November 21, 2014

What a blessing to be able to show God's love and put together Thanksgiving food baskets with boxes of extra food all donated to the Lutheran Seminarians. Our class brought in $42.00 to help pay for turkeys!!

Each turkey=$1

I hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember to Thank Jesus for all of His blessings.  

Zion has a Thanksgiving church service on Wednesday night at 7:00pm and Thursday morning at 9:00am.  

Please join us in thanking our gracious God!

A reminder:  Next WEDNESDAY IS A HALF DAY dismissal at 12:00.  No School THURSDAY or FRIDAY

Next week:  

Memory: 2 Chronicles 20:21 say by Wednesday

Religion: Elijah and baal

Spelling: Lesson 12 TEST on TUESDAY

Grammar:  verbs

Math: working with money

Science: TEST MONDAY over Chapter 3, pages 84-123b

Centers: Finish centers 

I will not do a blog next week so...

A Look Ahead to the week of December 1:

Memory: Individual Speaking part

Religion: Prophets Tell of a Savior

Grammar: past tense verbs

Spelling: Lesson 13 long a with silent e

Math: Fact Test Wednesday over all facts learned and practiced to far

Science: Animal Habitats

Social Studies: begin a unit on CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

Art: a wood nativity 

Literacy:

phonics- long a hunt

alphabet- using blends to build words

writing: Christmas lists

math: capactity 

word work: Using verbs in a song

poetry:  A Poem of Thanks

PLEASE SPEND TIME WITH YOUR CHILD LEARNING THE SPELLING WORDS and REVIEW SIGHT WORDS EACH WEEK.  WE HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN DO POORLY ON THESE THE LAST WEEKS.

ADVENT SERVICE:  
We lead the Advent Worship service WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 at 10 am and 7 pm.

Each child has an individual speaking part.  IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that your child learns their speaking part. I have put the speaking parts in your child's Friday folder and learning the part loud and slow is the memory work for the week of December 1.

At the 10 am service your child should just wear the school uniform and for the 7 pm service your child may wear church clothes or school uniform.  

Take a look at the art on ARTSONIA.
Your child's artwork makes great gifts and cards.
Look for this coupon with your child's Christmas art in the Friday Folder.
Use this code to get 25% off.
Remember I get a percentage back to use for art supplies!

Check out the great Together We're Better specials. There is a special note in the Friday Folder.
TWB makes great Christmas gifts or buy cards to make your Christmas purchases!

Book Orders Flyer are in the Friday Folders.  
You may order from any flyer on the  website! 
Our class code is GPF69
Please order by November 25!  Use the coupon to get free books.
Books make great Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers,
IF YOUR BOOKS ARE GIFTS EMAIL ME AND I WILL GET YOU THE BOOKS
WITHOUT YOUR CHILD KNOWING

I participate in Six Flags Read to Succeed Program.  Information about the program is in the Friday Folder.  This is a fun program, I don't require you to participate it is your choice.

I will be collecting the READING LOGS and PIZZA HUT BOOK IT forms on Wednesday, Nov. 26.  Please make sure the forms are in your child's homework folder.  I will send home the new forms on Dec. 1.

Christmas Gift IDEAS:  If you are looking for a great stocking stuffer, many students would love new crayons and glue sticks!

CHRISTMAS SERVICE PROJECT 

The tradition at Zion is for each class to adopt a service project at Christmas.  We do a service project instead of exchanging gifts as a class.

This year our class will be supporting PASTOR SAM THOMSON as he pastors a group of Nepalese Refuges in the St. Louis area.  We will be buying Christmas gift for the 24 refuges and Pastor Sam Thomson will be delivering the gifs.  These refuges are very poor and these maybe the only gifts they have this Christmas.  What a great opportunity to SHOW and SHARE Jesus!

Our class will be collecting MONEY to purchase the gifts.  The money may be brought to school beginning Monday,  November 24- Wednesday, December 3.  I will have a gift basket to put the money in. 

On Thursday, December 4 our class will go shopping at Walmart to purchase the gift.  We will then wrap the gifts and give them to Pastor Sam.  

I will need parents to help drive and chaperone the field trip.  The field trip forms are in the FRIDAY FOLDERS.  Please mark if you are able to drive and chaperone the trip.

Thank you in advance for your donations and help.
Thank you for teaching your child to be generous.

I am thankful for you!  God has blessed me with a great class and group of parents.  I thank God for you. May you have a blessed Thanksgiving, may you enjoy time with family and friends, and may you keep Christ at the center of your celebrations.

IN HIM,

Amy Bernhardt

We are ready to take our food to Chapel.

We delivered our food donations.

Some bags were pretty heavy.

Student Council led our Chapel.

The Student Council wrote and performed a skit for us about two Thanksgivings.
One was unthankful and one was very thankful.

T- thankful to God
H- help other
A- apologize when wrong
N-nation wide spread God's Word
K- kindness towards others
S- serve God and others
G- Grace Jesus gives us
I-influence others
V- value time with family
I-invest time and money in God
N- neighbor love him
G-generous with your talents

This Wednesday we met with our FAITH FAMILIES for prayer time.

We made a list of things first graders are thankful for...

The student council purchased and delivered turkey to the Seminary.

Twenty Thanksgiving baskets were assembled and deliver to the Seminary.

 
We wrote notes to be put into the Seminary Food Baskets.

So much food was donated that we were able to fill the Seminaries Food Bank!

 Happy Birthday AUDREY!


 We made life size David and Goliath.

Each group had a job and we worked together.

Come see our work in the hallway by the Commons.

 We continue to study Andy Warhol.

We wrote a paragraph together.

Mrs. Masa worked with us as we continue to write paragraphs.

 We used a hamburger to help us organize our paragraphs.  Then we wrote in our fancy writing books with our fancy writing pens!

We played an animal sorting game on the computers.

A puppet play during indoor recess!

We taught our partners in math.

We enjoy reading in the special chair.

We sorted common and proper nouns.

We got to RAINBOW write our spelling words.

We put the sh, ch, and th blends into words.

We sorted words by the a sound we heard.

We sorted common and proper nouns.

Some of our books are quite funny.

We interviewed each other and wrote down our partner's answers.

We sorted animals.

We read and changed a poem.

We worked on fluency and read with a partner.

We sorted silent e words.

We have been working on being a leader.
Here Ethan is leading us in our Memory Verse.

We learned even and odd numbers using cubes.

We have great fifth grade buddies who help us tie our shoes.
Please work on shoe tying at home.  We only have helpers till Christmas.

In gym we are working on Basketball.

VIP READER, Mrs. Lotspiech.