Friday News for week of October 27-31

This week: 

Monday was our Sweet Potato Digging! We found a TON of HUGE sweet potatoes! I hope everyone got to enjoy their sweet potatoes at home. I made Beni-imo chips with mine! I will put a slide show of pictures up soon.

Reading: 

• Strategy: Retelling. After reading a book, it is always a good idea to practice retelling, or telling the story to someone. This week we played a game where the students had to retell a story to 4 people using rock, paper, and scissors.

Writing: 

• Procedural Writing: This week we learned the different transitional words you can use while writing such as “First, then, next, finally” and “First, second, third, fourth, and fifth.”

Math: We learned how to tell time to the half hour. It was a little tricky because clocks can be read as 11:30 or “half past 11.” The students worked hard though and by the end of the week, they got it! Today we also learned about frames and arrows. We had to watch the ‘rule’ and figure out how to continue the pattern.

Bible: We finished the story in Moses about the 10 plagues, and continued to the crossing of the Red Sea, the now, the people of God are gathered at Mount Sinai where God is going to give them the 10 ‘rules’ or ‘commandments’ for them to follow. So far we learned the first 4: 1. You shall have no other gods before me. 2. You shall not make for yourself an idol. 3. Do not misuse the name of the Lord. 4 Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

Science: We learned about the life cycle of an ant! Ants are fascinating! We learned that they are born as an egg but then hatch into a larva, turn into a pupa before becoming an ant. 

Fun Friday - Geoboards!

Next Week: 

Spelling: long   king   ring   long   sung   sink   wink   bunk   on   but

Bible Memory: “The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.” Exodus 15:2a

Upcoming Information:

November 7 - Parent Observation参観日

The elementary department is pleased to welcome parents to the campus for classroom observation on November 7th, 2014 from 8:30 - 9:30.

1.1 will be doing the morning carpet time and reading time. You are welcome to come and observe the fun we have in first grade!

Please be aware that the purpose of this observation is to view the students moving through their daily lessons and routines as naturally as possible. Therefore, please note that this is not a time for conference or to correct or provide assistance to the students during instruction, independent work, or recess.

As you move freely from one classroom to another, please be sure to enter and exit as quietly as possible and with as little distraction as possible.

We look forward to seeing you next Friday, November 7th from 8:30 - 9:30.

November 15 - Walkathon Click HERE for more information

November 17 - OCSI Holiday No School

November 22 - OCSI PTF Holiday Market

So blessed to be able to work with this great group of kids

Walkathon - Important Information!

OCSI WALKATHON

ワーカソン 11/15/14

The Walkathon is a school-wide activity at which OCSI 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。

Friday News for week of October 20-24

Happy Friday!

Thank you to all the parents who came out today for the Parent Teacher Conference! I enjoyed talking to all of you and I’m excited to help your child grow in the 2nd quarter and the rest of the year!

This Week:

Reading: Our strategy for the week was Problem and Solution. We read some more books and figured out what is the problem? and how did they fix the problem?

Writing: We started doing Procedural Writing. I started a “How to draw a snowman.” The students helped me and I think they are getting the idea on how to do procedural writing. This coming week they will start writing their own!

Math: This week we learned about patters on a number grid as well as how to count up and down on a number line. 

Bible: We started the story of Moses. We are excited to see how God is going to use Moses in the upcoming stories. For now, you can enjoy this song that the students learned how to sing in Music class!

Next Week: 

Spelling: end   hand   sent   went   fast   must   jump   lamp   they   one

Bible Memory: "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise." Psalm 100:1-4

Let's play a game called "How many 1st graders can you fit in the reading corner?"

Upcoming Events and Information: 

Sweet Potato Digging: It is THIS MONDAY! Don’t forget to bring your shovel and ORANGE T-shirt!!!!

October 27 - Sweet Potato Digging

November 15 - Walkathon

November 17 - OCSI Holiday No School

November 22 - OCSI PTF Holiday Market

Fall Festivals! It’s the end of October which means - FALL FESTIVALS! If you would like to attend one, here are a few local Fall Festivals at churches:

Calvary Chapel Okinawa City

Keystone Nazarene Church in Chatan

Parent Teacher Conference and other information

Hello! This Friday is the Parent Teacher Conference! I am very much looking forward to meeting with you all. Here is a schedule for the whole day. Please check your times. Because they are so close together, please do your best to arrive on time. Together we will do our best to make the most of the 15 minutes.

