August 26, 2016

This week we learned about how God created everything with just His Word.  Watch as we tell the story...

I am so glad that God created each of the children in this class.  I am having such a fun time getting to know them and their unique personalities.  It definitely makes work fun when you have fun kids to be with all day.  I already love your kid!

Religion:  Adam and Eve and the Fall into Sin

Memory: 1 John 4:4

Reading:  We will continue learning about Good Reading Habits.  We are also going to be practice our literacy stations

Grammar: Sentences, focusing on what a sentence needs

Spelling:  Lesson 2

Phonics:  Hearing sounds in a sequence

Writing: We will begin writing the words for our first narrative stories

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  keep the green 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.

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.

link: scholastic book club

I am sending home book orders.  Please follow the sheet in the Friday Folder to place your order online.  This is a great way to encourage your child to read and get books at a reasonable price.  Thanks!

This has been a great week.  Your children are doing such a good job of learning our classroom routines. 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.

Our first FOOTIES!

Mileage Club

     Our first, second, and third grade students were introduced to the Mileage Club last Friday.  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	Number of Miles completed	Reward Earned
5	15	Silver Footie
10	30	Gold Footie
15,20,25,30, etc.	# of cards x 3	Clear Footie
17	51	Footie and #50
25	75	Footie and #75
34	102	Footie and #100

      Students who complete at least 17 cards (51 miles) during the school year will receive a certificate at our Closing Chapel in May.
The violin teacher showed us a violin and played a few songs for us.  If you are interested in violin please see the paper in the Friday folder.

Our Chapel Offerings this year will go to provide 600 preschools in Belize with God's Word, in the form of a Children's Bible.  I am very excited for this mission project.  Look for the chapel offerings on Tuesday nights.

I want to invite you again to join me at the BELIEVE bible class in the church basement Sunday at 9:30.  I think it would be fun to sit as a first grade table.  Please make church a priority for your family this weekend.

All for ONE,
Amy

Here is a PEEK at our WEEK...

We are learning about being good readers.

 

We practiced the alphabet,

In Science we worked on observing a tree.

In Writing we verbally told our story to a partner.

We practiced touch and tell.

We started to sketch pictures for our story.

In Math we are working on numbers.

We build words with the "at" chuck.

We made creation books.

We had indoor recess!

We practiced rhyming words.

We made creation posters.

We made a pictograph.

We sorted short a words.

We were scientist and we had to build the tallest tower with just clothespins and popsicle sticks.

We had to work as teams.  We made a plan, build, measured, drew, and told in our experiment.

We learned about the color wheel and made a color wheel flower.