The Espinoza Family Blog

Today is Fantastic Friday!

Today was a busy day at school; it was Spirit Friday with a Dr. Seuss theme, the class root beer float party, and a bake sale for the 6th grade class!

Enjoying some root beer in class today!

Isabel enjoyed her “float” party. She had 2 floats, a small “cat-in-the-hat” cookie (classmate brought to share with the whole class) and 1 large cookie. I’ve heard that next week they are having another party too!

We stopped by the bake sale after school and supported our 6th graders for camp! We got a large hand full of goodies and look forward to enjoying them after dinner.

Classwork…

Bible verse test this week is 100%.
Good job!

A Haiku for spring.

Front: write the animals in alphabetical order.

Back: working with contractions.

Front: write a sentence using the words provided.

Back: write the word that best completes each statement.

Isabel lost another tooth! This one she lost while she was at school today. Don’t worry though, she brought it home to put under her pillow.

Her new smile!

Today is Thankful Thursday and it’s P.E. with Mrs. S. Isabel also said they had computer lab with AR testing again today.

I was called to sub last night and was delighted to work in one of the kindergarten classes this morning. So different from working with 3 year-olds but still a bit similar in a few ways. It was fun.

I even got to do recess duty, which I have done before but today wasn’t at all enjoyable. It was freezing! The wind was nasty. I’m so glad that I had my hood but wished I had gloves and a scarf. My fingers, checks, nose and ears were bright red when I went back inside. Some of the kids, my daughter included, must have thought it was summer because they were running around without coats! Crazy!

Isabel’s day started with computer lab first thing.

The computer’s weren’t working so they missed out on recesses because of it. Isabel was disappointed and I was too, since I was on recess duty for that time as well.

During P.E. they played “shark island“. I got to see the game for a little while before leaving work. Lots of running (which is a good thing!) and good team work building skills in play for that game. Watch though some of those kids can really run!

Isabel also said they took a math test today. She didn’t mention how she did so I’m assuming we’ll find out tomorrow in her Friday Folder.

Tomorrow afternoon is the BIG ROOT BEER FLOAT party! Isabel has been talking about it the past 2 days. Just need to remember our share of the root beer…

Classwork…

Front: problem solving.

Back:problem solving.

Front: weather words.

Back: weather words complete the sentences.

Front: working with “ing”.

Back: word search.

Front: choose the right word to complete the sentences.

Back: same as the front, choosing the best word to complete the sentences.

Today the class finished up their science project that they started on Tuesday called;

Water Drop Lens.

Today they finished their observations and completed their handout.

Learning about “Refraction“.

Learning about the different ways to get “refracted” light.

Isabel didn’t say if they did their experiment today or Tuesday.
Great observations!

Today is Wonderful Wednesday!

It’s music class with Mr. G and computer lab with Mrs. T.

Isabel said they were practicing for their spring program again today. She was singing the chorus to one of the songs but she couldn’t remember the whole thing.

During computer lab they did more AR testing.

Today is also the first day of spring! Woohoo! I am so excited! I’ve been looking forward to this day since winter began. I’m not a huge fan of winter, rain, ice, snow and cold. Bring on the sun!!

Classwork…

Front: how many?

Back: how is the weather?

Front: write the best word that completes the sentence.

Back: fill in the word that best completes the sentence.
For some reason she wrote “ske” wrong.

Front: add an “s”.

Back: add “ed”.

BTW: The above “spring” picture, I made myself! With some help from my PrintMaster® program that I got for Christmas! I getting to like all the cool things that you can do with it! Hopefully I’ll get to add more cute pictures like that one in the future. Enjoy!

Today is Terrific Tuesday and it’s Chapel and library.

I had a meeting after school today and didn’t get a whole lot of information about her school day.

Chapel was given by Pastor Josh (Isabel didn’t catch were he was from). Isabel said he spoke on the school theme for this year Matthew 12:33-36 and gave great lessons.

Lesson 1: God wants to be your priority! You will begin to be what you think and what you hear. If you read, think and talk about God, He will be your everything!
Lesson 2: Practice makes perfect. Store scripture in your heart! The greatest commandment is to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Matthew 12:30-31

Final Phonogram!
Front: “ough” says /ō/ as in “though” or
/ōō/ as in “through”.

Back: “ough” says /uff/ as in “rough” or
/off/ as in “cough” or
/aw/ as in “thought” and
/ow/ as in “bough”.

Front: unscramble the spelling words.

Back: complete each spelling word.

Front: follow the directions.

Back: complete the sentence with the best word given.

Front: greater than, less than or equal.

Back: greater than, less than or equal.

Teacher Mrs. B read them a story and afterward the class had to draw a picture about the story.
Isabel drew a bird in the tree, a turtle and snake on the ground.

Front: contractions.

Back: add “s” to the words with more in the picture.

It’s Marvelous Monday!

Which means All-School Open. The Monday morning assembly for announcements and other fun stuff for the week. Today they talked about the 6th grade bake sale coming up next Friday. The funds raised from the bake sale will help get students to the spring 6th grade camp next month. So bring your change and enjoy some baked goods or two!

This week’s Bible verse…

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” II Corinthians 5:17a

Isabel didn’t mention anything about school. She was just disappointed that she wasn’t going to “after-school” care. She was looking forward to it but that’s tomorrow because I have a meeting.

Today was a sunny day, so they did get to play outside on the playground and didn’t have to play in the gym.

Classwork…

Front: St.Patrick’s coloring page.

Back: I liked her drawing on the back.

Irish blessing.

Front: rhyming words.

Back: working with long /i/.

Front: contractions.

Back: more contractions.

Front: working with this week’s spelling words.

This week’s spelling words…

my – fly – by – why – sky – try – help – busy – wake
– out – now – any – eight – drop – carry – rise

Back: write the word that completes each sentence.

This Friday the class is having their second celebration for filling their marble jar.

The class took a vote a week ago and decided on a “root beer float” party!
I’m sure they are all looking forward to it because that is all Isabel can talk about!

No school due to a teacher in-service day.