Weekly Thoughts

We continue to move forward on our Christmas and Advent lessons.  The kids enjoy lighting the candles on Tuesday for our Advent wreath.  We have already lit the candles of Hope, Peace, and Joy. 

This week in Chapel we broke up into small groups to discuss lies.  The children had to make up skits to show positive and negative outcomes of lying.  They had a great time acting out their skits and learned a lot from their discussions in small group.

We made apple cinnamon ornaments this week when we discussed the smells of Christmas.  We used all of our senses when we made our dough.  I even let them eat a bit of applesauce and taste a bit of the dough.  Katherine ran straight for the trash can!  Equal parts apple and cinnamon do not make for "Good Eats!"

Our last week of school before the break was great!  We finished our Christmas lessons.  We had our Christmas Concert.  We had a Math Bee.  And we had a Christmas party with the First Grade.

Pastor Mike G. spoke to us in Chapel about what we really need in life.  The world wants us to think that we need knowledge, science, riches, and entertainment.  We know that we need the Lord.  We need a Lord who would come down from his great throne in heaven to become a lowly baby and grow into a man who would take the sins of the world on his own shoulders and die on the cross for us.  We serve a truly amazing God!

Take a look at our new pictures.  Pictures of our concert.  Pictures of Andrew and Katheryn in the Math Bee.  I even got a shot of Katheryn's Sister winning the whole thing!!  I got shots of the kids at the party as well.  The party was great.  We played musical chairs and got toys in our stockings.  We are grateful for the First Grade Class for their hospitality!

Have a blessed Christmas.  Enjoy your break and we'll see you after the New Year!

We had a great week.  We are moving quickly through our numbers in Math.  The kids are catching on, but they will need to practice identifying their numbers at home before their test that will take place before the break.

Mr. Justice was our speaker for Chapel.  He talked about lying and the reasons for telling the truth.  He compared telling the truth to pulling out a burr that is stuck in your skin.  It will hurt when you pull it out, but the pain will then go away.  Just like if you tell the truth, it might hurt (you might get punished), but then you can ask for forgiveness and then there is no more pain.

We learned in Social Studies that Hallelujah means "Praise God".  We discussed many things that we praise God for.  We are thankful for animals and our families.  We are also thankful, of course, for Christmas and for God's Greatest Gift--Jesus!