Hello! I trust you all had a restful weekend. For those of you at the football game Friday night, we thank you for your prayers! The Lord is good and had His hand upon us. Val is doing good 🙂 Very sore from the blast but doing well.
Can you believe September is almost over? Time is flying by fast!
Reminder:
Please remind your child to bring their take home folder to school everyday. This is my way to communicate with you. Many times when their papers are loose in their backpacks they don’t always make it home. Also, remember to empty the “stays at home” side everyday. This is work the students are doing in class, and a way for you to see what we are working on. I also include school notes and reminders on this side.
Field Trips – Our first field trip will be to Lost Lake on Tuesday, Sept. 17th. Please check your email for a sign up sheet. We will be leaving Peoples campus around 8:45 and returning around 1:30. The students are very excited! They will be doing various stations, all which corollate with our science standards. Remember to wear your spirit shirt on this day!
This week in Mrs. R’s Superstars-
Bible:
Our focus this week will be on Isaac
This week we will also be working on character building. We will focus on first time obedience. In the beginning of school we over classroom and school rules to follow. Last week we worked on our “silence endurance” and went over the expectations I have for them. This can be a challenge but we are working hard towards our goal. Thank you parents for your patience last week in letting me work with them during stations.
Math:
Last week we took our first math test on addition concepts. We have now moved into subtraction concepts.
Reading/Language Arts:
This week I will be sending some books for the kids to read. Please use these at home and return whenever you are done reading them. This is a great opportunity to hear your child read and see where they are at. This is also great practice for them to get extra reading at home. In our guided reading groups the children are doing really well. We will continue working on different reading strategies the students can use such as sounding it out, looking at the pictures, and looking for word chunks. We will continue working on sight words recognition as well. Mrs. Howard will soon be working on Word Builders.
Social Studies:
We will continue in our unit 1 study of working together, following rules and laws, and learning about the community around us.
Science:
Last week we learned about living and non living things. This week we are going to continue learning about living and non-living things but with an emphasis on Apples.
Conferences –  Thank you for confirming your conference appointment time by sending back the notice in the work envelope.. If the scheduled time does not work out for you, please call Mrs. Roberts to reschedule. Conference week is September 23- 27.  School is dismissed at 12:00 P.M. each day that week. I look forward to sharing with you.
Grandparent’s Day – Thank you to everyone who was able to help make grandparents day so successful!!! I believe everyone enjoyed their time together and the grandparents were sent home with lots of cute crafts! We had a wonderful turnout and I am so thankful for our time to honor our grandparents!!
Spelling: some of you may have some questions in regards to how I score our spelling tests. The students are scored on more than just their spelling words. They are also scored on dictation and convection. They do not miss points if they reverse letters in their spelling words at this point, however further in the year that will change. Dictation: did they hear and write all the words in the given sentence? They receive one point for each correct word written correctly in the sentence. If the misspelled a spelling word in the sentence they miss a point. Convection: Did they start with a capital letter and end their sentence with a period? They receive one point for each capital and period.
Box Tops for Education
This year we will again be participating in the Box Tops for Education fundraiser. Each Box Top collected is worth cash for our school. As an incentive we will be having a class contest. The class bringing in the most Box Tops at the end of this promotion will receive a “prize”. We will post class totals monthly in the Office window and on our Campus News located on our website: fresnochristian.com.
Please hand in your trimmed Box Tops in a Ziploc bag or envelope, labeled with your child’s/teacher’s name and the amount of Box Tops to your teacher or school office.
You can find a list of Box Tops online at:Â www.boxtops4education.com.
Thank you for your support.
ELEMENTARY CHEER CLINIC!!
As many of you know I am the high school cheer coach and advisor. Hope Villines is our Jr High and Elementary cheer coach and advisor. We are very excited this year for the elementary cheer clinic! The clinic will be held October 7th-10th on the North Field grass. They will then perform Friday October 11th at the home football game. The girls will get to cheer the first half of the game with the high school and jr high cheerleaders. Then they will finish up with a big half time show!!! The registration is $40 ($10 additional child in the same family). This will include a T-shirt and adorable performance! This year we are also very excited because we are opening up our cheer clinic to students outside Fresno Christian. Please help us spread the word! If you have any family members or neighbors grades K-6 who would be interested in attending our clinic please let me know and I will provide the liability form that needs to be filled out for them! This is a great way to spread the word about Fresno Christian and introduce new families to what our school is about!!!!!
IMPORTNAT DATES!!
9-17 – Lost Lake Field Trip – 8:45 AM
9-18Â –School dismissed @12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice
9-23 – 9-27 – Parent Teacher Conferences – School dismissed @ 12:00 PM
9-24-EL Chapel
10/7-10/10- Elementary Cheer Clinic 3:30-4:30
10-11 Elementary cheer clinic cheers at high school football game!!
10-17–Â School dismissed @ 12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice
DONT FORGET YOUR SPIRIT WEAR EVERY FRIDAY!!
MEMORY VERSE:
We should make plans, counting on God to direct us. Proverbs 16:9 (13pts)
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