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Second Grade: Day 67

Today is Wednesday and it’s Chapel and library.

Chapel today was given by Pastor S., who asked the question, “What does Christmas mean to you?” Christmas means wait, trust, and celebrate!

Wait is anticipation that Christmas is coming just as the Israelites anticipated the Messiah so long ago.

Trust is trusting God.

Celebrate is the opportunity to celebrate the precious gift given to the world when Jesus was born.

For 1 week the sixth grade class has had a peanut butter and jelly drive for a local area food bank. Each class (K-6th) was challenged to bring the most jars. The first grade class won the challenge by bringing 159 jars! The class will have a root beer and pizza party next week!

The total school results for the PB&J drive was 369 jars of peanut butter and jelly collected! What a huge blessing to all the families that will benefit from the sixth grade class drive.

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Second Grade: Day 66

Today we awoke to snow. It actually snowed last night before I went to bed but Isabel was super excited to see it.

Backyard with our first fall snow.

Not a lot but enough for Isabel to say she wants a snow day.

Today is Tuesday and it’s again music class with Mr. G. Yesterday Isabel said they practiced in the sanctuary of the church.

Classwork…

Reading Award from November.

She didn’t bring home any school work only her award.

Gym

Isabel made this picture earlier this year or late last year, not really sure when, but it’s been hanging on her bulletin board in her room for awhile and I’ve never thought to look at the back.

Today when I went to clean up the board, I flipped over the page and found this delightful artwork!

The front page just reads gym.

The back has lovely drawings of what I can only image is Isabel at the gym doing exercises.

Second Grade: Day 65

Today is Monday and it’s music class with Mr. G. The Christmas program is coming up next week, so they are working very hard learning songs and hand motions.

S.a.T. (show and tell) this week is to share a favorite book about Christmas. Isabel shared her book…

By Carol Heyer from Grandma and Grandpa.
This book has beautiful illustrations and we read it several times during the Christmas season.
This year Isabel said she was going to read it to us.

This week’s Bible verse is…

“Do not confirm any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Romans 12:2a

The Bible lesson for this week is God sets His people apart – the Ark of the Covenant.

The spelling words for this week are…

sprout
streams (listed twice)
through
strong
strap
springtime
spray
throat
three
ostrich
pioneers
clearing
air
different
light
beautiful: very pretty
nutrition: food part that is needed for life and growth
protects: keeps safe from harm
ripens: matures and becomes ready to eat
streams: small rivers; brooks

Language arts for this week is proper nouns and “From Seed to Plant“.

Classwork…

She brought home a lot of work today!

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Last week’s 10 commandments test.

I need to get a video of her singing the awesome song that Mrs. A, taught the class to remember the commandments. I think that helped her tremendously learn the order of each one.

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Last week’s spelling test.

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Today was a sad day at school. Our twin boys Mr. Ben and Mr. Nathan are leaving for Belgium with their family. Their parents have been doing missionary work there and have gotten funds to head back. The family is leaving on Thursday.

Isabel is very sad to see them leave since she likes both boys.

Please pray for this family as they continue to do the ministry work they have been called to do in Belgium.

Mr. Nathan (left) is in her class this year and Mr. Ben (right) was in her class last year.
We will miss you Mr. Ben and Mr. Nathan, may God watch over you and your family. God bless.

Pop Up

Isabel spent some of her time this weekend making a pop-up Nativity scene. The stable isn’t pop- up just the animals and people.

I think she did a great job!

Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, an angel, a sheep and
a donkey (that lost it’s tail because she didn’t want to cut around it!).

The Christmas Tree Hunt

This morning we headed south to the tree farm to hunt down our perfect Christmas tree.

This is our fourth year going on the hunt and today was a gorgeous sunny cloudless day!

The temperature wasn’t ideal at only 24° but that made for some quick picking. We were in and out in about an hour.

Ice crystal patches that were every where on the ground.
Would have gotten closer if I had the better camera with me.

This is the one!
Daddy’s already cutting it down in the back and to the left.

She’s all smiles. We got our tree and she got a cane.
Now it’s time for some frozen yogurt!

Second Grade: Day 64 – Half Day

Today is Friday and it’s a half day due to a teacher work day.

Isabel didn’t have much to say about her day. She did say that her class had a visit from the second/third grade combination class, who came to sing Christmas carols to them.

While teaching in my class, I had heard the kids singing to the office staff as well. The combination class had gone around campus singing to all the other classes. What an awesome blessing and gift to give to your fellow classmates!

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