Category: School News

This morning we awoke to a thick blanket of fog outside. It was thicker in our neighborhood but as I got down to the main road to school it lifted a bit to see better on our way to school.

After arriving at school, we bumped into Mrs. W on our way to the classroom this. Since we haven’t seen her in awhile, Isabel was excited to show her, her new loose tooth. We stood and talked for a bit before saying goodbye and heading off to class.

Today was Chapel. Isabel said that Mrs. Standfield gave the message today. Except she couldn’t remember what it was about.

Today was music class, they met again today to practice for their Christmas program coming up next week! Isabel has picked up her line very well. We practice during meal times at the table and I try to remember to give the line before hers so she remembers when it’s her time to say her line.

Opening activity was “Gg” practice.
She started out good but they eventually turned into 6’s. We need to work on that.

Math working was counting with pennies!

Back: practice with the number “7“.

During class time Isabel said they made a card (cards) for Mrs. Boettcher and her family. I thought that was a great idea! Isabel said she wanted to make a card too. So after lunch she made several to take to school tomorrow.

 

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

 

It was only 34° when we headed out the door this morning. It was cold but the sky was clear except a few clouds and the sun was shining! It’s a great day when the sunlight hits your skin!

When we arrived at the classroom no one was at the door to greet us, which was a bit odd. Since Mrs. Boettcher is always standing there waiting to greet everyone coming through. Not today though…I told Isabel to give me a kiss and let her go in without me, thinking that class might have started early, which it hadn’t. I’ll tell you more about that later…

After class, Isabel said they had All-School Opening. With the whole school in attendance, they practiced their Christmas program, which is coming up next week!

They also had an earthquake drill and a fire drill; which they were doing when I arrived back at school to pick her up. She got to see Mrs. W during the drill but only said “hi” since she had to stay in line and keep quite.

The opening activity was a maze through a goldfish. I love the little bit of coloring she did on the fin. She’s starting to blend colors and use more of them when she does color. It’s great!

She brought home this thankfulness book today. She said that they had been working on it for several days last week.

Page 1: Thankful for family.
I love that she included Daisy in the drawing!

Page 2: Thankful for friends
I believe this is Taylor from her class.

Page 3: Thankful for Jesus
Precious! Love it!!

Page 4: Thankful for Thanksgiving
Gobble Gobble!

Page 5: Thankful for food
I like that she made the bowl so big and can only see a bit of food.
Wonder what else is hiding in that bowl??

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On the way home, she told me about Mrs. Boettcher. Who will be out of school the rest of the week because her father “went to heaven” Isabel said, over the holiday break. Mrs. Kelso will be filling in for Mrs. Boettcher in her absence. So please keep the family in prayer during this very difficult time.

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

 

No school due to Thanksgiving break.

Happy Thanksgiving!

No school due to Thanksgiving break.

Happy Thanksgiving!…btw, Isabel wore her pilgrim hat to dinner! She actually wanted us all to wear hats but she had made the hats to small. Maybe next year.

Isabel was all smiles when we arrived at school this morning, so much so that Mrs. Boettcher pointed it out to her. Just happy to be in school I guess!

Isabel was still all excited after class. She was munching on popcorn and drinking a juice pouch when she headed out the classroom door. She told me she was full all the way up to her shoes with popcorn!

The opening activity was a pilgrim picture. Isabel said she “copied” Reese with the colors that she used. We had a talk about “coping” other peoples work!

Working with numbers again. Isabel said Reese put the black “Rr” in the star.

Back: number writing. Such great work on her writing!

 

The class had recess in the gym because of the rain outside. They played duck-duck-goose and a few other games.

Working with the letter “Gg”.

Back: more work with “Gg”. Great job!

After recesses, Mrs. Boettcher had surprised the class with a paper turkey stuffed (all the way to the top!) with popcorn. The class was able to choose either a pilgrim hat, a pilgrim bonnet, or Indian hat. The class proceeded to have a “feast”! What a great idea! Mrs. Boettcher and Isabel greeted me at the door with pilgrim bonnets. (Wish I had the camera with me!)

My little pilgrim!
I was able to get a photo in the car before heading back home.
Happy Thanksgiving!

She actually wore this hat all night long!
I thought it was cute with her reading in the rocker.

 

This week’s Bible verses:

“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

We had a major storm move in bringing in buckets of rain overnight. The high winds and heavy rain were so bad last night that it woke me up. For the next several days the forecast calls for rain and more rain. Typical Northwest weather in November!

This morning the rain was really coming down when Isabel and I headed out to school. The parking lot at the school was almost a complete covered in water and it was hard to navigate trying to find the high ground.

Today was Chapel at school. Isabel said she went to 2 Chapels today. 1 of them was a family Chapel, which was held in the church and the other was just a normal Chapel but was in a room Isabel has never been to before. This seemed a little odd to us, but I have a feeling it may have something to do with Thanksgiving.

Other then that, she didn’t say anything about her day. Except that Lincoln got really upset about something but found out that he had a loose tooth.

She didn’t even bring any paper’s home in her “take home folder”. Maybe tomorrow…

UPDATE: She brought her work home the following day.

Opening activity was to color a turkey. However Isabel didn’t complete her’s because she read a book instead.

Learning phrases: first, second, third, and fourth.

Back: number practice with the number “6“.

 

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

 

We had a white weekend. We had snow on Saturday, just enough to cover the grass and cars and such. However it didn’t stick to the sidewalks or roads. Sunday, we awoke to white again but it was only a hard freeze that looked like snow. This morning it’s wet weather outside with a nice drizzle of rain.

When we got into class today, Isabel lost all focus. I had to keep telling her what to do. Put your folder in the bin. Hang up your backpack. Hang up your coat. Put your lunch magnet on the board. When I left her sitting at her table she was of course, looking at the books. As I was leaving I told her to do her work BEFORE reading any books. I was very disappointed to learn that she didn’t complete her work before reading.

Today Mrs. Boettcher told the kids about her funny weekend. She lives closer to the mountains then we do and she got more snow, 11 inches in fact. She told the kids about getting stuck in the snow and how a gate was stuck and how her car couldn’t get up a hill. Isabel said it was funny and was laughing to herself while she was retelling me.

Today was all school open. One of the girls from class was with the older kids and she got to be on stage with pompoms. Isabel couldn’t remember what they talked about but said it was a lot of fun.

Her incomplete work.

Working with the letter “Gg“. She wrote her name beautifully and correctly!

Back: Writing “Gg“. Great job!

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

Isabel didn’t say anything about school today.

Pattern turkey.

Working with the letter “Nn“.

Back: High-frequency word usage. The picture on she drew is of home.

This week’s Bible verses:

“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