Week of Thanksgiving

Things for which to be thankful…

• My Savior, Jesus!
• Eternal life with Him in heaven.
• Emanuel - the building and the congregation
• Faith, hope, love
• My Bible
• More earthly blessing than I can count!
• My dad turned 80 last week.

What would you put on your list?

Happy Thanksgiving!
(There probably won't be a post next weekend.)

Psalm 19:14

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Another week in God's Grace

We've been busy:

• Grade 4 worked on websites from the BBC to learn about "matter" in science class.
• Grade 5 also worked in the computer lab learning about "elements" for science class.
• Grade 4 finished their Ellis Island webquest with oral presentations on Thursday. I wasn't thinking, we should have waited to give the presentations until the grandparents (and some parents) visited on Friday. They did a wonderful job on their projects. Video on the Student Work link off of our classroom webpage. (Emanuel_Student Work Page)
• Grade 5 learned how to make rope. We started with raffia and finished with very strong cord. It took three people to make it. This past summer, I saw a woman in Jamestown that did the process all by herself. If we practiced A LOT, maybe we could do that, too! A SmileBox slideshow can be seen at the Student Work link from the classroom homepage. (Emanuel_Student Work Page)
• Both grades have been practicing for singing in church tomorrow.
• Both grades worked hard at memorizing a short song and two poems for Veterans' Day.
• I was happily surprised by the amount of visitors that came to our classroom on Friday. At one point we had about 26 extra adults in our room. 
• If I had been a bit more "with it", I'd have asked the students how many people might come. Then I would have had more chairs in the room. 

The upcoming week:

• Both grades will continue with, what I think is, the hardest chapter in the science books: Matter, atoms, mixtures, solutions, physical and chemical changes.
• Grade 5 will work on a web project for Plimoth Plantation.
• On Thursday we will all take an electronic field trip (EFT) entitled Harsh World, This World. It is part of the series from Colonial Williamsburg. The topic deals with slavery.
• When we watched the previous EFT this one was advertised. Many of the students wanted to know if we were going to watch. I think that they will enjoy this presentation and learn from it.

God Bless your week.

Colossians 1:9

“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.” 

Life in Room 216

I was just thinking about how quickly the week sped by…then realized that today was the end of the first quarter! Where did it go? WOW! One fourth of the school year is over. How can that be!?!

OK -- new subject.
Miss Opperman is taking over more classes each week. This past week she started teaching science. English will be the next class that she inherits. Next week she'll be half done with her student teacher experience.

The 4th graders have been studying the eastern region of the US. That includes the immigrant history of Ellis Island. We started a webquest, that is, a research project where the students pretend to be European immigrants that have come through Ellis Island. Some students are discovering that they have ancestors that came through Ellis Island.

The 5th graders are beginning the physics unit of the science book. This coming week they will do a webquest on elements. Today we spent time on a BBC site reviewing and learning new things about atoms.

We sing at 10AM on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, for Emanuel's Veterans' Day program.

THEN, we sing at the 9:00 AM worship service on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13.

God bless you and yours,

Ephesians 5:19-20

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.