God is good! What a glorious day for a feast.
We had a great turn out.
A great, big thank you goes out to our moms who organized, set up, served and cleaned up!
A huge thank you goes out to Kadra Parkman who gifted us with those adorable cookies!
The kids were precious and we had a fabulous day.

When we return from Thanksgiving Holidays we will be learning about:

Reading - Long i (ie, igh, ign, ild, ind)
English - Verbs
Math - Mixed Practice (addition and subtraction)
Social Studies - Maps
Bible - Mary and the Angel
Verse - Luke 2:7

Over the break - please check all of your child's outerwear.
Jackets have gone home with the wrong owners and we need to track them down.
If your child's name is not in his/her outerwear this would be a good time to do that.

Enjoy your break and your family!
Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you enjoy your long weekend...
Rest up because next week we will hit the road running!

We will be learning about:

Reading - long e (ea. ee)
English - review
Math - Addition to 12
Social Studies - Thanksgiving
Bible - Psalm 100
Verse - Psalm 100 Each child will be assigned a portion of this psalm.

The Thanksgiving Feast is this Friday! (Can you believe Thanksgiving is here?!!)
Children will wear their outfit of choice - Pilgrim or Native American - to school Friday.
The feast will begin at 10:30 in the Concession Area. An information sheet will be
home in the Red Folder Monday.

Friday is a REGULAR SCHOOL DAY.
We will have all of the subjects and graded work normally planned for a Friday.

By the way... all of the "turkeys" are precious!

We have soooo enjoyed our week this week.

We seemed to run out of time almost every day.

I asked the kids if they would bring their pajamas one day so we could finish.

I didn't get many takers - until I offered to throw in pizza!

We are finished with "review" sounds in Reading.

We will spend one week on each of the long vowel sounds - spellings and all!

Check the back of the November calendar for weekly flashcards.

Next week we will be learning about:

Reading - long a (ai,ay)

English - Pronouns

Math - Addition to 12

Social Studies - Maps

Bible - Joash

Verse - Proverbs 3:5-6

We will NOT have school on Friday the 11th.

I will send spelling words home this Friday since the test will be on Thursday.

The Bible Verse will be recited on Thursday as well!

Thank you for taking the time to meet with me yesterday!

Your child is important to me and I want to do all that I can to help

him/her have a successful - and even fun - year!

Next week is a full week....Yea!

We will have lots to do.

We will be learning about:

Reading - e on the end (We call her Ethel. We'll learn a "secret" about her.)

English - Special Nouns

Math - < >, 1 more/1 less, 10 more/10 less

Science - Liquids

Social Studies - Communities

Bible - Josiah

Verse - Proverbs 3:6

Thanks again for yesterday!

WOW! What an exciting week!!!
I would say that next week will be back to normal but, with a short week for the kids, that wouldn't be entirely truthful.
I am looking forward to meeting with you on Friday.
It's always nice to touch base and keep you informed.
I promise to keep our visits short and sweet so you can get on with your day -
especially since your kids will be home!

Next week we will be learning about:

Reading - ar, or, er, ir, ur
English - Nouns
Math - Place Value tens and ones
Science - Liquids
Bible - Josiah
Verse - Prov. 3:5

I'll see you next week!

The angels did a fabulous job Thursday!
Thank you so much for coming. It meant a lot to have you there!

Homecoming is next week and with Homecoming comes lots of fun.
You should have received an email from the school listing the themes for each day.
The parade begins at 11:15 on Friday and will last about 15 minutes. You are invited.
After the parade we will return to the classroom to vote on our favorite float!
I will be sending home a note Monday about your plans for Friday.
Your choices are:
1. Your child leaves with you after the vote.
2. Your child leaves with you after the vote and you go to the picnic. (Last day to order lunch is Tues.)
3. Your child stays with me and goes to the picnic.
a. You order your child a picnic lunch.
b. You send a lunch with your child.
If your child stays with me please be aware that we will have 12:30 dismissal.

As difficult as it may be, we DO continue with learning.
Next week we will be learning about:

Reading - Digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh)
English - Punctuation and Daily Edit
An information sheet will be in the Red Folder about Daily Edit.
The first week of Daily Edit is PRACTICE and will not be counted.
Math - Ordinal Numbers
Science - Solids and Liquids
Bible - Joseph
Verse - No New Verse We will review some of God's promises previously learned.

Enjoy your weekend and the cooler weather!

MONDAY is a holiday!!!

NO SCHOOL. Enjoy the extra day doing something fun!

When we return to school on Tuesday we will hit the ground running.

Remember - Thursday, the 13th is our first Angel Concert.

Tickets can be purchased ahead of time for $5.00.

Double check Angel outfits!

We WILL be squeezing in some learning too!

Reading - ack, eck, ick, ock, uck

English - Punctuation

Math - Subtraction

Science - Solids and Liquids

Bible - Jacob

Verse - Gen. 28:15

I will send home Spelling Words Friday since we will not be here Monday.

I am working on the Parent Conference Day schedule.

I am trying my best to match older siblings times so you can go back to back.

I will send a copy home ASAP.

Also, Tuesday begins our 2nd Nine Weeks!!!

How did that happen?!