Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: August 2017

This week we learned about how God created everything with just His Word. Watch as Nick tells 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: Week 2

Phonics: Hearing sounds in a sequence

Writing: We will begin Writer's Workshop

Math: Continue review of numbers, begin ordering and matching

Science: Being a scientist

Art: Piet Mondrain

Literacy Stations:

Reading: sequencing

Work Work: short a sort

Sentence Building: putting a sentence together

Writing: telling about a picture

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 black 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. I did put the test in the Friday Folders this week. I usually do not have time to grade them and put them in the folders on the same Friday.

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 support FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER. Watch the video above that was used in chapel to explain the group. I am very excited for this mission project. Look for the chapel offerings on Tuesday nights.

We began our SECOND STEPS Social Skills today. Please see the home link page in the Friday folder. You may complete the activity if you choose!

I want to invite you again to join Bible study and Sunday School. Please make church a priority for your family this weekend.

Standing in Christ,
Amy

Here is a PEEK at our WEEK...

We started the week with a Solar Eclipse!

our eclipse bags

picnic lunch

Centers:

using found objects to watch the eclipse in the shadows

galaxy play dough

making a craft

observations

shadows

listen to the cicadas

temperature is changing

writing down observations

The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.Psalm 19:1

We created eclipse art and wrote about the eclipse.

We painted prayers cards to send to those for whom we are praying, we then signed our names to the cards and lastly we learned about cleaning up after painting.