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
Religion:
Memory: Psalm 139:14 *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: Living and Non Living
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 red folder as I wasn't able to go into a lot of the details that are included. Also keep the red folder for reference through the year. If you have any questions please contact me.
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.
Mrs. Steinbacher wanted me to share with you this information about Mileage Club. The kids learned it at PE today and will be able to start next Tuesday at Lunch recess.
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.
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 will be playing a game called Left, Right, Center in class next week. This is a fun way to practice, the game can be purchased or google it and make your own game.
Mrs. Steinbacher wanted me to share with you this information about Mileage Club. The kids learned it at PE today and will be able to start next Tuesday at Lunch recess.
Mileage Club
Our first, second,
and third grade students were introduced to the Mileage Club during their
Physical Education classes on Friday, August 29. The Mileage Club is a fitness program that students may
participate in during their lunch
recess. It involves
walking/jogging around our cemetery path and keeping track of the laps as they
are completed. Every time a
student finishes a card (21 laps/about 3 miles) they turn the card in to Mrs.
Steinbacher and receive a plastic “footie”. The “footies” are designed to be placed on shoestrings or
chains.
Special rewards
are earned at these milestones:
Number of Cards turned in
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Number of Miles completed
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Reward Earned
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5
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15
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Silver Footie
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10
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30
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Gold Footie
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15,20,25,30, etc.
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# of cards x 3
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Clear Footie
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17
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51
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Footie and #50
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25
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75
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Footie and #75
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34
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102
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Footie and #100
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Students who
complete at least 17 cards (51 miles) during the school year will receive a
certificate at our Closing Chapel in May.
I apologize I copied off last year's singing schedule, please throw away the old schedule and replace it with the REVISED schedule in your Friday Folder.
Here is the schedule:
October 26 11 AM Church Service – Reformation
December
17 10 AM, 7 PM Wednesday Advent 3
February 7 5 PM Church Service – Epiphany 5
April 26 8
AM Church Service – Easter 4
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| Please fill out the Highlights form. I can get free stuff for our room. ALL I NEED IS A PARENT SIGNATURE! You can mark NO and the sign the paper and it counts! THANKS |
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 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.
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 is a good time to start good worship and Bible study habits.
In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt
Pastor Rouland talked about prayer in chapel this week. He encouraged us to pray often and then told us 5 times we could pray. Ask your child and see if they can remember the 5 times...
-bedtime
-meal time
-when you hear a siren
-before church when waiting
-in the school hallway for those you are passing by
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| We begin each day with liturgy, song, and prayer. |
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| After morning prayer we do the MATH MEETING board. |
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| After Math Meeting we read our familiar reading with our phones. |
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| Then we read a shared reading book, "Alphabet City". |
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| We had music 2 times this week. Mrs. Crumrine is teaching us songs about monkeys. |
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| indoor recess = lego tub |
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| indoor recess = playdough tub |
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| indoor recess = paper dolls |
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| When it is too hot to go out we get to go to the gym for lunch recess. |
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| We had a great time running and playing in the gym for recess. |
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| We learned how to 'build' words for spelling. |
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| We cut letters and put them in alphabetical order. |
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| We then recorded the letters on the sheet. |
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| At library center we got to read with a book buddy. |
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| We used the smart board to help us learn about sentences. |
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| We wrote our answers on our whiteboards and checked the smart board to see if we were correct. |
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| At lunch we sing and pray many mealtime prayers. This is SHARK. |
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| In art we are learning about the color wheel. |
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| We traced petals for our color wheel flower. |
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| We cut the petals. |
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| We learned to glue like first graders. |
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| In Science we learned about being a Scientist. |
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| We are learning about the Scientific Method. |
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| We asked, "How can I keep apples from turning brown?" |
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| We dipped the apple slices in milk, lemon, soda, and water. |
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| We observed what happened. |
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| We played a rhyming game in phonics. |
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| Then we matched cards that rhyme. |
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| We sorted words with the -at, -an, and neither chunks. |
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| We played the Hokey Pokey to help us learn our left and right. |
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| "Put your right hand up" |
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| We are using our "Words I Use When I Write" books to help us with our writing samples. |
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| Math Center |
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| Writing Center |
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| iPad Center |
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| iPod Center |
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| Spelling Center |
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| I build the word! |
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| Phonics Center |
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| Library Center |
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| Alphabet Center |
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| We are reading "Junie B Jones First Grader at Last" as our read aloud. |
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| We celebrated August Baptismal Birthdays. |
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| We did a math experiment with a dot cube. |
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| We painted a watercolor crayon resist picture to remind us about God using water in the flood and His rainbow promise. |
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Mrs. Kuhlmann is our VIP Reader for today!
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We sing this song everyday to begin our closing devotions at the end of the day.
