us” about bones in our body.
She got out her body book and read different “bone” facts from in it and then gave us a “slide show”.
I love love love the drawing that she did for the “slide show”. It’s AWESOME!
She also wanted us to play a game she called… “Pin the skull on the neck!” Ha! Ha! (to hear her say it is hilarious!!) Tomorrow we are going to learn about muscles, maybe we’ll get a picture for that too!
Monday in class is called “Marvelous Monday” and today was Marvelous for Isabel!
Marvelous Mondays are also All-School Opening.
All-School Opening is an assembly held each Monday for the entire school. The Bible verse for the week is recited together, the school rule for the week is reviewed and discussed, new needed announcements are made as well. Special student awards (called Shining R’s) and recognition takes place at this time as well. The Shining R’s awards are given (usually the teacher) to anyone who show’s Respect, Relationship, or Responsibility to fellow classmates in class or on campus. Last week Isabel got an “R” almost every day, she then placed those “R’s” in a larger container for All-School Open on Monday. Each Monday, Principle Mrs. B draws names from the container and those people win a Shining R! Isabel’s name was drawn for the first time today! After All-School Open, she was able to take her Shining R award to the office to get a special prize from the prize box.
Hurray for Isabel for showing Respect, Relationship, and/or Responsibility to others! Keep it up Kiddo, not just to get a prize in the office but to shine your light for Jesus! So proud of her! (Last year she wasn’t able to participate because she was only 1/2 day, so she has been really excited that she has gotten some and that she actually won a prize!)
She chose an eraser for her prize.
She said the box was filled with bracelets, pencils, and even candy!
Front: phonics work with the letter “Y”.
I love this visual of how many sounds a “Y” can make!
Back: phonics work with the letter “Y”.
There are 4 sounds a “Y” makes! Awesome.
Front: rhyming words!
I loved doing this when I was in school.
Back: more rhyming words.
Gino and I were surprised when just before school started Isabel said she didn’t know how to write her numbers anymore. So all this practice is great to see!
Word practice.
I love her writing!
Social Studies work on what is a community.
What is a community?
What is a citizen? Who is a citizen?
What is a rule?
What does a vote mean? Who votes?
What is a law?
When asked all the questions Isabel was able to give an answer for each!
This is awesome!
This morning we decided it was time to trim down one of our tomato plants. It was looking really sickly and we didn’t want the fruit to go bad.
Our other tomato plant is doing great, is still very green and is producing bigger and bigger fruit! So we’ll keep that one and harvest the rest.
From just one plant we have this many plus more that we have already given away to neighbors and friends! We have eaten a lot more tomatoes this year as well. All those vine fresh fruit were like candy in your mouth! Sweet!
This little tomato reminds me so much of a pumpkin. Same color, same bumpy shape (can’t really see it in the photo) but when you turn it around…
It has this weird growth (hook) coming out of it. The hook even had (came off when I washed it) leaves sprouting off the top of it. Weird.
It was a great first year for tomatoes, we learned a few things along the way of what to do and what not to do. Like trim the plant to get bigger fruit and water, water, water (very important) and all the little frogs (BIG ones too!) in our yard love love love to sun themselves while our tomatoes ripen on the vine.
Fridays are a big day at school with “something” usually going on. This Friday is 1/2 day Fair Day. The kids are given a free ticket to the fair being held in town and they get a half day of school to attend. Personally, I think it’s a bit silly to get out a 1/2 day of school to attend a fair that runs for 3 weeks straight. At some point in time during those three weeks a family can attend the fair… it’s called WEEKENDS! Anyway…
Friday in class is called “Fantastic Fridays“.
Besides the special “something” that is going on at the school on Fantastic Fridays, they also attend music class with Mr. G, just like on Wednesdays.
Leaving the Garden of Eden because Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
A little quiz about the story of Adam and Eve.
Her math work from class today.
On the back is her homework which she will hand in on Monday and will get returned to her on Friday.
Fridays are also “Friday Folder” days. This Friday Folder Teacher Mrs. B sends home with all the graded work from the past week in. However this week had last weeks work in it too because the week was so short. This folder is just packed with wonderful work and great surprises…
This little 5 page book is filled with drawings and short sentences from her first week in school. There is a self portrait, a picture of Teacher Mrs. B, a picture of her school, a picture of a friend in class, and a picture of her classroom. The last page is the best part of first grade is…”learning”. I love this!
Test 1.
These next 3 photos are from tests that she took during the week.
Teacher Mrs. B gave a letter and she had to write the letter down on her paper.
Test 2.
Test 3.
This 6 page worksheet was a great writing, counting and observation lessons.
An 8 page worksheet with numbers 1-6, counting and writing.
Reviewing color words and color shades.
Another color review page.
This test was given Friday of last week. Teacher Mrs. B read the questions aloud to the class and the class filled in the answer in the book.
The word recognition word/s that Isabel missed was could and would.
I think she did a fantastic job! Way to go!
Again, this morning I had to get to work so Isabel and Gino were on there own for the day until I got home.
Thursday in class is called “Thankful Thursdays“.
Thankful Thursday is also P.E. with Mrs. S and computer lab with Mrs. T. This week in P.E. they played dodge ball in the gym and in computer lab they did AR (accelerated reader) testing.
