Friday News for the Week of September 25-29

We had a great field trip at Toguchi Beach today!

Here’s some pictures:

This week:

Reading - Our strategy was “Cross Checking.” That means to cross the pictures with the words to ask Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?” It’s a very important strategy for readers to be able to do! We read a few books and ended with Pete the Cat goes to the Beach - perfect for our field trip today!

Math: We finished up Chapter 1 which was all about addition strategies to 10. We learned how to make the sum of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. We even learned interesting things like true and false addition sentences, we learned how to read and understand addition number stories and so much more. The students rocked their math test today!

Writing: This week we thought of good opening sentences for our stories instead of always using “One day.” The students thought of some really good ones! We also learned that good writers spell their spelling words correctly and know how to make sentences instead of letting their stories go on with …. and…. and… and :)

Bible: We finished up the Bible unit about Abraham. It’s amazing to see how God kept his promises through Abraham’s life - by giving him a son and blessing the whole world through Abraham’s family.

Science - We finished up learning about our Solar System! We learned about each of the planets that go around the sun and the place we call our community! Next we’ll be zooming in a little bit to look at the earth we live on, our continent, our country, our city, and our neighborhood!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: in is it did big him rip fix was of

Bible Memory: “Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth.” Psalm 100:1

Upcoming Events:

• 10/9: No school!
• 11/3: Parent/Teacher Conferences - no classes  More information coming soon!
• 11/11: Walkathon and Holiday Market
• 11/13: OCSI holiday

Friday News for the Week of September 19-22

Happy Friday!

This Week:

Reading - We continued to build stamina for Read to Self and we managed to read for 20 minutes - 3 times this week! Great job everyone! Starting next few weeks, we will be reading to self everyday while I conference with individual students and groups of students.

This week we focused on Characters. We learned that they can be people, animals, or things. We read three books to see the different kinds of characters.

Writing - We focused the whole week on writing with a capital letter and period at the end. We used our hands to figure out when the sentence should end and we should write a period. We also charted out all the things good writers do that we should do!

Math: We learned how to add to the sums of 6, 7, 8, and 9. The students are fast in their math facts. We’ve been doing some center work in math time, playing some math games and working in our workbooks. The students are doing a good job of staying on task and working hard!

Bible - We are continuing to follow the story of Abraham and Sarah. God made a covenant with Abraham - that’s a fancy word for a promise between God and a man. He then changed his and Sarah’s names. He promised that their family would be a great nation and will be as many as the stars in the sky or the sand in the shore. God made a promise to them, but in the next story, they tried to take matters into their own hands and use Hagar, Sarah’s servant, to get a baby! God reminded them again in today’s story that they are going to have a son. Sarah laughed when she heard the news - but it goes to show, trust God’s timing in everything in your life!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: up  us  mud  bug  fun  run  sun  cut  to  are

Bible Memory Verse:(same as last week) “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” Psalm 8:1

TUESDAY - PICTURE DAY!!!

Hopefully you received this packet yesterday. Picture day is Tuesday for 1.1 class. If you would like your child to dress up, they are welcome to, please provide a change of clothes for them. Our time is before recess, so they can get changed into more comfortable clothes during recess time.

If you would like to order pictures, please fill out the form and insert the money and tape it shut. OCSI is not collecting the money, but we will give it straight to the photo people on Tuesday. Please provide exact change. If you do not wish to order pictures, please disregard the form.

FRIDAY - FIELD TRIP!!!

I sent home a form today about the field trip. Please look over it and let me know if you have any questions!

Homework Checklist for the week

Progress Reports will be emailed to you tonight. Please take a look and let me know if you have any questions! :)

Upcoming Events:

• 10/9: No school!
• 11/3: Parent/Teacher Conferences - no classes
• 11/11: Walkathon
• 11/13: OCSI holiday

Happy Friday!

We has another great week in 1st grade!

This Week:

Reading: We focused on Author and Illustrators. We learned that sometimes it can be two different people, or sometimes it is the same person. On Friday, the students got to listen to a very special book… a book I wrote when I was in 4th grade! I told them that they all can be authors and illustrators some day too!

We also learned that, “A sentence is a complete message that MUST start with a Capital letter and end with a period.” We will be working on sentences throughout the next few weeks.

We continued to build stamina for Read to Self. We made it to 18 minutes, but we all don’t quite have the stamina for 20 minutes yet. Next week!

We also learned about KidsA-Z which we will be doing during Listen to Reading time. I sent home the passwords for it on Tuesday. If your child would like to do it at home, they are welcome to! There is even an app for it on a ipad or iphone! Parents you can also register your email address to receive results to your inbox. Please email me if you have any questions about KidsA-Z!

This week we also had a sneak peak at Word Work. I gave the students macaroni and playdough and they spelled different words with the objects.

Writing: This week we learned that good writers:

• Use the beginning and ending sounds to help them write words
• Write stories about their lives
• Use spaces
• Draw pictures to match their story

At the end of writing, we also have “Author’s Chair” where the students get to share one of their stories with the class!

Math: We are zooming through Chapter 1! The students learned about adding 0, vertical addition, how to read a number story, and how to add to sums of 4 and 5. They are all doing great in math!

Bible: We are going through the book of Genesis and learning about how God keeps his promises through the stories of Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, and now with Abram and Sarai.

Science: We learned about Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter and Saturn!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: bed  fed  red  get  let  pet  men  yes  for  as

Bible Memory Verse: “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” Psalm 8:1

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY!!!

