This week we learned about God protecting Noah and how God's rainbow reminds us of His promise to care and love us. God used the flood to wash the earth; the world was given a new life. God uses His Word and the waters of Baptism to wash our sins away and gives us the gift of eternal life. As we wait for rain and relief from the heat remember God keeps His promises to us!
Religion: Abraham
Memory: Psalm 31:14
Reading: We have spent the whole week learning about our Literacy Centers. I was so proud of the class and they did great at centers for the first time! This week we will continue to practice them so we can work at our centers independently.
Grammar: Sentences, focusing on what a sentence needs
Spelling: Lesson 2
Phonics: Hearing sounds in a sequence
Writing: Writing a sentence
Math: Continue review of numbers, begin ordering and matching
Science: Living and Non Living
Social Studies: Learning from each other
Art: Piet Mondrain
It was great to get a chance to talk to you at Back to School Night. I want to thank you for making your child's education a priority and thank your for the sacrifices you make to have your child in this Christian environment. Please keep the red folder for reference through the year. If you have any questions please contact me.
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.
I am sending home book orders. Please follow the sheet in the Friday Folder to place your order online. This is a great way to encourage your child to read and get books at a reasonable price. Thanks!
This has been a great week. Your children are doing such a good job of learning our classroom routines. Ask them about centers and check out the pictures of our first few centers and other activities this week! 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.
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.
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.
link: scholastic book club
I am sending home book orders. Please follow the sheet in the Friday Folder to place your order online. This is a great way to encourage your child to read and get books at a reasonable price. Thanks!
This has been a great week. Your children are doing such a good job of learning our classroom routines. Ask them about centers and check out the pictures of our first few centers and other activities this week! 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.
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| Look at our first footies! |
Mileage Club
Our first, second, and third grade students were introduced to the Mileage Club last Friday. The Mileage Club is a fitness program that students may participate in during their lunch recess. It involves walking/jogging around our cemetery path and keeping track of the laps as they are completed. Every time a student finishes a card (21 laps/about 3 miles) they turn the card in to Mrs. Steinbacher and receive a plastic “footie”. The “footies” are designed to be placed on shoestrings or chains.
Special rewards are earned at these milestones:
Number of Cards turned in
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Number of Miles completed
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Reward Earned
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5
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15
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Silver Footie
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10
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30
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Gold Footie
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15,20,25,30, etc.
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# of cards x 3
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Clear Footie
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17
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51
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Footie and #50
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25
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75
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Footie and #75
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34
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102
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Footie and #100
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Students who complete at least 17 cards (51 miles) during the school year will receive a certificate at our Closing Chapel in May.
Pastor Rouland led chapel this week. He talked to us about why we come to chapel and why we go to church.
GATHER- We come together as a family.
LISTEN- We hear God's word to us from the Bible and the message.
RESPOND- We give praise with our voices and give thanks with our offerings.
GO!- God sends us out to share Jesus.
Zion is very excited to begin a single study during our Higher Education and Sunday School period starting this Sunday, August 23rd. This is an unique study of the total narrative of the Bible and is designed to help us gain a comprehensive perspective on God’s total plan of salvation for His children.
· Adults - Gather in the Fellowship Hall for coffee and donuts. Class begins at 9:30 am
· Children / Sunday School (PK3- 5th Grade) - Parents can drop children off in the School Commons at 9:20 am. From there they will go to their age appropriate classrooms for stories, crafts and snacks.
· Jr. High Students - Meet in the Jr. High Building with Mr. Micah Braddy for a teen's version of The Story.
Let the journey begin as we find our story in God's Story.
Please pray for my daughter, Hannah, and my family as we take her to college this weekend. She will be a freshman at University of Evansville in Indiana.
Thanks You!
Blessed to Serve,
Amy Bernhardt
Blessed to Serve,
Amy Bernhardt
A Peek at our Week
We learned about our centers.
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| We learned how to build words at Spelling Center. |
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| We learned to record the words after we built them. |
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| We learned about Alphabet Center. |
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| This week we put the alphabet in order and then recorded our work. |
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We worked on rhyming words at Phonics Center.
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| We used chunks and sound boards to build new words in spelling. |
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| We put numbers in order and then taught each other why we put numbers in this order. |
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| We learned about primary and secondary colors. |
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| We mixed colors to make new colors. |
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| My daughter Hannah came in to help us create a color wheel flower. |
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| We read with buddies! |
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| We wrote down ideas to write about in our journals. |
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| We sent our first prayer cards to people we have been praying for this week. |
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| We sorted short a words. |
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| We practiced spelling using shaving cream! |
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| We drew pictures for our spelling words. |
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| We learned about what a scientist does. |
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| We practiced being a scientist. |
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| We wrote about what we observed. |
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| We made predictions. |
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| We observed some more. |
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| Look on the back of the science worksheet to find the recipe to make more slime! |
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| We are practicing our letters in handwriting. |
What a busy week!
