OCSI Bazaar

If you can attend, please come! 

Please mark your calendars for the OCSI Bazaar on March 16. There is a meeting for parents on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1st from 3:15. It is in this meeting where each grade will pick a “booth” or a “corner” to lead. Please try to make this meeting if possible. I have never done the Bazaar before either so we will learn together!

Homework Schedule Jan28-Feb1

Homework Schedule

Monday - Reading Homework/ Spelling

Tuesday - Reading Homework/ Spelling

Wednesday - -4 Math Facts/ Spelling

Thursday - Bible memory/ Spelling

Jan 28-Feb 1 Annoucements

On January 29th we will hold the annual Lower Elementary Speech Day. Parents are invited to come to watch your children present speeches and poems. The students will be in groups of 4 and they will all memorize a poem to present together. Please help your child in memorizing the poem. 

The Lower Elementary Spelling Bee will be help on February 8th from 8:45. I am cheering for Mitsuo Yamashiro, Kokone Kumazaki, and Min Choe as they study hard for the spelling bee! 

Please mark your calendars for the OCSI Bazaar on March 16. There is a meeting for parents on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1st from 3:15. It is in this meeting where each grade will pick a “booth” or a “corner” to lead. Please try to make this meeting if possible. I have never done the Bazaar before either so we will learn together!

Things to remember

Jan 29th - Lower Elementary Speech Day

February 6th - 2nd Quarter ends 

NO SCHOOL

February 7th - 3rd Quarter begins

February 15 - Report Cards Issued

Jan 28-Feb 1

Spelling Words

boy     boys    box     boxes

dog    dogs   tent    tents

about   how

I messed up on the Bible verse this week!!! I am SO sorry! Instead of Numbers, the correct book of the Bible is Joshua. I am so embarrassed for putting the wrong one! :) Please note the correction here. I will keep the same Bible verse this next week. 

Bible Memory Verse (again)
“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
- Joshua 24:15

Christmas time videos

Here are some videos from Christmas time!
Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.

Make your own photo slideshow at Animoto.

Speech Day poems

Here are the copies of the Speech Day poems for your students to practice and memorize!

Group 1: Sergio, Riku, Alex, Masamu

Sea Animals

What do you see in the sea?

Animals moving free!

Snails and whales

Using their tails.

Seals and eels

Looking for meals.

Catfish, flatfish

Chasing fat fish.

What do you see in the sea?

Animals moving free!

-Meish Goldish

Group 2: Victor, Xavier, Makana, Anri

In the Beehive

Here is the beehive,

but where are the bees?

Hidden inside, where nobody sees.

Watch as they come out of their hive,

one, two, three bees,

four bee, five!

-Author Unknown

Group 3: Mishia, Melisa, Aubrey, Susan

Apples

Apples, apples, what a treat,

sweet and tart and good to eat.

Apples green and apples red,

hang from branches overhead,

and when they ripen,

down they drop,

so we can taste our apple crop!

-Helen H. Moore

Group 4: Min, Harumi, Ranon, Kokone

Why My Homework is Missing

Deep inside my wooden desk

Lurks a monster most grotesque.

It ate my pencil and my pen,

My composition book, and THEN

It started rattling

clattering

hissing.

And THAT is why my homework is missing.

-Douglas Florian

Group 5: Mitsuo, Jarin, Jayden, Haruki

Popcorn

(still to be decided)

Have fun memorizing!!!!

Spelling Bee

Thank you parents for your help in getting the first graders ready for the Spelling Bee. I apogolize that this was my first time doing a spelling bee so I was not entirely sure all the steps involved. There is so many things you learn from a first experience! So I apologize if I did not go through the process correctly. Even though, the students did a WONDERFUL job in our class spelling bee and they made me very proud. They were very serious and quiet and did their best! We went through a few rounds but I would like to announce the winners from my class!

Mitsuo Yamashiro
Min Choe
Kokone Kumazaki

our alternate student will be Sergio Rapallini

These students will represent 1.2 in the 1st and 2nd grade spelling bee on February 8th from 8:45-10:00am

Congratulations to everyone and especially the 1.2 winners!!!

Spelling Bee Words

Here are the words for the Spelling Bee. Please be studying them!

away      tell         stopped          rock           got          spin          paper           face            glad        theme lips          play       charm      hand       bike        flute          leg              drum        jet         nap       dock some         far        under         more         end        ace         many        ball         tact       other        see wasp        drop       just       spoil      wig        cup        cloudy        off        went         duty        red      lid clear       she       left         clever         floor         pants          fasting         cook        coat         treat        trick        steep        report        can        last          foster        prove       landmark         peach    notebook hare         scorn        point         simple         flaming          stable           slipper         spare      desktop running          camping         mice         cloth        wrap          phone         join         hour         main

pair        catch          seven            quick           fruit         city       edge         two         itself         handle skirt       funny       brown        party     very        after       dashing        lifetime

Jan 14-18

Spelling Words

ball   call   fall

hall   mall 

tall  talk   walk

your   do

Bible Memory Verse (same as last week)

““I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”

Exodus 20:2

BUT - if you would like to challenge yourself I will give extra bonus points to whoever can remember 5 of the 10 Commandments!! We will be studying those this week:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself an idol.

3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.

4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

5. Honor your father and mother

6. You shall not murder

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal

9. You shall not give false testimony

10. You shall not covet.

Kite Day

Kite Day is January 14th. Please bring a kite to school this day. Our time will be between 10:15-11:00am. Parents are welcome to come fly a kite with your child. WEAR YOUR ORANGE FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY T-SHIRT!!

Happy New Year!!

Welcome back students! I hope you had a fabulous Christmas break! I sure did!

Here is some info for the coming week

Homework for Jan 8-11

Tuesday - Reading log - read for 15 minutes

Wednesday - Math facts +4, spelling

Thursday - Bible memory, spelling

Make sure to be reviewing the spelling bee words!!