4 more “shoe box” books were given out.
Front: phonics work with letters “Y”, “Z”, and “Q”.
Back: phonics work with letters “V” and “J” below
“I have a little dog.” and “I have a little ball.”
Character counts! – showing respect to others around you.
This ribbon the class got to cut out on their own and then they got to finish the sentence about showing respect.
Fantastic job!
This morning I had to get to work so Isabel and Gino were on there own for the day until I got home around 4.
Wednesday in class is called “Wonderful Wednesdays“.
Wonderful Wednesdays is also music class with the school music teacher Mr. G.
More “shoe box” books.
Front: phonics work with letters “B” and “K” and below
“Come to the mall” and “I look for the grapes.” – I am enjoying the pictures!
Back: phonic work with letters “W” and “X” and below
“See me read the Bible” and “I have one dog.”
“God says all wrong doing is sin.” – Love the coloring!
They have been talking about Adam and Eve still (more from last week) and focusing more on the sin. The focus this week has been “God’s perfect world is spoiled by sin” from Genesis 3: 1-6:8.
Her math work she does part in class and then brings the back page home for homework each day and then she returns it the following day. I tend to forget to get a picture of it before it heads back to class.
She has really been enjoying class and getting to know the kids in her class and the other first grade class (a lot of whom is already knows from Preschool and Kindergarten). She seems to really like her teacher Mrs. B as well. After school, she is very excited to tell us about her day and what she does at each of her 3 recesses (the highlight of her day) and who she plays with!
Next Wednesday (one week from today) will be her first field trip, I will not be able to go with her this time, so I hope that she’s o.k. going by herself for the very first time.
We’ll see…
Today was Tuesday and that means Chapel at school. This weeks Chapel speaker was our own school Principal Mrs. B.
Principal Mrs. B taught on the school’s Spiritual theme this year, which is IMPACT: Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30
Principal Mrs. B used the illustration of a throne inside a heart. When we are still young, we all sit on that throne in our heart but as we grow, we may share the seat or place “things” on that seat. However to “love the Lord your God with all your heart“, we actually have to get off our throne and keep other “things” off and let God sit there.
Tuesdays also mean a “new” event takes place too… she gets to go to the library at school. Each and every Tuesday afternoon she gets to go and pick out a book, after she returns the previous weeks book. She is super excited about this!
This week she picked out “The Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game”. We love these books and the life lessons they teach in each and everyone. I’ll have her read it several times before she returns it on Tuesday.
4 more early reader booklets or “shoe box” books.
She took a letter test today. Teacher Mrs. B said a letter out loud to the class and the class had to listen to the sound and then write it on their paper.
For the color words test, Teacher Mrs. B writes the words on the board and the class has to write the word on their paper. Afterward she talks about a item for them to draw on their paper as well.
Front: Phonics practice with the letter’s “L” and “H” and below
“I see the chalk” and “Look at the Bible” drawings.
Back: Phonics practice with letter “G” and “F” and below
“What do you have? A dog” and “Do you like naps? No, I like to read.”
Geography lesson and learning the terms of the land/sea.
Math work was letter writing. A bit in a rush here but she still did a great job.
On the back of her math sheet is her homework for the day. She completes it at home each afternoon before doing anything else. After it is completed she places it in her envelope to hand back in to Teacher Mrs. B. Teacher Mrs. B then grades the work and returns it along with all the weeks turned in work on Fridays.
Isabel did my hair this afternoon and she took a picture for me so that I could see it too. Great job on my hair and taking the picture.
It feels good to sit down and type a few thoughts since it’s been awhile since I’ve posted school news or otherwise, except for the first day, of course. I am still deciding on how I’m going to be doing the school year this year. Should I do a post for each day or should I just do a post on Friday, or should I post highlights a few times a week? Does anyone really take the time to read and look over her work? Does anyone care? Another thing if I’m working, I won’t be able to post (and day’s could go by before anything actually gets put up) and scanning every page of her work is very time consuming (I haven’t finished Kindergarten!). Gino suggested just taking photos of everything like I did for Preschool but that just adds to the 35,000+ photos that I already have! So I’m not sure…
I do enjoy doing it for her (for us), she may not understand or realize it now that I’m doing this for her. When she’s grown she may find this all silly and wonder what in the world was I thinking. Typing about our lives, even if I don’t do it every day or for every outing or vacation is fun and maybe down the road it will be meaningful to her (or us) that I took the time to do something like this. I don’t know… so for now.
Today, I took Gino’s recommendation and took photos. It was faster then having to scan each and every little thing.
More of the early reader books she is required to read. Today she brought home 4 of them. She reads them to me and she does enjoy the silly little stories.
Making good choices always gets you where you are meant to be in life.
Her handwriting is gorgeous!
Learning the school’s theme verse for this year, for this coming Friday (Sept. 14th) . I don’t know why she has to learn it by Friday but we are working on it and I’ve posted it in her room too.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30
We will do a 1/2 hour of homework after school each day. Teacher Mrs. B gives her work to do and then I have additional work from workbooks that I’ve purchased at the Goodwill and else where.