Wednesday 23 December 2015

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope that you are enjoying your two week break! Thank you for a great first semester. I have so enjoyed getting to know all of you and look forward to a great second half of the school year!

Thank you to all of the parents who helped with our class Christmas party and came to celebrate with us. We had so much fun getting to eat, laugh, and fellowship together. Also thank you for the outpouring of love from each of you and the thoughtful gifts!

Just a few reminders for when we come back in January:

1. There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 4th.  School will start again on Tuesday.

2. Spelling Bee lists were sent home with each student. We will be having our class spelling bee in January. The top 3 students from our class will go to the 1st and 2nd grade Spelling Bee in February.

3. January 11th will be our annual Kite Day.


Praying you have a wonderful Christmas!  See you in January!



Thursday 10 December 2015

We have finished our last full week of school before Christmas Break! Next week we will have 3 full days of school and finish with a half day on Thursday!

Here's a peek of what happened this week:

Reading: In Reading we learned about making Text-to-Text connections while reading.  We practiced doing this while we read some fun Christmas stories!

Writing: For Writing we finished our last procedural writing piece.  We did our revising and editing and then had our friends read our writing to help us fix our mistakes.  Then on Thursday and Friday we wrote our final copy with illustrations in our own little books.

Bible: In Bible we reviewed the Christmas Story about how Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem for the birth of baby Jesus, how the shepherds came to see Jesus, and how the wise men came to bring gifts and worship the new King.  We also made our very own nativities with all the different characters.  Through our Bible verse we learned that Jesus became a human being just like us and came to make His home with us. He is the one that shows us the glory of God.

Math: This week in Math we finished learning about shapes.  We learned about 3D shapes like cubes, rectangular prisms, cones, cylinders, and spheres and put them in our Shape Books.  We also learned about symmetry and made symmetry monsters!





















This week half of our class had the opportunity to help Mrs. Godoy with chapel! They did an awesome job! Here's a video of their performance:



Important Information:
1. Because next week is a short week we will not have new spelling words or a new Bible memory verse.

2. The last day of school will be THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17th.  There will be an early dismissal on that day at 12:30pm.

3. On Thursday we will also be having our class party! Parents are welcome to join us at 11:00 and we will eat at 11:30.

4. The last day for Christmas Program DVD Orders will be next Thursday.

Have a wonderful weekend! :)

Thursday 3 December 2015

Christmas Program!


Wow! What a busy, but wonderful week! Thank you to everyone who came to our Christmas Program on Wednesday night. We were so excited to share our hard work with you and hope that you enjoyed every minute of it! Here's some pictures from our practices and from the performance:






Reading: In reading this week, we focused on making Text-to-World connections and continued practicing our Text-to-Self connections.

Writing: For writing we planned and wrote the first draft of our procedural writing pieces.  Next week we  will finish these and make them into a book!

Math: In Math we learned about shapes! We learned that quadrilaterals have four sides and four angles.  Today we also learned about other 2D shapes.  Through out Unit 5 we will be making a 2D and 3D shape book.  This week we focused on the 2D shapes and next week we will move into the 3D shapes.


  

Bible: For Bible we learned about the different names given to Jesus in the Bible.  Each student was given an ornament with a name of Jesus on the front and a verse on the back.  They looked up their Bible verse and wrote down what that name of Jesus tells us about Him.  Next week we will hang up our ornaments!

Social Studies: This week we started learning about Africa! We took a "trip" to Kenya and learned about the people and animals there.

Important Information:

1. Spelling Words: preacher, lunch, church, while, which, match, chosen, where, pitcher, child, what, reach, when, something, write, watch

2. Bible Verse: "The Word became a human being. He made His home with us. We have seen His glory. It is the glory of the one and only Son." John 1:14a

3. Order forms for the Christmas Program DVD were sent home today. If you would like to order one, please fill out the form and return it and the money to school with your student.

4. The last day of school will be Thursday, December 17th.  This will be a half day of school.

Have a wonderful weekend! :)