Category: School News

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.

Today is the end of the first (1/2) week of school.

“Shoe box” booklets for today.
Isabel really likes the author of “Tad Cat Ran”!

Math work today was counting the birthdays (including Teacher Mrs. B) in class for each month. Can you guess whose is in February??

Number writing. Good practice!
Isabel is getting better at writing the numbers correctly (in the right direction).

Mini tests from earlier in the week.

Great job for the first few days in class!

A review test about the story of Creation from this weeks Bible lessons.

She really enjoyed school yesterday. The highlight was 3 recesses!

Hopefully as the year continues she’ll find other reasons to enjoy school too!

More “shoe box” booklets.

Writing practice with spelling too.
Teacher Mrs. B wrote the words on the board for them and Isabel had to write it on her paper. Later Mrs. B had them draw a picture to go with it.

Listen to the phonics sound mini-test.
Teacher Mrs. B gave a letter and Isabel had to remember how to write the said letter.

Phonics work with the letter “r”.
Below “I like the… bulletin board” (in class; which has a picture of a boat on it) and “Go…dog, dog, dog” (after the book “Go Dog! Go!)

First name practice. Fantastic!!

Today is the first day of school and the first day of First Grade!

I can’t believe that summer is over, school has begun and we have a First Grader!!! I’m sad to see her grow up but have enjoyed her each and every day that I’ve been given with her. She is such a blessing to us! I pray that as she continues to grow she will continue to grow closer to God as we build her foundation for a her future.

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

This year she’ll be going all day, no more half day’s for this kiddo. She’ll be packing a lunch or getting lunch from school. She’ll have 3 recesses (she really likes that!) and she’ll be learning all new things! I know she’s a bit nervous today but she knows some of the kids in her class previous from years at school and she’ll get to meet new ones as well. It’s going to be an exciting year ahead! God bless.

All packed and ready to go!
Same backpack as last year but she has a new purple lunch bag!
I love the lunch bag she picked out.

First day of FIRST GRADE!
When she grows up she wants to be a doctor (she’s been saying this for years!)

In her class, at her new desk.

There are 4 kids at each of the 6 tables but there are only 3 kids at her table (including Isabel). There are 19 kids in her class and 11 are girls.
Her new teacher is Teacher Mrs. B.

Her first day in class was a success! She enjoyed it!

Handwriting samples.

Front: the opening activity (seen in the photo above) was a maze.

Back: She finished the front and was able to do a little free time art!

I love the coloring she did on this! She took her time and colored very well. Great job!

Her first “shoe box” books.

These little books are intended to teach her how to read. However in Isabel’s case, she’s so beyond these books she calls them “baby books.” We did have a discussion about not calling the books “baby” because there are kids in her class that can NOT read or are just learning to read. So we will not be calling them “baby books” anymore out of respect for others.

The promotion program was great!

Mrs. Boettcher’s class is the top/back row.
Isabel is located in the back row third from the right.
Mrs. McCarty’s class is the bottom/front row.

Receiving her “Character” award and diploma! Woohoo!!

Flowers for the graduate from Mommy and Daddy.

With Mrs. Boettcher!

Mommy and her first-grader!

Daddy with his first-grader!

Her Character award in “Compassion”.

Her diploma!

We are so proud of you Isabel!

Today is the last day of school and the last day of kindergarten!

Isabel has had mixed emotions about this day. Hopefully it will go better for her and she won’t be to sad. There is a “promotion” program later today after school.

Just like for the first day of school, I have to get a photo for the last day of school too!
She looks so much older without bangs!

Before class started we got a group hug with her 2 teachers,
Mrs. Boettcher (l) and Mrs. Kelso.

Both of whom are FANTASTIC teachers!
Isabel is going to miss them, especially Mrs. Boettcher who will not be returning to our school next year. She will be teaching Preschool at another school. However she did say she would stop by the school and visit.

Today was the Teddy-Bear Picnic at school for all preschool and kindergarten classes and we made it back from vacation just in time for Isabel to attend! She was so excited!

Due to the weather, the picnic was held in the gym and the 6-graders had fun games for the kids to play. It was a great turnout, much better then last year, with a lot more parents attending!

Her “new” teddy bear from Grandpa went with her to the picnic.

Mrs. Boettcher let her use the little bumble bee teddy bear during class. Since the class brought their bears to class that day. After our picnic time we headed home while the full day kids went on with the rest of their day. Great fun!

Today was Chapel but Isabel and she mentioned that one of the teacher’s gave the message today because the Principal, who was going to give the message today, was gone. Isabel said she believes she is sick.

When I dropped her off this morning she mentioned that one of the girls got “bangs” over the Easter holiday. So she pointed her out to me.

Isabel said they went to recess before Chapel because everyone was acting so well. I told her that was great because on most Chapel days, they don’t get recess because of Chapel.

Today was “fun lunch”. Isabel got to stay and eat lunch with her class. They had Papa John’s pizza and other goodies.