Dear Parents,

As promised….here at the “hatched egg” pictures!  Did your firstie tell you about their hatched egg?  What fun this was!  I will most definitely be doing this again next year....

Thank you to all that were able to come to Chapel on Wednesday!  I received a lot of compliments about how well the firsties did. However, I have to say that more than one student came up to me and told me that they were sad that not ONE of the eggs broke and wasn't a sloppy mess on someone's head….lol!  

We learned about regrouping today!  Ask your firstie what is the biggest number that there can be in the ones column and also ask what column they need to begin with when adding 2 digit numbers…(I am crossing my fingers that this new information stuck in their brains….)! We are going to keep practicing this new concept tomorrow and next week. 

Book orders are due by Monday!  I know that I have stated this before, but I am so proud of how far they have come with their reading out loud skills and fluency.  Keep reading to them! Keep practicing with them!  Let your firstie see you read (it is SO powerful!)! 

The King’s Kids Choir (grades 1-4) is singing in church this Sunday!  This is a song they really like and I can’t wait to have you hear them singing praises to our risen Lord and Savior.  We will be meeting in the church basement.  Please have your kiddo to church no later than 10:15am.  See you there! 

Have a blessed weekend!

Miss Gallagher

Dear Parents,

Just a short and quick blog this evening!

I first wanted to share with you one of my absolute favorite hymns, My Song is Love Unknown.  Please read the words and listen to the hymn sung.  It is SO powerful.  Here is the link…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMart4wXsI0

1 My song is love unknown,
my Savior’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown,
that they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake
my Lord should take frail flesh and die?

2 He came from his blest throne,
salvation to bestow;
but men cared not, and none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But oh, my Friend, my Friend indeed,
who at my need his life did spend!

3 Sometimes they strew his way,
and his sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!” is all their breath,
and for his death they thirst and cry.

4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries! Yet all his deeds
their hatred feeds; they 'gainst him rise.

5 They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord sent away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet willing he to suff'ring goes,
that he his foes from thence might free.

6 In life, no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
in death, no friendly tomb
but what a stranger gave.
What may I say? Heav'n was his home,
but mine the tomb wherein he lay.

7 Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine.
This is my Friend, in whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend.

In February, we read this great book called Tar Beach.  

See her flying over the bridge towards the top of the book cover?

 It is about a little girl who is hanging on with her family and neighbors in NYC, in the summer time.  She is day dreaming and she dreams that she flies over major bridges and buildings there, and because she flies over them, she owns them.  The firsties did a little writing of their own and below are a few samples!  

We will be finishing them up this week.  Ask your firstie what he or she “flew over”…..there were some pretty creative ones! 

The “eggs” seem to be working…..each and every firstie wants to have their egg “hatch” when we come back from Easter break, so I (and Mrs. Mazure does too!) keep reminding them that they have to sit right so that their eggs will stay warm.  ;) 

Remember that because this shortened week, our tests will be on Thursday.  Thank you for helping your firstie to prepare for both tests.

Blessings on the rest of your evening!

Miss Gallagher