The Espinoza Family Blog

Today is Chapel Day at school and Parent/student lunch day. However we don’t participate in the parent/student lunch because we do it every day at home!

Today’s morning activity was vertical lines. Isabel began working on this after she arrived in class. I didn’t get to see it until we got home and I told her that I really liked it. A great autumn looking picture with orange, red, and yellow. Great job Isabel!

More “Ss” practice. She did a great job coloring each of the pictures and the sandwich is awesome!

Back: “Ss” practice. She did a better job on her work then yesterday.

Practice of “Mm” and “Ss“.

Back: More “Ss” practice; again the “Ss” were better then yesterday.

High-frequency word usage of “Aa” book.

As I mentioned earlier today was Chapel. Isabel said that they sang a lot of songs, some of which she hadn’t heard before. They sang “The Cry of My Heart” which they have sung before. Today a special male music teacher was there today. He had a guitar and sang several songs using his guitar. Isabel said that all the songs that they sang made her heart joyful.

Isabel said that when they went into Chapel it was cloudy but when Chapel was over the sun was out and she didn’t feel the rain dripping on her nose!

The above picture is her apple stamp painting from Johnny Appleseed day on Friday. She was able to bring it home today.

This morning Gino offered to take Isabel to school and I was thankful to get back in bed and sleep a bit more… at least for half hour.

Today is going to be a fun day. Later this afternoon we are heading to a play date with our friend Payton, her little sisters, and mom. We haven’t seen them since before our vacation in August and we are excited to see them!

“Oh the Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord, for giving me the things I need, the sun, the rain, and the apple-seed, the Lord is good to me!“

The class is still talking about Johnny Appleseed. Today’s morning activity was a picture find. Isabel loves doing these and she’s so good at them! She had to find: a saw, a toothbrush, a spoon, a kite (which she didn’t find until she got home), a clock, a feather, a cup, and a crown.

Front.

Back. This is Liam. Liam sits at Isabel’s table and was also in her Tumbling/Gymnastics class last year.

“Ss” practice. The next several pages are line practice for the letter “Ss“.

Back: More “Ss” practice in the food truck. Isabel gets a little crazy and lazy when it comes to writing “Ss“.

More “Ss” practice at the beach.

Back: High-frequency word usage of “Aa“. The picture at the bottom is something that Isabel likes to play with “Aa” person.

Number and pattern sequences for math. Isabel needs to practice working on writing numbers, most of the time she writes them backward like she did above.

Back: Number 1 practice.

Since the forecast this week calls for gray skies and rain. Today the class played in the gym. Isabel said that Mrs. Boettcher had them play a game instead of doing what they wanted to do, which was run around and chase each other. They played charades, acting out different things from an airplane to different animals while running from one side of the gym to the other. Isabel said she didn’t like being a frog because it made her legs hurt.

Mrs. Kelso sang a song to the class about a lollipop tree. Toward the end of the song, lollipops fell from the sky and everyone got to have a sucker! Isabel thought this was very cool and her lollipop was root-beer.
Which she says is her favorite because it’s really good.

Isabel said she played with Taylor today, who likes to give Isabel hugs. Toward the end of class, Mrs. Boettcher sang the “Grandparents song” which made Isabel sleepy she said.

This week’s Bible verses:

“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

Today we awoke to a very foggy morning that lasted all morning until I went to pick up Isabel at 11:30.

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day (which is actually Monday the 26)!

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) was born on September 26, 1774. He was a nurseryman who started planting trees in western New York and Pennsylvania. During his life the “west” was places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. John Chapman was a deeply religious person. He was known to preach during his travels. He lead a simple live and wanted little. He rarely accepted money and often donated any money he received. It is believed he died on March 11, 1845. The actual date of his death has been disputed.

When we entered the gym today to walk across it to get to class, we noticed Mrs. Boettcher welcoming others to class. Isabel said, “Now why does she have a pot on her head?!” From where we were standing it looked like she had a real pot on her head!

In honor of Johnny Appleseed all the exercises were apple related.

More apple exercises with counting.

Isabel said they even got to paint (with) apples. Mrs. Boettcher had apples cut in half and the class got to stamp-paint using apples. Isabel was really excited about this. I told her you can paint with other fruits and vegetables like, potatoes, corn on the cob, and pineapple.

Isabel and Mrs. Boettcher with their Johnny Appleseed pots. So cute!

I had to get another one… So adorable!!

“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

Not much was said after today’s class. However Isabel did get her red take-home folder, which she was worried about because we didn’t bring it home yesterday after our fair tour. The folder was full with work from the 2 days she missed this week. Can we say homework?!

Coloring page from yesterdays trip to the “Howdy Tour”.

Today’s number is number 1 (earlier in the week it was zero).

Back: pattern bears.

“Mm” work. “Mm” is for monkey, moon, mail, mushroom, mop, and mask.

Back: more “Mm” work for mitten, monkey, mask, milk, and mail.

She helped Marco get to school using a pink crayon.

Back: a cute poem.

“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

Today was our first field trip day! We went to the “Howdy Tour” at the fair. Now this isn’t to confused with “fair” day, that was on Monday, where the whole school got out early to attend the fair. Which I think is totally absurd!

We allowed Isabel back to school since her cough and runny nose had really died done since Monday and Tuesday. I was even able to chaperonage with another mom! Off to the fair…

Luckily for you, I was able to get a few photos before BOTH batteries died early on the tour…

The whole class was able to attend the “Howdy Tour”.
Can you find Isabel?

After meeting up with our tour guide we got to see 2 different batches of baby pigs that were 10 days apart. So cute and what a difference 10 days makes!

We headed into the cow barn but we didn’t get to see any actual real cows because they were moving things around for the sheep and pigs to arrive later in the day. But we learned about butter making and milking cows. We even got to see Mabel…

Learning how to milk Mabel (not a real cow).

Trying her “hand” at milking.

This is a 2 hand job!

We explored different areas of the fair and got to see lots of different animals from pigs, turkeys, camels, rabbits, ducks, llamas, zebra, goats, sheep, Watusi, emus, draft horses (huge), show dogs, bees, horses, chickens, and even a ZEDONK!

Agriculture displays of corn, grapes, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, honey, cucumbers, onions, cabbage, beets, zucchini, carrots, squash, wheat, and a 900+ lb. pumpkin!

We saw collections from peoples personal collections of items from Star Wars, Piglet, My Little Pony (was the largest), Twilight, Muppets, Coca-Cola, wooden toys, spoons, bells, and other items.

It was a great tour, lasting 2 hours, glad it was different then last years tour. Isabel was disappointed she couldn’t get any cotton candy and others wanted to ride some of the rides. Or at least eat, we were so hungry by the time to head back to school.

No school because Isabel isn’t feeling well today.

No school because Isabel isn’t feeling well today.