Dear Parents,

Time has escaped me!  First of all, I can NOT believe that we are already in the 4^th marking period!!!  This year has positively flown by and I have so enjoyed my firsties; how much they have learned and how much they have grown. 

More recently, though, I had every intention of posting our St. Patrick’s Day party pictures and fun, but again, time just escaped me.  So even though they are a few weeks old, here they are! 

 The firsties had loads of fun making a “leprechaun trap”, going on a scavenger hunt to find out where he “hid” the gold, listening to a story, and graphing using Lucky Charms.  Many thanks to Mrs. Samborn for all of her hard work that she did in creating this fun party for the kiddos.  

3^rd marking period report cards are coming home today.  They don’t need to come back signed, but are just for you to have an update on where your firstie is.  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me!  Thank you!

We have been learning about Jesus’ miracles in Religion class and learned (or heard again) about the feeding of the 5,000 (well, there were actually more than 5,000!).  Ask your firstie about how willing they were to share the little bread that I offered them, with the 2^nd grade class?  And then the 3^rd & 4^th grade classes?  (They actually weren’t too keen on the idea and thought that they wouldn’t have much left for themselves if they shared with some of the other classes.) Jesus showed how powerful is He by not only providing the people there, the food that they needed to nourish their bodies, but also He provided the food that they needed to nourish their souls. He sat with them and talked with them and taught them about how much God loves them.   He does this for US too!  He gives us what we need both body and soul.  Praise the Lord, for His goodness! 

We are in a new chapter in Math!  We going to be studying and learning about measurement!  I am excited to be doing something a little different and I think the firsties are too! (A few of them said today….This is fun! Ha.)

We are also learning about nouns.  We learned that a noun can be a person, a place, or a thing.  Talk about this with your firstie.  Point out what nouns are wherever you are!  I think that they will be surprised at how many nouns they already know and how they are surrounded by them. 

The rest of this week should be somewhat normal (whatever that is....!)

Blessings!

Standing on the amazing promises of God,

Miss Gallagher