September 27, 2013

This week I taught the class how to pray a PATH prayer.  In this type of a prayer we spend time in Praise, Apology, Thanksgiving, and asking for Help.  I want to share some of the praises that the kids raised to our God.  "God You are ... awesome, kind, amazing, powerful, great, brave, strong, helpful, loving, best God and friend"  Our memory this week reminds us that our God loves and cares for us so much that He promises to take care of us for eternity.  "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." John 1:29,  Jesus came so that we would have forgiveness and new life with Him forever.  We have a FUTURE AND HOPE!  For this we PRAISE GOD!

A Look Ahead: 

Memory: Psalm 56:3

Religion:  The Ten Commandments

Literacy Centers:

     Poetry: An Apple Poem sequencing

     Alphabet: putting sight words into alphabetical order

     Computer: recognizing animal words www.tinyurl.com/zionwords

     Phonics: sorting short a and short i words

     Science/Math: practicing the doubles facts

     Name: sorting statement and question sentences

     Writing: make a book about our week

Grammar: nouns

Spelling: Lesson 7 

Math: more double facts, look for a fact practice sheet to start coming home on Monday THERE WILL NOW BE 2 MATH HOMEWORK SHEETS

Science: animal groups

Social Studies: people who help us at school

Art: Dale Chihuly

Memory: Psalm 32:11

I WILL BE RETESTING SIGHT WORD FOR FIRST QUARTER ON MONDAY.  I WILL THEN DO A PRETEST FOR SECOND QUARTER WORDS AND WILL GIVE YOU THAT LIST TO WORK ON.

PARENT CONFERENCE's will be:

  October 17th, 4-8 pm and October 18th, 7:30 am - 1:30 pm.  

Please go to the link to fill out your preferred time slot.

http://tinyurl.com/ZionPTCform

Teachers will be scheduling the parent conferences Wednesday after school at our facility meetings. The teachers will schedule families with more than 1 student so that your conferences will be consecutive.  I will then send home your scheduled time in the Friday Folder.

TRUNK OR TREAT: October 11 is the date for Trunk or Treat this year!  Please click on the following link for information and registration form -- 

http://www.edline.net/files/_sYA7M_/4249a5cafa55ed333745a49013852ec4/Zion_Trunk_or_Treat_2013_Handout_-_No_Parking_Passes.pdf

Have you signed up for the FALL FUNDRAISER BOBCAT SHUFFLE?
Have you invited friends to join you in the FUN?
Have you ask family to participate in the SLEEP IN option with a donation of $25?

I encourage you to praise our KIND, AWESOME AMAZING, POWERFUL, GREAT, BRAVE, STRONG, HELPFUL, AND LOVING GOD this weekend in church.  If you haven't been please feel free to join us at Zion.  The service times are Saturday at 5:00 and Sunday at 8:00. 9:30 and 11:00.  Chapel of the Cross has  Monday service at 7:00.

IN HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

We are making a class book about the plagues.

We like to work in groups.

The plagues are fun to sing about and draw but I wouldn't want to have to experience them.

We had special visitors on Monday.
Grace, Maddie Knoblauch, and Hannah

We had learning about patterns.

I mad Darth Maul out of pattern blocks.

We started working in our guided writing books.
This is a one on one instruction on how to write.
Today we worked on sentences.

Since we just saw Dale Chihuly's work on our field trip we are learning about him.
We will be working on making art like his glass blown sculptures.

We are making our Chihuly Art with plastic and markers.

We melt and mold our art by heating up the plastic.

September 20, 2013

As I think about the Bible verse for this week, "You did not chose me, I chose you." John 15:16
I am so grateful to God.  We all want to be picked for the team.  Before I was born God had picked me for His team.  He chose me to be His child.  He loves me and makes me His through Baptism.  He marked me as His own, with the sign of the cross on my forehead and my heart. 

Spend an hour or two this weekend worshipping and praise our God, we loves us, forgives us, and choses us to be HIS FOREVER.  I am doing the children's message this weekend I hope my students come up and hear about how God gives us our time and how we should spend that time.

A Look Ahead:
Memory: John 1:29
Religion: Passover and Crossing the Red Sea
Literacy Centers:
                            Poetry:  Seeds Poem and finding consonant clusters
                            Phonics: Sorting real and nonsense words
                           Word Work: Correct word order
                            Writing: What Do  You Do List
                            Alphabet: Alphabetical order
                            Math:  Making number sentences
 Spelling: Lesson 6
Grammar:Writing correct sentences
Math: Addition facts 'Doubles to 18' (watch the video of our "Doubles" song)
Science: Test on Wednesday over Plants A18-A53 books will go home Monday
Social Studies: People who Help us at School
Art: Dale Chihuly

A BIG THANK YOU to the moms and dads who chaperoned the field trip: Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Reitz, Mr. Phipps, and Mr. Cooseman.  Even though we got a little wet and our outdoor lunch didn't go as expected we had a great time seeing and learning about plants.

