Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: December 5, 2014

Hark the glad sound

The Savior comes

The Savior promised long

Let every heart prepare a throne

And every voice a song!

I hope you carve some time out of the hustle and bustle of this season to have special Advent devotions with your family. Help prepare your hearts for Jesus this Advent.

Zion's Lessons and Carols is this Sunday it is another way to take sometime to focus on Jesus. This service last about one hour and 15 minutes and focuses on Jesus coming into our dark world to bring light. It is Sunday December 7 at 7:00 pm

A look ahead:

Memory: no memory as we all knew our part and the music teacher tells me we know the songs
Religion: Prophets tell about Jesus birth and an angel visits Mary
Spelling: Lesson 14, i long with a silent e
Grammar: past tense verbs
Math: odd and even numbers, clocks and time, new fact: adding 2
Reading: Literacy Centers
phonics: long and short a
alphabet: sequencing
writing: using the EET to describe a Christmas object
poetry: candy cane poem

math: using tens and ones
Social Studies: Christmas Around the World
Science: water habitats
Art: Nativity

Please check your child's Friday papers for correct and redo at home papers. We have had several CAR, Correct And Return papers. Please correct them and send them back on Monday. Please remember to check over both of your child's math homework each night. I have been finding many mistakes in Math.

ADVENT SERVICE: We will lead worship WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17 at 10 and 7. We will began practicing in the church for our service today. PLEASE continue to practice your child's individual part focusing in on loud and slow! Remember in the morning the class should wear their uniforms and for the evening wear church clothes or uniform. Please have your child to the church basement on Wednesday night at 6:40.

This week was full of activities and sharing Jesus love!
I am overwhelmed with the generosity of the first grade families with donating money for the 5 Napalese refugee families. We were able to purchase 15 gifts for the kids, put together baskets full of toiletry items for the families, and give them a $100 gift card to Walmart to purchase food needs. Over $430 was brought in and spent on these 5 families. We had a wonderful field trip to Walmart. Thank you to the chaperones!! I am say happy to see my students so enthusiastic about sharing Jesus love.
Look for pictures at the end of the blog!

We celebrated with Miss Bolt at her wedding shower. We played fun games, ate cookies, and drank hot chocolate.
Miss Bolt was very grateful for the gift and smiled at the fun games. Look for pictures at the end of the blog.

St. Nick made an early stop to our classroom and delivered us traditional gifts, an orange, a coin, and a pencil (a version of a switch because we are all a little naughty :) ) Look for pictures at the end of the blog!

In Case of SNOW: If there is snow and your child wants to go in the snow at school during recess. I ask that they bring a pair of boot that are to be only worn outside and a pair of shoes to wear in the classroom. I also ask that your bring the boots in a plastic bag, so that when we come in the boots can go back into the bag and reduce wet in the hallways.
Thank you!!

We welcome Sara Rudloff to our class. She has been a wonderful addition. The class has been so welcoming and I am glad she is in our class.
Please note we now have 22 students!

Take time to look at the pictures of Kris our class' Christmas Monkey, our week's activities, and St. Nick's Day excitement!

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

We celebrate Advent each day with a special devotion and
ornament for our Advent Tree.
I hope you have seen the ornaments and your child's Advent Tree.

We take turns extinguishing the Advent candles.

We have lots of nativities to play with in the morning.

We have a Christmas puzzle, too.

Here is a really small nativity.

We are building our own nativity set.

We have a special visitor for Christmas!

We voted for a name and Kris won!

At first Kris was naughty and stole a number off of the calendar.
We needed to tell him about Jesus and the reason for Christmas.

We think he is learning about sharing Jesus' love.
Kris put money in the box for the refugees and made a friend.

Kris and his friend read a book about Jesus' birth.

Kris made new friends and played a nice game of Uno.
We wonder what Kris will do next week?

Elves from Lutheran High School told us about St. Nick coming .

WE SHARED JESUS' LOVE WHILE SHOPPING FOR THE REFUGEE FAMILIES.

WE CHOOSE OUR GIFTS CAREFULLY AND THOUGHTFULLY.

We scanned our items with care.

We spread Jesus love everywhere!

We wrapped the gifts and labeled each one.

We know the families will have so much fun,
getting these gifts for Christmas.

We went to a wedding shower for Miss Bolt.

We played funny games.

We gave her a gift.

We enjoyed a cookie and hot chocolate with fixings.

The fifth and sixth grades led Advent chapel.

They told us to PREPARE for Jesus.

They showed us ways to help us prepare...
Advent wreaths, Christmas trees, Family devotions, and sharing Jesus with those who don't know.

We sang at the Ladies Aid Christmas Luncheon.
Again, sharing the love of Jesus with song.

We learned that St. Nicholas was a real man, a pastor, who helped the poor by dropping gold coins in the windows of people in need. Legend has it that the coins landed in the peoples shoes.