Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday, October 26th

We celebrated one of friends 8th birthdays today!  God's Blessings on another wonderful year!!

Today we had a Pray and Praise Chapel.  We met with our chapel families, shared our prayer requests and then headed down to the Worship Center.  We talked about Martin Luther and Reformation Day.  Reformation Day is Monday, October 31st.  That is the day Martin Luther nailed the 95 thesis to the church door.  The children learned about the 3 Sola's: Grace Alone, Faith Alone and Scripture Alone.
Grace Alone helps us remember that God is so loving He gives us Grace even we we don't deserve it, Faith Alone helps us remember its not what we do but what He did, and Scripture Alone helps us remember that the Bible is from God and Him alone.

We are beginning 2 digit addition in math.  The students learned that you cannot have more than 9 ones and they you need to trade them in and add them to the tens place.  We used magnetic tens and ones to show this on the board.

The children had computer lab where they practiced typing in Type to Learn.  After they went right to gym.  Today the children got the extra gym for the month!  How lucky to have 2 specials back to back!

Today at lunch we had some friends share their show and tell.  A friend had their mining gems from camping, another friend brought their souvenir from Epcot that showed all the countries they visited, another friend brought their favorite stuffed animal, and we had another friend bring in her baby dolls.  Ask your child who brought what!

We studied for our social studies test by playing Jeopardy today.  The student worked in their small groups to answer the questions.  They did very well!  They all received Smarties for being my Smarties :)

We wrote today about what we were going to be for Halloween, then the children shared with the class.  I wish I could see each of them in their costumes!  They all sound very creative and cute :)

At the end of the day we have a little free time so we got to play Freddy Oka!  They really love that game!!!



Thursday, October 27th

We took our social studies test today.  Before we did, we all stood up and did some exercises to get our brains awake and focused.

We did some more 2 digit addition today.  Today the children did addition problems and had to bring the 1 on the top of the tens digit.  Its a little difficult but we are getting the hang of it.

The students got to check out new books today in Library!  Enjoy reading those with your child :)

We worked on sequencing today and the children came out to the hallway in small groups to play a sequencing game.

For religion the children learned about The Call of Gideon.  Gideon is like many people in our world.  When bad things are happening they doubt in God.  Many times they need to see proof before they will believe.  We talked about how God is always there in the good times and the bad and they we will experience both of those times.  It is in all of those times we need God.  We need God always!!

At the end of the day the students switched classes.  All of the boys went to Mrs. O'Meara's class for our Weekly Reader and all the girls came to my room for music. In Weekly Reader they children learned about Leaf Little Critters.  In music the children got to play a game where they passed a ball on the half-note pulse.  Then faster on certain words.  The child holding the ball at the end of the song is out and gets to play an instrument for the last 3 words of the song.  They children had fun playing the game and the instruments.

TOMORROW: 
MICHIGAN/MICHIGAN STATE DAY!  Wear your blue and yellow!  (Or green and white if you want)  They students may also wear jeans too!

Homework Sheets Due
Spelling Test Tomorrow
Game Day: We can still use 1-2 more parents if you want to join us!!