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

 

Why are short weeks the most exhausting?

Seriously though why are they?
We had a blast this week and I do have a confession to make...
I broke some rules. YEP!! but more on that in a few minutes.
Tuesday was a busy day getting back into routine and what not; but Wednesday was our fun day!!

First I had my very first First Grade lunch in the classroom!!

Tyler was seat dancing and making me crack up. I think Emily thought he was pretty funny too.

Miss Lauryn telling us about her horses.

 Of course after all that fun at lunch I was excited to get a little crazy with the rest of the class too.

So we pulled out our dry erase markers and...

I hope you're sitting down...

WE WROTE ON OUR DESKS!!!!

Since we were using the same spelling words from last week I needed a "fresh" way to review so we spelled as we wrote the words and then, after all the words were written, we spelled as we erased the words. The kids really seemed to enjoy this even after my terrifying warning speech that "This is the only time that writing on our desks is allowed DO NOT do this at home or during school unless we are doing this as a group!!"

 We also did some small group work this week which ended up tying in pretty well with our secondary Bible lesson on the Tower of Babel.
We broke into groups to sort items in groups of 10, 11, and 12 and each group was given cards to label their piles. We learned A LOT about the importance of listening to directions and communicating with our groups. I will definitely be working more with the class on team work in the coming weeks.

 

Today as a reward for working hard all week and as a reminder of our Noah's Ark Bible lesson we began creating a Noah's Ark craft. Unfortunately because of our schedule and some last minute changes we didn't get them all finished and the rule in my room is "No one takes it home until everyone can take it home" so we'll be finishing these up on Monday and I'll post more pictures then.

Lauryn patiently waiting with her raised hand even while her crazy teacher takes a picture.

Kira helping me glue her pieces together.

Jasa's finished project!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Be praying for your teacher on Saturday! For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to sign up for a 5k, yep ME, the teacher who is ready for nap-time after the "Good Morning" song every Friday. Well you know that they say...

"I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me" ~Phillipians 4:13