October 17, 2013

GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE AT ZION!!

This Tuesday we celebrated the Ground Breaking for our new classrooms and commons.

We asked God to bless this where we are about to build 

for the nurture and upbringing of His children.

The First Bobcat Shuffle is this Saturday.  We hope that this fundraiser is easier for families and is a fun way to raise funds!

Parent Conferences take place Thursday night and Friday.  This is a great opportunity to hear about strengths and areas for you child to improve.  I look forward to meeting with you.

This week in Religion we talked about the Israelites taking 12 stones to built a monument.  When future generations saw the monument it gaves an opportunity to tell the next generation what God has done for them.

Our Stone Monument

Take time this weekend to tell you children and family your personal story of Jesus.

Tell them what God has done for you.  Then go to church as a family to praise and thank God for all He has done and what he continues to do for you everyday!

A Look Ahead:

NEXT WEEK IS A SHORT WEEK WITH SCHOOL ONLY ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

WE WILL FINISH UP WORK AND CENTERS FROM THIS WEEK.

TEACHERS GO TO THE NATIONAL LUTHERAN TEACHERS CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY!

There will be no new memory or spelling for next week.

Look for a blog post next Tuesday to give you information for the following week.

Monday is APPLE DAY.  PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL WITH AN APPLE!

I have enough helpers for that morning, 9-11.

TUESDAY IS FALL PARTY:  I only have had 1 person respond to help on at the Fall Party on Tuesday from 1:30-3.  If you can come and help, please email me!

RED RIBBON WEEK - October 28- November 1

This is a week hosted by our Student Council that highlights healthy drug free living. 

 The student council comes around and does a presentation for us on how to live healthy.

We celebrate this week with special dress up days, door decorations, and a poster contest. 

Please see your child's homework folder for poster information.

Here are the dress up days:

Monday:  "Your future is 2 bright 4 drugs" --Wear sunglasses (Regular dress wear)

Tuesday:  "I mustache you a question…Are you drug free?" --Wear a mustache (sold on Monday by student council for $.50, we will come to your classroom) (Regular dress wear)

Wednesday:  "Roses are red, violets are blue, drugs aren’t 4 you!" -- Regular dress bottoms with a shirt the color assigned to your grade. We wear ORANGE.

Thursday: "Tip your hat to a drug free life" -- Wear a hat (Regular dress wear)

Friday:  "The hero in me is drug free" -- Dress like a superhero (Dress up or Regular dress wear)

You child has the Friday Folder in their backpacks along with their Homework Folder.  Please look at these this weekend.  Some Homework Folders need a clearing out. 

I will see you soon at conferences. 

Remember to make God a priority in your weekend plans.

In HIM,

Amy Bernhardt

At the inside ground breaking

We all got to participate and scoop up some dirt.

The dirt is going to be used to make a piece of art work for the new school.

When we see the dirt art work we can say we helped scoop the dirt...

...and we can remember what God has done for us at Zion.

These teachers all went and graduated from Zion.

Katelyn's whole family has attended Zion!

Happy Boss' Day Mr. Debrick

Using math shapes...

...to build a graph.

Where the WILD THINGS Are

We are learning about Pablo Picasso.

We made a Frankenstein Monster in the style of Pablo Picasso' s Portraits

October 11, 2013

We have been learning in Religion how God is always with us.  God gives us everything we need.  He provides us will our earthly needs and sent us Jesus to die and rise to give us a FUTURE with HOPE.  
We should trust in HIM!
Enjoy a song from Chapel.

A Look Ahead:
Next week is a no school on FRIDAY.
REMINDER: PARENT CONFERENCES are THURSDAY AFTER SCHOOL AND EVENING and ALL DAY ON FRIDAY.
Religion: Israel crosses the Jordan and Deborah
Memory: Joshua 1:9 DUE ON THURSDAY
Grammar:  Plural Nouns with es
Spelling: SPELLING TEST on THURSDAY lesson 9
Phonics: sh, ch, wh and th digraphs
Math: adding 1, graphing, and patterns
Science: Fish and Reptiles 
Reading:  We will be working on non fiction 
Art: Pablo Picasso Frankenstein Portrait
Centers:
Poetry: Bat Bat
Phonics: short o and short e
Word Work: sentence scramble
Writing: My Pet book
Science: sorting animals
Alphabet: end sounds

No School Reminder:
We will not have school on October 18 due to parent conferences.  There will also be no school on October 23, 24, and 25 as the teacher's will be attending the National Lutheran Teacher's Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   Miss Bolt and I will be presenting on Zion's Balanced Literacy Program.

PARENT HELPERS NEEDED:
We will be having a fun APPLE DAY on Monday October 21.  I am in need of 4 parents or grandparents to come in and help run various stations.  If you can help please email me.

We are in need of 3-4 parents to help with the FALL PARTY.  The Fall party is Tuesday October 22 at 1:30-3:00.
If you can help please email me.

NEXT WEEKS STARTS SECOND QUARTER
-Please check your child's math papers carefully, there have been many correct and returns lately.  You child may need help reading the directions, and you should look over the work.  Please remember to grade your child's fact practice and sign your name.

- On the Spelling test you may have notice PATTERN WORDS at the bottom.  These are 2 of the words the class found that have the week's pattern.  These words have been just for practice in the 1st quarter, now that it is 2nd quarter these words are going to be graded.  How do you study for these words?  Ask you child to build other words that have the weekly chunk.  Help them build chunks... if the chunk is -op then think of words like: pop, stop, hop, mop, top, glop, slop. cop...

- Please read the leveled readers (the paper books sent home at the beginning of the week) several times a week.  Let me know that your child has read the book by putting your initials in the box on the reading log.  PLEASE SEND the BOOKS BACK ON FRIDAYS.  I spend a lot time running off the books and I would appreciate if the books came back so that I can use them again! 

-Your child has a new memory sheet in their homework folder.

Please remember to be the spiritual leader in your house, show that God is important to you and your family, take time to thank God, give Him your time this weekend and take your child to church!

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt
ENJOY A LOOK AT OUR WEEK!!

OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD!!

We practice our fluency everyday.

We come to the carpet to learn about reading skills.

We share a book 3 days a week.  This week we read, "Chicien Soup with Rice".

Math Center

Work Work Center

We are working on comprehension.

We practice spelling.

We read to buddies.

Math center was fun this week!

We build words with chunks.

We worked on short o words this week.

We have a "new" playground and mileage club track.

Pastor Reitz helped to punch mileage club cards during his lunch.

We get to play fun games on the new playground.

We have learned fun MATH CHEERS.
Here we are saying "WOW" we are so smart in Math!

We are studying Maurice Sendak and his illustrations in Art.

We are making our own WILD THINGS.

We used crayon and watercolors.

Look for the display in the front of school to see who is KING of the WIlD THINGS here at ZION!

Everyday someone is the math helper.

In Math we experimented with measurement.

We used linking cubes to measure.

We had to work with a partner to measure items in our classroom.

We had to find things with  certain measurements.

On Friday we learned about paragraphs.
We used a hamburger to teach us the parts of a paragraph.

We practiced writing a paragraph about Fall at guided writing.

Fridays are Fun!

If you are done with centers you get FREE CHOICE!!