Friday News for the Week of May 7-11

Happy Friday!!

We had a great time at Blue Seal last night! Thanks to all the families that came out!

and Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday for all the wonderful moms of the 1.1 students! Thanks for all you do!!

So crazy to think there is only a few more weeks of school left!

This Week:

Reading - We read some more Kevin Henkes books and looked at summarizing. We realized that summarizing is kind of like retelling but with fewer words. It’s like of like telling the most important parts of the story like - who, what, where, where, why?

We were also finding “ed” words this week. We learned that they can come in 3 sounds /d/ /t/ or /ed/

Writing: We finished publishing our Fictional Narrative stories this week. We even wrote a page called “All About the Author” where the students had to write in 3rd person such as “This is his/her 3rd book.” They all did great!

Math: We are zooming through learning all about shapes. The students have nailed what “sides” and “vertices” mean and they are using good thinking skills to think through the basic shapes of circle, rectangle, square, triangle, and trapezoid.

Bible: This week we learned the incredibly sad story of what happened to Israel and Judah. After multiple kings who disobeyed God and multiple prophets who called people back to God, the people still didn’t listen. God lead the Assyrian king to come and totally destroy Israel. Later the King of Babylon came and took of Judah. Both kings took the Israelites away as slaves back to their land and destroyed the land. BUT God always keep his promised, and God promised not to destroy the family of David. God used Jeremiah to tell that people that in 70 years some people will return to Judah and they will rebuild it again. Our next stories will revolve around the Israelites taken over to Babylon.

Science - This week we learned about mammals!

Next Week:

Bible Memory Verse: “Praise be the the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. Daniel 2:20

Spelling Words: beehive, airplane, football, into, homework, birthday, bookmark, firefly, wildlife, rainbow, any, number, know

Thursday is the Field Trip!!!

RAIN: Please bring umbrellas or other rain gear just in case it rains.

Parents who are coming: please meet us at the zoo around 9:30am. We will meet in front of the gate at the top of the stairs.

If you would like to directly take your child with you to the zoo, you may, but please let the office and your teacher know in the morning. YOU MAY ALSO TAKE YOUR CHILD HOME WITH YOU AFTER THE ZOO. But again, please let the teacher know.

Bring a backpack with the following items:　もってくるもの

Lunchお弁当,  Water bottle (already filled)すいとう  

Pencil/eraser えんぴつ消しゴム

Wear Friendship Friday T-shirt or an orange T-shirt. オレンジのTシャツ

Sunscreen and/or hat　ぼうし、日焼け止め

Rain gear　傘

Schedule:

9:00-9:40 Travel to the zoo　子供の国へ移動

9:40-11:15 Walk around the Zoo　動物園歩き回る

11:30-12:10 Lunch　昼食

12:15-1:15 Wonder Museum

1:15-1:30 Go to the bus　バスへ移動

1:30-2:00 Travel back to school　学校へ移動

Upcoming Events:

• 5/28: Memorial Day - no school
• 6/13: Last day of classes - class party (no lunch in the cafeteria)

Friday News April 30-May 3

Happy Golden Week!

I hope you had some time together with family and friends enjoying Children’s Day and a time of rest and relaxation.

We had a great week in 1st grade:

Reading - Main Idea - We read some pretty great Kevin Henkes books this week and thought about Main Idea of the story. We learned that it’s a theme that goes across the entire book, not some little tiny detail about the story. It was a good skill for us to talk about this week since many of the Kids A-Z quizzes ask, “what is the main idea of this story?” Now the students know!

Writing - The students are writing fantastic fictional narratives!

Math: We cruised right through Chapter 8 with time and measurement. The students did great! The 1st grade curriculum only teaches time to the hour and half hour, they will learn to the minute in 2nd grade. We did a fun clocks game called "Scoot" today!

Bible: We are learning about exciting times in the history of Judah and Israel that got split after the death of Solomon. Many of the kings did not follow after God and did bad things. God sent prophets to warn the people. One great prophet was Elijah who had a competition with the prophets of Baal to see who could bring down fire from heaven, God or Baal? Of course, God won! :)

Science - We are learning about animal classification and we learned about birds this week!

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW

Next Week:

Bible Memory: “The Lord is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made.” Psalm 145:13

Spelling Words: played worked needed hopped wagged stepped  liked hoped ruled skated their than there

Field Trip Information sent home today. Please sign the permission slips and return by Friday, May 11

1.1 Ice Cream Party!! Thursday - last one of the school year!!! I'd love to see you there!

Upcoming Events:

• 5/10 Big Dip Ice Cream Party
• 5/17 First Grade Field Trip (Kodomo no Kuni zoo and Wonder Museum)
• 5/28: Memorial Day - no school
• 6/13: Last day of classes - class party (no lunch in the cafeteria)

Scholastic Book Order

Hi everyone! I opened up the Scholastic Book Order!

Here's the link

http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl 

Please order by May 18th, 2018.

Thank you!

Friday News for the Week of April 23-27

Happy Friday!

Today was Field Day! The students did well participating in 10 events. Here are some pictures.

We also played at the park all afternoon - it was so much fun!!

