Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas and happy end of the 2nd quarter!! Thank you students for all the hard work you have put in these first two quarters and thank you parents for all the support you have given your students and me!

A few important announcement for over Christmas Break:

1. We will be having the Spelling Bee in January.  We will first have a class Spelling Bee and the top three students from our class bee will go on to the 1st and 2nd grade Bee.  Here are the Spelling words to study:

yarn, jokes, gray, verb, wildcat, print, gross, snail, farmer, draw, neck, pear, torch, zebra, until, homes, planet, rally, dragon, clover, queen, kickstand, bloom, stump, ladybug, oily, mitten, loud, haven, nobody, baseball, mower, idea, rubber, fixed, toast, envy, swipe, derby, mantle, quart, angry, beach, owed, dance, banjo, cheery, friend, crayon, ouch, well-to-do, visit, blink, months, snide, campus, power, indigo, zipper, along, inhale, solid, timber, dentist, trendy, daydream, protect, heavy, paddle, bogus, screech, gather, force, carrot, tantrum, lobster, eleven, comb, haunt, window, parlor, seaweed, danger, uncle, growl, talent, middle, together, hedge, value, botch, circle, judge, raisin, gemstone, famous, dodge, high, spaceship, island

2. School will resume on TUESDAY, JANUARY 6TH.

3. KITE DAY will take place on MONDAY, JANUARY 12TH.  Please purchase a kite for your student during Christmas Break.

4. CHARACTER PARADE will take place on FRIDAY, JANUARY 16TH.  More information will be available after break.

Thank you again for a wonderful 1st semester! I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and an enjoyable break as we celebrate the birth of Jesus!  :)

Last Week of School!

We have reached our last week of school before Christmas Break!! We have many fun activities planned for this week in celebration of Christmas!

Some important announcements for this week:

1. There will be no Spelling Test or Bible Memory Verse Test this week.

2. We will have our Christmas Party this THURSDAY! Parents are invited to come in at 10:15 and join us for some fun Christmas activities and lunch as a class.  School will dismiss at 12:30pm on Thursday for the Christmas Holiday.

Christmas Program!

What a wonderful Christmas Program on Friday night! The students did an amazing job of singing and dancing! It was great to see the results of all of our hard work this past month.  I hope that it was as enjoyable for all of you as it was for me! :)

This past week in Reading we focused on making predictions about the books we were reading.  We also continued to study addition strategies in Math. In Bible, we talked about prayer.  We talked about people that we could pray for and how we can tell God everything that is going on in our lives.

Important Information for next week:

1. Spelling Words: preacher, lunch, church, while, which, match, watch, chosen, where, pitcher, child, what, reach, when, something, write

2. Bible Memory Verse: "The Word became a human being. He made His home with us. We have seen His glory. It is the glory of the one and only Son." John 1:14a

3. There are only a few more weeks before Christmas Break! There will be no school on Friday, December 19th.