Walkathon 2014

OCSI WALKATHON

ワーカソン 11/15/14

The Walkathon is a school-wide activity at OCSI which promotes health, exercise, fun and funds.  It is a 20K walk/run from OCSI, to route 58, to Renaissance Hotel, to route 6 and back.  There will be FINISH LINE FESTIVAL with Bouncy Houses and games.  We hope your family can come and join us!


ワーカソンは学校全体が行う、健康と楽しみの日です。コースは学校から58号線に出て恩納村に向かって歩きルネッサンスホテルでUターン してから、県道6号線に沿って歩き続け学校に戻ってきます。総距離20キロ!
歩行後にはファンフェスティバルをお楽しみください。

GET READY FOR WALKATHON

This year's OCSI walkathon will be dedicated to remodelling the Elementary Computer Lab for the students, and renovating the secondary Classrooms and Locker Bay Area for the High School Department.  In addition, funds received from the Walkathon will also provide funds for College Scholarships for graduating seniors.

今年のワーカソンは小学のコンピュータラブのリモダルと高校のクラスとロッカーのリモダルです。大学に行く生徒のための奨学金にも手伝います。

• There is a participation fee of ¥2000.  This includes the walk, insurance, and lunch.  But if you raise ¥5000 or more, this includes the walk, insurance, lunch, and the much awaited Walkathon T-shirt.  参加費は￥２０００。それは保険、ランチ、と参加の分です。￥５０００を集めたらワーカソンのシャツももらえます。
• Classes that raise the highest average of money gets a pizza party!  (We hope it will be our class!)一番多くお金を集めたクラスはピザパーティーをもらいます。
• K-2nd grade are highly encouraged to ride the bus half way and start at Renaissance Hotel then walk back to OCSI on route 6.  This will by much more enjoyable, since it is a long walk for little ones.  幼稚園児から２年生はOCSIからのバスをのりレネサンスホテルまで乗ってから歩く方がいいです。 
• There will be checkpoints along the way and buses to pick up those who can't walk anymore.  Buses will not pick up any students/parents until checkpoint 8.  So be prepared to walk!歩きながら歩けないとなったらチェックポイントでバスにのれます。チェックポイント８まではバスは来ません。
• All K-2nd grade MUST be accompanied by one parent/adult.  幼稚園児から２年生大人と歩かないといけません。
• A "Finish-Line Festival" at OCSI campus with Bouncy castles and games!歩いた後学校へ戻ったらゲームとかジャンピングハウスもあります。
• You must be registered by Nov. 7th and raise ¥5,000 or more, to get a Walkathon T-shirt on time for the day of Walkathon.　１１月７日までに￥５０００をだしたら、ワーカソンのひにシャツがもらえます。
• Please come to the school between 8:00-9:00am on the Walkathon day to finish your registration. ワーカソンの日に８：００から９：００の間についてください。
• Prizes for all course walkers.歩き終わった人に賞があります。
• Awards for the fastest finishers in each grade level.  If a Kindergarten student walks the entire course and finishes before any other Kindergartener, the award will go to that student.  But if no Kindergarten student walks the entire course, the award will go to the fastest student who completed half the course.  かくクラスごとに一番早い生徒はメダルがもらえます。
• Anyone can participate!  Tell your friends and family!  They can register online, or call the school for more information.  誰でも参加できます。友達、家族、みんなを誘ってください！ネットでも登録できます、それか学校の方に電話をしてください。

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thank you to everyone who was able to come for Parent/Teacher Conferences today! I enjoyed getting to see all of you and discussing your student's progress and goals for next quarter!

This week we continued our study on Weather.  On Tuesday we were able to do a fun experiment where we learned how rain is made.  In Writing, we focused on the past tense.  We learned that when we start a story in the past, we need to keep the whole story in the past.  For Bible, we learned about the visit of the Wise Men and how Jesus was protected from those that wanted to hurt Him.  We studied how Jesus is King and because of that He deserves to be worshipped.  In Math, we continued to work on telling time, adding money, and using base-10 blocks to write numbers in different ways.  For Reading, we focused on making predictions about what would happen next in the story.  We had lots of fun making predictions and then seeing if we guessed correctly.

Important information for this next week:

1. On MONDAY morning we will have our Sweet Potato Digging Field Trip. Students should wear their Friendship Friday T-Shirt and bring a shovel.  They can also bring gardening gloves and a hat if they would like.

