Month: December 2012

First Grade: Day 63

Today is Thankful Thursday!

Thankful Thursday is P.E. with Mrs. S and computer lab with Mrs. T. For P.E. with Mrs. S they played “four corners”. Not sure how to play but she said they played the game in library because the room was smaller then the gym.

I am working a full day the next two days. My lead Teacher Mrs. D is home sick with the flu. Yuck! So I will be filling in for her for both the a.m. pre-school 3’s class and the p.m. class. This should be fun!!!….

Today Isabel went into the Extended Day program.

The Extended Day program is our school’s after school care for elementary kids. Since I was working this afternoon, Teacher Mrs. B dropped her off after school and then I picked her up after I was finished with class. It worked out great but I missed out about hearing about her school day and only heard about her after school Extended Day.

The Bible verse for this week is…

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16

Not much work from class but she did have 2 pages of math homework and spelling words to practice.

Read the story and then write about the “details”!
Love that it’s a ladybug!!

Working with nouns; a person or place.

First Grade: Day 62

Today is Wonderful Wednesday and it’s music class with Mr. G and science lab!

Today’s music class with Mr. G was rehearsal for the program next week. Isabel is very excited about the Christmas program because she has 2 speaking parts!!

Today was science lab as well and Isabel loves doing science! Today’s lesson was on “properties of matter”.

The science lab is called “milk color mix”.
Sounds interesting…

Working around Teacher Mrs. B the class observed the reaction from the experiment above with dye, milk and soap.
Isabel said she thought this was cool!

Changing properties and what it might look like.
Great stuff!!

Front: listen for the /sh/ sound in each picture.

Back: working with the /sh/ sound more.

Fill in the word that best completes the sentence.

First Grade: Day 61 – On The Air

Today is Terrific Tuesday, which means it’s Chapel and library day!

Today’s Chapel was given by Pastor Shawn. Pastor Shawn’s message was about endurance! He asked for student volunteers (Isabel raised her hand – but wasn’t called upon) to show their physical strength and spoke about training for sports. He then spoke about our spiritual strength and our eternal life race. Sounds like it was a great message! Thanks Pastor Shawn! (There will be no Chapel next week due to Christmas Program rehearsals)

Today is also the day that the whole class is “on air” at the local Christian Radio station!

They were nominated to pay tribute to all military personal by saying the “Pledge of Allegiance” on the radio!! After saying the “Pledge of Allegiance“,  they sang a small song that they sing each day after saying the “Pledge”. I waited patiently and recorded the broadcast in the car while it played on the “air”. So awesome and so proud!

(The video below was recorded on Monday but the kids reciting the Pledge didn’t air on the radio until today.)

 

Back in the classroom they worked on a lot of work today, Isabel brought home 5 pages of work and 3 pages of homework! Busy day.

Front: working with the /or/ sound as in for.

Back: working with /ed/ at the end of a word as in started, loved, and missed.

Front: nouns are people and places.

Back: working with more nouns.

Front: listen to the sound of the word pictured and pick the sound.
Does it go the beginning, in the middle, or at the end.

Back: is the sound a /th/ or /sh/.

First Grade: Day 60 – Spirit Award

It’s Marvelous Monday and it’s the first one in December!

  • There are only 9 days until the Christmas program,
  • 2 weeks until our SUPER CHRISTMAS SURPRISE arrives,
  • and 3 weeks until Christmas vacation!!

Marvelous Mondays are All-School Open.

This morning she had 4 Shining “R’s” on her desk when we arrived. She didn’t get her name draw for this week but that’s O.K. she did last week.

However, her whole class won the “Spirit Award“, for the first time this year! This award is given to the class that has the most student participation on “Spirit Friday’s” (which was last Friday!). The class gets to keep the banner in their room until the next “Spirit Friday“, which should be some time next month.

The “Spirit Award“ hanging in the classroom.
Isabel and her fellow classmates, are so excited about this!

The new Bible verse for this week is…

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16

The new bulletin board in class… “What can I give Jesus”.
There answers are written on each one of the 21 bells on the tree.

My Best Work – Audrey
My Respect – Fiona
My Faith – Anthony
My Mind – Maddie
My Time – Isabella
My Life – Galen
My Soul – Lliam
My Best Words – Eden
My Strength – Ben
My Praise – Maliyah
My Thoughtfulness – Colby
My Heart – Mila
My Love – Cheyenne
My Best Smile – Tyler
My Joy – Nancy
Myself – Isabel
My Confidence – Madeline
My Worship – Anabella
My All – Teacher Mrs. B
My Best Behavior – Tyler
My Prayers – Jackson

Awesome! Such a great reminder of what I need to GIVE and not what I WANT to get at Christmas and throughout the year. Amen! PTL!

Not much school was completed today. Isabel mentioned that they had practice for their Christmas program next week.

She said they had 2 recesses today. 1 in the gym and the other outside. In the gym, she played with tools and wood building something (like Daddy!). Outside she said she ran around chasing some of the other kids, “… actually the whole class did,” she said.

Today was Maddie’s Birthday and they had chocolate cupcakes. She brought home the cupcake topper which was a “Tangled” ring.

Front: spelling words for the week.
Each week she is given 10 new words that she has to learn for a spelling test that is given on Friday.

Back: make compound words.
Take a word from the left and a word from the right to form a new word.

Front: phonics work with the /sh/ sound.

Back: more phonics work with the /sh/ sound.

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Tomorrow is a BIG day for the whole class (today they did the recording but tomorrow it will air)…

They have been chosen (nominated) by our local Christian Radio Station to pay tribute to all military personal by saying the “Pledge of Allegiance” on the radio tomorrow!!!
After saying the “Pledge of Allegiance“,  they will sing a small song that they sing each day after doing the “Pledge”. So be sure to tune in and hear!
(I will record it and the recording today was filmed as well)

New Drapes

We finally decided on a color of drapes in the front room! It only took us 7 years of living in our house to figure it out but we are very happy with the results. Let us know what you think! Enjoy…

We purchased the lighter blue/green drapes at Bed Bath & Beyond and the darker chocolate drapes at JCPenney and it all started with a pillow we both decided we really liked!

Before: we just had our wood white blinds.

Before: not very good at keeping cold air out and not a “warm” room to sit in.

First Stage: the rods are up for the back drape and Gino’s able to hang two of the panels.

Close-up of the blue/green panel on the left window.
The aluminium rod is a bay window rod that is connected all the way around.

Second Stage: all the back blue/green panels are hung.
A bit of a gap between the larger window and the 2 smaller windows but it’ll be hidden.

Third Stage: front metal rods installed along with front chocolate colored drapes.
Looking good!

Close-up of blue/green drape with chocolate diamond drape.
(they need to be pressed!)
Love it!

… and the pillow that started it all!
Gorgeous!