Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade

Friday, May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD

People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Luke 18:15-17

I treasure each child in my class and I thank you for bringing them to Zion. Here at Zion your child is given the blessing of learning about their Savior. What a wonderful place to be!

A Look Ahead:
Memory: Second part of the Second Article of the Apostles' Creed

Religion: Ascension and Pentecost

Grammar: Possessive Nouns

Spelling: Lesson 33 *We are skipping lesson 32 and going to lesson 33 oy/oi

Math: adding 3 digit numbers, counting money, and working with graphs

Science: weather

Social Studies:

Art: Georgia O'Keefe

Centers:

phonics: vowel teams

writing: make a Spring Book

word work: finding story elements

alphabet: sequencing

math: counting money

poetry: May Poem

FRIDAY MAY 2, 6:30
WE CAN'T WAIT,
THE MUSICAL IS GREAT!
SEE YOU THERE!!

Please have your child in the church basement at 6:00.
The performance is about 45 minutes long.
After the show you will be asked to come and get your child from the front.

You are invited to attend Zion's VBS!
June 9-13, 9am -12pm
This is great and fun week where the children
will learn about Jesus love!
Registration forms came home in your Friday Folder.

All library books must be returned on Wednesday May, 7!

Please send bottle caps to school by next Friday, May 9. We will be doing the art project the following week.

If you participated in the Read to Succeed program your child's ticket is in their Friday Folder!
May you continue to celebrate our RISEN LORD this weekend with the body of believers in church!
Alleluia, Christ is Risen!

In HIM,

Amy Bernhardt

Take a small peek at some of the things we learned this week!

Dress Rehearsal

In ACTION

Magic House comes to us and presented a hands on activity,
Saving the Great Outdoors!
Thank you to parents who came to help!

We learned how to reduce waste.

Did you know that if you used a brown bag every day at school for a year the trash would fill a school bus?
One way to reduce waste is to use a lunch box.

Pastor Reitz had a popular center where the students learned about sorting trash at the dump using electric magnets.
This helps pull out and separate trash.

We learned about water pollution and how oil hurts birds. We learned about oil spill clean up and then we cleaned up an oil spill.

We learned about water filtration. We filtered dirty water to make it clean.

We learned about recycling paper. We even made paper!

After the Magic House we did a science journal telling about what we learned.

We continue to use tiles to help us build our spelling words.

We made a graph to help us illustrate our math facts.

We played a fun game of Four in a Row to help us practice the oy/oi sound,

We even ate Chips Ahoy

We made a water cycle bracelet...yellow=sun, clear=water vapor, white=cloud, blue=precipitation, green=land

Here is a water cycle bracelet.

We made the water cycle in a bottle.

We watched the cloud form and watched it rain from the cap.

Read what we wrote about the experiment on on Science sheet.

Mrs. Helmkamp is teaching how to do
"Storyjumper" on the computer.
This is a website that helps the students write and illustrate a story. We will continue working on these during computer center next week.

We have been working on writing paragraphs. The class is doing a great job!

Thursday, April 24, 2014

April 25, 2014

ALLELUIA CHRIST IS RISEN

HE HAS RISEN INDEED ALLELUIA!

Easter Sunday the woman were met at the empty tomb by an angel telling them that Jesus is no longer dead. He is alive! We celebrate Christ resurrection as He conquered sin, death, and the devil. May we continue to celebrate the new life that Christ has won for us. May we boldly tell others that Christ is Risen, He has RISEN indeed, ALLELUIA!

A LOOK AHEAD:

Memory: First part of the Second Article of the Apostle's Creed

(A reminder if your child wants to say the whole Apostle's Creed all at once that is acceptable and he/she would be done with memory for the rest of the year!! Many students are finished with memory:))

Religion:Jesus Appears to His disciples

Spelling: Lesson 31 and sight words from 27-30
Grammar: combining sentences using and

phonics: oy and oi

Math: We will be learning the last of the addition facts, working with geometric solids, dollar bills and adding 3 digit numbers.

