Christmas Letter Writing

Here's a great idea I'm sure there's a wonderful product for on TpT, but anyone can do it!

This year get your class to practice letter writing, and send it to our troops overseas.

I don't have the American address, but if someone has it, I'll add it.

To Canadian Troops:

Any Canadian Forces Member
Op Attention: Kabul
PO Box 5140 Stn Forces
Belleville ON
K8N 5W6

If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful, special people, who have sacrificed so much would get. 

No Postage Stamp Required, just bring it to your nearest post office, and they'll put one on for you.

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Your Weekly lol 17

Ever have students fall asleep in class?

Would you be fooled? lol

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Sunday School Recap: Learning Our Christmas Song

So as I shared yesterday, I wrote a song for my Sunday School class to learn and on Sunday we were going to start learning it. After all, the Sunday School concert is December 16th, which not that far away now!

My Christmas Songs:

At my church about once a month or so, the grade 2 and up classes return midway through the service to participate in Communion, and this was one of those Sundays. So my class was shortened significantly today, and we didn't get to my cute craft, sniff....

But since I had prioritized learning the song, right after today's lesson about Reign of Christ Sunday (the last day of the church calendar), I jumped right into teaching the song.

I started out by singing the song to the kids, and then asked if any knew the tune, about two did, one of which KNEW the song very well, and was excited, lol.

Then I had them follow along on their sheets (which they brought home today to practice at home).

The one boy in my class tried to hide the fact that he wasn't singing with us by holding his sheet in front of his face.

But I had a trick up my sleeves!

I next had the kids whisper sing it, which they found a little funny.

But I still wasn't done, I got them to sing it in a weird voice which I'm sorry to say I can't describe for you, but trust me, I got a LOT of giggles.

Following this, we sang it like Opera singers, but I called it "Like angels", which was still funny to them.

Finally, we sang it normally again, and by now I think they could have sung it without the words, but I'll hold off on that until next Sunday.

Next week I hope to have a few more silly voices up my sleeves. I think we'll try loud singing, but I'm hoping some of you have an idea or two up your sleeve for me?
Pretty Please?

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The Angels Sang Out to the Shepherds

Well, it took me a few weeks, but since I ABSOLUTELY have to start teaching my Sunday School Class their song for the concert starting this week, I buckled down and picked a different tune to write a new song. This is the one I choose of the new songs this year.


Which do you prefer, this one or the one I previously posted?

All The Songs:

Jesus was Born on Christmas

Wisemen

Shepherds

Christ Was Born Today

THE ANGELS SANG OUT TO THE SHEPHERDS

TUNE: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean))

The angels sang out to the shepherds,

The angels sang over the field,

The angels sang out to the shepherds,

To visit the Baby and kneel,

Jesus,

Jesus,

Oh, visit this baby and kneel, and kneel,

Jesus,

Jesus,

Oh visit this baby and kneel.

The angels sang Glory to Heaven,

The angels sang Peace on the Earth,

The angels sang Glory to Heaven,

Tonight is our Saviours Birth.

Jesus,

Jesus,

Oh, visit this baby and kneel, and kneel,

Jesus,

Jesus,

Oh visit this baby and kneel.

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Bloggers with my same name challenge!

I challenge you to find Bloggers online using the same name as you to sign their posts with, or as their profile name (You've probably noticed a few, right?), and share what you've found on your blog.

It's pretty easy for there to be other bloggers using the same Pseudonym as you out there, especially since many teacher bloggers use their first or last initial with Mrs. to disguise their true identity. I know we don't do it to hide of course, but for privacy issues which are so often a part of teaching in an online community.

I've been using Mrs. D or Miss D since I first started blogging about my wedding over at my other blog: And Something Pink (closed). When I got married I changed my profile name from Miss D to Mrs. D.

I've noticed a few:

This one is a first grade teacher in Ohio, check her out!

This one is a second grade teacher, also great!

