Friday News for Week of February 16-19

Happy Friday! We are moving fast through the school year! It’s almost March, unbelievable!

This Week:

Reading: We focused on Retelling the Story. This is a very hard but necessary skill. To retell a story, you need to know the setting, characters, problem, beginning, middle, end, and the solution. Phew! That’s a lot of things to remember! But, it will help the students with the comprehension of their stories.

This week we finally had everyone back after some sicknesses so we performed our Did You See Chip? Reader's Theater! Enjoy:

Did You See Chip 1 from Sarah Turner on Vimeo.
Did You See Chip 2 from Sarah Turner on Vimeo.
Did You See Chip 3 from Sarah Turner on Vimeo.

Math: This week we focused on counting quarters and telling time. Quarters are the hardest of all the coin money so we will continue to practice counting the coins. We also learned how to tell time to the 5 minutes by looking at the long and short hands.

Bible: We learned how Saul continued to disobey God and as a result, he is not able to be king anymore. Samuel goes and picks a new king from the family of Jesse. Samuel thought it was going to be one of Jesse’s older sons, but the Lord reminded him, “Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” As a result, Jesse’s youngest son, David was chosen who will go on to be a good king for Israel.

Writing: We wrote letters to our parents this week!

Social Studies: We learned all about restaurants this week! What is the favorite restaurant you like to go to with your family?

Next Week:

Spelling Words: soon, good, look, took, food, book, zoo, foot, cool, noon, many, he

Bible Memory: “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not be in want.” Psalm 23:1

Please return the Bazaar volunteer form and the donation by Monday, February 22nd! Make sure to put these dates in your calendar if you are able to come help:

February 27th - 9:00-1:00pm - wrapping LUMPIA!

March 4th - 3:30pm making signs and decorating booth

March 5th - BAZAAR DAY!!!

March 7th - No School - OCSI Holiday

March 18th - 3rd Quarter Ends!

March 21st - No School

March 25th - No School Good Friday

Friday News for Week of Feb 8-12

Happy Friday and Happy Valentine’s Day!

Today was so very windy, but we tried not to blow away and had a fantastic day!

Today we celebrated Valentine’s Day by reading a fun Valentine’s Book, decorated Valentine Cards and passes out candy and cards to our friends.

This Week:

Reading: We focused on the Problem and the Solution of the story. The problem is the “oh no!” part of the story and the solutions is the “yeay” part of the story. We read some fun books to figure out the Problem and Solution.

For Spelling we practiced with some tricky words like meat and meet, weak and week.

Math: Today we finally learned about quarters. To me, quarters were always hard to count, even when I went to college in America, I had a tough time counting quarters. We will practice a lot next week and I’m sure the students will all be really good at counting quarters by the end! We also practiced some more function machine and money practice as well as some centers on fraction of blocks, geoboards and triangles, math facts practice, and fact family.

Bible: We are continuing to follow the Israelites with the story of Samuel’s birth. Now the Israelites have demanded a king and so Saul was anointed as the first kind of Israel.

Social Studies: We are starting to practice and learn about Kid City - a super fun event in April where the 1-2nd graders get to take of jobs and be producers and consumers in a mini city. We have learned about the Post Office, the Church, and the School.

Writing: We are continuing to learn about friendly letter writing. After we wrote a letter to Mr. Jernberg, he wrote us back! Thanks Mr. Jernberg!

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY - Feb 15!!!!!!

Next Week:  

Bible Memory: “Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. “ 1 Samuel 16:7b

Spelling Review: boys boxes tent late rain may came boat hope told coat like time find kind seed meet meat weak week

Upcoming Events:

Feb 15 - No School - Presidents Day

Feb 19 - Picture Retake Day for any students who are absent or want to redo their picture.

March 5th - BAZAAR!

March 7th - No School - OCSI Holiday

March 18th - 3rd Quarter Ends!

March 21st - No School

March 25th - No School Good Friday

Long Vowel Starfall Game

StarFall Game

Friday News for Week of February 1-5

Happy Friday!

What a great week we had at OCSI! Today was the lower elementary Spelling Bee! The three students in our class did so great! I am so proud of them! And congratulations to the three second graders who won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place!

We did lots of exciting fun things this week!

Reading:

Readers Theater: We read a story called “Did You See Chip?” about a dog who ran away and a sad girl who made friends while trying to find her dog. We then divided into three groups with a script and I assigned a part for each students. We practiced reading our part to get ready to perform our play next week! We will use props and practice fluency of reading with a Readers Theater. I will video tape it and make sure to put it up here later!

Writing: We also started letter writing. The students learned about the 5 different parts of a letter and together we wrote a letter to Mr. Jernberg asking for more fun things on the playground. The students will also start learning their address to get ready for Kid City.

Math: This week we learned about the centimeter. It’s interesting to think that there is 2 ways of measurement. The students walked around the room and measured different things they saw with a centimeter ruler.

Bible: We finished another Bible unit and this time with the story of Ruth and Naomi. Ruth was willing to leave her home to follow her mother-in-law and God blessed her for it by providing her food and protection in the field of Boaz. Later Boaz would marry Ruth and would both be in the family tree of King David as well as Jesus! Amazing!

On Thursday it was the 100th day in School! We did 100 exercises, wrote 100 Spelling Words, and made a 100's day book. Today for Fun Friday we did a science experiment where we guessed how much water would be 100 drops of water. The students really enjoyed it!

Next Week: 

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

Bible Memory Verse: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6

Scholastic Book Order: ORDER by Feb 12th

1. Order by marking on the back of the paper the quantity (how many) and which book you want while adding up the total. Send that back to school with the money in US$ Dollars.

2. OR Order by Credit Card online.

Here is the website: http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl

You can now browse books online as well.

