Friday News for the Week of Jan 22-26

This Week:

Reading: Use prior knowledge: As a reader, it’s important to think about what you know about what you are reading. This week we read some stories about schools because we know all about school! We also read a nonfiction book about China. We used a KWL chart to think of what we know, what we wonder about, and what we learned.

Math: We are chugging through place value! The student are doing a great job understand what 10’s means and what 1’s means. We did some regrouping this week with will help in the future with double digit subtracting! We also learned how to make a table this week and counted with dimes.

Writing: This week we finished up our How To editing and published our books and read them to the 2.1 class! Good job everyone!

Bible: We started the crazy stories about Samson. We learned that he is incredible strong and even though he didn’t also do things that pleased God, God is going to use him in an amazing way!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: be me we see seed  feel meat  meet weak week

Bible Memory Verse:  “I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.” Psalm 18:1-2

Upcoming Events: 

Feb 1 - Report Cards sent home

Feb 19 - No School

Feb 28 - 3rd Quarter Progress Reports

Feb 26- Mar 2 - WEEK OF READING - more details later

Friday News for the Week of Jan 16-19

This Week:

We finally had all 21 students this week!

Reading: Problem and Solution: This was an exciting strategy and one that really got us thinking! We read Harry the Dirty Dog and thought of the Problem and Solution. We also read my favorite childhood book, Tikki Tikki Tembo, and thought of many problem and solutions.

Math: We started Place Value - we learned that there are ones, tens, and hundreds and we learned how to count the tens like this: 1 tens = 10, 2 tens =20 etc. I could tell it was confusing but I'm sure the students will get it during this chapter.

Bible: We started to learn about the cycle of the Judges. We learned how the Israelites had peace while they obeyed God, but soon they forgot about what God had done from them, worshiped idols, and their enemies attacked them. When they finally remembered about God and cried out to Him, he sent a judge to help them out. The first judge was Othniel. We also learned some about Deborah. This week we started the story of Gideon. It’s funny to think that the Israelites never learned their lesson and then when we look at ourselves… we are still the same! We let God down so many times, but he is still faithful to love us!

Writing: We edited our How To writings! The students were in partners all week and worked super hard to edit the stories. I can’t wait to publish them and read them to 2nd graders next week!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: by   my   ride   bike   like   time   nine   dive   find   kind   them   would

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

Friday - NO SCHOOL! Teacher Work Day and End of 2nd quarter

Upcoming Events:

January 25th - 2nd quarter ends

January 26th - No School

Feb 1 - Report Cards sent home

Feb 19 - No School

Feb 28 - 3rd Quarter Progress Reports

Feb 26- Mar 2 - WEEK OF READING - more details later

Friday News for the Week of Jan8-12

Happy Friday!

This week:

Reading: We reviewed the 4 main reading strategies of Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expand Vocabulary. Together they make up what we call the Reading CAFE. Today, the students picked one of those four to really improve on for the last 100 days of school. (Can you believe we are on day 83?)  I’m so proud of all the students for how much they have already improved in reading and it’s only the end of the 2nd quarter! We read through Curious George Flies a Kite to go over those strategies.

Math: We finished up Chapter 4 about Subtraction Strategies. This was probably the trickiest chapter yet and there was one lesson that we just decided not to cover at all because it was confusing everyone! But I hope the students learned some new (and faster) ways to subtract past 10. We had our Chapter 4 test today! Next we’ll be moving on to Place Value!

Writing: We have been writing "How to..." stories for a while now! This week we finally picked one of our writings to edit and publish.

Bible: After Christmas break we jumped back into the stories of Joshua and the Israelites going into their Promised Land, Canaan. First they had to cross the Jordan River, and just like the Red Sea, God dried up their path so they could walk through on dry land. The first city they had to conquer was Jericho. God told the Israelites to march around the city for 7 days blowing trumpets. Then on the 7th day, they marched around 7 times and all yelled! Guess what happened? The walls of Jericho fell down! Amazing! God can do anything!

We got to act out the story this week!

Fun Friday - We watched the Veggietales movie, “Josh and the Big Wall”

Next Week

NO SCHOOL on MONDAY!!!

Thursday is OCSI day so wear RED and WHITE!!!

Spelling Words: go   no   so    boat    coat    rode    home   hope   old  told    give    said

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

Upcoming Events:

Book Orders

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl to browse the latest books and order online. Please place your order online by January 26th, 2018.

Upcoming Events:

January 15th - No School

January 25th - 2nd quarter ends

January 26th - No School

Feb 1 - Report Cards sent home

Feb 19 - No School

Feb 28 - 3rd Quarter Progress Reports

Friday News for the Week of January 4th and 5th

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas break!
Mine was wonderful and I got to spend a week with my parents and youngest

brother in Okinawa.

This week was short so we transitioned back into school-mode by practicing our daily routines
and reviewing. We also welcomed a new student! Welcome to our class Mikaiah!

This week we did many fun activities such as

• New Year’s Graphing
• Christmas Break Writing
• Reading a book called “Snow Day!”
• Reviewed Spelling Words
• Reviewed the Bible stories up to Joshua
• Math games in the computer lab
• ...and we made a New Year’s Goal!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: ate  late   made   cake  came  name  rain  sail  day  may  out  more  (long vowels! eek!)

Bible Memory Verse: “Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

MONDAY - Jan 8.

Parent Observation Day 8:30-10:30

Flying Kites together - 8:50-9:20 - make sure to buy a kite this weekend! (If it rains, we will do an activity inside together)

Coffee Talk - 11:15-12:00

I hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events:

January 15th - No School

January 25th - 2nd quarter ends

January 26th - No School

Feb 1 - Report Cards sent home

Feb 19 - No School

Feb 28 - 3rd Quarter Progress Reports