Fall Festival

We had a wonderful time at our fall festival.
We played games and won prizes and went on a hay ride!

Here are some pictures...

Ms. Kathy telling everyone about the Pumkin Gospel.

Everyone eating their snack and listening...

Playing musical hot potato...

Going fishing with mom!

Face Painting...


Watching Ms. Tina get her face painted too...

Lauren took my picture,...thank you Ms. Lauren!

Toss the rings over a bottle of bubbles and win a BIG bottle of bubbles.
We had a few win big bottles...



We had a lot of help from our moms and dads...Thanks Mom and Dad's!!!




Bean Bag Toss...


Making Popcorn Sundaes....

Going on a hay ride...look at everyone enjoying the ride.
We had a lot of visitors...SMILE!!!






Thank you to everyone for coming. We had a great time.
Thank you too to all of the mom's who helped, we had a lot!!!
and this is special...
Thank you to the DAD's that got to come and help out.
You looked like you were having a lot of fun as well!

Welcome to School!

Well we are finally on our way to a routine!

Yippy!!!

The begining of the year is always a little crazy and it takes getting use to.
Also we have to learn everyone's personality and they have to learn ours.

So, feel free to let me know anything about your child or tell me how they feel about school so far.
All of this is a new experience to them.

As the next few weeks go by , we will still try to settle more into things.
It will get easier as we go!

The kids have been great!

We are all having fun.

Here is what we have been doing these past few weeks:



















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It's time for SCHOOL!!!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had an awesome summer!
We all did!

Now it is time for school to start back.
YIPPY!!!

We have a meet your teachers day this coming Monday.
August 17th at 9:00a.m.

I can't wait to meet everyone and see you explore your new room!
It is going to be SO much fun!!!

Don't miss it!
See you there!

Summer Fun

I hope everyone is having a WONDERFUL summer!
Comment and let us know how yours is going.

We have been busy with softball and soon it will be soccer and softball!

It is hot hot hot and I SO want a pool but I guess I will have to be big about it and dream for now!

Who have you seen at the pool?
Have you been to the beach?
What about the zoo or maybe a picnic in the park?

Let us know!

The Last Day SO SAD

Well this is it...the last day has come and gone.
Here are some pics from our snack party.


I hope you all have a great summer, with lots of fun things planned for your family.
I know we will get to see several of the kiddo's next year!
I can't wait to see how much they grow up.



I hope everyone had a great time this year.
I hope everyone learned a lot, I think they did.
Keep up all of the hard work they started.
We really enjoyed your children this years and we are sad to see them go.

Have a great summer and check back to see what everyone else is going to do or has done this summer.
If I see you out and about, I will post it here.
So if you take a trip or see me out and about or one of your friends or just want to say Hi, post a comment and I will post it the the blog so everyone can keep up!

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!
Love,
Mrs. Tina and Mrs. Renee

Spring Program

Dont you think the children were awesome!!!

I do! They worked So hard and they did a great job.
You should be very proud of them, I know you are...........

It is getting close to the end.
Everyone is wound up, starting to monkey around and we will start to slow down and take on smaller projects.
This is always a sad time of year for me and Renee.
We have gotten to know your children so well this year and hope to see them return next year. We love them all so much. You all are doing well by them.
We will miss them so...

We are the Lord's seeds and we are growing fast!

We are working on our growing and animal units.

We started seeds in little baggies in our room, to see how things grow. We hung them in our window.
When you drive by our window, take a look.
We only have a few hanging in our windows after today.
Not all of them rooted.
The ones that did not root have started to really stink, so they were "disposed of".
The children are making a book of their own visual notes.
They take a look at their seed each time we are at school and then they draw what they see.
For the ones that are not seeing changes we will start to take notes on others seeds.

We will also be talking about animals on the farm and how we get some of our food.
We will also be talking about how we have to take care of those animals on the farm.
We will throw in a few messy but fun art projects....
Oh and Mothers Days surprises! Those are always fun!

I have pictures to post...as soon as I figure out how to get them off the blackberry and on here!

