Monday's Tattler

Good Morning, and for those not my friends on Facebook, Happy Easter.

This week is getting back to ordinary time - my favorite. By the Church Calendar, we have another forty days of Easter, but as far as holidays go, we're done for a while.

This week we will be digging into learning and trying to keep spring fever away! I know in arithmetic class we will be Streeeeeeeeeeeeeetching into a fast paced "I can do this all by myself" kind of thing. We will focus on number patterns with the hope of becoming very knowledgeable about base ten which is what our number system is all about. We will be testing on number facts of twos and advance to the threes this week.

We are going to start working on the "Friends of Jesus" in our Bible Story class. The question is "Who were and are his friends" with a focus of why that's so.

In Fine Arts, we will be looking at what we see and trying to draw that. Children will be invited to find something in the school house they would like to draw.

In Geography class, we will be really searching out the United States and doing a little history about how it all got together and then we will begin to look at each state.

In Word Power class, Miss Amy is having the children choose a word and create a definition and learn the part of speech and then write write a sentence using the word. All excellent prep for big school.

In our Kindergarten for Fours, Miss Amy has taught the children enough so that they are writing sentences and really enjoying the power of the written word!

In Reading, Miss Leigh is having the children read, read, read. Practice is sooooo important.

I am so proud of our little guys this year. There has been so much growth and development, and so much joy, it's very hard to explain. Let's say what began a little like herding cats in August has become a group of short teens on an everyday trip to Orderville. Love them!

Lasagna today; new dish tomorrow - gnocchi with snausage ;-} and then on Wednesday, there is breakfast for lunch, chicken cheese pockets on Thursday, and Fish on Friday.

Blessings always and have a great week.