Happy Sunday Parents:

What a lovely winter weekend.  Excellent job to the girls 7th and 8th grade swim team in their final conference meet of the season!  It is exciting to watch their progress.

We have a final week before Christmas break and we will be really focusing on the "reason for the season".

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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, 
and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called
    Wonderful Counselor, 
     Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father,
     Prince of Peace.
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Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom,establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.


The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

ISAIAH 9:6-7

Thank you all for your kind words and prayers concerning my father-in-law.  He has been moved to Freedom Village to recover from his infection and pneumonia.  He is doing very well.  Hopefully he can get back to his apartment within a few weeks.

I have updated my classroom newsletter.

Have a wonderful night!!

Erin

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a restful long weekend.

Sorry that I did not update my blog/newsletter sooner but we unfortunately have been in and out of the hospital since Wednesday night with my father-in-law.  He developed a bad staph infection in his leg and has many other health issues which have complicated things a bit.  

We are his caregivers so it has been important for us to be there as much as possible.  Fortunately, it happened over our time off of work so I did not have to miss any classroom time.  I always recognize things like this as part of God's perfect plan.  Both my husband and I were able to be there without having to worry about work.  That was a HUGE BLESSING!!

With that said, I did not update my classroom newsletter.  I will just tell you that with the shortened week and swimming, most of what we did was to focus on what we are thankful for.  We also did spend some significant time talking about the first Thanksgiving and the life of Squanto who was a Christian Native American. 

I am so thankful for EVERYTHING: ...the good things...the frustrating things...the sad things...EVERYTHING---- as I know that each thing has been allowed for me to experience to help create the person that God wants me to be.

I am looking forward to seeing my little cherubs in the morning!!  

Erin

Good Morning Parents:

What a beautiful winter wonderland outside.  I personally LOVE the snow(which is easy for me to say as I am not the one who has to clear the driveway everyday).

The snow does remind me again of how the Lord created every little detail about what we experience with nature.  We truly serve an AWESOME GOD!!!

With the snow I thought I would send out an extra reminder that with snow on the ground your child should come to school with boots, snow pants, gloves, hats... Please also make sure that your child has indoor shoes they can change into after coming in from recess as we do not want to get our carpet all wet in the classroom.

CONGRATULATIONS to CALVIN'S GIRLS VOLLEYBALL TEAM 

NCAA CHAMPS!!!!

We were at the game Friday and Saturday and it was so exciting to watch.  I no longer have a voice but it was so worth every minute of cheering.

Here are a few highlight from the game.

My husband Greg, Maddy my 7th grader (left), Elise my 5th grader (center), and Lauren our niece (right)

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!!!

Hello 3rd Grade Families:

I hope that you have enjoyed the very beginning of your weekend so far.  We have had an interesting week as we have had several guest teachers throughout the week due to a meeting and my own sick daughter.  It can be very hard for children to have to have a change in their routine but our class handled it very well.

Thank you to Jennifer Hawkins and Karen Machiela for helping out as room lunch volunteers on Monday.



Next week we start our swimming lessons.  I have the detailed times in our newsletter.  If you have any questions about it just let me know.

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!

Good Evening!

I hope that this Sunday night finds you well!  I hope that you had a wonderful time celebrating God's Creation this weekend.  The Wyma's sure did even though it was weekend of cleaning...painting...fixing.... As I felt like complaining about it all, I stepped back and started to think...WOW, I am blessed with a house to clean, good health in which I can do it, and a loving fun family to do it with.  God really changed my stinking thinking quickly as he often does.

I was reminded repeatedly of this verse:

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
     Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

I have updated the newsletter and have included our swimming lesson schedule.  You are welcome to watch any of the days.

I also wanted to remind you that this week on Wednesday, we have the Children's Advocacy Center coming in to talk to the children about making sure that they know how to keep their body safe from others.  The presentation is very well done and is very appropriate.  It is a very good reminder for them to hear.  If you have any questions about it let me know.

I just wanted to thank you again for sharing your "little blessings" with me each day.  I love the time that I get to spend with them.  I am learning so much about who they are as individuals.  It is so fun!!



Erin

Good Evening Parents!

I hope you have all found this weekend to be wonderful.  My family and I went to Chicago for a "birthday" weekend for my daughter Madelyn and her friend Kaylee.  We left right from school on Friday and just returned home tonight.  My apologies for not posting sooner.

The classroom newsletter has been updated so you can see what we learned about last week.

I am so looking forward to being with your children tomorrow.

Erin