Some more information:

• Specials teachers will be available for conferencing in the cafeteria
• The 5th grade will have a bake sale
• The Senior class will have a bake sale and lunch available for faculty and parents; TACO RICE! ¥500 for Taco Rice or ¥800 for Taco Rice set with drink and dessert.
• There will be an elementary Book Fair 
• Mrs. Bezner will host a Parent Seminar in the Elementary Library; 20 minute presentation; repeated throughout the day; times offered 9:30,11:30; 1:30, 2:30 
• Ms. Hadley will be available in the HS computer lab (Room 322)  for Jupiter Training 
• Mrs. Bezner will host a Christmas Program meeting for Parent Volunteers at 10:30

As always, don't hesitate to ask if you have a question!

Blessings,

Ms. Turner

Friday News for week of October 14-17

Can you believe we are already half way through October?

Happy end to the 1st Quarter!

This Week:

Reading: Our strategy for the week was Making Predictions. It's always a good idea to make a guess to what is going to happen next in the story! In our reading journals, we made a prediction about a story Ms. Turner wrote. Using clues, the students had to guess Who Took Ms. Turner's favorite shirt? Seeds, feathers, and an egg. The answer: a chicken!

Here's a sneak peek at what our Weekly 4 looks like: Work on Writing, Word Work, Read to Self, and Read to Someone.

Word Work with macaroni and Work on Writing

Read to Someone

Read to Self

Special Guest: Mrs. Bezner came to read to our class this week! She read the book, “The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.” The book was great! 

Writing: Our strategy for the week is Setting. The students thought about the setting of their stories they were writing. 

Math: This week we learned about odd and even numbers. We said that odd is like Odd Todd and they are numbers that don’t have a pair. Even numbers are like Even Steven and they can all be grouped into pairs. 

Bible: We finished the story of Joseph and what an incredible story! From the very beginning where Joseph had a dream about the wheat and the stars bowing down to him, to the end where his brothers came to Egypt looking for food during the famine and bowing down to Joseph as the ruler of Egypt! The whole time, through the good and the bad, God was with Joseph. This is my favorite verse from the story, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”  Genesis 50:20

Social Studies: We finished our first unit called Me on the Map. We learned about the world, Asia, Japan, Okinawa, Yomitan, OCSI, and ME in my classroom!  For 2nd quarter we will focus on Science and Life Cycles. 

Some more photos: 

1.1 Students leading the motions for the songs in Chapel

Next Week: 

Spelling: back, neck, kick, pick, sick, rock, sock, duck, have, or

Bible Memory: "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture." Psalm 100:1-3

Important Information:

Walkathon: We received the first Walkathon permission slip for 1.1! Please consider walking in the Walkathon with your child and turn in the permission slip and money! 

Parent Teacher Conference: The times for the Parent Teacher Conference were sent home on Friday. I apologize for how late they were. Please look over it and check one of the three boxes and send it back to school. Looking forward to sitting down with you and sharing about how great your child is doing in school! 

Sweet Potato Digging: The permission slips for this field trip was also send home on Friday. Please look over the papers, sign and return the permission slip and please ask if you have any questions!

October 17 - First Quarter Ends

October 24 - Parent Teacher Conference - information will be sent out this coming week. 

October 27 - Sweet Potato Digging
November 15 - Walkathon
November 17 - OCSI Holiday No School

Phonics Games:

I found some great online games for student to play and practice the short vowel sounds. We are already finished with the unit, but for extra practice these games may be good. Try them out!

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/picturematch/

http://www.starfall.com/n/matching/short-vowels/load.htm?f

http://www.kizphonics.com/phonics/short-vowels-a-e-i-o-u-phonics-practice-activity/

Homework Checklist

Happy Tuesday!! :)

Student of the Week

Hello everyone! This week we are starting something new in 1.1

Introducing... Student of the Week!

Every Friday, I will choose a student to send home a Student of the Week sheet. Please have your child fill it out and send it back to school on Monday. If you can, please send in a picture! I will hang it up for the week and on Friday they can "Show and Tell" their paper and pictures. :)

Friday News for Week of October 6-10

Another windy Friday out there! Don’t get blown away~

This Week:

Reading

This was the first week we practiced the Weekly 4 - Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, and Work on Writing. Each day students got to choose which one they wanted to do and independently worked on their choice. We are still practicing, but the students did great! I hope that during this time, students can stretch themselves in the words they are working with both in reading and writing. 

Ask Questions while reading: This week we practiced what it means to ask questions during reading. We read aloud a book and asked a question about every page! The question could be as simple as, “Why did the character do that?” or “What is going to happen next?”

