The Espinoza Family Blog

Today is Tuesday and that means Chapel.

Isabel said that they had a “family” Chapel. She hasn’t mentioned these in awhile and I forgot about them and wondered if they even did them anymore. The “family” Chapel are small groups of mixed-ages lead by the 6th graders. Isabel said that her group met together in an other classroom. The message was a review of last weeks Chapel with Pastor Shawn and the Fruit of the Spirit. This week they discussed ways to practice the Fruit of the Spirit. They went over the passage again from Galatians 5:22-23 and then made a Fruit of the Spirit bookmark to remind them to keep practicing love, joy, kindness, goodness, peace, patience, gentleness, and self control.

Isabel’s Fruit of the Spirit bookmark.

Since Isabel missed yesterday. She had to complete her MAP testing during recess time. Next week is the final day of testing and hopefully we’ll find out soon how she’s doing.

Phonics practice with the letter “Kk“.

Back: more phonics practice.

Review of letter’s “Ll“, “Ii“, and “Tt“.

Back: For some reason she didn’t finish this…

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This week’s Bible verses:

“Pp” – “Praise the Lord for it is good to sing praises unto our God.” Psalm 147:1

“Oo” – “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.” Psalm 118:1

“Nn” – “No man can serve two masters.” Matthew 6:24

“Mm” – “My son, give me thine heart.” Proverbs 23:26

“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 wonderful weekend! Isabel celebrated her birthday and the sun was out the whole weekend. It was wonderful! Hopefully yours was just as wonderful…

I have a bit of news… my “main” computer is down. It’s just a giant paper weight at this moment sitting on my desk upstairs. Gino thinks that my hard drive is almost dead. Strange noises were heard coming from it last night and it wouldn’t boot-up either. This morning, I was actually able to get it booted-up and was able to back-up all my photos and files. Which is a great thing, if should happen to not boot-up again tomorrow! So why am I telling you this??? Because I use my “main” computer for blogging, I do not use my laptop computer for this. So that means, I will not be adding photos to the blog until I get my “main” computer back. I can add the updates but there will not be any photos. Just letting ya know…

School News: No school today for our little squirt. I awoke this morning at around 5 to the sound of her coughing. A dry hacking sound that put me on high alert for the rest of the morning. When the alarm went off at 7 a.m. I got up and dismissed her from school today. I went back to bed, finally falling asleep for a few hours before waking up at around 9:30 to hear Isabel say she didn’t get up in time for school.

Wow! Talk about a foggy morning. Could only see 2 houses down!

It was back to school this morning. Isabel was feeling better from her bad afternoon on Wednesday. So glad she was able to get back into class since tomorrow is her birthday. We had a surprise for her during school…

She said she had to wear her “headphones” on the way to school.

The opening activity was backward circle line practice with the letter “Oo“.

Back: backward circle practice small “Oo“. Awesome job with the little “o“.

Math work (she was working on this when we arrived!) Write the numbers, add them up, and draw an object for each number. Isabel drew hearts and marbles.

Back: math work. Her numbers are improving.

Finishing her work (above photos) up before sharing cupcakes with her class!

The class was excited to see the cupcakes, since they had cupcakes yesterday too because today was Nevan’s birthday and they celebrated his birthday yesterday. Tomorrow is Isabel’s!

Isabel’s table; Lliam, Audrey, Isabel, and Anabella.

Reese, Nevan, Maliyah, Jayden, and Taylor.

Ja’Siah, Lincoln, and Mishy.

Emma, Madeline, and Mariana.
(several of the kids were missing from class today)

After we left the kids went outside for recess. Isabel said she got to play with some boys from the other class but they started to be rough.

This week’s Bible verses:

“Oo” – “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.” Psalm 118:1

“Nn” – “No man can serve two masters.” Matthew 6:24

“Mm” – “My son, give me thine heart.” Proverbs 23:26

“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 today, Isabel hasn’t been feeling since she got home yesterday.

10 more school days until day 100! I know that the class is getting excited and Isabel mentions it more and more as the day gets closer and closer.

This morning it was raining hard as we headed off to school and continued on and off all morning long. Later in the afternoon we even got a few spots of sunshine before the clouds broke up just as the sun was dipping in the sky.

Today was Move-up day for Preschool through 5th grades at school. Isabel and her class got to visit 1st grade! (No show and tell this week because of it)

She said going to 1st grade was fun and they even got to sit in the desks like first-graders! The first-grade teacher read the story “The Fat Cat Book: A Danish Folktale” by Jack Kent to them. Isabel said she really liked it and I told her I remember that book and I liked it too!

When they got back to their own classroom again, they played the game “Doggy Doggy Where is Your Bone?”. Isabel said she didn’t get picked to be the dog this time but she had fun anyway.

Front: math work.

Back: number writing. She did a great job!

A portrait.

When I asked her who it was (thinking it was Audrey or someone else), she said, “Its’ me! Because of the space in the middle!” Ha-ha!

After class Isabel told me her tummy wasn’t feeling well and she didn’t want to eat her snack…

This week’s Bible verses:

“Oo” – “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.” Psalm 118:1

“Nn” – “No man can serve two masters.” Matthew 6:24

“Mm” – “My son, give me thine heart.” Proverbs 23:26

“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

The clouds broke apart and the sun came out the whole time Isabel was in school. I was so excited, thinking she would get to ride her scooter again around the neighborhood… not! After school the clouds closed up and it began to rain. Bummer! Sometimes I hate living in the PNW, today was one of them!

Not much was said about school today. She did tell me the Bible story is about Moses and Mishy missed class again today.

Chapel was today and Pastor Shawn, from the church, gave the message about the “fruits of the Spirit” listed in Galatians 5:22-23. Which are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self control. Just like real fruit on a tree, we also get pruned in order to bear more fruit. Reading the Bible helps us to learn and grow.

Opening activity; backward circle lines.

Front: phonics with a “Bb“.

I love how she did her name at the name, it’s perfect and then down below she gets all crazy with the “Bb’s“.