August 30, 2013

This week we learned about God protecting Noah and how God's rainbow reminds us of His promise to care and love us.  God used the flood to wash the earth; the world was given a new life.  God uses His Word and the waters of Baptism to wash our sins away and gives us the gift of eternal life.  As we wait for rain and relief from the heat remember God keeps His promises to us!

A Look Ahead:
NO SCHOOL MONDAY- Enjoy Labor Day

Memory: Psalm 31:14
Religion: God gives us Families, God's promise to Abraham
Reading: We will begin working independently at centers this week, I will also be testing the children on sight words you will be getting a list of words that your child needs to learn at the end of next week
Literacy Centers:
     writing: writing a sentence about things to do when it is hot
     alphabet: sorting letters by shape
     poetry: build more verses to the poem, Mary Wore a Red Dress
     word work: putting a sentence into correct word order
     math: make a rainbow graph
     computer: continue learning how to use the computer with abcya.com
Spelling: Lesson 3
Grammar: Sentences have capital letters and periods.
Math: Word Problems, Shapes with Geoboards
Science: Plants-characteristics and parts
Social Studies: Working Together
Art: Victor Vasarely and Op Art

REMEMBER THE FALL FUNDRAISER is the BOBCAT SHUFFLE 5K on OCTOBER 19.  Have you signed up or invited others to attend?  Go to www.eventcow.org and search for Zion 5K race to register!!

WOW- Just this week TOGETHER WE ARE BETTER made more money than the average monthly amount from last year!! PLEASE PARTICIPATE, this week the form will only go home to the oldest child at Zion, this will cut down paper and each family needs to only send in one form.

Your child has art on Artsonia.  Please read the information sheet in the Friday Folder and go online to look at your child's artwork.  This is an online art gallery that you can use to view your child's art, share the artwork with family and friend, and purchase items with your child's artwork.

Book Order forms are in the Friday Folders.  Please order online.  Orders due by Friday September 6. The class activation code is GPF69.  Please use the information sheet to help you order.  You may order from more than the book orders sent home as there are many options online.

Please work with your child on left and right.  This is a skill that some of them struggle with, help them to make the L with their hands to remind them of their left and right.  We played a game called Left, Right, Center in class.  This is a fun way to practice, the game can be purchased or google it and make your own game.

Please sign and return the digital citizenship release paper from last week's Friday folder.

The lunch ladies wanted me to remind students that they must take a milk with hot lunch unless there is a note on file from the doctor or a parents letter requesting no milk.  I know several of the first graders do not take a milk.  Please make sure that a letter is on file with the nurse.  Thanks!

As we take time to relax and get renewed this 3-day weekend, please make time to get renewed and refreshed by God.  GOD IS SO GOOD!  Let us worship and praise Him this weekend!  If you do not have a church home please know that you are welcome at Zion. This weekend Zion resumes our regular worship schedule: 
Saturday-5:00, Sunday-8:00, 9:30, and 11:00.  Sunday School and Bible Class are at 9:30.  If you are looking for a Monday night option Chapel of the Cross, our partner church at Jungermann and Willott, holds Monday night services year round at 7:00.

In HIM,
Amy
Enjoy the pictures from our 2nd full week of school!

Sharing our first stories with each other.

Please take some time to read your child's first stories, the stories are in the Friday Folders!

Working on word order in sentences.

More word order

Practicing building words with the -an chunk

Our math experiment

We took our first math test and then did an experiment, when we have a test we have no homework that night!

We rolled a 'math cube' and graph the results.

Our poem for the week is "Miss Mary Mack"

...all dressed in black, black, black...

We had fun practicing the poem and hand game

We finished our center so we get to play a game!

Working at writing center

sorting cards living and non living

Identifying our friends names and faces

putting a poem back together

Our Artist for the Week

working on lines and primary colors

adding details

We like to do our morning work puzzles.

