Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: August 2020

This week we learned about how God created everything with just His Word.

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!

We read this book and learned about God's Good Idea, He MADE us, We RUINED it, He SAVED us, He WILL FINISH it.

We made a display showing how God created each of us different and unique. God loves us all and give us the Holy Spirit so we can love each other!

A Lood at Next Week...

Religion: Adam and Eve and the Fall into Sin

Memory: 1 John 4:4

Reading: We are also going to be practice our literacy stations and beginning our guided reading.

Grammar: Sentences, focusing on what a sentence needs

Spelling: Lesson 2- an

Phonics: Hearing sounds in a sequence

Math: Continue review of numbers, begin ordering and matching

Social Studies: Labor Day

Science: Living and Non Living

Art: Piet Mondrain

Writing Workshop: Small Moments

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, as our school will be attending the online conference with other Lutheran Grade Schools in St. Louis. The topics for the conference include: Managing Anxiety for the Teacher and the Classroom, COVID and Adverse Childhood Experiences, and The Formative Five: Preparing for Success in Life.

NO SCHOOL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 for Labor Day.

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.

You will notice on assessments that I will mark them P=proficient, working on grade level
NP= nearing proficient, not quite working on grade level
N=not proficient, working below grade level

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.

I have already seen some incorrect math papers.
If your child has a CAR paper, please correct the paper and return in the Friday Folder on Monday.
CAR=Corrct And Return

Please have your child use pencil only on the math papers unless the paper says to color then use crayons.

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.

THANK YOU!!!

A BIG thank you to Ashley Richter for making our favorite BEE masks! We LOVE them!!

We love that our names are on them!! THANK YOU!!

Please make worship a priority for your family this weekend, either online or in person.

In HIS Love,
Amy Bernhardt

Here is a PEEK at our WEEK...

Baptismal Birthdays for June, July and August were celebrated in chapel this week.

We spend all morning everyday learning about our reading centers.

word work

writing

sentence

spelling

listening

reading

We are spending time learning to form our letters correctly.

We continue to walk on mileage and earn footies!

1 footie = 5 miles.

Math...

Spelling

Learning about using the iPads with Mrs. Helmkamp.

We learn our memory verse on Monday and make a poster of our memory on Tuesday.

We learned about the Scientific Method of asking questions and testing them to learn by doing and experiment with surface tension.

In Phonics we learned about letters in our names and practiced putting our names together.

We have begun to pray out loud for others during our devotion time. If you have prayer request email me and if you send an address we will mail a card to those for whom we have prayed.