Upcoming Events:

Sept 25, 26 - Picture Day

Sept 29 - Field Trip

1st and 2nd Grade Field Trip to Toguchi Beach (一、二年生の渡具知ビーチへの遠足）

WHEN: September 29, Friday 10:30am-2:00pm ９月29日金曜日

WHO: The 1st and 2nd Grade students will be going to Toguchi Beach for a Field Trip! All parents are invited to join us!子供たちは渡具知ビーチまで遠足にいきます。ご父母の皆さんもどうぞ来てください。

WHAT: Students will enjoy God’s creation at the beach, while getting to know their fellow students and teachers. Students can spend the day playing at the park and searching for wildlife on the beach front.子供たちは神様の素晴らしい世界と生徒たちとの交わりを過ごしながら遠足を楽しみます。

Students can swim ONLY if a parent is watching them. If a parent does not go, the student can wade in the water up to their knees.

More information will be sent out next Friday.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Scholastic Book Order

Oops! I forgot to mention about the Scholastic Book Order in the Friday news!

This last Friday, you may have received something that look like this:

If you would like to order some books for you or your child, you can!

You can order Online!

Here is the website: http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl
You can now browse books online as well.

I followed through a few of the steps to show you if you wanted to order online with a credit card.

1. Select what books you want and add them to your basket. When you are finished, press "Go to Checkout"
2. Type in your email address, press "next"
3. Schools - Make sure it says Okinawa Christian School, press "next"

4. Deliver Option. Make sure it says OCSI and my name, Ms. Turner's 1.1 Class and select "Dispatch Order to School."

 

5. Child Details - Enter your child's name and the class (ex. 1.2, 2.1)

6. Choose Payment Method - enter Credit Card information and select "Pay Using this Address" 

7. The last step should be confirm! You should get an email about your confirmation and Scholastic will also send me a confirmation email. 

THIS CURRENT September Order is due by September 22!

Friday News for the Week of September 5-8

Happy Friday!

This week:

Reading: We continued to build stamina in Read to Self. We made it up to 15 minutes - twice! I think next week we’ll make it up to 20 minutes! We also focused on learning about Titles of a book. Titles are the name of the book. We learned that sometimes they are all capital letters, or just the first words are capital. Today we looked in our reading folder to see the titles of the books the students picked and we wrote them down.

Math: We started Chapter 1 with learning about addition number sentences. The students all did GREAT! I think we’ll have a super fun year with math!

Bible: We learned about Adam and Eve and what happened to them in the Garden of Eden. Everything was perfect, but Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the fruit from the tree that God told them not to eat. That is how sin entered the world. But God made a very amazing promise to Adam that someday he would send someone to save everyone - we know that person is Jesus!

Writing: We learned that good writers write from left to right, top to bottom, write about one idea, and underline the words they don’t know.

This week we went to the computer lab and learned how to play Spelling City games and ConnectED My Math game - Fact Dash

Science: We are learning about the Solar System!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: job, God, mom, hop, top, got, not, fox, a, and

Bible Memory Verse: “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11

Upcoming Events:

Sept 18 - No School

Sept 25, 26 - Picture Day

Sept 29 - Field Trip

1st and 2nd Grade Field Trip to Toguchi Beach (一、二年生の渡具知ビーチへの遠足）

WHEN: September 29, Friday 10:30am-2:00pm ９月29日金曜日

WHO: The 1st and 2nd Grade students will be going to Toguchi Beach for a Field Trip! All parents are invited to join us!子供たちは渡具知ビーチまで遠足にいきます。ご父母の皆さんもどうぞ来てください。

WHAT: Students will enjoy God’s creation at the beach, while getting to know their fellow students and teachers. Students can spend the day playing at the park and searching for wildlife on the beach front.子供たちは神様の素晴らしい世界と生徒たちとの交わりを過ごしながら遠足を楽しみます。

Students can swim ONLY if a parent is watching them. If a parent does not go, the student can wade in the water up to their knees.

Homework Checklist for Sept 5-8

This week starts weekly homework! Please email me if you have any questions about the homework. :)

Friday News for the Week of August 28-September 1

Happy 2nd week of school 

We are having a rocking time in 1st grade!

This week:

Reading - We started to build stamina in our Read to Self time. We started at 3 minutes, then the next day we went down to 2 minutes, but the next day we went up to 5, 8, and then 9 minutes by Friday! Our goal is 20 minutes!

We also learned a good system of picking our own books called IPICK. Students will be picking 6 books every week for their book basket to use while they Read to Self and Read with Someone. We learned that picking books is like picking shoes to wear. We wear them for different purposes and according to our likes and size.

Math - We took a beginning of the year math test that was pretty hard, but it will show me what I need to teach and focus on this year!

Writing - We started Writer's Workshop by practicing getting the writing folders and writing the whole time until I ring the bell. We also practiced writing our name and date on every writing paper. On Monday I had the students write WHATEVER they wanted to! This will be a baseline writing to compare with some writing they will do later in the year. I think they will be blown away by their improvement in writing!

Spelling - We reviewed all of the consonants this week and practiced writing in our spelling books.

Bible - We started with the beginning of the Bible in Genesis with the story of creation. We learned that God created everything in 6 days and on the 7th day he rested. We learned that his best creation was humans when he created Adam and Eve. God is so amazing for being our creator!

For Fun Friday, the students got to use their whiteboards to draw!

Next Week:
Monday - NO SCHOOL!

We will start HOMEWORK!

Spelling Words: am   at   cat  can   man   ran   had   has  I   the

Bible Memory Verse: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1

Upcoming Events:

September 18th - No School for students

September 29th - Toguchi Field Trip for 1st and 2nd grade. More information to come later.

Have a wonderful weekend!