Let summer begin!

We had a GREAT last day of school in 1.2. The students and I reflected on the WHOLE year to think of everything we learned and all the school events we got to be a part of. At 11:30, we had a wonderful lunch of delicious food. Thank you to every parent who sent food in! Then we played some fun games including pictionary, madlibs story, and a "Find someone who..." game. It was so sad to say goodbye to all 18 of these wonderful students. I will definitely miss them a lot but I am so excited for them to go to 2nd grade. 

As of this afternoon, I have cleaned up the whole classroom. I have also moved!! As of next year, I will no longer be in Room 212, instead I will be in room 208 - still teaching 1st grade though. Please come visit me any time!

I hope you all will have a fantastic summer with your families. Make lots of memories and spend lots of precious time together. 

Thank you for this school year - it was definitely a joy.

Love,

Ms. Turner :)

Friday News and LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!!!!!!

A huge THANK YOU EVERYONE! For the wonderful birthday cards, flowers, presents, emails, and love for my birthday. I felt so loved by all of my students and families! Thank you!!! I had a great birthday and after school, Ms. Lim and Mrs. Gosin took me to a tea shop for a tea party! It was lovely!

This week: TESTS....

This week, we mostly finished up workbooks and took tests... not too much fun but the students were very good and did not complain! Every test I gave them, they just took it and quickly started working on it. Sometimes, I tried to be nice and say, "Ok, we'll do the rest tomorrow." But the students said, "No, let's do it today!" What a great group of students!

We took an end-of-the-year reading test, 2 math tests, a Bible test, a spelling test, and a phonics test. We finished our spelling and phonics workbooks. 

We DID do some fun things! The students finished up their vending machines this week and they did SO well! I was so impressed by them.

Next week:

Last day of school June 11th and ends at 2pm. We will have a class party starting at 11am. All parents are welcome to attend. Please sign up to bring (or send with your child to school in the morning) a food item to share with every one BECAUSE there will be no school lunch that day.学校の最後の日は６月１１日です。２時に終わります。その日はクラスパーティです。１１時から始めます。みんなと一緒に分かち合える食べ物を持ってきてください。その日は給食がありません。親のみなさんもぜひいらして下さい。

No spelling words, no Bible memory, no homework. :)

Homework checklist and End-of-the-year-Party!

I have been slacking with putting the Homework Checklist up - I am so sorry!

Also, here is the email from the class moms just in case you did not receive it. If you would like to bring food, please email me and I will get the message to the room mom's. Looking forward to a great End-of-the-year- Party!!

Hello 1.2 parents,

This is class moms for Ms. Turner's class.
We hope you all had a nice weekend.

Unbelievably, the last day of this school year is next week!!
On that day (June, 11th), the children will have a Year-End-Party at 1.2.
The party will be from 11:00-2:00.
It will take the place of their lunch, so they will need lots of food and treats for the fun day.
If you can bringing/sending a food item on June 11th sign up below and REPLY ALL, so that everyone will know what has been signed up for.
Some ideas are finger sandwiches, chicken nuggets, finger size foods, meatballs, cheese and crackers, fruit etc.
 

Food item-
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Fruit-
Fruit-

Dessert item-
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Drinks-
Drinks-

This time we do not collect any tableware.
We have enough paper plates, cups, forks, napkins and so on.

Let's enjoy the food and chatting with!
We are looking forward to see you all!!

Your class moms,
Yumiko, Sewwandi and Rika

こんにちは、1.2のクラスママです。
皆さん、元気にお過ごしでしょうか。

信じられないことに、今年度最後の日が来週に迫りました！
6/11（木）、1.2の教室でイヤー・エンド・パーティーをします。

今回も、食べ物・飲み物の持ち寄りをお願いします！
持ってきていただける方は、上の英文に記載したアイテム名の横に、お名前とお持ちいただけるものを記入して、「全員に返信」してください。
お互いに、どのアイテムにサイン済みであるかを共有することができます。

食べ物のアイデアとして、フィンガーサンドイッチ、チキンナゲット、フィンガーフード、ミートボール、チーズのせクラッカー、果物などがあります。
使い捨ての食器は足りています。

食事をしながらゆんたくしたり、楽しい時間にしましょう！
お会いできるのを楽しみにしています！
 

クラスママ
ユミコ、セッワンディ、リカ

Friday News and Information for Week of June 2-6

Hello everyone! I am anxious to hear how Friday went, as I was out of town. I hope the students had fun with Mr. Cusumano! My dad's surgery went well and he is slowly recovering. I was so glad for the Friday I got to spend at the hospital with him and my family. I will be home Sunday night and am excited to see my students on Monday morning!


