August 31, 2018

 

You are your child’s PFD!! 

Pastor Rouland in Confirmation always says at the first class, you are your child’s PFD, Personal Faith Developer.  As parents we are given the task of developing our child’s faith.  Do not fear you are not alone in this task.  The Holy Spirit will help you along with Zion Church and School.  You may wonder what a PFD does; 

Pastor Rouland gives three responsibilities:  

set an example, be authentic, and be faithful.  

May God bless you in your job of PFD! 

A LOOK AHEAD: 
NO SCHOOL MONDAY FOR LABOR DAY

Memory: Psalm 46:1
Religion: Noah
Reading: We will continue working independently at centers this week doing the initial benchmark assessment in reading with the students this week

Spelling: Week/Lesson 3

Grammar: What a Sentence Needs

Math: Word Problems, Shapes with Geoboards

Social Studies: Working Together

Art: Victor Vasarely and Op Art

We are learning to FOCUS, using our eyes, ears, and brain.  When we FOCUS we look at the person talking, we listen to what the person is saying, and we use our brain to think about what the person is telling us to do.  Sometimes we even repeat in our head what they said to remember.  This is something you could practice at home!

We worked on our stations this week.  If your stations for the week are completed by Friday, the students get fun Friday.  If your stations are not done you need to complete the station before going to a fun station.  If you are still not done the center will be sent home to finish over the weekend.  I will start sending home not completed centers on Friday NEXT WEEK. 

It is exciting to see the students learn the routine of first grade.  I am very proud that they come in and do the morning work with few reminders.  Way to be independent!  Thank you parents for not coming in the school and giving your child that independence!

MORE FREE STUFF
You have another opportunity to help us get more pieces to the Keya Plank Set.
All I need is a SIGNATURE! Please sign the yellow sheet and return in the Friday Folder on Monday.
I do need 15 signatures.

We have been having some trouble with the bathroom pass.  It is a revolving door in my room of students using the free bathroom pass.  Kids actually line up by the door while I am teaching waiting for the bathroom pass to return to the room.  I was hoping the 'novelty' would wear off but it hasn't.  So I am going to try a few things.  I want you to know we take a bathroom break at 10:15, 11:10, 11:40 and 1:45.  I encourage all students to use the bathroom.  I will give each child one chip that they can use to go to the bathroom during a class time.  I hope this stops the abuse of the bathroom pass.  If this doesn't work I may have to take away the water bottles and have them just use the drinking fountain.  Please talk to your child about using the bathroom during the break times.

FAITH FAMILIES:  Wednesday was our first week sitting in Chapel with our Faith Family.   This is a group of students from all grades 1-8 and a teacher.  We build relationships through chapel, activities, service, and prayer.  This week we had our first faith family activity.  Our devotion was about being God’s postage stamp. We each must GO and deliver the Good News of Jesus.   We spent time writing what we could say to tell others about Jesus on paper.  These papers will be used in a piece of art that will  remind us to GO and TELL.  We used toilet paper to help get to know each other and  then returned to chapel to celebrate Baptismal Remembrance for July, August, and September. 

Faith Family Pictures...

Join us for the BOBCAT SHUFFLE!
See the Friday Folder for details.

Enjoy the three day weekend and be your child's PFD.  Be an EXAMPLE, have your child see you reading the Bible and praying.  Be AUTHENTIC, do what is true to you in sharing your faith.  Be FAITHFUL, make weekly church a priority for your family.

May we join in the Psalmist and proclaim: "I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord!"

In Christ I GO,
Amy Bernhardt


Take a SNEEK PEEK at our week:

Our devotion leader begins the day with the invocation and after devotions extinguishes the candle.

We learned about the Fall into Sin.

God promised to send a Savior to wash away all sin!

Jesus loves us and forgives us!

Sharing the Good News by giving our offerings to support ministry in Asia.

We did a fantastic job at our literacy "busy bee" centers this week.  The students were so independent and I started the Benchmark Reading Assessments.

We are learning to build words with our spelling pattern.

We started Lucy Calkins' Writers Workshop

We did a 'touch and tell' of our small moment.

We shared our touch and tell with a friend.

We did a sketch of a picture for each page.

 We then used our special writing pens to begin writing our stories.

In Social Studies did many activities on getting along and learning about what makes us unique.

Here we are trying to share a crayon and make a picture without talking.

We worked with partners and practiced our 4 getting along behaviors; sharing, taking turns, talking, and listening to learn more about each other.

We then had to share what we learned about each other.
We are having the best time acting out the story, "A Fine, Fine, School."

In math we are learning about graphs.

After many, many days of indoor recess due to rain, heat, heat, and rain we  decided to take an outdoor adventure with umbrellas!

We are learning work order matters in sentence.

We learned about Magic C!

We used our magic want to change a C into an O!

We read "Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash".

We then made funny things to hang on our clothesline just like Mrs. McNosh!

We made Piet Mondrain Animals!

We learned how to take a GOOD picture using the iPad.