Science: Weather

Social Studies: Taking Care of the Earth

Art:Clay Sculpture

Centers:

phonics: sorting aw and au

writing: letter writing

name: proofreading sentences

alphabet: build a word

math: comparing numbers

poetry: Downtown

Monday, April 28, the Magic House will be coming to us and doing a hands on presentation titled, "Saving the great Outdoors". This will enhance our Social Studies unit on taking care of the Earth God gave us.

Thank you to the parents who volunteered to help.
The parents that I have down to help are: Mrs. Bienz, Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Mahoney, Reitz, Mrs. Merritt.
Please arrive in the church basement at 12:00.
Thank you for helping to make this possible.

We have been working hard on our musical.
The musical is on FRIDAY, MAY 2 at 6:30
Please plan on attending!
Children need to be in the church basement at 6:00.

Dress Rehearsal will be Wednesday April 30. We will be doing the musical for chapel. Please have your child wear their bright colored shirt and jeans to school that day.

You are welcome to attend. This would be a good time to video from the balcony if you choose.
Please read the letter send out by Mrs. Roehrig in the Friday Folder.

Students in PDO-2nd grade will celebrate Week of the Young Child on May 5th-9th

During this week, we celebrate the blessing of young children, especially all of the young children here at Zion! As part of the celebration, there will be optional dress-up days this week. These days are listed below:

Monday: Sports Shirt Day-wear a sports shirt of their favorite team

Tuesday: Favorite Color Day

Wednesday: Spirit Day-Wear red or white or Zion wear

Thursday: Stripes Day

Friday: Mismatched Day

Our library times are coming to a close. Next week April 30 will be the last day to check out books. On the following Wednesday, May 7 all books must be returned. Thank you for making sure your child has their library books returned. A BIG thank you to Mrs. Reitz and Mrs. Hall for their work in the library.

I am still trying to come up with something our class can do to help the Albritton Family and show them our love and support. I know that they have not been to the grocery store for a long time and there is a website to sign up for meals. If anyone has any ideas of how to provide christian support to this family please let me know. At the very least keep them in your prayers.

Christ is Risen, HE IS RISEN INDEED!
Continue the celebration of Easter this weekend in church!!

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

Seeing changes outside, but wonder what is happening inside the walls? Lots! Mark Lekar, Marc Debrick, and others will be conducting tours to members and school parents interested in seeing the progress inside the school’s construction zone.

The tours will take place this Sunday, April 27 from 10:30 – 12:30 pm The building will be open during those times and we will ask entry into the new buildings to be through the school hallway doors adjacent to the kitchen and Miss Limback’s room (inside the main school building). Please, no access by crossing any fence lines (too many obstacles and possibly mud if you cross a fence). You will be free to roam once inside and several folks will be present to answer questions. Please be cognizant that this is a construction site and all smaller children must be kept in check to avoid any possible injuries – we want all to visit and enjoy the excitement but caution that all must be careful while the site is open.

We have been working on being independent at centers. Here is a look at our centers this week.

We have new Reading Buddies!

We enjoy working on the computers.

Practicing Pronouns

We can illustrate a poem, showing we can read and comprehend the sentences.

We still practice spelling each week.

We can write a paragraph with a topic sentence, 3 detail sentences, and a closing sentence.

We know the ar, or, and ir sounds.

We made a book for Mrs. Schmidt to help her celebrate Administrative Professional Day,
First Grade, First Grade What Do You See, Mrs. Schmidt Doing?

We love "SPARKLE"!

We are practicing working with each other in groups.
In this activity the students were given the problem to divide the blocks evenly with the group.
The tricky part was making them even and having extras!

We are learning about weather, here is our song about different types of clouds!

We made Cloud People.

We used cotton balls to show the different cloud types.

We even put legs on the clouds to show if the clouds were low or high in the sky.