This week:

Reading: Our strategy was asking questions during reading. Whenever I am reading a book or watching a movie, I am so engaged that I continually ask questions such as, “What is going to happen next?” “Why did he/she do that?” I am often times laughing aloud or saddened as the story goes along. This week, I challenged the students to ask lots of questions while they are reading.

Writing: Our strategy was ‘our writing should make sense’. It is important  check your writing to see if what you wrote makes sense to other people.

Math: We started Unit 10 which is a lot of review over the whole year. We reviewed clocks. We also did some work with double digit addition with a vending machine. The students started making their own vending machine to practice!

Bible: We finished the incredible story of Daniel, where he got thrown into the lion’s den because he continued to pray to God, even when the law of the land said to pray to the king. God closed the mouths of the lions and protected him. We also started the story of Esther, who saved all of her people, because of her courage. God was with Daniel and Esther and he is with us too!

Science: We continued learning about the human body with the digestive system. We learned that food goes in our mouths and down into our stomach, small intestine, large intestine and then out...  We learned that the digestive system gives us energy. We did an experiment to see what happens to our food when it goes into our stomach. 

Ewwwwww

Next Week:

June 2-6 Last full week of school!

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

Bible Memory Verse: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. Romans 10:15

Some more science games

Brain Matching Game 

Chewed up Food Race

Friday May 30th

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a fantastic week. I would like to let you know that tomorrow, May 30th, I will not be at school. Instead, I have placed the 1.2 students in the wonderful care of Mr. Cusumano, who is an OCSI teacher, but is willing to sub for the day. I will be traveling to Tokyo tonight, to be with my family as my father goes through surgery and stays in the hospital. I will be back on Sunday night.

I will always be in email connections, so if you have any questions or concerns, please continue to email me.

Less than 10 days of school left!

Friday News and Information for week of May 27-30

Happy Friday! Only 2 more Fridays left for the end of the school year! WOW!

This Week:

Reading: Our strategy for the week was Main Idea and Detail. Every story has a main idea - a sentence about the most important part or summary of the book. Then there are details that tell you more about the story but are not as important to the whole story. We read a few stories this week and then on Friday, we read At Home Around the World and saw if we could figure out the main idea and details for ourselves!

Writing: Our strategy for the week was Editing. We said that we need to check out writing to see if we put a space, if the sentence makes sense, if we have a capital letter, or ending punctuation. The students did a great job checking over their work and fixing what needs to be fixed!

Math: We finished Unit 9 with a test on Thursday. We tackled fractions trying to figure out the same name for different fractions. It is a little bit hard for 1st grade but I know they will learn it again in 2nd grade (and all the way until high school!). 

Science: We continued this week with the circulatory and respiratory system. We learned about how the heart and the lungs are connected with pumping blood and breathing air. Here's a fun game on labeling the respiratory system.  

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/science_eng_launcher.html
And a video on the circulatory system: http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/_bfs_CSmoviesource.html

Bible: We started talking about the life of Daniel and his friends in the Babylonian captivity. Daniel chose not to eat the food offered to idols and instead, God blessed him and took care of him. Also, King Nebuckadnezzer had a dream and no one could figure it out, except Daniel with God’s help!

Here's a video I made in college to show a story from the book of Daniel:

Next Week:

NO SCHOOL - May 26th, Memorial Day

If you have not submitted the summer school application and you want your child to attend, please make sure you submit it soon. 

June 11th will be the last day of school. It is a 2pm dismissal! That day, there is no lunch served in the cafeteria. We will also have a class party, so please put it on your calendar to come!

Spelling: played, worked, needed, hopped, wagged, stepped, liked, hoped, rules, skates, their, than, there

Bible: "The Lord always keeps his promises; he is gracious in all he does." Psalm 145: 13b