I hope all of you are finding ways to cope with the heat. I just want to remind you that I appreciate it if the children wear sun screen. I just never know what the days will bring, but I feel badly when they get sun burned. Also, please remember to send the water bottles every day.

This week we will be reading the story The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza. Along with this story, we will be working with consonant blends. The children already do this, but we will put more emphasis on it. In math, we will be reviewing the different concepts that we have studied. We will also be writing our numbers up to one hundred. We have practiced this, but I want the children to get faster with it. For our circle time, we will talk about oceans. If you or your child has any sea shells, it would be nice to see them. We will do the same thing with the sea shells as we did with the rocks. The children must bring them labeled. I would like to return them as soon as possible. Our Bible lessons will be “Daniel and the Writing on the Wall” and “Daniel in the Lion’s Den.” From these lessons we will learn that with God we will never stand alone. Our memory verse will be Acts 5:29. We must obey God rather than men!

I will be in and out of the classroom on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Miss Beutel will be handling the class. As you all know, she does a lovely job and the children are lucky to have her in their lives. I will return on Wednesday.

Sometime this week Mr. Greg Crofts will be coming into the classroom to talk about bicycle safety. He has had several conflicts, but he has promised to work something out. I hope this will help some of our young riders.

This next weekend we will observe Memorial Day. There will be no school on May 26 so please mark that on your calendar. Classes will resume on May 27.

I believe that is all for this week. Enjoy your week and the long weekend which will soon be upon us.