The Espinoza Family Blog

Today is the last day of school for the year and before Christmas vacation begins.

Today is also a special Christmas Chapel. Everyone was invited to attend and since Nana and Pompo are here, they get to see it! (I did get video but it’s a large file and I can’t add it to the website).

Not much work was done today, Isabel said.

An art project she did at some point in time during the month,
today she got to bring it home.

Coloring page.
Fantastic job!

A Christmas card.
Inside it says…

“I love the Christmas season for a most important reason.
It is the time when God above sent down His only son in love.
He gave to you and He gave to me the very best gift upon a tree!
Thank you Lord for Your special son, who conquered sin and victory won!”

Working with words that begin with the same sound.

A sequencing test.
It was several pages and she missed only 3. Great job!

Christmas Chapel began in the early afternoon and afterward Isabel was free to leave.

Each class, k-6th grade, got up on stage to sing 1 Christmas song with their teacher. We (the congregation) also sang chorals together and watched a great animated video of the nativity story.

Isabel’s class singing for us during Chapel.

My picture of Isabel’s class from the balcony.
I love that I got Mrs. S taking the picture of the above picture in my picture! That’s awesome!!

At the end of Chapel the staff (all those working) got up to lead the congregation in one final song.

The staff singing the final song.
It was an awesome Chapel day, I enjoyed the story and all the singing by the kids. Afterward, we picked up Isabel at her class and then went to lunch with Nana and Pompo.

Today is Thankful Thursday! Thankful Thursday is P.E. with Mrs. S and computer lab with Mrs. T. Computer lab was cancelled today.

For P.E. they played “squirrels/trees” (forgot what Isabel said this game was like) and “4 corners” (this one too!). Isabel said she likes playing 4 corners.

There was a lot of work to do before the celebration later in the day…

Front: learning to add “s” to words when there is more then one.

Back: learning to add “s” when it’s telling something that is happening now.

Front: adding “ed” to words that are telling about the past.

Back: working with “ed“.
She is getting good at doing word searches and crossword puzzles.

A fun holiday maze.

Today is also the class, Happy Birthday Jesus! party!!!

 The class sang Happy Birthday Jesus (tune of Happy Birthday) and then enjoyed cake, ice cream, gingerbread boys/girls, Christmas cookies, candy canes, and chocolate milk! Principle Mrs. B came to share a story with the class a well. Enjoy!

Principle Mrs. B tells a story of the first Christmas.

Isabel with friends from her class.

Friends enjoying the party!

A bag of “reindeer noses” what a great treat from our friend!

Big smiles from the party goers!

Having fun together.

One of the “mom helpers” that helped with the party.
Thanks Mom!

Enjoying her treats.

Teacher Mrs. B and helper passing out goodies to take home.

Today is Wonderful Wednesday and it’s music class with Mr. G.

During music the class practiced their song that they will be performing on Friday during a special Christmas Chapel on Friday. Isabel’s class will be singing “Joy to the World“. All the other classes will be singing a Christmas song as well. I can’t wait to see the performance since she missed her Christmas program last week because she was sick.

With snow still on the ground from yesterdays snow storm, Isabel said she helped others as recess build a snowman and played in a snow fort that the bigger kids had built on the playground. What fun!

Today was also the “Santa Workshop” in the gym. Parents donate small inexpensive gifts and the items can be purchased by the students from $1.00 up to $5.00 or so. Each class is given an opportunity to shop for siblings, parents, cousins, grandparents, or whomever they choose. The smaller kids (k-2nd graders) are paired up with an older “helper” student (4-6th graders) to help with selection and money counting. A great way to show compassion, kindness, and love to other students in school. All characteristics needed during this time of the year and all year long! This year however, I completely forgot about it and didn’t have any money for Isabel to purchase gifts. When her class went to the gym to shop, a fellow student loaned her (and another classmate) some money to purchase gifts. So sweet! She purchased two gifts; 1 for Nana and 1 for Pompo but I can’t tell you what they are yet! You’ll just have to wait…

Not much work was completed today with all the other activities going on it was hard to get any work done!

Working with titles for people.

Coloring page – very well done!
“Glory to God in the Highest and peace on earth and good will to all men.”

The Bible verse for this week…
“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11

Some of the many names of Jesus!

Today is Isabel’s first day back to school after being gone for a few days.

Over the past weekend we took her to the urgent care because she wouldn’t eat and we were getting worried she might be dehydrated. After about 2 hours in the doctor’s office we got answers to our questions about her not feeling well for the past week. She had a blockage in her bowel. The doctor advised us to use some over-the-counter medicine to help with the problem. It took 5 days to get things working again and she’s back to eating hearty again with no more stomach pains! Praise the Lord!!

The Bible verse for this week..

“Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you, He is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11

Today was library time too. Isabel choose the “Prince of Egypt” book to read. She gets the book for 2 weeks while she is Christmas vacation. Hopefully she’ll be able to read it to Nana and Pompo while they are here.

Measurements.
The class used linking cubes to measure the length of different objects in the room.

Lesson on National Symbols: Liberty Bell, Washington Monument, Statue of Liberty and the American Flag.
She missed a few capitalization on this one.

Liberty Bell questions.
They did a page on the Pledge of Allegiance too but I didn’t get a picture of that.

No school for Isabel today.

Today is Fantastic Friday! Which means the weekend is ahead and that means… our package is arriving tomorrow!!!! What can it be?? You’ll just have to see…

Isabel was back in class today after being out for 2 days on Wednesday and Thursday. So we’ll see how it goes for today…

Not much was said about class today…

She got 100% on her Bible verse for the week.
Great job!

Front: circle the best sentence that tells about the picture.

Back: working with cl-fl-and pl.
Which sound completes the sentence.

Social Studies about our country’s history.

Front: following directions.

Back: pattern problem solving.

Front: this triangle shape is used to complete work on back.

Back: by using these smaller shapes,
how many would you need to make the larger triangle on the front?