1 Corinthians 13 for Moms

I can read bedtime stories till the cow jumps over the moon and sing "Ten Little Monkeys" until I want to call the doctor--but if I don't have love, I'm as annoying as a ringing phone.

I can chase a naked toddler through the house while cooking dinner and listening to voice mail, I can fix the best cookies and Kool-Aid in the neighborhood, and I can tell a sick child's temperature with one touch of my finger, but if I don't have love, I am nothing.

Love is patient while watching and praying by the front window when it's 30 minutes past curfew.

Love is kind when my teen says, "I hate you!"
It does not envy the neighbors' swimming pool or their brand-new mini van, but trusts the Lord to provide every need.

Love does not brag when other parents share their
disappointments and insecurities, and love rejoices when other families succeed.

It doesn't boast, even when I've multi-tasked all day long and my husband can't do more than one thing at a time.

Love is not rude when my spouse innocently asks, "What have you done today?"

It does not immediately seek after glory when we see talent in our children, but encourages them to get training and make wise choices.

It is not easily angered, even when my 15-year-old acts like the world revolves around her.
It does not delight in evil (is not self-righteous) when I remind my 17-year-old that he's going 83 in a 55-mph zone, but rejoices in the truth.

Love does not give up hope.
It always protects our children's self-esteem and spirit, even while doling out discipline.
It always trusts God to protect our children when we cannot. It always perseveres, through blue nail polish, burps and other bodily functions, rolled eyes and crossed arms, messy rooms and sleepovers.

Love never fails.
But where there are memories of thousands of diaper changes and painful labor(s), they will fade away. Where there is talking back, it will (eventually) cease. Where there is a teenager who thinks she knows everything, there will one day be an adult who knows you did your best.

For we know we fail our children, and we pray they don't end up in therapy, but when we get to heaven, our imperfect parenting will disappear. (Thank you, God!)

When we were children, we needed a parent to love and protect us. Now that we're parents ourselves, we have a heavenly Father who
adores, shelters us and holds us when we need to cry.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Everything Is All A BUZZZ!!!!

WOW! Time goes buzzing by when we are having fun!
We have had our stew supper and it was SO good!
We have been busy little bees every minute since then. We had an awesome valentine's day party. We are starting our spring units in March.
We have been talking about our 5 senses. Ask them how they taste their food!

We will be talking about plants and animals, how things grow, we will be planting things in the class to talk about food and nutrition and we will make a chart and show how our plants grow each day.

Everything will be going down hill FAST until spring break.

Join the fun!

BRRRRR! Its cold!

I hope everyone is warming up! It is getting cold out there.

We are in just the right lesson right now too.
We are talking about winter.
We made snow flakes today and colored a winter Bear.

DON'T FORGET WED. IS OUR BEACH DAY!!!!!

Here are some pictures from today.

We are learning the right way to use scissors.
We will be cutting shapes and getting the hang of stopping, not just cutting through the paper completely.



Try and think warm Wed.
We will be having a beach day. Bring a beach towel to school to have a "picnic" on!
We will go surfing too!

It's only been a month!

Hello everyone,
No I did not fall off the Earth but I did get lost!

It has only been a month or so since I blogged about our wonderful class...
We had an awesome Christmas party! We had a ton of fun and Thank You to our party mom's... It was great. Everyone loved it all. Thank you all for all that you do! We have the best class ever.

We will be jumping in to January with out looking!
We will start on all of those thing to get them ready for the four year old class next year.
I know I know...they are still little but they do and will grow up in spite of us. So we will be getting them ready for that!

Our first day back to school will be Jan. 7, 2009.

I can't wait to see everyone again...they have probably grown a foot by now!

For those of you who have been patiently waiting for an update of news AND pictures...here you go and you deserve a medal!

On a side note...to Jackson Brown...I hope you know that I was just kidding about being in my yard ("smile")

Here are your pics!





Hey, what are you doing?



SAY CHEESE...I mean Oranges!!!! YUM! Right?