September 19, 2014

Mr. Hansen talked to us in chapel about God's Word being a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.  To illustrate this he showed us different lights and told us as that as we need more guidance God gives us that guidance and lights our way.  Thank you God for your Word.  Thank you for guiding us in Your Ways.  

May we be in His Word and may He guide our path.

A Look Ahead:

Memory: John 15:16

Religion: Moses

Grammar: Exclamation Sentences

Spelling: Lesson 5
Reading: Literacy Centers
  writing: writing questions
  name: sort vowels in words
  poetry: look for sight words in a poem
  phonics: build words with short e chunks
  alphabet: change the beginning letter to make a new word
Math:  addition sentences, addition facts: doubles, ordinal numbers
Science: plants
Art:  Dale Chihuly

Monday September 22 IS OUR FIELD TRIP.
Chaperones must be in the classroom by 8:15, you may just wait after you drop your child off if you want. We will be doing a garden class, eating lunch, and doing a self tour at the  MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN.  Children should wear the RED Rejoice, Pray, Give Thanks ZION T-SHIRT and BRING A SACK LUNCH, no peanut or peanut butter please.  We plan to eat in the provided classroom after the class then go on a short tour.

LEVELED READING BOOKS:  On Monday your child will bring home a book that is on your child's level and your child should be able to read it with minimal help.  Please have your child read these books, they should even read them several times.  This helps to build fluency and self confidence.  Please send the books back on Friday. Each week your child will receive a new book.

Reading is so important in First Grade.  The best way to become a good reader is to READ, READ, READ!  Thank you for helping your child become a good reader.

BOBCAT SHUFFLE: Please help make our FALL FUNDRAISER A SUCCESS.  We need runners and volunteers.  If you can help please go to: eventcow.org under "Bobcat Shuffle 2014"

Sign up for Trunk or Treat
Look for the form in the Friday Folder.

                     

• Fall Future Cougar Week – September 22-29, 2014
  During this week, all “Future Cougars” of all ages and their parents will receive free admission to all athletic contests where special activities will take place in your honor. 

       -Tuesday, September 23rd
                   -Volleyball: 4:15 pm, 5:15 pm, and 6:15 pm
                   -Softball: 4:30 pm *2 of my daughter's play    

                    softball for LHS*
          -Friday, September 26th
                   -Football: 7:00 pm *always a fun night*
          -Monday, September 29th 
                   -Soccer: 5:00 pm and 6:30 pm 

Don't forget to use the TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER form to order your gift cards.
What an easy way to raise money for our school!

Please plan to be in worship this Sunday.  Be in His Word for it is a light to your path.
In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt


 
Mr. Hansen leads us in worship and tell us about his life verse. Psalm 119:105
Faith Family Prayer Time
We sit with our Faith Families for Chapel and meet once a month for a special activity.
Faith Families are lead by a teacher and contain students in all grades 1-8.

We filled a coat with many colors of ways God blesses us.

We started guided reading groups this week.
We read a book....

...and worked on some writing.

We matched end sounds.

We wrote a book about colors.

 We played a game to review our sight words.

 We practiced putting numbers in order 1-20.

 We corrected sentences by adding a capital letter and end mark.

We MUSTACHE you a question!

 We took seeds out off apples and made a chart to show how many seeds were in our apples.

If you give a seed what it needs it will GROW!

 We looked at the different parts of plants.

 We are learning about Dale Chihuly!

We will be making a "glass"sculpture!

September 12, 2014

In Chapel Pastor Reitz talked to us about forgiveness.  It is sometimes easier to say, "I am sorry," then to say, "I forgive you."  Pastor told us to that Jesus wants us to always forgive just like God forgives us.  He told us to share Jesus love and mercy with others, to not repay wrong with wrong but show grace and forgive those who wrong us.  
This is a good message for all of us!

NEXT WEEK: 
Thursday is a half day with 12:00 dismissal- Teachers have inservice meetings
Friday there is no school- Teachers are going to a conference by Tim Elmore

A Look Ahead:

Religion: Joseph and his family 

Memory: Hebrews 11:1 due Thursday

Reading: We will begin our guided reading groups next week 

Literacy Centers

     phonics: work with ending sounds in words

     alphabet: statement sentences

     writing: write a book about colors

     math: ordering numerals and writing numbers to 20

     name: sight word activity

     poetry: Read A Color poem

     

Spelling: Lesson 4 TEST on THURSDAY

Grammar:  Question Sentences

Math:  We will be working with money, identifying numbers, and putting numbers into sets

Science: Plants and their parts

Social Studies: All about Me

Art: Dale Chihuly

We will start our guided reading groups next week.  I feel the children are working independently at centers and are ready to start the next step.  

