I want to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

If your child is unable to make the Christmas Eve service at Immanuel Lutheran Church, please send me a message on SeeSaw or call the school office.

For the children participating in the Christmas Eve service at ILC, your child will come upstairs above the fellowship hall by 6:50. I will not be upstairs until about 6:20, so please make sure an adult is present before leaving your child. Also, please take your child's coat with you.  You will, also, pick up your child upstairs where he/she was dropped off.  Hint: come in the doors by the church kitchen and come up to back stairs in order to not be "stuck in traffic".

School resumes on the 6th and report cards will come home in the Friday folder on the 10th.  If you have questions about the report card, send me a message and I will get in touch with you.

In spelling, we will now have 12 spelling words. Five will still be transfer words, and 2 will be review words-words already on our word wall.

Each Friday, we will try our best at guessing.  Each week, I will send a note home with one student who will bring in items for our "Guessing Jar". The items can be toys, rocks, marbles, practically anything.  I ask that there be no more than 99 of anything you send, as we spend time counting and tallying the items. If you choose to send in shareable or edible items, please make sure that each is prepackaged and divisible by 18. I have done the first guessing jar. Kendra will bring something to keep us guessing by January 10th.

Eliza is our "Star of the Week." Her pictures will be posted on our board and she will have an opportunity to share some things about herself.

We will collect offerings on Mondays. Our offering for January will go to Clarity. We have been asked to donate diapers-size 5 and/or newborn sleepers. Thank you for being a blessing to others!

Our school has lots of Fund raising opportunities! The office sells Scrip, which are gift cards to retailers to use like cash.  You get the amount that you pay for, but the school gets a percentage back on the sale. BoxTops (you can enter your receipt online and earn money for the school) and Amazon Smile are also ways for ILS to earn money. Thanks for all the support!

I collect poptabs, which are taken to Riley Children's Hospital. They are converted to help families who stay at the Ronald McDonald House.

Again, Merry Christmas to you and your family!

In His service,

Mrs. Bell

Wednesday-Arise; shine for your light has come. Isaiah 60:1

Friday-I trust in You, O LOrd; I say, "You are my God." Psalm 31:14

look, mom, talk, where, boy, you, of

TRANSFER WORDS: drop/chop, stop, hop, flop

We will learn about Wisemen, Herod, and Anna and Simeon.

We are reading about a man sailing around the world. His name is Captain Bill Pinkney.  We are learning of his incredible journey.

We are learning what vowel blends sound like.  Many are tricky, so we learn clue words and ways to determine their sounds.

We are beginning to work on subject/verb agreement in our sentences. So, it is really important to know nouns and verbs!

Remember to listen to and assist your child with the reading material coming home each evening. 

Please make sure the reading books are returned each day.

HOMEWORK (for the night of):

• Monday-Read "Our Town Garden"
  
• Tuesday- Read "Sailor Paul"
• Wednesday- Read "Foul Ball"
• Thursday-Read "The Knight Who Did Not Know" 
  
• Friday-Read "Mr. Daw Thought" and "Paul's Sauce"

We are continuing to work on subtraction math facts and concepts of solving problems.

We are continuing with Rocket Math. We have started "Guessing Jar" and we will begin to write our numbers to 1,000.

Practicing math flashcards (addition/subtraction) proves to be very helpful to your child! You can make your own or purchase some.

HOMEWORK:  Math worksheets

We are learning about natural resources.

We continue to learn about animals, their habitats, their predators and prey.