Happy Friday! I am currently sitting at Naha airport about to fly to Tokyo to celebrate my brother’s graduation from High School. The students are in great hands today with a substitute teacher who is one of my friends. I’m sure they will have a great day!
Last night was the OCSI HS graduations. Two of the seniors got to work closely with the 1.1 students: James Durham and Riko Koreen. Congratulations to them two on their next journey after HS! The students made cards to congratulate them and I delivered it to them last night.
This Week:
We’ve had another great week at OCSI. The end of the year is my favorite because you get to see how much the students have grown from the beginning of August! We also get to do some pretty fun and cool activities!
This week we learned all about contractions! I’m, can’t, won’t, he’s, we’re and SO many more! For the first lesson, I became Doctor Turner and I performed surgery on the words to cut them and put them back together with a band-aid (which is the apostrophe). The students enjoyed that!
Contraction are so normal in our speech but when we stop to think about it, it’s pretty interesting how we smush words together in English.
We also finished our last STAR test for the school year. WOW reading is one of the most ways that each and everyone of my students improved in this year. Great job everyone!
We finished all the lessons in math this week, so we took a Unit 10 math test. The students made me so proud with their counting of money, reading clocks, place value, number grids and so much more that they learned this year. We will continue to finish up our Math Journal workbook and take a End-of-the-year math test next week.
Bible: This week we also finished our whole Bible unit with a review of God’s promises to us. We remembered the stories all the way back to the beginning to see that God was keeping his promises, and God will continue to keep his promises. We sequenced the pictures of God’s promises.
We then continued to learn the rest of the acronym for FEET which was our Class Purpose Statement for the year. The students grew in all the areas. The were FASCINATED by the world, they were EAGER to do their best, EARNEST by loving others and God, and THOUGHTFUL with their words and actions. To learn and put these things will be a life long journey and I hope they will never forget it!
On Wednesday, we had a combined chapel with 1-5 to listen to the 5th grade speeches. It was great to see 2 brothers of 1.1 students go up and give advice or tell about their favorite memory from Elementary school. That will be you some day first graders! :) We also got to sing some of our favorite chapel songs and even sing Happy Birthday to Mrs. Bezner!
On Tuesday, we also got to visit the 8th grade students. They had recently studied folk tales and so after their trip to Ishigaki, they wrote their own Ishigaki folk tale. The 8th grade students read aloud their stories to us and they did so well! It was fun to interact with the bigger kids. Thanks for sharing with us 8th graders! :)
NEXT WEEK: LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!
NO Spelling words or Bible Memory verse or HOMEWORK!! :)
Just make sure to still read 15 minutes every night and all summer long!!
Dismissal on Thursday at 2pm. Buses will still run so please calculate the new time your child will be home. If you would like to join us for the End-of-the-year party, you are welcome to. It will start at 12:00 noon. You can take your child straight home from there.
“Thank you so much to everyone for already signing up for food. I'm excited for a fun time on Thursday. Parents are all welcome to come. Please come at 12:00 noon. Here is our schedule:
12:00 - Set up food, play a game
12:30 - eat together, slideshow of pictures
1:00-2:00, play some more games, awards, summer birthday celebration, clean up, say goodbye!
DIMISSAL WILL BE AT 2:00pm. School buses will still run like normal, but please recalculate the time as buses leave school at 2:00pm.
Here is the food so far the people have signed up for! You can email me if you know what you would like to bring:
Food item- Cheese Pizza - McEntee
Food item- Croissants - Okuyama
Food item- Veggies and dip - Woolery
Food item- Fried Dumplings - Qi
Food item- Mini Hamburger - Ogawa
Food item - Chicken Nuggets - Yamada
Food item - Ju-shi onigiri - Miyazato
Fruit-
Fruit-
Dessert item- Cupcakes and drinks - Frazier
Dessert item- Beniimo tart - Kinjo
Dessert item- Cupcakes - Gonzalez
Dessert item - Rainbow jello cup - Hannadige
Drinks and Paper plates - Elston
When a student brings a curved mirror for Show and Tell, I can't just help but take a group photo!
