Blessings

"Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or naked and give you clothes?"  

and Jesus replied, 

"When you did this for the least of these you did it for me!"  

THANK YOU!!!!  

Thank you for teaching your children to care for others!  

Thank you for the many blessings that your children shine out to God's world! 

Candles and Friends

We visited our PreK buddies today and began our Advent project with them!  We are going to see our buddies every week in Advent.  This week we made an ornament to celebrate HOPE!  The first candle of the season stands for HOPE!

All this year we have been following the promise of the Savior.  We began with the first sin on earth. Adam and Eve were given the hope of salvation.  They were to pass along the promise that God would one day save His people.  HOPE!  It was all the old testament people had.  They believed that God would keep His promise and He did!  On Christmas Day so long ago a tiny baby was born. God's plan was fulfilled in Jesus!  We continue that celebration in Advent.

The students will gather with their buddies again next week as we prepare our hearts for a wonderful Christmas celebration. The birth of a Savior who will redeem us all.  Jesus will make our relationship with God right again through His life, death, and resurrection! And like the old testament people we are learning about WE BELIEVE!!!

Gifts....Grand Gifts

My husband is a great outdoorsman.  He really knows that if you teach someone to fish you can keep them fed for their whole life.  Learning is the same way....if you want to encourage reading you give books!  You have done that for us!! 

In chapel today we learned that Jesus is always looking for our actions of helping other people! He is proud of our efforts to give to others!  This might cause you ask "When did we give you books?"  It is such a good question.  You gave the St. John classrooms books when you purchased any item at the Mother's Club bookfair.  The Mother's Club uses portions of their profits to buy books the teachers have requested for their classrooms.  The picture shows the books you gave to the 2nd grade room!   THANK YOU!!!

A Fine Trip

We went to the Grand Theater with our PreK buddies.  The performance of "Harold and the Purple Crayon" was captivating.  It was done with screens, lighting, and theatrical magic.  The buddies sat together on the bus as we traveled to Wausau and back.  They read stories and drew their own pictures. It was a fine trip with an exceptional bunch of students.

The Veteran's Program was attended more than 100 people.  The students sang and gave respect to the veterans!  All of the St. John students were given a pencil for being such wonderful examples to others and showing great care for the veterans.

The Book Fair continues to make our week full of fun and learning.  We will visit the school book fair on Thursday morning.  Today we watched a video to introduce some of the books and authors.  The whole school is also playing Book Fair Bingo with the book titles using a story written by an upper grade student.  The story is read in small parts each day by our librarian, Spring W.!  We can't wait to know which class wins Book Fair Bingo!

Clay, Friction, and God Given Rolling Pins

The students have been working with clay in Art.  It is a product called Sculpy.  They needed to make the clay plyable with the heat from their hands.  The clay had to be the right thickness to press the leaf designs into the clay and cut around it with clay tools.  Today they added the idea of making small pots.  Clay needed to be made plyable with heat from their hands and then chunks of that clay were rolled out with our palms to make ropes.  The ropes wind up the edges to create the sides of the pot.  Then the students needed to smooth out the edges and the cracks.

We are like that clay.  We are made plyable everyday by the love of the Lord, and the devil is hard at work to make our clay sag, become too thin, and break.  The Lord is always there to remold us and make us strong.  The Holy Spirit keeps us close to God through incredible faith!  Jesus will smooth our sin out and give us hope!  "Our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness."

Art, Science, and Faith all in the same project!  We were indeed busy learning today!

A Busy Day! A Great Day!

The students had an interesting thought today.  What if we tried not to erase anything on the white board for whole day?  What if we left as much up on the board as we could?  Would we be able to fill it with our ideas, thoughts, and then show it on the blog?

Well, it took some clever thinking and some things did get covered up by pieces of other projects. However, for the most part this picture shows pieces of each subject including math, handwriting, beginning thermometer skills, time to the half hour, social studies, language, story comprehension, character traits, our blessings and even our Memory work!  Each time I look I find a piece of something else we worked on during the day.  Mrs. Samuelson decided to place her sign language game board on the closet doors in the back of the room.  We all thought that was a wise move.  

The picture also shows that we made it to 20 points!!!!!  We are going to celebrate having 20 outstanding moments of grandness as a class by watching a movie.  Mrs. Fritz will buy our whole class popcorn to eat with the movie on Friday afternoon!  

Monday, Oct. 13th

The Daily Homework Sheet has a list of each evening's homework.  The sheet was created to help you notice the pattern of homework in second grade.  This is the same pattern throughout the school year.  If you need an extra copy of this sheet please let me know and I will get one out to you right away!  You can also find a copy in your student's boomarang folder.

We are all excited about the Bazaar on Wednesday morning.  This event even fits into our Reading Story and Social Studies concepts of using your money wisely.  Our Reading Story this week touches on budgeting for a large project.  You are going to love the creativity of the principal in the story. Students will be bringing "Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble" home on Tuesday to read outloud to you!