Sunshine and Spelling words!

First things first, here's a little refresher from last week.

Lauryn's Garden of Eden made out of playdoh.

Here are some more of the finished Noah's Ark projects!!

This week has been beautiful weather but SO HOT!!! The kids worked so hard yesterday and we finished up with most of our curriculum early so I took them out to the courtyard to practice our spelling words with sidewalk chalk. Luckily there was a nice breeze out there.

After all the students had a turn to write a word we played a game where I called out a word and they hopped over to find it. It was fun but we got hot pretty quickly and had to go inside but not before meeting a special pet friend of Kira's.

Kira has a pet caterpillar!!! We are very excited to find out if her pet will pupate and become a beautiful butterfly.

That's all I've got for now, although we did have some more fun today so maybe I'll post again tonight. Who knows?

I would like to take a moment to let you all know how much I adore your children! They are great listeners and so sweet to me, they truly make me feel blessed to have them in class. I can't wait to see how much we can learn this year. 

"At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:1-3

 

First post of the year!!!

Woooohooooooo!!! Sorry it took me so long I needed the extra time to come up with a catchy and sassy title. As you can see I was unsuccessful, oh well. We've been having some fun in First grade!!!!

Lauryn

This year our class "motto" is “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." John 13:34. We have been talking a lot about being "Bucket Fillers" after reading "How Full is Your Bucket" we have also been talking about Random Acts of Kindness. The other day I challenged my friends to commit and act of kindness at home and they LOVED IT!!! They couldn't wait to tell us about the kind things they had done for family and friends, and they thought it was hilarious that I sat in their seats while they shared. Let's take a look at some of the new faces in Miss Bailey's room.

Luciana

Ben

Simon

Tyler

 

I am so happy to have such great "bucket fillers" and I really want to keep this up through the year including some doing some big Random Acts as a class (handing out bottles of water to our school staff, "adopting" a soldier, planting trees, etc...) If you have any ideas for us please share them with me. Also if your family does any random acting on your own please be sure to take some pictures and have your student share this with the class.

This week we studied the Creation Bible truth and we wanted a fun way to help us remember the days of Creation, so we made Creation mobiles to hang up at home.

We did LOTS of Cutting...

On the first day God separated the LIGHT and DARK!

On the second day He made the SKY

 

On the third day He GATHERED THE WATERS and CREATED THE PLANTS!!!

 On the fourth day He created the SUN, the MOON, and the STARS.

On the fifth day He created the FISH in the sea and the BIRDS in the air.

On the sixth day He created the LAND ANIMALS and PEOPLE.

On the seventh day He RESTED so that we would have a day to rest and worship Him.

 Of course we had some free choice time and these first graders sure do know how to have fun!!!

We've also been singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" with silly animals and vowel sounds. Today during Phonics I turned the kids into a human beat box machine using our blends. I'll try to get a decent video of it tomorrow, it's pretty adorable. 

Parents if you asked for your student to be included but don't see them in this post please let me know during these first few days it's very easy for papers to get sent to the wrong place I want to make sure to include everyone who wants to be!

I am looking forward to a great year with this group of smarties!! Please keep us in your prayers throughout the year that we will be shining examples of God's AMAZING LOVE.