Ms. Turner's 1st Grade Travelers

Friday, January 15, 2016

Friday News for Week of January 11-15

Happy Spirit Week! We had a lot of fun dressing up this week as various characters and themes. Here’s some photos:

Kite Day

Animal Day

Career or Decades Day

Character Day

This week:

In reading we focused on 2 strategies: Flip the sound and Read just right level books. For flip the sounds, if we are reading a word and it doesn’t sound right, we can flip the vowel sound to the other sound such as the long sound for a. This is a good strategy for reading even when you get older! We also said that the students should try to find one book that is hard and challenging, 4 books that are just right, and 1 easy book to put in their reading folders.

We also practiced the Spelling Bee words all week!

In Writing we have begun procedural writing where we write “How to ______” today, we all wrote together, “How to go down a slide.”

Math: We focused on math facts and learning good tricks. We reviewed adding doubles and adding doubles plus 1 like 7+8 (7+7+1). We also reviewed adding the 8’s and 9’s. On Friday we did “What’s my rule?” Function Machine. This helps students to think of the rule for adding such as by 2’s or 5’s or positive or negative.

Bible: We finished our unit on Joshua and going into the Promised Land. We had fun acting out the story of Joshua and the battle of Jericho. It’s amazing how God made the walls of the city come down! We also learned how just God is by the story of the battle of Ai. One person had disobeyed God and so the Israelites lost the battle. Even though God loves us very much, he still expects us to follow and obey him!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: Continue studying Spelling Bee words

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

Monday, January 18th - No School!

January 22nd - Bazaar Meeting 3:15 - If you are interested in what the Bazaar is like, or want to help out our class, you are welcome to attend the Bazaar meeting next week after school!

February 5th - Lower Elementary Spelling Bee - Next week, we will do a Spelling Bee in class. The top 3 winners will go on to compete in the Lower Elementary Spelling Bee on February 5th at 8:30am. Keep studying the words everyone!

Monday, January 11, 2016

Homework Checklist and other notes

Report Card:

I forgot to mention that the 2nd quarter Report Card went home on Friday. Please sign the blue envelope that says "2nd Quarter" and return only the envelope. You can keep everything else!

Have a great Tuesday!

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Friday News for January 5-8

We had a great week at school after a nice 2 week break!

So glad to be back in the classroom!

This Week:

Reading: This week went back to the basics of Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Word work and practiced building stamina again. We also looked closely at characters, because of Character Parade next week. We also did a lot of practice with long a words.

Math: On Monday we graphed how many students stayed up until midnight on New Year’s Eve and how many students flew on an airplane during break. We continued to use base 10 blocks to work with place value and even adding large number together. We also worked a lot with number stories this week. We wrote our own number stories today and the students did great!

Bible: After our “Christmas Story” break, we have gone back to the story of Joshua and the Israelites. In our story, God is ready to lead the Israelites back into Canaan their home land, but there is now a lot of other people living in Canaan. The first city the Israelites must take is Jericho. Joshua sent two spies secretly to Jericho who affirmed that God will help them win over Jericho. To get to Jericho, the Israelites had to walk through the Jordan River and once again, God parted the waters so they could walk by on dry ground. WOW!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: Study the Spelling BEE Words! Practice the spelling bee words at home. Practice saying it and spelling it outloud.

Bible Memory: “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9

Kite Day is January 11th. 1st and 2nd graders have a regular school day but will go outside from 10:00-10:45 to fly kites on the soccer field. Parents, you are welcome to come and have fun with us during that time!

Jan 11-15 - OCSI School Spirit Week!!

Monday - Jan 11: Noah’s Ark Day: Dress like Noah or an animal!

Tuesday - Jan 12: Career Day: Dress up as what you want to be when you grow up! Or Decades Day: Dress from long time ago.

Wednesday - Jan 13: Character Day: Dress up as a book character! (K-2 will parade around the school from 9:15-10:00am)

Thursday - Jan 14: Red and White Day: Wear OCSI colors!

Friday - Jan 15: Class matching Day: Wear your Friendship Friday T-shirt!

Spelling Bee:

Make sure you are studying your spelling words!
I have put all the spelling bee words onto a website called Spellingcity where the students can play games to practice for the Spelling bee. The link is here: http://www.spellingcity.com/msturnerocsi/ and also on the top tab. The 100 words are in 5 different groups - all are the first grade words!

Click game:

And then Free Activities:

Enjoy!

Monday, January 4, 2016

Happy New Year~

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's Season.

I took a trip up to Tokyo and got to spend a few weeks with my parents and brothers. Here's a family picture at Christmas

Some important details about January:

Kite Day is January 11th. 1st and 2nd graders have a regular school day but will go outside from 10:00-10:45 to fly kites on the soccer field. Parents, you are welcome to come and have fun with us during that time!

Jan 11-15 is school Spirit Week, where we will dress up crazy as a whole school. Your child is welcome to participate in dressing up as well.