Reminders:

Please wash and return towel in a reuse bag and snow gear (when needed) in a separate bag. Thank you! 🙂

Kindergarten students will have report cards sent home in backpacks January 24.

Wednesday, February 8: Kindergarten and First Grade Chapel, 9am

February 14: Valentine’s Day You may send in valentines for the class. We have 17 students. You do not need to write names in the to sections, but please have your child write his/her name on the from.

February 17-20: Winter Break (no school)

What we are learning:

This week in Bible we read the story about Jesus and the little children coming to Him. We talked about our verse which says, “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'” We talked about how Jesus noticed how much the children loved Him and loved others. We then learned about how much adults can learn about loving Jesus by watching the children around them. We also read from our Bible the story of Mary and Martha from the book of Luke. We then reflected on what it might mean. One student put it simply, ”We can get too busy with other things instead of focusing on Jesus.” What a beautiful summation of the story that even Mrs. Arnold needs to remember often!

In writing workshop we wrote our very own pattern book from beginning to end. We wrote a title page and then said words slowly to write the sounds we heard. We continue to practice spacing and punctuation as we write. We are keeping these in our writing folders at school in case we decide we would like to add to our stories.

In phonics we worked on the long vowel sounds for O and I. We are constantly practicing the different sounds of the vowels. This can be so tricky and we are doing a great job!

In math this week we worked on counting two groups and them putting them together. We also were introduced to take away, which we learned the fancy word for as well, subtraction or minus;). We explored these concepts through math games and group work. We will continue to add to our knowledge next week.

Rylee Key was Up in Lights this week. Her mom came to share about her as well as have a special lunch with her. We had the joy of meeting one of her favorite stuffed animals called the “wolfmaster.” We are blessed to have Rylee and her fun personality in our classroom!