Bible Verse:

• Patience: 1 Corinthians 13:4 "Love is patient, love is kind."
• Forgiveness: Colossians 3:13b "Forgive as the Lord forgave you."

What we're learning about:

• Literature: cause and effect in stories
• Social Studies: adventurers, needs and wants
• Science: sun, moon and stars

What else is going on:

What a joy it is to listen to the first graders read proficiently!!

Field Trips:  Palace Theater : Suessical

Bible Verse: Proverbs 17:17, Proverbs 29:11

What we're learning about:

• Bible: Loyalty, Self-Control
• Math: more math facts, number patterns, fractional parts, money
• Phonics: more suffixes, digraphs, and sight words
• Reading: problems and solutions in stories; predicting outcomes
• Writing: sentence structure, new vocabulary words
• Social Studies: looking at missions in Israel; trading between settlers and Indians; map skills
• Science: simple machines

What else is going on:

It's our turn to lead the pledge in Chapel!

In-school field trip on simple machines

Bible Verse: 1 Thes. 5:18; 1 Cor. 14:40

What we're learning about:

• Settlement, Pilgrims - Why do people move?  Can I trust God when I (or a friend) move?  What does it mean to make a "sacrifice"? (as in "giving things up", not the religious sort).
• Sequence of events - Characters (story elements)

What else is going on?

Thanksgiving feast!