October 22, 2013

Even though this was a short school week, we packed in some many things.

We celebrated autumn with APPLE DAY and the FALL PARTY.  This Sunday in church at ZIon we will celebrate Reformation.  I am doing the children's message at the Sunday services have your child join me.  I thank God that He ALONE gives us a FUTURE AND HOPE!

 NO SCHOOL WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, October 23-25 ENJOY THE DAYS OFF SCHOOL

A Look Ahead:

Religion: Samson, Reformation and All Saint's Day

Memory: Ephesians 6:10

Grammar: Irregular Plurals

Phonics: Short u sound

Spelling: lesson 10 -un chunk
Math: Timed Test over all doubles on Tuesday

Science: Amphibians and Zoo visit on Friday

Social Studies: Red Ribbon Week Activities
Reading:  Literacy Centers
writing: choosing a character and setting to make a story
phonics: real and nonsense words
alphabet: alphabetical order
word work: making plural nouns
math: filling a shape with pattern shape blocks
poetry: A Pumpkin poem

NEXT WEEK CELEBRATE BEING DRUG FREE

  October 28- November 1

We celebrate next week with special dress up days, door decorations, and a poster contest. 

Don't forget to have your child work on the drug free poster.

Here are the dress up days:

Monday:  "Your future is 2 bright 4 drugs" --Wear sunglasses(Regular dress wear)

Tuesday:  "I mustache you a question…Are you drug free?" --Wear a mustache (sold on Monday by student council for $.50, we will come to your classroom) (Regular dress wear)

Wednesday:  "Roses are red, violets are blue, drugs aren’t 4 you!" -- Regular dress bottoms with a shirt the color assigned to your grade. We wear ORANGE.

Thursday: "Tip your hat to a drug free life" -- Wear a hat (Regular dress wear)

Friday:  "The hero in me is drug free" -- Dress like a superhero(Dress up or Regular dress wear)

Please keep the teachers in your prayers as we travel to Milwaukee Wisconsin for the National Lutheran Teacher's Conference.  Please pray for Miss Bolt and me as we present on Zion's reading program on Friday.

Enjoy your Fall Break, Worship our Mighty God this weekend, Look at the Fall party pictures!

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

FALL PARTY: THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS WHO CAME TO HELP, OUR ROOM PARENTS PUT ON A GREAT PARTY!!

We played Angry Birds!

Pull it back...

... and watch it go...

...put the blocks up again here we go!

We made pumpkins and mixed colors too,

put on cure faces with stickers not glue!

We went on a Scavenger Hunt and answered clues...

... and found great treasures to wipe our the rainy day blues!

We ran races...

...and swept pumpkins...

...when it rained we moved the game inside.

We ate a snack of oranges and oreos.

Then played a game of Fall BINGO!

Apple Day October 21, 2013

Oh, the Lord's been good to me
And so I thank the Lord
For giving me the things I need
The sun and the rain and the appleseed
The Lord's been good to me!

We peeled...

 

...and peeled...

... and peeled apples.

Turning the crank was hard work.

We cut the apples.

We added sugar...

...cinnamon... 

...and the secret ingredient BROWN SUGAR!

We stirred it up.

After 3 hours we had applesauce. It sure smelled good!

We tasted different kinds of apples.

Some were sweet...

...and some were sour.

The kids in the class liked green apples best.

We put the story of Johnny Appleseed in order.

We made a counting apple book.

We had to put the correct number of apples on the trees.

It was tricky.

Mrs. Merritt helped!

We weighed apples.

 

We made an apple shape poem.

We read apple books.

We read "The Story of Johnny Appleseed"

We made a list to describe John Chapman.

Then we made a picture of Johhny Appleseed.

We looked inside our apples.

Finally we tasted our applesauce.

It was good!

We watched a short video about Johnny Appleseed and ate our applesauce treat.

This was a great day.
Thank you to the moms, dad, and grandma who came to help us.
Ask you child what was their favorite part.
Look for the apple activity papers in the green folders tomorrow!!!