Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Today, we worshipped outside! It was a beautiful day for chapel! The message was all about baptism...how at Jesus's baptism, Jesus the Son, God the father and the Holy Spirit were all present! We call that the Trinity! What a perfect way for God to show that He is all three in one!

We learned a new digraph today!! Cheese...ch! This is a simple one! Can you spot it anywhere?

We also worked on these words (look down!) We played a life size SPLAT game with them! Then we read about seasons. Talk tonight...what is YOUR favorite season and why?

In math today, we worked hard on our warmup followed by continuing our addition strategies. There is math homework tonight!

Then we talked about who our leaders are~ the job of the President, the job of a Governor, and the job of a Mayor. Can your firstie tell you who does what?

Have a blessed night! 

See you tomorrow~! 

 

New Year!! Happy Tuesday! Jan. 4, 2022

 We had a great day today!! Here are the highlights!!

We did a NEW YEAR'S SCAVENGER HUNT! Each party hat had a different direction, so we were working on following directions carefully! 

We read two GREAT books....first was Squirrel's New Year's Resolution. What is a resolution? Did you make any? Can you think of any great ones? What was squirrel's resolution? 

Then we read "Tikki Tikki Tembo"...Mrs. Hardies's all time favorite book ever! What was the name of the main character! It's a long one! 

We started new math warmups today that focus on a wide variety of very important skills! This is what one looks like. Ask your firstie how they liked doing side A and B of math today!

In Jesus time, we read about Simeon and Anna and how they waited their whole lives to meet Jesus. They know Jesus was born for ALL. What a great message we can share too! 

Here's our memory for the week! We have hand motions!!! 

And of course, we caught up with friends!

Ask about fluency writing. We do this so we can get really good at getting our thoughts down on paper. Today we wrote for 5 mins. How many words did your firstie write today?

Spelling is in the backpack...nothing super tricky here! We knew most of these already! 

#hardiessmarties

Have a blessed night! 

Thursday Dec. 16

 The highlight today was seeing our buddies! We met with them and played games, read books, and made an ornament together.

We started the day with the movie of the nativity. We have heard, read, and seen this story and we pray it settles into our hearts!

We then made reindeer food and wrote about our pet reindeer! What would you do with a reindeer for a pet?

After lunch we had a special secret reader with a special story about a red sleigh. We will bring home our OWN red sleigh ornaments tomorrow!

Have  a blessed night! (Check backpacks!)

After lunch we had a special secret reader with a special story about a red sleigh. We will bring home our OWN red sleigh ornaments tomorrow!

Have  a blessed night! (Check backpacks!)

Wonderfully busy Wednesday!

 We began our day with devotions and a story again about how a Christmas tree can point us to Jesus. How can a tree tell us about a king?

We made cards for our buddies too! We get to see them tomorrow!!

We played some SIGHT WORD BINGO today too, then we did a compare and contrast of two gingerbread man stories. Can your firstie tell you what two books we read? How were they the same? How were they different?

We made our own gingerbread houses too! 

In the afternoon, we zipped through a math practice test...easy peasy! Then we worked our hearts out on a project for our parents.

Two secret readers, plus a viewing our OURSELVES in the Christmas program....sure made our rainy day pretty great. 

You can watch our program too! 

Grinch Day 12/14/21

 We started with a beautiful story about a barn and what happened there. We have really enjoyed listening to so many Christmas Stories.

We worked so hard on our push-pin angels. The firsties WORKED SO HARD and these turned out beautifully! After about 20 mins, we took a book break, and listened to a story before hopping back into work!

We listened to the Grinch story again, and wrote adjectives that described that grouchy guy at the beginning of the story, and again at the end. Can you name a story where the character changes during the book, just like the Grinch? Maybe you can make a text to text connection!

We had both art and music today, which we followed up with some grinchy math word problems!

After lunch, we had a secret reader! The story made us giggle! Then we wrote ways that WE would make the Grinch grin! We will read our class book together tomorrow!

No Homework!

Gingerbread day tomorrow! 

Christmas Tree Day! 12/13/21

 We learned how the Christmas tree does point us to Jesus today! What about the three corners of the tree? The lights? The apple ornaments? We can use the tree to share the Good News about Jesus to everyone we see over the Christmas season. We read together "The Legend of the Christmas Tree" and learned so much about why we decorate the evergreens!

We voted...real or fake? Then we did a compare/contrast between the two, and did a pros/cons list for a real tree! First graders had great thoughts!! We finally wrote our own opinion papers about what kind of tree is best! Ask your firstie what he/she chose to write about...real or artificial...and why?

We did our regular math lesson, because we are doing great on Missing Addends. Today everyone really held on and we got through many word problems together! 

After lunch we had a secret reader and celebrated a birthday before we made our VERY OWN CHRISTMAS TREE SNACKS! It was so much fun!! Messy, sweet, and took some real perseverance but we did it!! 

No homework tonight!

Tomorrow is GRINCH DAY! 

Friday, Dec. 10- a busy, productive, peaceful Friday

 We began our day with a great devotion about how so much of our problems are temporary...but you know what isn't? The promise that we have a home in heaven! We will spend eternity with Jesus! There is such HOPE and JOY in that!! 

(PS...if you are looking for a great family gift this Christmas, new devotion books are always such a great gift!)

We learned about digraph -ay today....plus some new sight words!

earth

learn

heard

early

Use dry erase to add these to the mirror in your firstie's bathroom! They can look at them all week!

We also read our decodable reader...it's full of final stable syllables. Ask your kiddo to read with you! 

Recess was full of fun! We hunted for an elf that a firstie was POSITVE he saw, plus built quite the city in the sandbox.

We played some fun math games today. Here is a link to the site. 

Math Games - Sheppard Software

In the afternoon, we went to computer class, then did our own directed drawing of rudolph. They all came out perfect!!

And of course, a wise men update...they left us a message.

Socks and Hats on MONDAY! Have a blessed weekend!