Friday News and Information for January 12-16

Happy first week back at school! The students came back so excited to be back at school and excited to see me! I was very excited to see them too! We had a great week in 1st grade and here is a recap:

Reading: We re-practiced two of our Weekly 4 things: Work on Writing and Word Work. We made sure that we are doing it correctly. We wrote about our Christmas break as well as worked on the spelling bee words.

Math: We started learning about place value with base 10 blocks. We started counting them as well as trading the 10’s to count better. We also trained in Place Value Boot Camp where we practiced counting with rows of soldiers standing in a line, some as the 10’s and standing tall, and some as 1’s squatting short. Can you guess these lines of soldiers?

Answer: 52

Answer: 33

Answer: 42

Bible: We started the cycle of the Judges. Over and over in the book of Judges the Israelites were obeying God for a while, but they soon forgot and worshipped idols. Then God would send an enemy army to fight them. The Israelites would remember God and pray that God would save them, then God would send a judge to rescue them. The Israelites had peace once again until the judge died and the cycle started over again. We learned about two of the Judges - Othniel and Gideon and how God picked ordinary men to be used mightily for him! Today we acted out Gideon's battle with the Midianites with only 300 soldiers, a torch, jar, and horn!

Science: We learned the life cycle of a butterfly! We got to watch a beautiful video of the butterfly egg, to the caterpillar, to the chrysalis, and finally the butterfly!

Library: We had to reschedule library so we went today! Here are some pics:

Fun picture of the week: Students working together to make a long race car track by sharing their whiteboards!

Report Cards went home today! Please keep all the papers and return the blue folder with your signature on the line for 2nd quarter!

Next Week:

Next week is Spirit Week! Some exciting things are happening:

Jan 12 - Monday Kite Day. This is a regular day of school except for 45 minutes we will go outside to fly kites. Parents are invited to come from 10:00-10:45 to fly kites with your child. Please wear your ORANGE t-shirts!この日は普通の学校の日です。親たちは１０：００−１０：４５にいらしてください。

Jan 16 - Character Parade - The 1st grade student need to pick a character from a book to dress up. Costumes do not have to be elaborate, and homemade is great! Please come to school dressed up in the costume. The parade will be from 9:00-9:15. After that, the students will gather together to share their books, and hear books read by their teachers and Mrs. Bezner. Parents are invited from 9:00-10:00 to hear the stories read in the classrooms. We will meet outside near the office doors. If you would like your child to change after the parade, please send a change of clothes!本からのキャラクターを選んでドレスアップ！手ずくりのコスチュームでいいです。親たちは９：００−１０：００に来れたらいらしてください。

For Spirit Week, there will be other chances to dress up

Monday - Crazy hair, mismatch

Tuesday - Decades Day (dress up like from a long time ago… 1950’s, 1980’s, or even 1850 is you want..)

Wednesday - Class color day - Wear anything ORANGE!

Thursday - Red and white day

Friday - Character Day

Spelling Words: Spelling Bee words - NO Spelling test on it, just practice!

Bible Memory: “I love you, O Lord, my strength.” Psalm 18:1