This one teaches first grade as well, I just found her a couple days ago.

On a quick internet search for more teacher Mrs. D's I found:

I'm sure there are more. If I forgot to include you, leave me a link, and I'll add you to my list.

Enjoy your hunt!

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Your Weekly lol 16

How long into the year until you should worry if kids are still using their fingers? What about their toes?

Time to introduce counters or a number line!

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Sunday School: Making the World a better Place (and the missing pictures)

This past Sunday, my class was learning the lesson from one of the more difficult passages in the bible.

Mark 13: 1-8
In this passage, Jesus Teaches his disciples that even that most well built buildings will not last forever. That an end must come to everything on this Earth. That a New Day is coming.

To help my kids try to understand the story, our curriculum wanted us to trace out a large stone on a wall with yarn and then hand out paper cut into the shape of rocks to write on them things that are on Earth now, and that must be gone in order for his New Day to arrive.

I took a piece of the largest paper in the supply closet and drew on it a series of rocks before the class came down.

Together we brainstormed things to put in the squares:
Crime/Murder
Pollution/Littering
WAR
Bullying
Hate
Hunger
Bad Weather (because I didn't want to fill the wall with just Hurricanes, tornadoes, etc)

I wrote all these with a black/brown marker.

Then we got out three bright colours, and covered those bad things with the Good things WE can do to help bring God's New Day:
Love
Care
Share
Help
Give
Forgive
Be Friendly

Next, I handed out Cube Nets to my kiddos.
They wrote on one face "God's New Day", and on the other Five they wrote some ways they need to remember to be/do to help God bring us his New Day.

And as promised a Week ago, here is the wall I forgot to photograph before to share. (I'm going to edit the previous post to include these pictures):

This wall has all my posters (the Liturgical year- 3 versions, the books of the Bible, and the Lord's Prayer), as well as my Alphabet from this site. You can see on the close up, that my class is keeping track of four things. We just started a few weeks ago.
Our church collects Can tabs to send to a gentleman who uses them to buy wheelchairs for the needy.
We of course donate food to the food bank.
Through the Canadian Bible Society we collect dimes to help buy Bibles. Technically, the society doesn't do this program anymore, but we still collect the dimes and donate them to their missions.
And we collect stamps for the Leprosy Mission.

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Your Weekly lol 15

Have any students who decide at a young age they want a tattoo?

I use these sometimes to draw on faces and hands.

Hearts on Valentine's Day
Shamrocks on St. Patrick's day

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My Sunday School Room

Whoops!

I forgot to post pictures of my Sunday School room now that it's set up. I don't have great pictures, since I was in a rush to go collect my daughter from the nursery, and I seem to have forgotten one wall, so I'll post a part two of this after next Sunday.

Tell me what you think, please!

WALL ONE
This is my month of Sundays. Each card tell the lesson the students should be learning from that weeks story, and the passage the story is taken from. I love my banner, I made it by cutting up two old gift bags and some ribbon leftover from my wedding a year ago.

This is my "World". Every time a student comes for the first time or we have a visitor, they get to colour a child to put up on this wall. I'm up there too! The message says "We are all Disciples". which has been the focus of our first unit this year from Seasons of the Spirit, which is the curriculum our Superintendents purchase for the church school.

WALL TWO
At the far end of the room you'll see my rules posters and the current welcome song. This is actually the second one this year. It is not written from me, it is from the curriculum, and is pretty cute.

This is our faith tree. Each lesson comes with a circle with an image in it which is designed to remind us what the past lessons have been. Every week when i put up the new image I review the previous images.

WALL THREE AND WALL FOUR
OOPS, I forgot to take pictures of my last decorated wall, and Wall fur is strictly Kitchen at the moment, but I may put some stuff up on those walls before the end of the year, we'll see.

UPDATE:
I just posted the missing 3rd wall here. But in case you just want to see it without going to the link, here it is:

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