Friday News for Week of December 5-9

Happy Friday!

We had a great week of school knowing there’s only a week left before Christmas Break!!

Reading: We focused on asking questions while reading. It is so important to ask TONS of questions while reading. We practiced together with many books and the students asked so many questions! What’s going to happen? Why did the character do that? Where did that character go? When did that change? and so on! I hope they grow up to continue to ask good questions about the world around them!

Math: We took our Chapter 3 test a day early and jumped into Chapter 4. Chapter 4 is Subtraction strategies to 20. We already learned how to count back to help us subtract as well as subtracting on the number line.

Bible: This week we started the Christmas Story. I put up 10 envelopes on the wall, each with a picture to help tell the story. We have opened 5 envelopes so far and have 5 more to go! We learned about Zachariah and Elizabeth and the birth of John who would go before Jesus and tell everyone that Jesus is coming. We then learned about an angel coming to Mary to tell her she would have a baby - God’s own son! Joseph also had a visit from an angel. Because of a census, they had to go back to Bethlehem but there was no more room! Jesus was about to be born! When he was born, he was laid in a manger - where animals eat their food! But this baby Jesus was so special. He is the Son of the Most High God, he’s called Emmanuel which means “God with Us” and he would grow up to save everyone from their sins. Wow!

Friday: We had an ice cream party for being one of the top classes to raise money for Walkathon!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: ate   late   made   cake   came   name   rain   sail   day   more   may   out   more (13 spelling words!)

Bible Memory: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.” Luke 2:14

FRIDAY - 1.1 CHRISTMAS PARTY!!

Parents are welcome to come at 10:30am! We’ll play games, do a craft, and eat together! Parents if you are willing to send in some food so we can all eat together. Please reply to me and I will add your food item to the list.

School will be dismissed at 12:30pm. If you are unable to come to the party - your child needs to be picked up at 12:30 or will ride the bus and arrive at your bus stop after leaving OCSI at 12:40.

I told the students today, that if they want to bring a Christmas present to a friend in the class, they need to have something for everyone in the class. You do not have to have anything, but if you’d like, please make sure it is something small (like a little bag with some candies) for every student (We have 18 students. If you would like a class list, please let me know!)

Here’s what we have so far:

Food:
Chicken Nuggets - Yellope, Fujita
Hashed Potatoes - Seto
Onigiri - Maruyama
Sandwiches - Sagawa
Meatballs and juice boxes - Sneller
Shortbread - Kinjo
Fruits and Plates - Cooper
Rice Crackers - Shum

Cookies - Katsumi

Drinks and Cups - Qi
Drinks - Kosinski
Drinks and Forks - Ohori

Christmas Break is from December 17-January 3rd. School will start back on January 4th.

Have a nice weekend!