September 28, 2018

A Look Ahead:  Memory:Psalm 56:3 Religion:  Moses and the Children of Israel Reading:  We are doing a book set on Kevin Henkes Grammar: Sentences that Ask Spelling: Lesson 7 Math: we are learning our DOUBLES FACTS Social Studies: How we help others  Art: Frida Kahlo Upcoming Dates:  Early Dismissal/Teacher Inservice: Wednesday, October 3 School is Dismissed at 12:00! We sing in church: October 7 at the 10:30 service, please meet in the upper music room in the balcony of church at 10:20 to warm up. Field Trip to the Botanical Garden Wednesday, October 17, 2017 Look for the permission slip next week.  The list of chaperones is: Heather Horn, Bethany Coad, Kristen Johnson, Julie Gaffney, and Amber Maddick.  We will leave at 8:15 and return at 2:45.  If you are unable to attend please let me know. Thank you! We have had many sick kids this year.   Please remember to email me and let me  know if your child will be absent. Also please let me know if you want to pick up the home in the office or have it send home with another student. Please read the fluency books 4 times during the week.  These books should be easy to read.  Have your child practice reading the way they talk, using expression, and paying attention to the punctuation.  By the end of the week this book should be read fluently.   PLEASE SEND THE BOOK BACK ON MONDAY!!!  I tell the kids just keep it in the red folder. SIGN UP FOR TRUNK OR TREAT The late fee goes into effect on Monday, October 1 for Trunk or Treat. Please bring candy to the school office if they aren't going to have a car in the parking lot that night.  Only a few days left to register for the Bobcat Shuffle and get the shirt! The last day to sign up and receive your shirt is Monday, October 1st.  The classroom with the most students registered by 10/1 will win a Donut Party with their class!  You DONuT want to miss out! Mileage Club Information from Mrs. Steinbacher

Many of our 1st – 4th grade students have been participating in the Mileage Club during their lunch recesses. The Mileage club is a program where students earn a “footie” when they complete 21 laps (about 3 miles) on our cemetery path. The reward varies based on how many cards each participant has completed as follows: Finish Card #1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9=Front Row Footie Finish Card #5=Silver Footie and name on the chart                         Participant may be in the Mileage Club Yearbook Picture Finish Card #10= Gold Footie Finish Card #11 and higher= Clear Footie Finish Card #15= Glow in the Dark Footie Finish Card #17= Clear Footie, Supersize Footie, and #50 for 50 miles completed                         Participant receives a certificate at Zion’s closing chapel. Finish Card #25=Clear Footie and #75 for 75 miles completed Finish Card # 34=Clear Footie, Supersize Footie, and #100 for 100 miles completed TWENTY-TWO of our students have already earned their SILVER FOOTIES and ONE student has earned his GOLD FOOTIE. GOLD FOOTIE: 30 miles completed  Sam M. (4E) SILVER FOOTIE: 15 miles completed 1B:-Frankie B., Titus H., Laina M., Noah H., James J., Jacob T., Aria R., Cassidy L. THANK YOU to our fourth grade students who punch cards for our younger students! MILEAGE CLUB PARTICIPANTS will receive Mileage Club credit for walking/running in the BOBCAT SHUFFLE. Sign-up now! We continue to learn about how God loves and cares for His people.  We are so thankful for a loving and caring God. We are learning our DOUBLES FACTS...check out this Doubles Rap! Take time this weekend to strengthen you faith.  Please make church and Bible study a priority!  Worship and learn more about our loving and caring God. In HIM, Amy Bernhardt A SNEAK PEEK AT OUR WEEK... Learning about addition facts Working on Small Moments in writing. telling a small moment touch and tell a small moment sketching our small moment stretching our words and listening for sounds to help us spell ordinal numbers BUMP I 'mustache' you a question.  We have been learning about sentences that ask a question. We wrote questions for our partners to answer.  shaving cream spelling rhyming words We are learning about coding during our STEAM time. We learned about US Symbols and what they stand for then we practiced drawing US symbols. Then we looked at art by Peter Max.  He works with digital art.  We also added a digital element to our artwork.

September 21, 2018

In Religion we learned about Jacob and how he lied to get his father's blessing.  We learned that Jacob repented and God forgave him and still loved him and took care of him. 

 God turned his heart around.

Repent means to turn around.  We too have a heart full of sin, yet God loves us, forgives us, and takes care of us.  We can turn our hearts around by repenting our sins.  God is faithful and just and He will forgive our sins and fill our hearts with Jesus.

Teacher In-Service Early Dismissal:

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3 school is dismissed at 12:00 check the Friday Folder if you need after school care.

A Look Ahead:
Memory: John 15:16
Religion: Moses

Spelling: Lesson/week 6
Grammar:Question Sentences
Social Studies: American Symbols
Art: Peter Max digital art

Reading: we continue to work on decoding, comprehension, and fluency :)

Fluency Readers:  Please have your child read the books that get sent home each night.  These books should be easy to read and should be read like you talk.  PLEASE SEND THE BOOKS BACK TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY.  These are school property and are used by many classes.  If you lose a book I will now be charging $1 to pay for the cost and time to make a new one.  Thank you

SIGN UP for the BOBCAT SHUFFLE!

Your child can earn special footies!!

Joseph was down and out.  His brothers wanted to kill him, instead they sold him into slavery.  He was in a foreign land as a slave alone.  Then he was wrongly accused and thrown into jail.  Things were bad.  We know that God used Joseph to save the people from the famine.  Joseph forgave his brothers and reunited his family.  What a wonderful God who works all things for good.

In HIM,

Amy Bernhardt 

A sneak peek at our week...

I hope you saw our Coats of Many Colors.

 We played many games with our sight words these week.  Remember if your child didn't finish all the first quarter words please practice them at home.  I will retest the first week in October.

 

We ordered numbers 0-20. 

We learned about school helpers and then made riddles for each helper.

We shared our first small moments story with our friends. 

We love to watch "Mystery Doug" Science videos.  Students ask questions , then we get to write or draw what we think the answer is and finally Doug shows and tells us the answer.  This week the question was: "Why do we sweat?"

We learned about dividing things in half.

We learned numbers between.

In Guided Reading we read a new book each day, answer questions, and do a word work activity.

reading a book

answering questions about the text, within the text, and beyond the text

word work

In SHARED READING, I share a big book with the class. We read the book and learn various reading skills while reading the book.
 

practicing with a partner reading a book with expression

In INTERACTIVE READING I read a higher level book and we work on higher level thinking questions about the book.  We just finished a book set on Friendship.  Show your child this picture and ask your child about their favorite.

We also spend time in guided writing.  I work more one on one with them on the conventions of writing and listening to the sounds in words to stretch them out and spell them.   

Fluency Practice...

with phones

with Nursery Rhymes

practicing spelling

practicing writing a sentence that tells 

counting money

POP Art from last week...