May 3, 2024
Teaching children of God the skills needed for a lifetime of learning, worshipping and caring that the world sees Jesus in them
Dear Parents,
My goodness, do you think that we've had enough rain? WET, WET, WET! We've had a couple of dry days, and are most grateful for our dry field trip.
For Jesus Time, we've been doing more discussion on Jesus taking away our sins. Most of our lessons have been in connection with our Graduation verses. We've learned some good information from these.
We're doing more reading, and working on those last words on our word list. We want to be ready for our WORD TEST on Thursday-May 9. There is a reading sheet to practice, sign and return. There are no new words-all review. We've done many activities this week dealing with words-specifically our reading words. We've also done some practice spelling words. The children will have spelling tests in first grade, so this will be good practice for them. We also worked on some scrambled sentences. They did this with Mrs. Washburn, and now we are using these to help us with comprehension, as well as reading the words that we've learned. We tested the children this week on being able to say and write their alphabet in order-for memory. Those papers are in this week's folder. If your child was unable to say the alphabet, there is a neon colored index card in our child's folder. I will try to retest.
There is another Read These Words sheet in today's folder. It is still to be returned with your signature. There are no new words. This is just another way to review for next Thursday's test.
Have you heard, we are the proud "parents" of 5 baby caterpillars!! We've learned that the mother butterfly lays her egg on a milk weed leaf because that's what caterpillars eat! Ask them why she lays it on the underside of the leaf. How does that work? Have them tell you about molting! What goes on in the chrysalis? She what they can tell you about the baby butterfly being "born". How does the baby look when it's first out of the chrysalis? Ask them about the butterfly's coloring. Where is it when the butterfly first comes out of the chrysalis? How does it get to its wings? What is it called when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly? We can't wait. It looks like they should be in their chrysalis soon. This is a part of our science curriculum.
A Books Read to Me certificate has been awarded to Althea-400 Books Read, Jamour-200 Books Read, and Cortnee-150 Books Read. I love to report this news. **May 10 is the last day to hand in a Books Read to Me list for "credit". Why not make it your goal to help your child to turn in one more list by May 10?
Have a wonderful weekend. The countdown is really getting lower. Make your plans for Graduation-May 15, at 9 AM. We will meet in the classroom at 8:30, but will gather in the church at 8:45 where you can take a group picture of the class, if you'd like. The graduation will begin at 9 AM sharp.
Blessings~
Doris Eggers
