December Newsletter and Exciting News!

Merry Christmas, everyone! I've been enjoying getting into the Christmas spirit for the last few weeks (yes, I am "one of those people" who put up their Christmas decorations weeks before Thanksgiving!). I love Christmas, and I especially love having a green Christmas--heresy, I know, coming from someone who spent the first 26 or so years of her life in northern Wisconsin--but I just don't love the cold and wet and all the shoveling!

Anyways, my December newsletter is ready for your reading enjoyment, including some very exciting news! You can click here to read it, or head over to the Newsletters tab and click the link for December 2018.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas! 

December Update

Merry Christmas, everyone! 

I hope you are as excited for Christmas as I am--it's my favourite time of year! (Even though it's much too cold here!) I love the Christmas lights and the Christmas music and all the cheesy Christmas movies! :) 

The Birthday of a King

My Grade 6 English as a Second Language (ESL) class works on one big writing project each term; in Term 1 we wrote a book report, and this term we worked on a newspaper article about the birth of Jesus. When I told them what we would be working on this term, their reaction—as usual—was a collective groan and a chorus of, “But we already know how to write a newspaper article!” (They say this every term, but by the time we’re two or three weeks into the project, they’re enjoying it!) This class is one of my favourites because we have some pretty good discussions, as well as some completely random and ridiculous ones!

My Favorite Things

During the last week of school we talked about the Christmas story; I read the story out of the Bible to the younger kids and had the older ones tell me the story (which they did in great detail!). After we finished reading, I had the kids write out what their favorite part of the story was and why they liked it. When they finished writing, they illustrated what they wrote.