Friday, December 13, 2019



Greetings, Grammarland!

It's been a rainy Friday the 13th, but there's no denying that Christmas is coming soon!

Next Friday is a half day. My middle schoolers will be making Christmas cards for the people who will have their Christmas meal at the Bread Basket. They'll party a little that day, too.

Next week my 8th graders will explore Christmas short stories by Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, and Leo Tolstoy. We learned how to cite internet resources in MLA format this week. It's a whole lot easier now than it was when I was in college!

My 7th graders will finish A Christmas Carol. (And they'll watch it, too!) Chains are a prominent theme in this book, so we wrote about how we, as Christians, can get rid of our chains. We also made a chain with links of good things (ways we can be Jesus' hands and feet). It's quite sweet, as it should be.



 My 6th graders have just begun our adventure with Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, so we will hang out with him next week. They are learning "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", and they are doing an excellent job. Two years ago it snowed before this poem was due, so I offered my students extra credit if their parents filmed them reciting the poem in the snow. My current 6th graders are hoping they will get the same opportunity!

Next Thursday: Secret St. Nicholas Gifts are due for my homeroom class. $10 maximum.

SUPER IMPORTANT: The Lee Christian food drive ends on Tuesday! Please send non-perishable food to help the people of our community.

Here's a beautiful word for your weekend:


Ad·​vent | \ ˈad-ˌvent  chiefly British -vənt \

1the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting

2athe coming of Christ at the Incarnation (see INCARNATION sense 1a(2))

Have a blessed weekend.

Mrs. Desjarlais

Friday, December 6, 2019

400 OCC Shoeboxes is a brand new number for LCS!!! I am beyond proud of our school family, and I am so very grateful to the students, parents, and grandparents who made it happen! My favorite thing about LCS is when we come together as a school family to help those in need in the Name of Jesus. That's why we are His children.
 Here are some of the 6th graders loading the truck with shoeboxes:

This week has been fun. During Spirit Week we dressed up on theme days, and Tuesday was Superhero day. My classes all wrote about what a superhero really is, and they praised parents, grandparents, our military, and our first responders as the true heroes of our world. The best part? I asked them to write, and they hopped right to it. I think it ties into gratefulness; sometimes we need to look around us and show gratitude to the people who take care of us. Here are a few of  my 7th graders diligently writing their essays.


UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES

Non-perishable food drive: December 6-17 - Be the hands and feet of Jesus. Help the less fortunate in our community by donating canned goods, boxed items, snacks, and other non-perishable food items. Please send these items to school by December 17.

8th grade: "If" due Jan. 15;  verb test Dec. 10; flower one-pager due Dec. 12

7th grade: "October" due Jan. 8; Christmas Carol questions due Monday, Dec. 9; vocab sentences and vocab test due Tuesday, Dec. 10.

6th grade: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" - January 15

All is calm, all is bright...at least to Perry. Here she is, snoozing away on the 8th grade SAT vocabulary list. And on a box of Christmas decorations.

 

Here's some beautiful prophecy to remember this weekend: 
Micah 5:2: But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,  though you are small among the clans of Judah,out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel,whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

Thank you for sharing your middle schoolers with me. I love them, and I pray for them and for you.

Blessings, KD


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