February 27, 2015

Let my prayer rise up like incense before you, 

the lifting of my hands as an offering to you.

Keep watch within in me, God;

Deep in my heart may the light of your love be burning bright.

May you continue to journey with Jesus this Lent.

Memory: Luke 19:10
Religion: Teachings of Jesus

Phonics: long e spelled ee and ea

Spelling: Lesson 24 

Grammar: synonyms

Science: Weather: observing with our weather stations
Social Studies: Families
Math: regrouping and telling time

Art: Claude Monet
Centers:
phonics: long a: ai and ay
alphabet: er and est comparing adjectives
writing: stretching a sentence
word work: unscramble the sentence
poetry: The Wind Blows Softly 
math: skip counting

YEAR BOOK ORDER FORM : MUST ORDER ONLINE BEFORE MARCH 6

  

GRANDPARENT'S DAY is MARCH 13.  This day is for Grandparents or another special adult to spend the morning with us at school.  This is a half day of school.  

-Two invitations are in the Friday folder. 

In the invitation is a schedule of the mornings events.

Please fill out the permission form (also in the Friday folder) so that I know who is taking your child home from school on Friday, March 13, Grandparent's Day, as it is a HALF day.

ZION AUCTION will be held at Old Hickory Golf Club on March 27, 2015., it is a great night.  It would be fun to have several first grade tables attend!! Please bid on our class auction item!

Please don't worry about the letter on the leveled readers that come home.  Many times I don't have enough of the leveled readers so I will go down a level.  The books are used to work on fluency so it is better that the book is easier than harder.  Thanks

Also PLEASE RETURN LEVELED BOOKS ON MONDAY, as I am missing quite a few!

I will be collecting PIZZA HUT BOOK IT and READING LOGS on Monday, please put them back into folders.  New logs will come home Monday as well.

Please be careful at pick up if you pick your child up by the side doors. I have noticed several cars parking along the driveway that pull out while kids are still moving and going to parents.  This makes me nervous so PLEASE BE CAREFUL OF MOVING CARS!

I have sent home in the Friday folder an information and log on sheet to use STORYJUMPER.COM at home if your child is interested.

Don't forget about the TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER program. 
This is an easy way to raise money for our school by buying gift cards for things you would normally be buying anyway.
There is a goal to have $500,000 worth of gift cards purchased this year.  We are half way to our goal.

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the pictures from this week.
In HIM,
Amy

A finished Chuhily puzzle

 We cut trees and glued our concentric circles on them. 
We made art in the style of Wassily Kandinsky.

We sorted or and ar words.

We used adjectives to describe objects.

We continue to work on spelling each week.

We looked at pictures and wrote sentences with adjectives to describe the pictures.

At poetry we wrote a poem about the snow.  We then made a snow globe to go with our poem.

We built words using different word chunks.

We are using Storyjumper to create stories online.
Look in the Friday Folders for information to view books or work on books at home.

One reading group is describing the missing duck to make a MISSING poster.

 Look how we can stretch sentences by adding an adjective and setting.

Happy Birthday Adam!

 In Science we are learning about weather.  We built weather stations to use next week.

 In Art we are beginning a study on Claude Monet.
Here we are building the bridge for our water garden painting.

 The Zion Girls Basketball team is going to state this weekend so we had an assembly to cheer them on to victory.

 We nailed our sins to the cross as a visual reminder that Jesus died to take away our sins.

This week we used technology to share information, we used the iPad to show that we know adjectives that compare.