X-Y-Z..and a few other things

Thank you so much for sharing your kids with us in the mornings.  This has definately been a blessed year!!!  Thank you to all the parents who faithfully come out every week to share their love for God, Mike Lanser, Sean Killilea, Bob and Amelia Herman, Joel Smith, Christy Pacinowski, Lisa Karsten, Andy Mitchell, Ann Lukas, Jane Lanser, Tess Kotecki, Eric and Heidi Langelier, and anyone else I may have forgotten .  And Thank you to Erika Gomez for being such a faithful and organized leader, we really appreciate it.

Our "X" verses for the younger friends is "Glorify the Lord with me; let us EXalt his name together."  Psalm 34:3.

"You are my hiding place; you will protect me fro trouble."  Psalm 32:7,  is our "Y" verse.

And our last verse for the year is "It is not good to have Zeal without knowledge.  Proverbs 19:2.

Please continue to review these verses with your children, we are trying to come up with some sort of "end of the year program"  for the parents.  Look for details to come out in the next week or so. 

During  the year we have worked on a few different verses on Worship Wednesdays.  To finish out the year we are working on the books of the Bible.  Some of the kids know these already and some are just beginning to learn.  We will be listening to the kids say these the last Wednesday, May 22, if you could help your kids review. This is the song we have been using to help us remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZtWRSCH7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj54GQazVCo

T-U-V-W

As the end of the year quickly approaches we are trying to fit all the letters in.  We have been doing two in a week some weeks to make sure we fit them all in.  They do seem to get a little tricky because when you think it is a "T" verse it is actually a "U" verse.

The "T" verse is "Give Thanks to the Lord, for he is good."  Psalm 136:1

The "U" verse is "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own Understanding."  Proverbs 3:5

The "V" verse is "In the morning, O Lord, you hear my Voice."  Psalm 5:3

The "W" "As for God, his Way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless."  2 Samuel 22:31

March 18-22

This week we are trying to do a little catch up, or working ahead, whichever way you would like to look at it.  We will be working on two verses on Monday.

The first comes from Ecclesiastes 12:1 and it is, "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth."

And the second is "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want."  Psalm 23:1

We have been continuing to review Matthew 28:1-10 as well.  Please go over this with your children as well.  They will not be expected to know it word for word, but have a pretty good idea of the people of the story and the order of it.

March 4-15

After many months of Mondays off we finally have had a Monday where we learned a new verse!!! The verse for this week was "For I know the Plans I have for you, declares the Lord."  Jeremiah 29:11.  We are continuing to review the verses on Tuesday's.  We have put together the handy rings for reviewing at home, please help your children review the verses on those long car rides and other "down time".  Our hope is to have something special at the end of the year to celebrate God's goodness and all that the kids have learned. 

On Worship Wednesday's we started working on Matthew 28:1-10, the Easter story, by acting it out.  Although there are only few weeks left before Easter we would love to have the kids memorize or at least be VERY familiar with the story.

Next week we will be learning "He will Quiet you with his love."  Zephaniah 3:17

Thursdays with Ms. Jane

K-3 Thursday morning update: I’ve had the fun of spending each Thursday morning with your kids, working our way through the Old Testament, book by book. So far, we’ve covered Genesis through Ezra. For each book, we try to come up with a little theme that helps us remember what it’s about and we also talk about how each part of the Bible points to Jesus. This Thursday, as a special celebration before break, we’ll be doing a big review with some prizes. I’d really encourage your kids to be there right at 8:35 so they can be a part of the whole celebration. If you’re interested, these are our shortcuts for the books so far: Genesis – means the beginning. A book of lots of firsts Exodus – like an exit. The Israelites exited Egypt Leviticus – “Lev” reminds us of “live”—this book showed the Israelites how to live Numbers – remember the number 40—40 years in the desert Deuteronomy – we remember this as “Do—I’m outta here!” (sometimes you have to stretch it a little!). Moses told the people what to do because he was out of there! Joshua – obvious! Judges – obvious! Ruth – obvious! Although we did use the letters to remember the story: R – relatives (Naomi and her daughters-in-law), U – ugly life and circumstances, T – THE guy (Boaz!), H – happy ending I & II Samuel – obvious! I & II Kings – obvious! I & II Chronicles – chronicling is writing. This is the Israelites remembering their time of the kings Ezra – obvious—we talked about all the great prophets coming up! I don’t know about you, but I was well into adulthood before I really understood how the whole Bible fits together as one big story. Exciting to teach this to your kids at such a young age, and I’m really impressed at all they remember from week to week!

February 4-8

We are having a little change in the routine for a few weeks.  Today we did not learn another verse, instead we talked about Psalm 91 and what that means.  We also made "prayer shields" to use on our special Worship Wednesday this week.  We would like to invite parents to come and join us this week as we spend some time in a prayer of protection over our school and worshiping together.  Worship Wednesdays starts at 8:35, please come and share this time with us.

On Tuesdays the younger friends starting working on our "verse flash cards".  We will be adding a few every week so you can help the kids practice here there and everywhere!

From "M" to "O"

Sorry, a little bit behind, here are the 3 latest verses to catch you up!

"M" "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord.  Isaiah 55:8.

"N" "The Name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe." Proverbs 18:10

"O" "To Obey is better than sacrifice."  1 Samuel 15:22

For the week of January 28-February 1 we will be doing something a little different.  On Monday students will be making shields and going over Psalm 91.  We will be using these shields on Wednesday to pray for God's protection over our school.  We invite parents to come and join us on this special day of prayer and worship.

On Tuesday we will be working on a ring of flash cards for the kids to help them review the verses.