God Keeps HIS Promises

August 23, 2013

This week we learned about how God created the world and everything in it in six days.  I hope your child shared with you the creation book he/she made.  While some scientists dispute the biblical account of the six-day creation, it is important for us to understand that God can do anything.  We put our trust in Him and in His Word. This week we will continue learn about how God always watches over us and protects us. 

A Look Ahead:

Religion:  The Flood

Memory: Psalm 139:4 *PLEASE work with your child on memory at home.

Reading:  We have spent the whole week learning about our Literacy Centers.  I was so proud of the class and they did great at centers for the first time! This week we will continue to practice them so we can work at our centers independently.

Grammar: Sentences, focusing on word order

Spelling:  Lesson 2

Phonics:  Hearing sounds in a sequence

Writing: Sentences

Math:  Continue review of numbers, begin ordering and matching

Science: First TEST WEDNESDAY over A2-A17 Living/nonliving 

Science books will come home Monday.

Social Studies:  Learning from each other

Art:  Piet Mondrain

It was great to get a chance to talk to you at Back to School Night.  I want to thank you for making your child's education a priority and thank your for the sacrifices you make to have your child in this Christian environment.  Please read through the yellow folder as I wasn't able to go into a lot of the details that are included.  If you have any questions please contact me.  I did forget to mention that the cafeteria no longer accepts change for milks.  Money must be put into your child's account.  You can send in a check or use the online service.  I must warn you that when I put money into the online service there were added charges and Zion is working with the company but nothing has been resolved as of yet.

We took our first spelling test today and you can see the test in your child's Friday Folder.  This was a practice test and I didn't record the grade.  I will begin recording the grades next week.  Please look at how the tests are graded.  The sentence must have all words spelled correctly, begin with a capital letter,  have no other capital letters, and end with an end mark. 
I will not be marking reversals and capital letters on the word portion but I will remind them to use lower case letters.  I will start marking these wrong once we have done a few tests.

Thank you for those who volunteered to clean the room.  I hope to have the schedule done and emailed to you next week.

Please make sure your child has headphones here at school.  There were a couple of kiddos who missed out of the  computer center because they didn't have headphones.

IN THE GREEN FOLDER:

*Please sign the Digital Citizenship Guidelines paper and return to school.

*For new students and parents who have not logged on to the online grade book there is an information paper and your activation code.

*Together We're Better/Scrip Forms (Free Money for School) Look at the ordering contest information sheet!

This has been a great week.  Your children are doing such a good job of learning our classroom routines.  Ask them about centers and check out the pictures of our first few centers, mileage club, and other activities this week!  I talk about the first graders being independent and I want to assure you I will teach them and help them along the way.  This will not happen over night it is a goal for the year.

Have a wonderful weekend.  Please set aside time to worship and praise our AWESOME CREATOR!!   New Bible Studies begin this weekend at ZIon.  This is a good time to start good worship and Bible study habits!

In HIM,

Amy

Making new words using the word chunk -at.

Math Experiments

Building Towers

Matching Numbers and Towers

We used our 5 senses to observe POPCORN.

taste

The main description of the popcorn was "PLAIN" I should have brought butter and salt.

Look what we did, we finished during morning work!

We are doing our morning devotions.

Following along in the liturgy during devotions.

Looking for things we know.

Finding the -at chunk.

Putting the Alphabet in order.

We like going to the classroom lib ray.

Under the desk is a favorite place to read.

Using whiteboards to practice sentences.

We LOVE mileage club!

Another lap

Buddies walking together

practicing tracing 

practicing cutting

matching rhyming words in Phonics

We LOVE shaving cream Spelling!

Mixing primary colors to get the secondary colors.

OUR FIRST TIME AT CENTERS

library

library

Phonics

Alphabet

Spelling

Computer

Memory Journal

Alphabet

THUMBS UP for centers

Practicing left and right

We made a Venn Diagram comparing a living and non living dog.