Category: School News

This morning was a bit cool. I think we have seen the end of summer. Even though it doesn’t official end until next week.

This morning makes for a new week and a new letter verse, which is “Bb“.

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

The class also worked on their Creation books with today’s focus being on the 3rd day; God commands the waters to be in one place and to be called “sea” and the dry land to appear and it be called “land/earth”. God commands the earth to bring forth grass, plants, and fruit bearing trees.

Since September’s math highlight is numbers 1-10. Isabel is enjoying doing these dot-to-dots in the morning.

This was a story about 2 friends; pig and bear. Pig and bear weren’t friends because pig was always making messes. One day pig and bear became friends because bear’s bear got dirty and pig helped clean up bear. In the end pig and bear had a celebration together. Isabel had to remember the story that was told to her and then draw a picture of what happened in the end.

Today’s number is 7. The counting bears were used again today for the exercise above.

Mrs. Boettcher told the class to draw 7 items on the paper. Isabel traced the counting bears and then colored in each of them.

Today has been a good day, so far. I’ve been working, still, on getting caught up on posting here on the blog. I have to finish the month of August and the reunion. It’s coming together.

When I asked Isabel about her day today, at first she just said “lots of stuff”. When I pushed and asked for more details I got a bit more information…She mentioned that even though Eden (from her preschool class) has been struggling with being in kindergarten, today she pushed Isabel on the swings at recess! I told her that was great and she should have told Eden thank you. She said that she did.

The class is still working on the Creation story and putting together a Creation book in class. Isabel said they can’t bring it home yet because they aren’t finished with it yet.
I told her that was O.K. I would see it when she brought it home finished.

I LOVE this dot-to-dot she did this morning!
She did a fabulous job coloring the whole thing!!! LOVE IT! ♥♥♥♥

We have been practicing her Bible verse for the letter “Aa” all week and
I think she’s got it!

“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

She also brought home her first homework for the year; a questionnaire for me to fill out about Isabel and a counting worksheet for her.

Her math worksheet for today.

Today’s number was 6.

Today we learned that our field trip for next week has been postponed until the following week. Same time, just a new day!

Today’s number was 5.

Isabel’s dot-to-dot for today. She also said she was practicing writing her name. We have noticed that she’s switching from lower case to all capital letters or mixing it up. Our hope is that as the year continues she will begin to do it correctly, again.

Today was music day with Mrs. Seal. Isabel says they headed over to her class, which is in her old Chapel room. Today for music they played musical chairs! Isabel said she didn’t know how to play musical chairs until today and she really enjoyed playing it.

The Bible story for this month is focusing on Creation.

 

Last nights Parent Orientation was very helpful! We got so much information, it’s going to take me a few days to wrap my mind around all the things that were said. We learned more about Mrs. Boettcher and who she is and got to see her enthusiasm for teaching. She loves the kids already!

Mrs. Boettcher.

The first week of class was focused on getting into a classroom routine, expectations, assessments and getting acquainted.

The classroom rules are: Honor God by doing what is right. Follow directions, and Be a good listener.
We learned about memory verses (I’ll go over that later), show & tell, birthdays, field trips (first one is next week!), snacks, lunch, and the Extended Care Program.

This week’s verse, which they actually get at the beginning of the week, goes along with the letter of the week which is “Aa“.

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

Each week will be a new letter of the alphabet and a new verse! I thought this was a cool idea instead of using objects to represent the letters like last year in Preschool.

Today’s number was 4 and the class worked with pattern blocks. Isabel really liked learning this and told me that if you put 2 trapezoids together along the “base”, it makes a hexagon.
I told her that was cool!

After hearing the story of “Moo Moo Brown Cow” Isabel drew a few of the animals in the barnyard. From the top down: a blue cat, a red pig, a large brown sheep, and a blue goose.

Tonight is Parent Orientation. We will learn all the rules and regulations for the elementary side of school. Learn who all the teachers are and get to visit the classroom to meet Mrs. Boettcher. So exciting!! Isabel will be spending the evening with our neighbors.

Today was Chapel at school today! The first thing Isabel told us, was about the music teacher, Ms. Webster (soon to be Mrs. Seal) and her violin! She was so excited about it.

A math dot-to-dot that was done today.

On the back of her dot-to-dot page.

Today’s number was 3. Mrs. Boettcher told them to draw a picture of 3.
Isabel drew 3 pictures of Daisy.

When I asked about the rest of her day she couldn’t quite remember anything else, just that today was Chapel and the music teacher was there with a violin that she played!

No school today due to the Labor Day holiday. Enjoy!

Today Isabel seemed excited to meet me after class. She was talking so fast and I could hardly catch up!

This was an exercise with hard plastic teddy bears (which I told Isabel I remembered those from when I was little!).
On the back of this sheet (you can just make it out) is a giant number two.  The kids trace the number with their finger; curl around and then slide to the right. 2!

During recess she got to see more of her preschool friends but not for very long because the whistle blew and they had to go.
She also said she saw a book, “Arthur’s TV Trouble” that she said she would like to read. I told her maybe next time she’s in class.

They got to do a dot-to-dot and Isabel said she understands already how to do them. When she was completed with her dot-to-dot she turned her paper over and drew…

This awesome dinosaur! Whose name by the way, is Rexy!

She said they sang a bunch of new songs one of them
(she couldn’t remember the other one) goes like this…

“God pushed up the mountians, he rolled out the sea.
He painted the sky and he even made me!” (this little song as actions too!) – Love it!

Isabel even said Mrs. Boettcher even brought a guitar case to class today
and inside was a real guitar!

Again Isabel didn’t say much about her day. She did say that she saw several of her preschool friends out on the playground. I thought that was great!

She brings home a folder each day and we check it to see the work she has done in class. The above picture was sitting on her “desk” when we arrived this morning.

The Circle of Blessing is a concept from Ted Tripp’s book “Shepherding a Child’s Heart”.

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with promise), that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” – Ephesians 6:1-3

Parts of the circle of blessing may go a little something like this…

“Honor your father and mother” (what does that mean?) It’s more than just obeying but treating them like important people with love and respect.

“Commandment with promise” (what does this mean?) It’s the first  of the 10 commandments that comes with a specific promise from God,
there is a reward if you do this right.

“Go well with you” (what does that mean?) That God will help your work out better, not perfect but much better than it would if you did not obey.

“Live long in the land” (what does that mean?)  When God first said this it was talking about the promised land, but for Christians the promised land is heaven.

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When I asked Isabel if she knew what the “circle of blessing”
meant this is what she said…

“The circle of blessing is like when you disobey your parents. When you step out of that circle you are not in the circle of blessing anymore. Which makes our Father sad. Do you know who he is? Is our other Father in heaven and you are a sheep, I am a lamb, and he is the shepherd! That is why I wrote “No sin” in the circle because you have no sin in the circle unless you step outside when you do something bad.”

What an awesome lesson!