Cross Checking - While reading, it is important to check to make sure the pictures and the words are matching up. This is called Cross Checking because you are crossing the pictures and words together. This week we read aloud a story and made sure that on each page, the words I was trying to read matched up with the picture of the story. 

Writing:

We continued with Good Beginnings as well as Characters of the stories. 

Math: This week we finished Unit 2 of Math with a short math test. So far we have learned reading clocks to the hour, counting pennies and nickels, tally, using number grids to count up and down, as well as counting by 2’s and 5’s. 

Today we also did a fun lesson on patterns. The students designed their own pattern and got to see it laid out in squares. We also played a fun game with patters called Musical Pattern Chairs. 

Bible: We have started the lesson on Joseph this week and the students are loving it! The Bible workbook came with mini puppets for the students to color and cut out. So many bad things happened to Joseph - he got sold by his brothers as a slave, Joseph’s master’s wife lied and caused him to go to jail, he helped the cupbearer in jail but the cupbearer didn’t remember him. BUT throughout all the bad times, GOD WAS WITH JOSEPH and God is using Joseph in a special ways for His story. I’m excited to share with the students the rest of the story next week!

The students are also doing great in memorizing Psalm 100. We are going to work on memorizing the whole chapter so here is a song to help them memorize it:

Chapel: This week’s chapel was the story of David being picked to be king. David was the youngest of all of Jesse’s sons, but God didn’t look at the outward appearance, God looks at the heart and he saw that David’s heart was the best and picked him to be king. 

A picture from music class!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: add puff egg well will doll kiss miss you live

Bible Memory Verse: Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth, worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. Psalm 100:1-3

Upcoming Dates and Information:

The Walkathon packets were sent home last week. Please read over it and email me with any questions you have. It is a truly fun day for OCSI and I hope everyone can come out to enjoy fun and exercise and to raise money for more OCSI projects. 

October 13 - No School - Teacher Development Day

October 17 - First Quarter Ends

October 24 - Parent Teacher Conference - information will be sent out this coming week. 

October 27 - Sweet Potato Digging

Homework Checklist

Oops! Sorry that this is a day late! Have a good Tuesday evening. :)

Friday News for Week of September 29-October 3rd

Happy October! 

Hello on this windy day. Don’t get blown over outside!

This Week:

Reading:

This week we learned about the setting of a story. Every story has a setting and it could either be the time (when?) or the place (where?) of the story. We read several books and also tried to figure out the setting of a story by ourselves.

Word Work: This we we practiced what it means to do word work. We used macaroni to practice and form different words we see around the classroom. We want to keep practicing with words because that will help us when we read.

Naming and Telling: We learned that all sentences have a naming and a telling part. Naming = Who? Telling = What? We wrote our own sentence about an animal and cut the sentence apart so we can know which is the naming and which is the telling. 

Writing: This week we learned about good beginnings to a story. Some ideas the class came up with are One day, One scary morning, One dark night, One goofy afternoon, etc. The students did great in putting it on to their own writing!

Math: This we week continued to practice counting and trading with nickels and pennies and I think that they all finally understand! It is hard, but with more practice (and later with dimes and quarters) they will be able to do a great job in counting money. 

Bible: We finished the story of Jacob! We learned that God had a plan for Jacob’s life even through all the crazy things that happened! God sure never breaks his promises. We also watched several fun videos to show the Bible stories we have learned so far. 

God's Story: Noah from Crossroads Kids' Club on Vimeo.

God's Story: Jacob and Esau from Crossroads Kids' Club on Vimeo.

God's Story: Creation from Crossroads Kids' Club on Vimeo.

Chapel: This week’s message in chapel was about when the Lord called Samuel and gave him a special message. Samuel thought it was his friend Eli calling him while he was sleeping, but it was actually God! Samuel finally replied by saying, “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.”

Next Week:

Spelling Words: (Review) -  cat man had has God hop not mom bed get let yes sun cut bug us did big him fix

Bible Memory Verse: Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth, worship the Lord with gladness. Psalm 100:1

Upcoming Dates and Information:

Today the Walkathon packet was sent home. Please read over it and email me with any questions you have. It is a truly fun day for OCSI and I hope everyone can come out to enjoy fun and exercise and to raise money for more OCSI projects. 

October 13 - No School - Teacher Development Day

October 17 - First Quarter Ends

October 24 - Parent Teacher Conference

October 27 - Sweet Potato Digging