Happy Easter weekend to all of you!  I can not wait to declare He is Risen!  I hope that you all are able to worship God and celebrate our risen Lord!  

Your child is bringing home one of my favorite projects today.  They are bringing home a set of  Easter Eggs.  Please take time to go through these with your child.  They are really excited to be able to use them to share the passion of our Savior.

Blessed Easter to you all!

I meant to post this picture yesterday, but sadly ran out of time.  It is Holy Week and for those of you who know me you know that this is my favorite week of the year.  I love contemplating on the amazing gift my Lord has given me, not because I deserved it but because His love is that great!  Wow!  It gets me every time.  I can never be thankful enough for God's grace, mercy, forgiveness and gift of salvation.  The least I can do is spend my life telling others how amazing God is and how much I love Jesus, my redeemer!

Love, love, love using technology in my class and love seeing my students completely integrate technology in their learning.  I can't wait until next fall when we will have 30 mini ipads and 30 chromebooks!  Exciting things are happening at St. John Merrill!

Today I have some very exciting news to share with my St. John family.  After much prayer, thinking, talking and even more prayer I have decided to become the fourth grade teacher starting this coming fall. I have loved my 19 years in first grade, 15 here at St. John, and I know that there will be things about my "firsties" that I will greatly miss.  However, I am thrilled and excited for this next adventure in my life.  I know that God will bless me, as He always has.  I also believe that God will continue to bless His faithful children here at St. John.  I ask for your prayers as I make this transition.  Thanks for your prayers, love and support.

Mrs. Breitwisch

We are so excited about the warmer weather!  It is finally SPRING!!!!!  Today your student is bringing home a note looking for helpers for the carnival this Friday.  This is a great PIP hour opportunity.  Also, Friday you student will be bringing home report cards.

In first grade we are reading, reading and reading some more.  We are having fun with our story this week.  Hope you are enjoying the reading at home.

What a great time we have been having in first grade.  We have been working hard on using prepositional phrases and specific adjectives to make our writing more descriptive.  If you happen to be in the hallway check out our stuffed animal descriptive writing.  Right now we are starting standardized testing.  It is a new and kind of fun thing for most first graders.