Tuesday, November 29

The children started by lighting the Advent Wreath and talking about the first week of Advent known as Hope.  Our devotion was about how we wander from God and how He sent Jesus to look after and to love us.    This was our prayer:

Father, Thank you for sending Your Son.  Thank you for Your plan to rescue us and to save us.  Help me prepare for Jesus' birth.  Amen

We did more measuring today in math.  The students used their rulers and measured and also drew different lengths in centimeters.

We played Beat the Clock in phonics.  They had 1 minute to write down as many words with the CK ending as they could.  Leighton and JoVon won with 8 words!  Then we played to see who could write the most short O words.  Jacob won that round!  Then the children had CK words to prove and find.

We read with partners for reading and worked on the Long E sound spelled e, ee, ea, ey, or y.  Then the children had to do a crossword puzzle with their story vocabulary words.

3 of our friends' names start with today's handwriting letter.  The uppercase J.  Check out our all stars today!

Today for Christmas Around the World we traveled to France.  We made paper shoes and stuffed them with paper straw and hung them on our tree.  

We played Verb Charades today in grammar.  The children picked a card with a verb on it and had to act it out.  Then the children guessed which verb each friend was acting out.  They all did a great job!