Happy Reformation

First Grade Weekly Note        October 31, 2019

Happy Reformation!!!

Christ Light- Wednesday we acted out the story of Joseph’s brothers returning to Egypt. He tested them to be sure they recognized their sin of treating him harshly (20 years earlier) and to see if they had changed their ways with Benjamin. They were kind and loving to Benjamin. My our hearts and lives be filled with the love we get daily from God and overflow in our words and actions. 

We are singing “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” from our hymnals this week! Hooray!!! Today we celebrated the Reformation and God’s free grace! 

Reading Street- Our theme this week is “Who works to make our community a nice place?” 

Amazing Words (vocabulary)- community, citizen, leader, headquarters, branch (library), 

The spelling test is tomorrow. We are practicing long i words spelled i_e.  

Science- We will have much to check out for the science fair Friday night. Wednesday we did a balloon rocket/zipline and made bottle rockets. Today, the kids each assembled an airplane. Ask about the “blast off” of the rockets and test flights of the planes. We are completing an Aviation Book, too. THANKS for helping your child with the Aviation Timeline pages. Come see it in the hallway!!! What fun to share those in class. 

THANKS- Mr. and Mrs. Lane, for the terrific presentation about your job as air traffic controllers. Your radar videos and pictures were fabulous!!! Check Seesaw for pictures!  

Math Stations- 1) Snap- addition practice with playing cards.  2) Counting coins 

3) Balance scale with pennies as the standard weight  4) Chain Math Addition Facts 5) Moby Max math.  

IE Each day we do stations during Intervention/Enrichment time, too. This week our stations are 1) Sight Word Bingo and spelling practice 2) Read with Mrs. K leveled books that go with Reading Street 3) Read “Wolves” with Mrs. D/J 4) Kids A-Z on pads and 5) Listen to “Moostache.” Consider problem, events and solution. 

We sang for my Aunt Hertha on speaker phone Wednesday. She is very ill and lives in SD. My parents were visiting her. She enjoyed our contagious Jesus joy!

The November Calendar is on the back.