I have pretested each child on the sight words for first grade.  I testing each child using the first list.  If the child was able to read the first list I would go on to the next lists.  After a child missed about 10 words I would stop the testing.  Each child is coming home with a list of their individual sight words.  If a word is checked off the child was able to read the word.  Please work with your child.  The words will be retested the first week in October.  Some children finished first grade words so I am sending home second grade words.

FIELD TRIP:  Our first field trip is Monday September 22.  Please fill out the permission slip and return it Monday in the Friday Folders.

This is our Fall Fundraiser!
Registration Deadline in MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15
If you are like me and don't run, do the sleep in option with a donation!
PTL helps fund many activities in our room.
I use PTL funds to help pay for art and science experiments.

Please look for this ARTSONIA Slip in the Friday Folder.
Please visit this site to view your child's artwork.
This is a great way to share art with family!

Don't forget to use the TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER form to order your gift cards.
What an easy way to raise money for our school!

A dress code reminder:  If your child wants to wear a sweatshirt in class the options are:
a Zion crewneck sweatshirt
a plain crewneck sweatshirt
a solid one color sweater
NO HOODS are allowed in the classroom.  I have also noticed several student wearing cargo shorts with big pockets on the legs.  These are not part of our dress code.  Students can wear any khaki, black, or blue shorts that do not have the big cargo pockets.  
Any question about dress code look in the parent handbook or talk to Mr. Marolf.

Join us for Trunk or Treat October 10.
New this year:  Food Trucks
See Banner for details

Our class has completed more mileage club cards than any other class.
Together they have walked 150 miles!
Encourage your child to walk/run in mileage club!

Join me in worshipping our forgiving Father in church this weekend.  If you attend Zion we are now on the normal worship schedule: Saturday 5:00, Sunday 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00.  If you don't have a place to worship please come to Zion.  I am doing the children's message this weekend and love to see my students at the message!!

In HIM,

Amy Bernhardt

 A Peek at our Week

We really enjoy our new playground!

It is so much fun.

With so many fun things to do.

Thank you for the new playground!
Thank you for buying Together We're Better, the funds raised helped buy the new playground!
Thank you to the parents who work helped assemble, put in, and mulch the playground.

A BIG THANK YOU to Mrs. Steinbacher who was the leader of the committee for the playground and work numerous hours in the hot sun working on the new playground!

We wrote thank you notes to the people who helped with our new playground!

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
We love the playground!

In centers we found the beginning sounds and recorded them.

We wrote a sentence about what we would wish for if we could wish on a star.

We sorted living and non living things.

We added verses to a poem.

We played a new spelling game on the iPad.

We put sentences in the correct order.

We sorted letters by their shapes.

We build our spelling words.

We found and made many works with the -am chunk using our sound boards and chunk cards.

We learned about triangles.  We drew triangle by first making 3 dots, one for each angle.

We sorted our classmates in a game called Silent Star.

We learned about what plants need.

We put soil in a baggie.

We added seeds.

We gave the bag a blow of air, CO2.

We put water in the baggie.

We told about the experiment on the recording sheet.

The baggies were put up in the window.
Now we wait...

We are MATH SUPER HEROS.  We practice counting by 10's,  5's, and 1's.

Sentences start with a CAPITAL LETTER.

Sentences end with an end mark.
This week we worked on statement sentences that end with a period.

We worked with geoboards and made shapes.

We are reading, "Charlotte's Web."

We are studying Victor Vasarely, he made optical illusion art.

We painted warm colored swirls.

We painted cool colored swirls.

We then cut the painted paper into strips.

Next we practiced weaving using the different strips.

Weaving was tricking and hard, but we all worked and practiced it and made our OP ART.

We wrote in our journal how we think plants grow.

We came up with some good ideas in our journals.

We wrote sentences that told about a picture on the smart board.

After making sentences altogether, we put up our offices and working on writing statement sentences on our own.
First graders are beginning to do a lot of independent work!

We practiced our spelling using shaving cream.

We loved our spelling practice!

We began solving math word problems by drawing a picture.

We learned about pennies.  Ask your child something new they learned about a penny?
(heads, tails, Abraham Lincoln, one cent, tails side were different on different pennies)

Dr. Ernstmeyer, Head of School at Lutheran High St. Charles was our VIP reader.

He read us the funny book, "Giggle, Giggle, Quack"

Listen to our fun poem.

It has a surprise ending!