This Week:

Reading - Nonfiction Text Features - We learned how to read and recognize Nonfiction Text Features. Soon we will be researching our own animal to write a research report about it.

Writing - We are cruising through Narrative Writing. All the students are writing such long stories with good adventures! Way to go!

Bible - We finished the epic story of Solomon and moved on to learning about different kinds of Psalm and Proverbs. We did a quick review of God’s promises up till now in our Bible stories and next week we’ll go on to what happened to Israel after King Solomon.

Math: The students did a good job with measuring and this week we are tackling telling time to the hour and half hour. They are doing great with that! We learned both analogue and digital clocks. Try to quiz your child at home with time to the hour and half hour!

Spelling - This week we didn’t have any spelling words but we continued to learn interesting words with r-controlled vowels and we played lots of spelling games.

Science - We started to learn about animal classification.

Next Week:

Spelling Words: hops, hopping, stops, stopping, hopes, hoping, makes, making, smiles, smiling, right, new, our

Spelling Test will be on May 7th!

Bible Memory Verse: “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:11

1st Grade Field Trip - Kodomo no Kuni Zoo and Wonder Museum - May 17th! Please put it on your calendar! More information coming next week!

Upcoming Events:

• 5/4: Golden Week holiday - no school
• 5/17 First Grade Field Trip
• 5/28: Memorial Day - no school
• 6/13: Last day of classes

A few Kid City pictures

Friday (Monday...) News for the week of April 16-20

Sorry about the Friday blog being late! I was so wiped out from a SUPER DUPER FUN Kid CITY!!!

I didn’t get to snap any pictures but we had a BLAST!! I hope you got to hear about it from your child!

Also, thank you to all the parents who came and helped out! We could not have done it without you!!!

Last Week:

Reading - Prior Knowledge

Math - Counting money and measurement

Bible - Different kind of Psalms

Writing - Fictional narratives

and much more!

This week:

Friday is Field Day! Because of preparations for Kid City, I wasn’t able to tell you much about FIELD DAY which is this Friday! April 27th, 2018

Parents are invited to come again. The sports part will be from 9-11am. You can help me cheer on the students as they compete in different field events. Then we will all walk down to Sera-en Park for a picnic. Please provide a home lunch for your child this day. You can bring it and eat together with us if you’d like! Please make sure your child has a hat, sunscreen, water bottles, and athletic clothes. We will be playing in the park from 11am until 2pm or so. If you’d like to take your child home with you, please let me know. Otherwise we will go back to class and rest in the classroom until 3pm.

Upcoming Events:

• 5/4: Golden Week holiday - no school
• 5/28: Memorial Day - no school
• 6/13: Last day of classes

Friday News for the Week of April 9-13

Happy Friday! Today was a bitter sweet day because we said good bye to our sweet Lucy. She and her family will be moving to the States. We will miss her a TON but we are excited for their new adventure in the States. We love you Lucy!!!

Can you believe we are in the 4th quarter? EEK! There is only like 5 more weeks of school left! Last stretch! Report Cards were sent home on Thursday. Please review it, keep all the papers inside and return the blue envelope signed at the “3rd quarter” line.

This Week:

Reading - We read through all of Harry Allard books about Miss Nelson. Those books are just so great!

We also practiced a very important accuracy strategy of Flip the Sound. If a word sounds funny, it’s an important strategy for the students to flip the vowel sounds or some of the consonant sounds which will probably help them figure out the word!

Math: We started a new unit on Measuring. We compared measurements with words such as “short” “shorter” and “shortest” and we also used cubes and other objects as unit of measurement. The students really enjoyed walking around the room and measuring everything they saw!

Writing: We finished the Fairy Tale writing units!! I complied all the students stories into a book and read it aloud to the students today. I’m so proud of them for writing their own stories!

Bible: After Spring Break, we returned to the story of Solomon, King David’s son. God asked Solomon what he would like and Solomon asked for wisdom! Not money, or fame, or a long life! God was so pleased with his answer that he gave him wisdom AND all the other things! Solomon also build the temple for God. It took 7 years and he used the finest materials to finally make a dwelling place for God in Israel. Today we learned the story of when Queen Sheba came to visit Solomon to see if he was for real! He surpassed all of her expectations and she went away amazed at Solomon! We talked about the importance of wisdom and how we need to ask God daily for wisdom in our own lived.

Social Studies - We are gearing up for Kid City! We have learned about the Post Office, Fire Station, Store, Restaurant, Library, Bank, City Hall, Police Station, Hospital and we have one more to learn for next week - the Vet! THEN FRIDAY IS KID CITY!! WOOHOO!!

I also moved the desks around for the last quarter!

Next Week:

Spelling Words: hurt, verse, fern, dirt, burn, first, bird, turn, her girl, great, again, who

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

FRIDAY - KID CITY!!!!! Please bring a wallet and a little bag on Friday. Parents are invited to come and help or just come and watch!

Upcoming Events:

• 4/27 Field Day

• 5/4: Golden Week holiday - no school
• 5/28: Memorial Day - no school
• 6/13: Last day of classes