ENJOY A FUN NIGHTS AT LHS: You are invited to the various Junior Cougar Nights at Lutheran High School, not only will your family get in free with the blue pass in the Friday Folder, but you will enjoy watching the games and your children will enjoy winning free Cougar Gear!! (If you would like to attend more than one night I have extra passes, just ask)
Here are the fall dates:

Boys Soccer

Friday, September 27th @ 6:30 PM

Softball -My daughters play on this team :) 

Friday, October 4th @ 4:30 PM

Football

Friday, October 4th @ 7:00 PM

Cross Country

Wednesday, October 16th @ 4:30 PM

Volleyball

Wednesday, October 16th @ 6:30 PM 

Thank You for bringing your child to sing last Saturday at church.  It was so awesome to hear them sing praises and lead worship with their voices.

See you in church for worship!

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

We are working on our Plant Parts Book.
Look for them in the Friday Folder and use them to help study for the test!

We mustache you a question...
Will you come down our hall and look at our new grammar project and Pop Art?

Practicing Spelling

Using cubes to help learn our doubles facts.

                       WATCH OUR DOUBLE RAP VIDEO!!

Coloring and painting our faces in the style of Andy Warhol.

We are on our way.

Exiting the Bus

Starting our tour

Looking at the Chihuly art

An apple tree trained to grown 2D

A good time was had by all.

September 13, 2013

Mr. Marolf uses the phrase "We are Bobcat Nation!"  He 'signs off' the daily announcements by proudly saying that we are Bobcat Nation!  The kids love it.  Just say to your first grader WE ARE and wait for the response.  

Yet we ARE so much more.  Our Bible verse for next week tells us that God CHOSE us.  We are HIS CHILDREN!  We learned in Religion how Jacob was forgiven and how Joseph forgave his brothers.  We are FORGIVEN!  We see and feel daily that  God is love.  We are SAVED!  How wonderful it is that God chose us to be HIS CHILDREN we are LOVED!

WE SING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14 at the 5:00 SERVICE.  PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD IN THE UPPER MUSIC ROOM AT 4:40 TO WARM UP!  AFTER CHURCH YOUR MAY PICK YOUR CHILD UP IN THE WELCOME CENTER.  (The back, outside of the sanctuary)

A Look Ahead:

Memory: John 15:15

Religion: Moses

Grammar: Exclamation Sentences

Spelling: Lesson 5
Reading: Literacy Centers
  writing: writing questions
  name: sort vowels in words
  poetry: look for sight words in a poem
  phonics: build words with short e chunks
  alphabet: change the beginning letter to make a new word
Math:  addition sentences, addition facts: doubles, ordinal numbers (I will retest counting to 100)
Science: plant parts
Social Studies:
Art:  Andy Warhol

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 IS OUR FIELD TRIP.
Please read and sign the permission slip for the field trip to the MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN.  Children should wear the RED HOPE AND A FUTURE ZION T-SHIRT and BRING A SACK LUNCH.  We plan to eat at the park after our tour.

LEVELED READING BOOKS:  On Monday your child will bring home a book that is on your child's level and your child should be able to read it with minimal help.  Please have your child read these books, they should even read them several times.  This helps to build fluency and self confidence.  Please send the books back on Friday. Each week your child will receive a new book.  Please check the box on the reading log at the end of the week to show me your child read the leveled reader.

Reading is so important in First Grade.  The best way to become a good reader is to READ, READ, READ!  Thank you for helping your child become a good reader.

BOBCAT SHUFFLE: Please help make our FALL FUNDRAISER A SUCCESS.  We need runners and volunteers.  If you can help please go to: : http://tinyurl.com/pcga8po

I look forward to worshipping with you.  It is a very special when the first graders help to lead the worship with song.  Listen for us as we sing from the balcony.  I love to hear the young members sing and pray in church.  Everyone on God's Family is special and important.  Watch the video as hear us praising God!

Enjoy the cooler weather this weekend and I will see you Saturday night at church.

In HIM,
Amy

Sorry the video is sideways, but just listen to the voices in praise!

Do you see our question marks?
Can you guess what type of sentence we are learning about?

We played 20 QUESTIONS to help us learn about asking sentences.

Making words with short e chunks

We were inspired by Paul Klee's Castle Artwork

 

We made our own castles like Paul Klee.

We used chalks to color our castles.

We also made castles and painted them with watercolors.

We practiced writing and answering questions.

We learned about half and divided graham crackers in half.

Look what grew in our balloons!

We wrote stories about something that happened to us.

We looked for asking questions in our "I Am an Apple" book.

We looked for telling sentences too.

We played sight word memory.

We started Guided Reading with Mrs. Bernhardt

We mixed primary colors to paint Joseph's coat of many colors.

On Fun Friday we got to partner read.

We worked on writing our numbers to 100!

Fun Friday Game Center

We used ipods for the first time this year!

We worked very hard this week!