Flying through Fall
Once again it has been a quick Fall season where the first quarter has been over in the blink of an eye.
God provided us with the staff we needed to start out the school year and we had a wonderful start. It has been wonderful to have everyone back in the building again and having school in person for all grades. We've had to wear masks in the halls and shared spaces but have been able to have things pretty regular inside the classroom.
Beginning of the School Year
We had our annual welcome back to school picnic where I got to spend some time with the girls from my first first grade class that are now entering into grade 11. How the time flies! Hard to believe it has been 10 years!
Once again I have a grade 1/2 split class with 4 students in grade 1 and 7 in grade 2. They are a wonderful active bunch and it is fun getting to teach some of them for the second year in a row.
Making handprints for our all about me books
Retelling Bible stories using finger puppets. This group of students love our Bible story times and have gotten quite excited about retelling the stories using puppets.
Happy Thanksgiving!I was lucky to host a large Thanksgiving dinner on the Saturday and a smaller one on the Sunday. Although a whole turkey is hard to come by we had turkey breasts and legs and BBQ chicken.
It was a lovely celebration and I was brought back sweet memories with lemon meringue pie. When I was a little girl our neighbours would invite us for Thanksgiving and there was always lemon meringue pie because it was my dad's favourite.
Enjoying the fall season with markets and walks along the river. We have had our ups and downs with the pandemic but if it is in the wide-open air life can almost seem pretty normal.
Field Trip - Museum of Senses
We have been learning about the 5 Senses in science and wrapped our unit by going to the Museum of Senses. It was fun to take the kids out to museums and on field trips again. We had the space to ourselves for the morning so we could go mask free and feel a bit like normal.
Reading Day!
Last year we were in lock-down during our annual reading day so it was with great excitement that we could participate in this annual tradition. Students and staff get to dress up as a favourite book character and participate in different activities.
So fun to have students who I taught in grade one read to me now that they are in grade seven!
How fast they grow up!
Amelia Bedelia - Who changed the towels
This year I decided to be Jillian Jiggs who is a character from the books by Phoebe Gilman including The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs.
We are very thankful for making it through the first quarter. We are still praying for teachers as our grade three teacher was filling in until November. So we will need a new grade 3 teacher in less than 3 weeks! Our grade four teacher is our principal and graciously stepped in to help us out this year, as well as doing his principal duties which is quite a lot! We also still do not have an art teacher. We can praise the Lord we already have people interested for teaching next school year and praying for the Lord's provision for the rest of this school year.
