What is Valentine's Day about?

"Valentine's day is about love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and chocolate hearts." -Ella

Chocolate hearts replace self-control.

Sounds pretty accurate.

Gifts for Jesus

The wise men brought gifts to Jesus. I asked my students to write in their journals what gifts they would bring to Jesus. Some said gold, some said "frankinsins" and others had some pretty insightful answers...

"I would bring him Love, Joy, pess, pashins, kiniss, goodnis, fafilnis, jintlnis and sawfckonchool and my hart and my soll and my miynd and all of my schranth and all of the things that i can give him to day and tomoroe and the next day and the next day and the next day and the..." (I think you can see where this is going)

"I would bring to Jesus my hort and my soule and my offering for him. I love Jesus my savere!"

"I wold bring to Jesus my hart so He can take all the sin. And take my life when I die and let it be His."

Isn't that beautiful?

"Did you know...

...that even grown ups and girls can do karate?"

Sometimes I think I should devote an entire blog to Zach.

a Christmas Eve love story

Once opon a time their was a princess named maria and a prince named justin beber. it was true love. it was teh night before christmass and they snugled together.

by Emerson

1st Grade Prayer Group

My students amaze me. I overheard them talking the other day. Rachel said, "Let's pray about that at recess." I asked them to tell me more, and it turns out they've been praying at recess every day after lunch. I asked Joshua what they pray about. "Our sins. Also, our dogs, and anyone who is sick." So sweet.

Why do you love Jesus?

"I love Jesus because he did wunderful things. He havd givnus Love." -Grace

"I love Jesus because eh is mi favrit savior." -Ben

He's my favorite savior, too. :)

Juice Plus

Zach's Mom sells a product called Juice Plus. Zach is quite the spokesman for it and often asks me if I'm interested. Today, I told him no, I wasn't interested right now.

He then politely asked, "Is it because of your unhealthy lifestyle?"