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

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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...