Dear Parents,

Though my letter home yesterday was short, the blog today will be long!  I have lots to share! 

We started our day, reviewing our spelling words.  Then the kids created a word search with their spelling words, which I will solve.  Some of them were wanting to be super tricky and spent a lot of time on their word searches...I love it!

In Religion we reviewed the 10 Commandments that God gave Moses to share with the Israelites… and us.  We talked about WHY God gave us those 10 Commandments and what He wants us to do when we break those Commandments.  Each firstie made a little booklet as a reminder of why we confess our sins and the fact that God sent Jesus to die on the cross in our place.  Ask your firstie to share this with you!

Coming home to you today is a bag of sweet potatoes from the Trinity Community Garden (All hand-washed and ready to go!).

 

The firsties from last year planted them and they were harvested on Friday.  I am sending them home for you to use!  If you know that, FOR SURE, no one in your family likes sweet potatoes, please pass them on to someone else that would be able to use them.  If your firstie likes them or hasn’t tried them yet, please include your firstie in the preparation of the sweet potatoes; fry them, bake them, make mashed sweet potatoes, wedge them (That is what I like to do with them….YUM!), etc…and take a picture of your firstie helping in the prep (and then send me the picture!).  I am looking forward to seeing how those “home grown” sweet potatoes are prepared! (You can send the pictures via text if you'd like! :) )

Our mission for the month of November is the City of Hope Rescue Mission and we are collecting toilet paper for them.  If you are able, please send a roll or two of packaged toilet paper to add to our “tower” of toilet paper in the hallway by the gym.  Thank you!

Today we also received our first pen pal letters! 

A college friend of mine that I reconnected with at our LEA conference last year also teaches first grade and wanted to know if we could have our classes write to each other.  Of course, I said YES! Mrs. Scott and her firsties are at a Lutheran school in Fort Wayne.  The firsties were SO excited to receive and read their letters.  Something that I observed though, was that a couple of kids had a hard time reading their pen letters because the letters were a little sloppy…..hmm…..handwriting DOES matter in the real world?!?! We are going to work on answering the letters over the next couple of weeks. 

Below are the pictures of the entries for the “Hide the Tom the Turkey” contest….everyone did a fantastic job! Thank you to those who participated. Winners will be announced next week! What will be won???  It’s a surprise! 

Blessings on the rest of your evening!

Miss Gallagher