Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: September 8, 2017

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. I am thankful for the for rain and relief from the heat. Remember God keeps His promises to us!

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, September 15. Teachers will be gathering with area Lutheran Educators to have an inservice on Developing GRIT in our students.

A LOOK AHEAD:

Religion: God's Promise to Abraham and Sarah and God gives Issac

Memory:Psalm 31:14 due by Thursday

Reading: We will begin our guided reading groups next week

Literacy Stations:

Word Work - short a word sort

Reading - putting together a poem

Sentences-unscrambling sentences

Spelling: Week/Lesson 4 on Thursday

Grammar: Sentences have a capital letter and end mark

Math: We will be working with money, identifying numbers, and putting numbers into sets

Social Studies: Remembering September 11

Art: Andy Warhol POP ART

We will start our guided reading groups next week. We will continue working independently at centers and the next step is to start reading with me.

If your child is not able to count to 100 please work on that with them.
I will be testing in 2 weeks.

I have finished the first testing of HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS.
Please look in the Friday Folder and work with your child on the highlighted words.
I will retest the first week in October.

We went to Library TODAY. Our library day was changed from Thursday to FRIDAY. Remember on library day is FRIDAY. Each child may check out 2 books as long as the books from the week before are turned in. Books maybe turned in any day and must be returned on FRIDAY.

Look in Friday Folder for TRUNK OR TREAT Information

LASE is offering a speech and language screening for our students.

I have emailed some of you, but wanted to offer this service to everyone. If you have a concern in this area please fill out the form and return it with $20 (cash or checks made out to ZION).

If you are not interested and I didn't contact you I do not need the form back.

Look for the form in the Friday Folder.

TONIGHT FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8 is
Future Cougar Night at LHS Football.
Join us for a fun family night at LHS. There will be games for the kids and free giveaways!!!

LHS is located at 5100 Mexico Rd, St. Peters

All Elementary Families will get in FREE!

In reading next week we are talking about good reading habits. It is always good to drop the old bad habits and start new good habits.

I encourage you to work on good worship habits. Let your child know and see that God and worship is a priority in your life. I hope to see you in church and Bible study this weekend!

My cousin, Michael Trinklein, wrote and produced this documentary for the 500 Anniversary of the REFORMATION.
It will air on PBS on September 12.
It is very good and interesting, watch it to learn about Luther and the Reformation of the Church.

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

A Sneak Peek at our week:

Practicing taking pictures with FLAT LUTHER

Some Sight Words are MONSTER WORDS because they are not spelled like they sound.

We are learning about sentences.

Here is our first attempt at a music video about sentence.

We practiced sentences this week.

working with partners on discussing math

We learned about story problems and how we solve them.

Learning about how to get along at school.

In Chapel Pastor Rouland used artwork and bible verses to tell about our theme song.

A village in Africa acted out scenes from the Bible and had pictures taken of each scene. Then an artist paint a picture for each photograph. Here is the artwork for The Beatitudes.

Pastor read for us Matthew 7:24-29 the part of the beatitudes our theme song verse 1 is based on.

Our theme song verse 1

We are keeping track of how much money our class is giving to Friends of Kids with Cancer.
I told the class to ask you for special jobs to earn money to help these kids.
Each bear represents $10, a toy for a child in chemo.