Or look back on this page for a detailed walk through on how to order: http://footprintsthrough1stgrade.blogspot.jp/2015/09/friday-news-for-week-of-august-31-sept.html

Upcoming Events:

Feb 5 - Progress Reports Sent Out

Feb 19 - Picture Retake Day for any students who are absent or want to redo their picture.

March 5th - BAZAAR! 1st grade got Lumpia! We are so excited! Please look at the form your child brought home today!

March 7th - No School - OCSI Holiday

March 18th - 3rd Quarter Ends!

March 21st - No School

March 25th - No School Good Friday

Friday News for Week of January 25-29

Happy Friday!

This Week:

During Reading we looked at:

• How to use I and Me
• Long o words
• Different words to use other than “said” like “screamed, whispered, answered, barked, etc.” 
• We also finished up our How to Writing on Friday.

Math: We jumped into our new shiny Math Journal 2’s! We started with learning about math facts on dice, learned how to fill in number boxes, and learned about Fact Family. The students all did wonderful learning about the new things!

Bible: We learned the story of Samson this week. He was a special man and was very strong because of his long hair. Through his life, he helped the Israelites fight against their enemies the Philistines. But one day, he gave in and told Delilah his secret. She cut his hair and he was weak and captured by the Philistines. At the end of his life, after his hair grew back, he prayed one more time for God to give him strength and he was able to defeat a lot of the Philistines. We learned this week especially that, “It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.” Psalm 18:32

We even made Samson hair today as our craft

Social Studies: We started learning about the Post Office. Students learned what happens at a post office and we watched a video showing both an American post office and a Japanese post office. Next week, we will learn our address and practice addressing an envelope.

Next Week:

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

Bible Memory: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;” Proverbs 3:5

Scholastic Book Order:

If you would like to order books from a form like this today, you can order in 2 ways: You can order in 2 ways:

1. Order by marking on the back of the paper the quantity (how many) and which book you want while adding up the total. Send that back to school with the money in US$ Dollars.

2. OR Order by Credit Card online.

Here is the website: http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl

You can now browse books online as well.

Or look back on this page for a detailed walk through on how to order: http://footprintsthrough1stgrade.blogspot.jp/2015/09/friday-news-for-week-of-august-31-sept.html

Valentine Grams: I sent the Valentine Gram forms home today. Sorry it is late notice, but the deadline to return it is Wednesday, Feb 3rd. You do not have to order and Valentine Grams, only if you would like to.

On Feburary 12th, if your child would like to, we’ll have a small Valentine exchanging party. It doesn’t have to be as much as the Christmas party, but if everyone wants to write a note or give a card with a candy, we will exchange Valentines in our class.

Upcoming Events:

Feb 5 - Progress Reports Sent Out

Feb 5 - Lower Elementary Spelling Bee

Feb 19 - Picture Retake Day for any students who are absent or want to redo their picture.

March 5th - BAZAAR! 1st grade got Lumpia! We are so excited! Please look at the form your child brought home today!

March 7th - No School - OCSI Holiday

March 18th - 3rd Quarter Ends!

March 21st - No School

March 25th - No School Good Friday

Friday News for Jan 19-23

Happy Friday!

This Week:

Reading: For reading, we focused on fluency and reading words with expression. We did a fun exercise where we read some numbers using ! ? . and , in between so we had to read it use our voice to go up or down. Try it!

1 2 3?

45.

6789.

10?

11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.

16!

17!

18?

Writing: We continued to write “How to…” writings.

Grammar: We were learning about pronouns.

Spelling Bee: We had our class spelling bee on Thursday and I am happy to announce that Leyna Alcantara, Hirohisa Fukuda, and Shuma Toyomoto will be going on to compete on Feb 5th against the 1st and 2nd graders. Good job to everyone on studying the Spelling Bee words!

Math: We finished up Unit 5 this week as we continued practicing the function machine, and math facts. We took our Unit 5 test today and everyone did great!

Bible: We have started learning about the cycle of the judges. After the Israelites settle down in Canaan, they start a cycle of forgetting about God and worshipping other idols, where then God allows their enemies to come and attack them, then they cry out to God for help, and God picks a judge to save them from their enemies where they then have peace. We learned that the first judge was Othniel. In today’s story, Gideon fought against the Midianites with only 300 men and God helped them win with them using a torch, jar, and horn.

Fun Friday today we made our own cars!

Next Week:

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

Bible Memory: “It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.” Psalm 18:32

Upcoming Events:

Feb 5 - Progress Reports Sent Out

Feb 5 - Lower Elementary Spelling Bee

Feb 19 - Picture Retake Day for any students who are absent or want to redo their picture.

March 5th - BAZAAR! We had a meeting today and 1st grade got Lumpia! We are so excited! Stay tuned for more information for how to help with Bazaar.

March 7th - No School - OCSI Holiday

March 18th - 3rd Quarter Ends!

March 21st - No School

March 25th - No School Good Friday

Spelling Bee Rules and Homework Checklist

Hi everyone!

We will be doing our class spelling bee's this week and I wanted to clarify on some tricky rules.

1. You may NOT retrace or take back letters once spoken them. You can NOT change the sequence of letters from when you first speak them. For example, if you are spelling the word "Teacher" and you say "T-E-C, I mean, T-E-A... and finish the word, you will be out.

2. You DO NOT HAVE to 1. Say the word before and after you spell it. 2. Say the capitalization or hyphen or other punctuation in a word. If you want to, you can, but you will not be disqualified if you do not. For example, "Ping-Pong" can be spelled "pingpong" and it will still be correct.

Good luck everyone!

Keep practicing at home and use that Spelling City website for extra practice and games.
If you need another copy of the paper, please let me know!


Here's the HomeWork Checklist for this week. :)