God's Most Amazing Creatures...: It's the Weekend!

Hello! We have had a wonderful week!

On Monday, we had a “see you later” party for our Noah! It was beautiful as we prayed over him, sang to him, and then gave him a HUGE group hug…the Spirit was alive in our classroom! We also had tasty treats! Thank you to our parents who so generously sent in yummy things to eat!

We had many prayers like this one on our Prayer Tree this week...

Noah loves sharks!

Yum!

Our HUGE group hug! (Yes, Noah was alright!)

*We are beginning a PTL (Parent Teacher League) very soon! Information about it is attached. If you think you would enjoy being an officer, please make sure you let us know! Please take a look! There is a kick-off December 3, at the RD Mize site at 5:30.

*THANK YOU for supporting our auction last Saturday! A fun time was had by all! All in all, we raised over $27,000. WOW! Thank you!

*On Wednesday, we had our OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD packing party! Thank you for all of your generous donations! It was so very delightful to see the Chapel Families working together to build these boxes, and then praying over them for each child that will receive it. The comradery and teamwork that I witnessed was AMAZING and just reiterated to me what we are all about—serving Jesus! It was an incredible afternoon! As a school, we packed over 130 boxes! Praise God!

*Next Tuesday, November 26th, at 11:00, the 3rd/4th graders will have their classroom Thanksgiving Feast in lieu of lunch. We will be studying the first Thanksgiving all next week, and all about the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians. We will also be talking about all the things we, as Christian Americans, should be thankful for! What a wonderful way to praise our Father for all He has given! I will supply the turkey, plates, napkins, cups, and plastic-ware. If you are able to help with any of the things below, please let me know. Thanks so much for your help! God bless!

Please use this link to sign-up to send in items, please:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4dadab2da7f58-thanksgiving

*This is soon! As a tradition, the 3^rd/4^th grade classes do not buy gifts for one another. Instead, we try to purchase gifts for some children who many not be netting any other gifts this Christmas. My students love this, and it is so fun picking out presents, and sharing God’s love! This year, I have chosen two kiddos from our “Angel Trees” at church. The gifts have to be ready to go by December 7^th, which really does not give us much time! If your child or you would like to contribute money, I will take the kids “shopping” on Amazon, and we will pick out some gifts together next week. :)

Our gifts will be for a 7 year old girl and a newborn boy. THANK YOU!

Here is what we have been up to in the classroom:

Religion- This week, we discussed the lives of Samuel and Saul, and how God called them to serve Him in different capacities. We discussed how we are also called to serve, and we shared the many ways we can do this, even as children! We also talked about repentance, forgiveness and the power of prayer. We had some beautiful discussions about all of that in here! I just adore your kiddos…

We had some issues in the classroom earlier this week that I would like to share with you…just so you can have a conversation at home as well. We had been struggling with some gossip and with some name-calling, and just really letting sin and Satan take over! So, I talked to the entire class as a whole, and what transpired really floored me…and it was just one of those moments that I was very proud to be teaching where I am. The Holy Spirit really guided us through this! We talked about the negative power of gossip, and how it hurts and it grows, and how it is Satan at work. We discussed playing fairly, about distancing yourself when you feel anger, about using our classroom DeBugging System—it really does work! Then, there was a huge confession of sins on so many kiddos’ parts, there were some tears asking for forgiveness, there WAS forgiveness, and hugs, and words of affirmation. Then it was suggested that we have a huge group prayer, and all of the kiddos spoke about stomping out the devil, and forgiving one another, and ignoring the drama and gossip, and mostly, thanking God for His forgiveness. You have raised amazing kids, and I am humbled to be able to work with them every day.

Next week’s Memory:

11/26-but honor them, serve and obey them, love and cherish them.

Language Arts/Social Studies- This week, we learned all about the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags, by reading several books and completing some fun activities. We also read “Across the Wide, Dark Sea” as a whole class. We searched our stories for nouns (both proper and common), verbs, and adjectives. We will finish up this unit next week. We will not have spelling words or a new reading selection this week!

Math- This week, third graders continued working with arrays and multiplication. We have worked with fact families and commutative property. Fourth graders began multiplying two-digit numbers and regrouping using the distributive property.

Science-This week, we talked about the parts of a plant and experimented with celery and food dye to see how food travels through a plant. We also began creating our posters of cells.

SPECIAL CLASSES

Art- We finished up our eastern bluebird art work pictures (Missouri’s state bird). They are hanging in the hallway—and I am so impressed with them! We have some very talented artists in here!