National Children's Book Week

This week is National Children's Book Week. We will do lots of "bookworm" activities this week. I picked four authors to choose between as our favorite author. We LOVE Jan Brett so she is one, then Eric Carle, Laura Numeroff, and A. A. Milne. Tuesday to Friday, we will have an author of the day, and Friday we will pick our very favorite.

We will have guest readers (Uriah, one of the high schoolers, is our only one so far) I invited all the parents to come and read to the class. I might ask some other's too! We will definitely have to read Mouse Paint, a favorite of our class that we did not have. My sister Sarah sent us a copy for our classroom. We will also have a book exchange so each child can go home with a new to them book on Friday.

I will post some pictures from our activities when the week is over. Let me know how you or your kids are celebrating Children's Book Week. I would love more ideas!

I'll take a wack at it!

For Halloween, the High School and Jr. High made Pinatas. They invited our class to come and pick up candy. We even got to break up one of the Pinatas. All the kids got to take a wack at it! And check out all the candy...trick or treating started early this year!

Tag your it!

I have been tagged by my sister Heather, but I will post my tagging on my personal site, www.melzingersmusings.blogspot.com

BTW...I don't know who is it.

Mel

Here are some crazy pictures we took when we took our class picture.

Back row from left to right: Marlin Denezpi, Karl Bigman, Alejadro Xicotencatl, Myrin Denezpi

Front row from left to right: Winona Begay, Cameron Hanley, Tamary Benally, April Scott, Staci Martinez

And that is me in the middle!

Here it is - our class picture. Unfortunately, Jaymeson was absent that day. So when we are all together again, we will take another one.

News and More Prayer Requests

I may have mentioned before that this week we go to Colorado Springs for a teacher's convention. Please pray for a good time and safe travel's.

From the convention, Ruth Bloom will fly to North Carolina to speak, I think at a women's meeting there. Please pray that all goes well for her and that her speaking is encouraging and uplifting for the ladies there.

We will be having a special speaker in a couple of weeks, at Immanuel Navajo Chapel. Andrew Begay has come up here before, and he is an intresting speaker. Andrew is a cousin of Lorena Herbert, one of the Navajo Missionaries that live and serve here at the mission. Andrew's father was a medicine man, and he often speaks on the Navajo and Native American religion's that are common in this area. It is helpful, since we can get an idea of where the people in our community are coming from and have a starting place for presenting the gospel. Please pray that the meetings go well and that many come from the community.

Thanks again for praying

Thank you for praying!!!

Sorry to take so long to write!

April came back the very next day! Her mom, Cassandra, had been sick, and so they had not come. Cassandra comes in each day to help out with the teachers.

Jaymeson was back a couple of days later, but please continue to pray for him. He is out all this week with a bad cut on his hand that has to be checked regularly, and at other times his attendance is very inconsistent. We would definitely like to see him more often!

Next week is the teacher's convention. We go to Colorado Springs this year and stay at Camp Elim at night. It will mean lots of driving. Please pray for safe traveling and that we (the teachers) would benefit from the seminars and conferences we go to.

It has been a good first five weeks. Praise the Lord for safety and a smooth transition back to school.

Up next in Kindergarten....Apples!! We will have a whole unit on Apples (Units usually last a while in my classroom, as we do only a few things at a time. We will have open house soon, and we make lots of Apple things to show mom's and dad's that night. Please pray that we have good attendance to the open house, since this may be the first (and only) time we have contact with some of the parents.

Thanks again!!!

Mel

And This Is....

Here are almost all the kids in the class. I missed Alejandro, but I can't post any more pictures for now. I will get one of him on here soon!

April (You've met before)

Cameron (he's a bit of a ham!)

Jaymeson (you've met him before, too!)

Karl
Marlin

Myrin

Staci

Tamary

Winona

There they are!!

And This is.....part 2

Here he is, our funny little guy.....Alejandro

April and Jaymeson

Here are some pictures of Jaymeson (top left and right) and April. I had to include the close up of Jay, since it is so cute. He doesn't smile much, but it is adorable when he does!

Please Pray!

Hey everyone!

There are always lots of things to pray about. Here are some ones specific for the Kindergarteners.

First of all, a praise or two.

While this class has not yet bonded quite the way last years class did, they are all getting along very well with each other!
They are also very bright kids. I have had to alter some things, since I didn't need to teach them some things that other classes have had to work on at the beginning. Quite a few can already count well, although they need help with figuring out "which number comes next" if I just give them a number.
So those are some praises.

Right now, the big prayer request is for two of my students. April and Jaymeson. They have both missed quite a bit of school in a row, and April may have moved. April's mom, Cassandra, was working in my classroom to help out, but there has been no word on them since before Labor Day. Please pray that they show up.

Starting School "Write"

You've got to do a lot of things to get ready to write. It amazes me what things I take for granted about writing. Things that Kindergarteners have to really work at in order to write well. Things as simple as how to hold a pencil, or which direction to write in, are second nature to those of us who have been around a while. But these kids barely even have the right muscles ready to write! So we always do lots of activities at the beginning to get ready. Things like lots of color and playdough, finger exercises, even teaching the kids to snap their fingers works the muscles they need. Here are some pictures of the kids getting a little crazy with their 'dough, and other fun things.

Welcome to Kindergarten!!

We are the Kindergarten class of 2009 (Future Graduating Class of 2021!) at Immanuel Mission School. Welcome to our classroom! Check in here to find out what we are doing, how we are learning and how much we are growing. Have Fun!