"Y" week and Class Pictures!

September 29- October 2

Sound of the Week – Y

Book of the Week – When I was Young in the Mountains

Habit of the Month – Obedience

Mom of the Month – Kate Wilson

We had a great week!  We met our 4^th and 5^th grade partner class.  They read to us and we enjoyed apples outside.  I am so excited about the kindergarteners forming relationships with these older kids.  Our partners are excited about us too!  They did a great job of engaging our kids and asking them questions.  One young man even asked if he could take a minute to pray with his partner in the hall before they left.  We plan to meet with them a couple of times a month.  Your child brought home a yellow sheet with information about their partner.  As I said last week, hold on to that; it will come in handy later! 

We had other wonderful guest readers as well!  Thank you to Elle’s grandparents and Ben’s mom and Ellie’s mom for reading to us! 

Thank you to our wonderful Mom of the Month, Jan Reynolds for your help all month.  She and Emily Truong helped us make a delicious apple pie!  Your children are wonderful bakers!  Have them help you at home! 

This week we will be celebrating the letter “y”!  We will be using yellow yarn to make letters of the alphabet, learning about yesterday and the months of the year.  At home you could enjoy finding yellow things, measuring with a yardstick, eating yogurt, trying a yoyo and practicing saying “Yes Ma’am and Yes Sir”.

We will enjoy our Book of the Week, When I was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant.  This is a very sweet book about two children raised by their grandparents in rural, poor Appalachia.  We will discuss God’s perspective on children (Psalm 127), grandparents, getting older (Proverbs 16:31) and contentment (Matthew 6:23-33 and Philippians 4:4-6, 12).  Give your child the opportunity to ask their grandparents how life was different when they were children!  Cynthia Rylant has written many wonderful children’s books.  Some favorites are When the Relatives Came and Silver Packages.

Individual and class pictures will be taken on Wednesday.  All students are to wear their dressy enrichment day uniforms.  You can order pictures in the envelopes that were sent home last week.  

On Thursday and Friday I will be attending the Child Light Schools teacher’s conference.  Thank you to Kate Wilson, Jan Reynolds, Todd Adkison and JR Wilson for leading our class service project on Thursday.