December greetings from the First and Second graders. We hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a chance to Worship and Thank God for all that He does for us. We just returned from our long Thanksgiving vacation so I hope we haven’t forgotten all the things we did in November. We will soon be getting ready for the Celebration of the birth of our Savior. We will be busy learning parts and songs so be sure to come to our Service on Christmas Eve.

     First graders have started learning some subtraction facts in Math. It is sometimes hard to remember whether we are doing addition or subtraction on our papers.

     First graders started a new book in reading. Our first story was about two bears gathering eggs and trying to make a cake. They didn’t do so well. Momma Bear made scrambled eggs instead.

     In First grade Spelling we are learning words that begin with clusters or blends. We have learned ‘r’ cluster words and now we are learning some ‘l’ cluster words.

     In First Grade Handwriting we have been learning how to make our lower case letters. We have learned almost half of the alphabet.

      Second Graders are writing their first official paper in English. We are writing a two-point expository paragraph. It is about our favorite colors.

     During our daily story time, we read a new book called “Turkey Trouble”. It is about a turkey that tries to hide from the farmer so he does not get eaten. He succeeds by making himself look like a flower.

     Second Grade Social Studies has a Lesson on the “El Paso Legend”. We learned something about the Native American’s that live in Texas.

     Second Graders have been reviewing the lower and upper case letters. When we finish all of them we can start cursive. We also had to copy a set of directions.

     Second Graders have the long ‘e’ sound in Spelling. It is made with the letters ‘ee’ or ‘ea’. Our memory word for the week is ‘people’. It has ‘eo’ instead of ‘ee’ or ‘ea’.

     Please remember us during the Advent Season as we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Please pray that we will use our time wisely and always turn to Jesus for help, like King Hezekiah did in our story for today. Hezekiah prayed to God when problem arose instead of trying to solve them on his own. Have a Blessed December.