We have been busy practicing for our musical; GPS.  We have also been learning lots about arctic animals, what great learning.  Our reading is really starting to soar as well as our math skills.  We took a math test today.  We will have a story to read tomorrow called, The Big Race and don't forget that Thursday is memory work day.  Finally, the K-1 choir will be singing this Sunday at the 10:30 service.

Today your child should be bringing home two math sheets to complete and  some of the kids also have to finish some writing and phonics workbook pages.  Memory for Monday is John 3:16, for many of us that seems like it should be easy as it is one of the  most well known verses in the bible but it is longer and sometimes difficult for the kids so please don't wait until Sunday night to work on it.

This week we have been working on the hard and soft G and C sounds.  They can be tricky but Flippy the Dolphin reminds us to sound the word out one way and if it doesn't make sense to flip to the other sound it makes.

We have also been learning about the Arctic Circle and several Arctic animals.  Hopefully as we continue learning about this "cool" part of the world your child will share what he/she is learning.

Finally, enjoy your long weekend with your child, but  please remember how important it is to worship the Lord with your family each and every week.

We had a great time at the library today.  I always love having them tell us about the library, read us stories and even perform a puppet show.  What a great time.

Well, I have finally remembered to bring my camera back to school today.  So it is pretty late but I still wanted to share some pictures from our Christmas party.  It was a blast.

You probably have wondered where the wonderful world of First Grade went.  Well, we were so very busy before Christmas, but I could hardly post pictures of the kids making parent gifts!  However, now we are back in the swing of things.  We are starting January off with a bang as we jump into long vowel sounds.  This week we are focusing on "Sneaky e"