Happy Friday! It’s the end of another great week in 1st grade!
This Week:
Reading - We focused on 3 important things about books: the TITLE, AUTHOR, and ILLUSTRATOR. I think it’s a good skill for the kids to be able to recognize all three parts of a book. We read Clifford books all week to teacher about. Clifford books are so funny! On Friday, the students picked 2 books from their book basket and write the Titles, Author, and Illustrator for those 2 books. Great job students!
We have reached the 20 minutes reading stamina for Read to Self. Next week we will try Read to Someone!
Writing - This week we looked at the steps on how to write a small moment story. First we think of an idea, then we touch each page and tell what we will write about, then we sketch across the pages a rough pictures, and THEN write the story! Phew! So many steps! The students did great thinking of stories and following the writing directions.
Math - We are cruising through the first chapter and we started to learn sums to 4 and 5. Next week we will continue all to sums to 10.
Social Studies - Today we learned about our school as a community and how OCSI is in Yomitan. We went outside to draw a picture of OCSI!
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!!!!
Picture Day is Wednesday! If you want your child to wear something nice, please send a change of clothes with them. If you want to order pictures, send the paper back and please have the money attached. If you have any questions, please email me!
Upcoming Events:
10/8 - Teacher Work Day - no school
10/25 - Field Trip to Kurashiki Dam
11/2: Parent-Teacher Conferences - no classes
Today 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.
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. For every $1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20¢ in Scholastic Rewards.
Please place your order online by September 30th, 2018.