2. Walkathon is quickly approaching! If you or your student would like to participate please fill out the form that was sent home a few weeks ago and send it in to me.  If you have any questions or are in need of another form please let me know.

3. Our Spelling words for this week are: hold, those, hope, know, coat, spoke, over grown, froze, older, obey, goal, hundred, high

4. Our Bible Memory Verse for this week: And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." Mark 1:11   

End of 1st Quarter

Happy end of 1st Quarter!! It is hard to believe that we are a fourth of the way through this school year! We have definitely been learning a lot so far! This week in Reading we focused on Response to Literature.  We practiced writing a summary of stories and also focused on the characters. Mrs. Bezner then came in for a special read aloud on Thursday afternoon.  In Math, we finished Unit 2 on addition and subtraction with our Unit Test. Our theme for this week was Weather, so in writing we wrote about our favorite type of weather and described why we liked it.  For Bible, we looked at the story of Jesus' birth and the visit of the shepherds.  We learned about the Good News that the angels had to share which was that the Savior of the world had been born.

Some important announcements for this next week:

1. On OCTOBER 27th we will be having our annual K-3rd grade field trip to go sweet potato digging.  A permission slip was sent home with every student on Friday. Please sign and return it to me by this Wednesday. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

2. This Friday OCTOBER 24th is Parent/Teacher Conferences. This will be a no school day for students. A paper was sent home with each student on Friday with the time scheduled for their conference.  Please return the signed portion of the paper to me by this Wednesday.  If there are any questions or if you would like to reschedule your conference please email me with a few days and times that would work for you.

3. Our Spelling words for this week are: easy, even, keep, team, zero, peace, breeze, these, teeth, leave, please, cheese, yours, upon

4. Our Bible Memory Verse for this week: "Where is the child who has been born to be king of the Jews? When we were in the east, we saw his star. Now we have come to worship him." Matthew 2:2

Bienvenidos a South America!

We had a great start to October in 2.1! Here is what we learned this week:

In Phonics we worked on Long A words and on making words.  In Reading, we learned to look for smaller words that we already know to help us know how to read big words.  We were also very excited to start Word Work in our Daily 5 time.  The students had lots of fun playing different word games with our Word Wall and Spelling words.  In Bible, we learned about the birth of Jesus and how He is the only one that is able to save us from our sins.  In Writing, we worked on personal narratives.  I am very excited to read what the students have written about their life!  For our Math time, we continued to work on Subtraction and Addition and learned some shortcuts to help us do harder problems.  For Social Studies, we continued our study of South America.  We even had a visitor from Colombia come in to share with us!  We have also learned many new Spanish words this week which has been a fun activity for us!

Some announcements for this upcoming week:

1. There is NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, OCTOBER 13th.  Enjoy the extra day off! :)

2. Our Spelling Words for next week are: why, fire, wild, Bible, try, bright, mind, life, Friday, skylight, mild, kind, story, could

3. Our Bible Memory Verse for next week: "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy. It is for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11

3. We will be having our Unit 2 Math test on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15th.

Praying everyone has a safe and blessed weekend despite the bad weather!

South America Week!

Our theme this week was South America! We learned several Spanish phrases and prayed for those in South America who have still not heard about Jesus.  We also took a "trip" to Argentina and Brazil and learned some interesting facts about their food, land, and culture.  In Writing, we wrote a narrative story and continued to learn about editing and revising.  For Reading, we studied different strategies that good readers use to improve their reading.  We focused on Using Punctuation while reading and Stretching words that we are not sure how to read.  It has been wonderful to get to meet with each students individually and talk about their goals for their reading this year and how we can accomplish them.  In Math, we focused on subtraction and also on Frame-and-Arrow problems.   For Bible, we worked on learning the books of the Bible and learned about what took place between the Old and New Testament.  Next week, we will start learning about the life of Jesus.

Friday we also had a kick off assembly for Walkathon.  Some information was sent home with the students in their Friday folders about Walkathon.  Please be sure to look at that for all of that information.

Important Information for next week:

1. Spelling Words: grade, played, train, eight, faith, today, neighbor, gave, railway, praise, wave, weigh, enough, children

2. Bible Memory Verse: "She is going to have a son. You must give hime the name Jesus. That is because he will save his people from their sins." Matthew 1:21

        

                    

Have a great and safe weekend! :)