Wisdom for Wednesday - Let the Lord Work

Hello there! I hope you are having a wonderful week. I'm feeling quite a bit better after being horribly sick the last couple weeks AND the sun has been shining some the last few days. I don't know about you, but this time of year, I get a little antsy for spring!

Let's jump in to this week's bit of wisdom. :-)

I've been going through the Psalm 119 (again) this year. Last year, I was attempting to memorize all 176 verses. I don't mind admitting that I made it into the 80's and started to struggle. I picked it up again, this time focusing on a section at a time, and instead tried to focus on a favorite verse or phrase from each section. A much more attainable goal!

Anyway, my favorite phrase from Psalm 119:121-128...

It is time for thee, LORD, to work... 

SURRENDER. 

Too often I'm trying to fix things (or people--gasp!) and the Lord just wants room to work. Surrender it all to Him! His work is going to be way better than ours!

Short and sweet. What can I say? ;-)

P.S. If you were wondering, my favorite verse that section is 125.

Fun with Telling Time!

We have been spending a lot of time working on telling time and the kids have gotten really good at the hour and half hour.  

When we first looked at the clock, we talked about the hands and I did this neat way of teaching the hands to the kids that came from teachertipster.com

Then we learned this cute little rhyme by teachertipster.com.

After learning the rhyme and practicing with some clocks, we moved to our desks and drew the clock.  Then we used licorice to show various times.  They were excited to do this because they knew that if they worked hard and followed directions, they would get to eat some licorice at the end. 

Next, we played our connect four game to practice telling time.  

Then, we played our I Have Who Has Game to practice telling time.

Finally, we used played scoot to practice telling time.

The kids are now doing great at telling time and we had fun learning how to tell the time!

Have a great week!

Wisdom for Wednesday-99 Sheep

Welcome back to another week of:

I saw this verse the other day and I just love it.  It really shows how much God loves each one of us.  God cares for each and everyone of us that he would leave 99 other sheep just to come and find the 1 that is lost.  This message is simple, all of the shepherd's sheep were all equally important.  Just like all of God's children are equally important.

Have a great week!

Valentine's Day and some extras!

The kids had their Valentine's Party this last week and had a blast!  I'm not sure what it is about the Valentine's Day parties, but it seems like every year this is the one that the kids tend to get the most excited about.  Here they are:

We decorated bags in class the day before our party.

At the party, they got to decorate sugar cookies.

Lots of treats that included pizza!

They got to make a Valentine's card.

For our extra fun thing, we made fake snow and played with it!

Finally, we practiced our long i words by playing connect four.

Have a great weekend!

Wisdom for Wednesday-Grateful for Everything

Welcome to this week's:

Hmmm...I need to reread this every day.  I know that I am very guilty of trying to get through difficult seasons quickly.  Unfortunately, I believe there will be obstacles in every season that we are on this earth.  So trying to get through these seasons quicker and thinking each one will get better will only wish away our days on this earth.  Instead, I need to remember that everything I do is for God and he has given me something in every season to be grateful for....there may be difficult days that I have to really think about what that may be, but there is always at least one thing to be grateful for in my life.

Have a great day!