Classroom Notes:
Fine Arts Night forms were sent in your child’s folder. Please read that over and let me know if you have any questions.
Mrs. Boyd would love to display the instruments that students made at Fine Arts Night. Please feel free to send those back into school and we will hold onto them until they can be displayed.
As a reminder, please send recess shoes/boots daily (or leave a pair in the backpack). There is a good amount of wet dirt outside that comes inside on feet.
Monday – Art
Tuesday – Craft
Wednesday – Music
Thursday – Nature Walk
Friday – No School, Spring Break
What We’re learning:
Phonics: We will learn blends with r and a story called “Hop on Frog”.
Math: We will work on addition and counting on.
Bible Story: We will hear the story of Anna and Simeon receiving the infant Christ.
Geography: We will read about and paint a map of Asia.
Science: We will begin a new FOSS science unit called “Animals Two by Two”. We will be observing animals/insects in the classroom. This week we will compare and contrast goldfish and guppies.
Music: This week, we continued work on our Fine Arts Night songs. We moved to with scarves, kept the beat with our “beat buddies”, and reviewed the Irish Stew dance. We also celebrated reading month by reading Wild Symphony by Dan Brown as we listened to the music the writer composed to accompany the book!
Virtue: We’re grateful to Pastor Vander Maas for his message on GRATITUDE. He began in a very classical way by asking students to help him define the term. Gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness, liking, appreciation, but it is also, according to the psalmist and to the apostle Paul, an offering we are to make to God in all circumstances. Pastor Vander Maas acknowledged that offering gratitude is not always easy. Ask your student about some of the things St. Paul endured (and about some of the things Pastor Vander Maas pulled out of his backpack *). Despite all his suffering, St. Paul testifies that he has learned the secret to being content in any and every situation. As Christians, we share in that “secret”—in the blessed forgiveness of our sins through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and in reconciliation with God for eternal life. It is that deepest of wells from which all our gratitude comes.
Homework
For homework I am sending home the book “Will Jill Sing?” for students to read to you at home. Please sign and return to school.
Our verse for March is:
Psalm 95: 1-7.
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.