Spelling Strategies

I spoke with several of you in conferences about sharing some strategies you can you use at home to help your child learn their spelling words. Here is a video that will hopefully help to explain the first two. Try one, see if you like it, and let me know! And as always, please feel free to contact me with any questions at all!

***Also, I forgot to mention this in the video, but it will also help tremendously if your child says each letter out loud as he/she is writing it... especially for those of us who are very auditory learners!

Operation Christmas Child

I know it's still October, but believe it or not, Christmas is closer than you think and this year the students at New Hope are getting a jump start on the giving! We're participating in a project called Operation Christmas Child and need your help to do it. There were two notes that went home today about how you can help (one from the school in your child's purple folder and one from me in your child's blue folder). Check out these short videos to learn more and see first hand the impact that something as simple as a shoebox can have to spread the love of Christ.

Happy End-of-the-First-Quarter!

My! Is is October already!? This first quarter has flown by and will all the business of report cards and awards and special events I, sadly, haven't been updating her as much as I'd like. Not to worry... I have several posts that will be going up over the next week so things should be back to normal very soon!

Here is the first group of many way-cute pictures that I've been holding hostage for too long now! These are from our Fall Fest/Field Day that celebrated the end of the first quarter. Boy was I worn out after this one, but it was a blast!

Check back soon for updates on:

:: project pumpkin ::

:: field trip photos ::