The Espinoza Family Blog

Today Isabel was all excited to tell me about helping her classmate out and making her not feel so lonely. I guess from what Isabel says, the girl and Isabel got along very well all day. I told her that was GREAT and then when I asked what her name was. Isabel said, “Taylor.” After she said that, I was even more excited because usually she never asks to get the persons name. So I’m very glad she remembered!

Today the class had a earthquake drill and a fire drill. Isabel said while they were doing the earthquake drill they were singing, “God is So Good“, while they were under the tables together. During the fire drill, she mentioned seeing Presley but she didn’t talk with her because, “you don’t talk during a fire drill”. She did wave at her though.

Today’s number was the number 9. Isabel drew 9 circle’s, I told her they looked like blueberries. She thought that was funny.

The worked with green/orange pattern sets.

Today’s dot to dot was a goose.

The class also worked in their Creation books and worked on day 5. God creates birds and sea animals and commands them to be fruitful and multiply.

They got another word-less book. This one is about a class of kindergartners.

This is the last day for our 2 verses Monday we get a new one!

“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

 

I’ve been noticing that even though school is supposed to start right at 8:30 a.m. most of the parent’s are struggling to make it to school in time. For the past 3 days, most of the parents have been late. I was running late one day last week and just made it to the classroom before having to go to the office first, and I told myself never again! Even with the road construction along all the routes leading to school, I will be there early. Hopefully with fall and winter approaching I can keep my self proclaimed promise!

Front side. She later noticed that she forgot to do the lower case “s”.

Backside.

Second word-less book. This one is about a boy and his missing teddy bear.

When I picked Isabel up from school today, the only thing she would talk about was recess and NOT getting to see or play with Presley that long. I couldn’t get anything else out of her! Hopefully tomorrow is a better day and we can get more information about her day.

This morning we ran into some friends at school whom we haven’t seen since school began. Our friend (who’s in 1st grade) was so worried that Isabel didn’t got to his school and his mom was just making it up because he hadn’t seen her there! So we met up in the parking lot before class. They were so excited to see each other that Isabel couldn’t  wait to get out of car. When she gets out the car, the 2 just stand there staring at each other not saying a word! So funny!

So come to find out…while I was walking back to the car, our friend was pulling out and she stops to tell me that the kids never see each other because the 1st grader doesn’t get to have their first recess because the teacher said, “they have to much work to do.” I was a bit shocked by this. How can you not allow kids to play??! That’s just as important, if not more so then the school work. I’m still scratching my head on this one…

Anyway’s, Isabel got to see Mrs. W this morning in class. Mrs. W stopped by to say “hi” to all her old students and to encourage Eden, who has still been struggling each day. Isabel was excited to see her and gave her a big hug (along with the others that had her last year as well).

She didn’t say a lot about today. She mentioned that one of the boys wasn’t feeling well today. He kept his head down on his desk and stuck by Mrs. Boettcher. Isabel said she tried to comfort him and take care of him. She also got to play with Presley on the playground again. She thought that was really fun. Eden is doing much better today. Her family has left her with a photo of them and whenever she is sad, she looks at her picture. It seems to be working!

Today’s number is 8. The class is counting down the days to 100. On the 100th day the class is going to have a party!

Pattern cubes of color. She colored the cubes that went along with the pattern Mrs. Boettcher gave her.

Her dot-to-dot today was a horse. She got excited seeing Mrs. W and lost her focus of doing it.
Got a little crazy.

This picture went along with a story that was told and Isabel had to remember the story and color each item a certain color.

“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 another great day in kindergarten!

We learned last week during orientation that on Tuesday is Chapel and Isabel is required to wear a dress. She doesn’t seem to mind though that fact, she just really enjoys Chapel. This week Ms. “Seal” sang a the song “The Cry of My Heart”. I’m not sure exactly who wrote it but I did look it up on the internet…

“It is the cry of my heart, To follow You. It is the cry of my heart, To be close to You. It is the cry of my heart, To follow all of the days of my life.
Teach me Your holy ways oh Lord, So I can walk in Your truth. Teach me Your holy ways oh Lord, And make me wholly devoted to You.
Open my eyes so I can see, The wonderful things You do. Open my heart up more and more, And make it wholly devoted to You.”

I don’t know for sure if this is the exact song, since I found a few different ones but it sounds great and it seems like an easy song (not to complex) to sing to/for kindergartners.

Her number dot-to-dot today. She colored it different colors and then took a white crayon and colored over the whole thing. She said that it was cool.

They are still working on their Creation books. When I asked her if they were on a different day, she said no, still on day 3. I didn’t get a number sheet today, so they either didn’t get one or Isabel missed placed it. I guess we’ll see what’s in the take-home folder tomorrow.

“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

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.