Hello Firstie Parents!

I hope that you had a great long weekend!  I received a lot good information from our conference at Valley Lutheran High, and I am looking forward to implementing some of what I learned throughout the rest of our school year. 

Yesterday we learned about Jonah and how God asked him to go to Nineveh to tell the people there that they needed to change their bad ways.  Jonah refused to go and tried to hide.  He quickly found out that that wasn’t such a good idea…and besides that, it didn’t even work.  After the kids heard about what happened to Jonah, there were a few “Did that really happen?”  “But really Miss Gallagher…..he was really swallowed by a big fish?!” “He stayed in there for three whole days?!?”  I don’t remember a class ever being as disbelieving as these kiddos were….hahaha!  It IS hard to believe, but we know that because it is in the Word of the God, it’s true. 

Did your firstie tell you about our “word surgery” that we did yesterday?  We learned about contractions… Here are a few pictures from inside the “operating room”….

This week we started learning about long vowel sounds.  It always seems to be a bit of an adjustment for them to switch from short vowels to long vowels, so reviewing over and over will be something that we will have to do!  

Have a great rest of your week!

Miss Gallagher