Friday, August 23, 2013

Independence Day and Grade 1

Today our school celebrated Indonesia's Independence Day. The holiday is actually on August 17, but we celebrated today with lots of fun! Our wonderful national teachers planned a fun day for us and my kiddos had a blast!

Meet my 23 adorable, hyper, sweet, Grade 1's :) And my wonderful  partner teacher, Ibu Putri. I do not know what I would do without her

In the gym, ready for the games to start!

Tug of war ... We didn't win, but the effort was definitely there :)

Ping-pong ball cup relay. Good teamwork!

One of my cuties ready for the sack race. She was so fast!

Balloon relay. Love these girls :)

The final event of the games was called macan krupuk. Which basically means eat crackers. I think you can get the idea from the pictures. It was adorable and hilarious. 




As you can see, I have an adorable class. I have officially been a Grade 1 teacher for 8 days and I am LOVING it. I definitely miss some things about Kindy, but I feel very comfortable with 1st grade. I am so thankful for my other Grade 1 teachers and I am loving working as a team. I am also very excited about the content in Grade 1 - I am ready to move on from the ABC's ;) I am excited that I have kids who can do fun assignments like this ...

In Science we have been talking about living & non-living things and we worked in groups to make posters. We presented them in front of the class :)


In Bible, we did an introduction to the Bible and God/Jesus. We asked them who God was and we came up with some words together. These were two examples that I loved!

I am sure this year will bring challenges, but I am so thankful and blessed to be teaching Grade 1 and I am SO excited about what the rest of this year will hold.

Please be praying for Erik and I as we continue to get settled into this year. It takes awhile to get back in the swing of things. Thanks so much for your prayers - they are always appreciated. Love you all!

Bye now now <3

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