October 11, 2013

We have been learning in Religion how God is always with us.  God gives us everything we need.  He provides us will our earthly needs and sent us Jesus to die and rise to give us a FUTURE with HOPE.  
We should trust in HIM!
Enjoy a song from Chapel.

A Look Ahead:
Next week is a no school on FRIDAY.
REMINDER: PARENT CONFERENCES are THURSDAY AFTER SCHOOL AND EVENING and ALL DAY ON FRIDAY.
Religion: Israel crosses the Jordan and Deborah
Memory: Joshua 1:9 DUE ON THURSDAY
Grammar:  Plural Nouns with es
Spelling: SPELLING TEST on THURSDAY lesson 9
Phonics: sh, ch, wh and th digraphs
Math: adding 1, graphing, and patterns
Science: Fish and Reptiles 
Reading:  We will be working on non fiction 
Art: Pablo Picasso Frankenstein Portrait
Centers:
Poetry: Bat Bat
Phonics: short o and short e
Word Work: sentence scramble
Writing: My Pet book
Science: sorting animals
Alphabet: end sounds

No School Reminder:
We will not have school on October 18 due to parent conferences.  There will also be no school on October 23, 24, and 25 as the teacher's will be attending the National Lutheran Teacher's Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   Miss Bolt and I will be presenting on Zion's Balanced Literacy Program.

PARENT HELPERS NEEDED:
We will be having a fun APPLE DAY on Monday October 21.  I am in need of 4 parents or grandparents to come in and help run various stations.  If you can help please email me.

We are in need of 3-4 parents to help with the FALL PARTY.  The Fall party is Tuesday October 22 at 1:30-3:00.
If you can help please email me.

NEXT WEEKS STARTS SECOND QUARTER
-Please check your child's math papers carefully, there have been many correct and returns lately.  You child may need help reading the directions, and you should look over the work.  Please remember to grade your child's fact practice and sign your name.

- On the Spelling test you may have notice PATTERN WORDS at the bottom.  These are 2 of the words the class found that have the week's pattern.  These words have been just for practice in the 1st quarter, now that it is 2nd quarter these words are going to be graded.  How do you study for these words?  Ask you child to build other words that have the weekly chunk.  Help them build chunks... if the chunk is -op then think of words like: pop, stop, hop, mop, top, glop, slop. cop...

- Please read the leveled readers (the paper books sent home at the beginning of the week) several times a week.  Let me know that your child has read the book by putting your initials in the box on the reading log.  PLEASE SEND the BOOKS BACK ON FRIDAYS.  I spend a lot time running off the books and I would appreciate if the books came back so that I can use them again! 

-Your child has a new memory sheet in their homework folder.

Please remember to be the spiritual leader in your house, show that God is important to you and your family, take time to thank God, give Him your time this weekend and take your child to church!

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt
ENJOY A LOOK AT OUR WEEK!!

OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!!

We practice our fluency everyday.

We come to the carpet to learn about reading skills.

We share a book 3 days a week.  This week we read, "Chicien Soup with Rice".

Math Center

Work Work Center

We are working on comprehension.

We practice spelling.

We read to buddies.

Math center was fun this week!

We build words with chunks.

We worked on short o words this week.

We have a "new" playground and mileage club track.

Pastor Reitz helped to punch mileage club cards during his lunch.

We get to play fun games on the new playground.

We have learned fun MATH CHEERS.
Here we are saying "WOW" we are so smart in Math!

We are studying Maurice Sendak and his illustrations in Art.

We are making our own WILD THINGS.

We used crayon and watercolors.

Look for the display in the front of school to see who is KING of the WIlD THINGS here at ZION!

Everyday someone is the math helper.

In Math we experimented with measurement.

We used linking cubes to measure.

We had to work with a partner to measure items in our classroom.

We had to find things with  certain measurements.

On Friday we learned about paragraphs.
We used a hamburger to teach us the parts of a paragraph.

We practiced writing a paragraph about Fall at guided writing.

Fridays are Fun!

If you are done with centers you get FREE CHOICE!!