November 28th

"We wait as we prepare our hearts for Jesus..."

We started off the week with a wonderful blessing of the Advent Wreaths... what a lovely week to continue the prayers of thanks as we prepare our hearts and wait for the coming of Jesus...

We have begun to delve into Advent and learn the symbols, meanings, colors and wonderment of Advent. We made an advent chain to help us prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus. Each day we take a piece of the chain off and read it. Each chain link has something special that we can do to prepare our hearts. We are journaling about this experience. On the last day before Christmas break (Friday) we will wrap this journal up. This is our present to Jesus for his birthday. The students will open it up on Christmas day and together as a family you can read all the different ways that they have been preparing their hearts for this day! :) What a beautiful gift for Jesus!

I hope that everyone had a beautiful Thanksgiving with your families...filled with laughter and memories to hold close to your heart. 

We had a beautiful Feast here in the first grade.  Thank you to everyone that donated food, attended our event, and prayed for our meal.  Here are some pictures from our blessed day celebrated between classmates, friends and family! 

A huge thank you to all of the grandparents who were able to come and share their love with us at school last week.  It was truly beautiful to see everyone share in Mass together. 

News from the Hack household...
Brayden was baptised this weekend.  Brayden's Godparents flew in to help us celebrate this blessed time in our lives.  I wanted to share a few photos with you...

Brayden practicing his prayers before his Baptism

Brayden looking at our Blessed Mother...

November 18th, 2011

"We are Thankful!"

This week in Mass Father asked us if we would choose a billion dollars or our life....?  The message was simple.  Our life is worth more then a billion dollars and we owe it to ourselves and God to live it to it's fullest as followers of Christ. 

This keeps coming up in our class discussions and what a wonderful message it was. 

Today we focused on being thankful for the wonderful things that God has created for us.  We will continue to focus on this theme through the next few months of wonderful holidays filled with Joy and wonder. 

The students made a Thankful Book today that they can share at dinner on Thanksgiving.  It is beautiful and the students had a wonderful time making it.  Many students shared their excitement by saying "This is the best day ever!"  They are very excited to share it!

  

This week in math we were working on non standard measurement.  The students explored measurement today by using cubes to measure things around the classroom with math buddies. 

Veterans Day

"A soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." G.K. Chesterton

May God Bless Our Veterans

Today we started off Veterans Day with a beautiful Flag Ceremony. We had Veterans come and lead us in prayer and speak with us about the importance of Veterans Day.

We made a special poster of prayers for our Veterans today. Today we send out our prayers to all those that have and continue to serve our country so that we may be free.

God Bless You All!

 

 

This week our Treasures Unit was all about friendship.  How fitting.  :)

The students of 1B show kindness and caring through their friendships each day.  I captured some moments of teamwork and acts of friendship throughout the week.  It is truly inspirational to teach a great group of students who show love through each act...each day...

 

Here is what the students answered when asked..."What is your favorite thing about your friends at Blessed Pope John XXIII School?"

"They are funny."  Alex

"They play with me and go to football on Wednesdays."  Thomas

"The agree with the things I like...like jump rope at recess." Joe

"The are fun to play with."  Cecily

"They are nice classmates."  Kennedy

"They are really funny to me."  Reaghan

"One is in my neighborhood, one is on my soccer team and one is really nice!"  Jack

" They help us."  Alexa

"They make me laugh a lot!" Dylan

"They are nice and kind."  Lauren

"We get to play together at recess."  Leiton

"I like the kids that go to aftercare because we do bubble tricks."  Mackenzie

"They like to play jump rope."  Callahan

"They play with me at recess."  Erick

]"We like flag football after school Wednesdays."  Jacob

"They support us."  Clare

"We play kickball."  John

"There really nice."  Isaac

"I like the kids at Bl PJXXIII because I don't have much time to play with neighborhood kids so BL PJXXIII are close to play with."  Isabella

 

Fun Run

"Charity is a gift of the heart...not of the hands..."

The Fun Run fundraiser was a huge success and a lot of fun!  Thank you everyone for participating in raising money for our wonderful school.