As we played outside, we were reminded that even though we do not have snow yet, the wind can make smaller children freeze on days like today. Please feel free to send your child’s snow gear to school any time. Hats, gloves/mittens, and snow pants can really help to make recess more enjoyable along with a heavy winter coat. 

        We have begun practicing for our Christmas Program. The older classes have speaking parts and the younger classes will have walk-on parts like animals or angels. The Christmas Program will be on Tuesday, December 15th at 6:30 pm. Parents whose names begin with A-L will need to bring 2 dozen cookies for the Christmas program (those whose names begin with M-Z will need to provide cookies for the Spring Program). Please mark your calendars and invite friends and family to attend. The program will also be streamed live over Facebook.  

       We have begun a new thing in the K-3rd grade classes. We have a pet stuffed hamster whose name is Humphrey. We use our imaginations to make him “come to life”! He sneaks out of his cage and gets into trouble sometimes, but we love him and are happy to have him. K-3rd grade students will take turns bringing him home over the weekend! He loves to play games, read books, go on bike rides, and just hang out with the kids. Parents who want to play along are encouraged to help Humphrey sneak out of his travel cage and get into some trouble when he is visiting your house! 

       The Berry Family has volunteered to bring a hot lunch for K-3rd grades on Friday, November 20th, so please make a note of it on your calendar. 

        School will be closed for Thanksgiving Break from Wednesday, November 25 through Friday, November 27. 

        Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs. Karen's Class Notes

       It has been a great week in preschool and kindergarten.  The 3 year olds learned letter Ff and met Freddy Fish. The 4 year olds learned letter Bb and met Betsy Bee.  Both classes worked on number 6.  In kindergarten, we learned about the consonants /Ff/ and /Jj/ and met Freddy Fish and Jenny Jaguar.  The students are making consonant-vowel-consonant words (such as gum, cob, hot, and red) with our consonants /t, l, b, n, m, h, s, c, d, g, r, f, j/ and the vowels.  They are continuing to read short books titled, Mac and Sam!  In math, we are now counting numbers 1-49 and we learned about the Twenty Family.  We learned to write number 8 and took another numbers test.  In language, we talked about different names for baby animals.  Our next poem is "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson.  We started our first read aloud which is The Trumpet of the Swan.  In art, we made turkeys with different shape feathers!  They are hanging on the bulletin board in the hallway.  Our Bible story was Daniel and the Lions.  Thank you God for always protecting us!

     Our Hh Bible verse this week was:  Honor thy Father and thy Mother.  Exodus 20.12

Mrs. Hansen's Class Notes

      Here are the spelling words for the coming week. 

• First Grade words are: round, shout, cloud, south, cow, now, down, brown, clown, crown, town, slow, snow, what, and was which practice the special sounds ou in out, ow in owl, and ow in bowl.
• The 2nd Grade words are: squirm, birthday, noise, point, toy, stood, bookmark, football, loose, world, work, right, high, crosswalk, where, live, and lose which teaches the special sounds ir in bird, oi in coin, oy in boy, oo in book, oo in tooth, wor in worms, igh in night, all in ball, and alk in walk.
• The 3rd Grade words are: quotation, quite, questions, quench, quail, quiet, quickly, earthquake, quill, squeeze, squirrel, squirm, squid, liquid, equals, frequent, aqua, aquarium, banquet, and quarters which teaches that q always needs a u to make its sound. 

       We have begun seed viewers with marigold seeds, and planting bean seeds in soil so we can watch how a seed grows. We will also get to see what happens if we change the variables. 😊 It is so great to talk about God’s creation in science class and notice how God put all of the information needed for a whole new plant to grow in each tiny seed! We are also watching celery stalks to see them change color as the colored water is sucked up through the stems.

       In Bible class we learned about the 12 spies and how only two of them trusted that God could help the people as they entered the promised land of Canaan. We also talked about our emotions, especially fear. It is only human to have the emotion, but it is what we do with the emotion that makes it right or wrong. The Bible memory verse for next week is: “Come near to God and He will come near to you.” James 4:8 

Announcements and Reminders

• Tuition was due on Nov. 10th.  
• K-3 will have a hot lunch on Friday, Nov. 20th.
• Parent teacher conferences for K-3rd grade students will be on Monday & Tuesday, Nov. 23 & 24.
• Thanksgiving Break is Wed. – Fri., Nov. 25-27. 
• The Christmas Program will be on Tuesday, December 15th at 6:30pm.