Well, we had a successful first week back to school after our wonderful Christmas vacation. The kids are jumping right back into everything very easily. Please remember we will be working on our poems during the week for the Peach Blossom Festival. Make sure to send a copy to school for me. Please be sure to work on these each night with your child. The students must have these poems memorized.

This week in Mrs. R’s Super Stars:

Bible: We will continue learning about Gideon

Memory Verse: I will sing to the Lord because He has blessed me so richly.

Psalm 13:6 (16pts.)

Chapel: On Tuesday our class will be leading worship in chapel! Parents are welcome to come see!! The kids will sing about 4 or 5 songs to open up or time, I have then brought in a guest speaker who will be speaking on seeing opportunities around us!

Language Arts: This week we will be working on the long ‘e’ sound. Our spelling words will all focus on the long ‘e’, as well as doing other activities throughout the week to enforce the long ‘e’ sound. For reading we are continuing to work on fluency, comprehension, setting, and main characters. Some are also starting to look at comparisons in our short stories that we read in our reading. We are looking at words that compare such as “like” and “as”.  For writing we are continuing to focus on the writing steps and rules. We are learning how to brainstorm together to give supporting details of main ideas.

Spelling Words:

be

me

we

see

seed

feel

meat

meet

weak

week

come

other

January

Math: This week we will finish up our unit on time and calendar. This is a very hard concept for kids to grasp. Being able to tell time is not something they are going to master just yet. We will take our test on Wednesday. Last week I sent home a chapter review for your child to work on. This does not have to be turned in. Although we will be moving on to Numbers and Patterns to 100, we will still continue to do activities that involve telling time.

Social Science: We will be focusing on All the People.

Health and Nutrition: Last week we had a great time introducing kids to various types of foods that we eat. We talked about which foods give you strong muscles (like protein), which foods give you BIG energy (like fruits and vegetables), and foods that give very little energy (like soda and candy). The kids also had a chance to learn the food pyramid and the different groups of foods that are required for a healthy diet.

Peach Blossom Festival: REMEMBER TO PRACTICE YOUR CHILDS POEM EVERY NIGHT!

Once again Fresno Christian School will be participating in the Peach Blossom Festival to be held at California State University of Fresno.

The selection procedure is as follows:

  1. All first and second grade children will memorize a poem. I must have a copy of their poem here with me at school.
  2. Students will be given opportunities to work on their poems in class, but must also work on them at home if they wish to have them memorized.
  3. Classroom evaluations will take place at the end of January. Three or four children from each class will be chosen to participate in the Oral Interpretation Assembly. No parents will attend on this day.
  4. Campus Oral Interpretation Assembly will be at school (location TBA). At this time two children will be chosen to participate in Peach Blossom at Fresno State. Parents are welcome to attend.

Chocolate sales: Our candy bar sales have begun.There are lots of prizes and activities for the class to win. Our goal is to sell the most boxes in first grade!!!!!!! Boxes will be available for pick up after school. Please make sure that when the kids are selling the candy they do not go door to door on their own. A wonderful/easy way to sell lots of candy is for mom or dad to take the box of candy to work. Lets SELL! SELL! SELL!

Observation: As part of my training and development as a teacher I have the opportunity to go into another first grade classroom all day on Monday January 13th. I will be using this time to observe an experienced teacher! I love when I get the opportunity to see how other teachers run their classrooms and get new ideas for curriculum! Because of this training, I will not be in class on Monday.

1-14- EL Chapel (Mrs. Raymundo’s class in charge)

1-15-HALF DAY. School Dismissed at 12

1-20-Martin Luther King day-NO SCHOOL

1-27-State of the School Address. 7-8:30 in G.L. Johnson Chapel

1-28: EL Chapel

2/3-2/7 – Parent Teacher Conferences

2-10 – Lincoln’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-17 – Washington’s Birthday. NO SCHOOL

2-26 – HALF DAY. School dismissed at 12

REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR SPIRIT WEAR EVERY FRIDAY!