Fall into Fall
Lower elementary has been practicing and reviewing their simple shapes and celebrating the Fall season with Autumn-themed projects. Thanks for helping Miss Kleinschuster decorate her door!
Seasons
For science our class is traveling through space and learning about our Solar System. Why do we have seasons? Well we know how the Earth is on a tilt and that it revolves around the Sun and this creates weather pattern we call the seasons.
Green Meadows Farm
We had a great trip to Green Meadows Farm. We got to milk a cow, chase chickens, pet rabbits, go into the pigpen, go on a hayride and ride on a pony. We ended our trip having a picnic lunch at the farm. Before our trip to the farm we sketched our own maps of a farm after our Social Studies Unit on Map skills!
Gingerbread Man
It happened again! Another Gingerbread Man Escaped from our oven. Someone saw him running out of our school singing You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man. He left yummy gingerbread man cookies and frosting for us to enjoy. We are tracking his journey on our map! Next time we should bake a Gingerbread Girl instead.
Theme Books
First grade is enjoying story time even more this year with our new seating arrangement in the library due to the remodeling. This is an exciting time for first grade since it is the first year they get to borrow books. We have been reading a series of bear themed books. We have read Big Smelly Bear and The Very Cranky Bear. They especially enjoyed the cranky bear’s loud roars. They also enjoyed listening to Big Smelly Bear’s itching problem that was caused by him not taking a shower, and this gave us a great opportunity to talk about hygiene and how to stay clean.
Mrs. Ruiz
Animals Tame and Wild
In our Sidewalks Intensive Reading Intervention class we are one week away from completing our first unit- Animals Tame and wild. We are thrilled that we can read one or two sentences without assistance. We have learned to recognize 15 High Frequency words. These are words we can’t sound out. We have to memorize them.
Mrs. Jimenez
Benchmark Tests
Unit Benchmark tests are being done this month. It’s our chance to show off how much we learned in Unit 1. All of our reading skills, grammar practice, and hard work will pay off. We can’t wait to see what the next Unit theme will be… Maybe money? Or friendship? Or animals? Or perhaps something international? There are so many amazing books to read!
Literacy day Fun
We’re blasting off into reading this year! We hit the ground running and we’re so excited to see what this year will bring. Bringing our stuffed animals in for Literacy Day was so much fun. If we’re ever home and want to read out loud we can read to our stuffed animals. It might seem a little silly at first, but it’s a great way to practice reading. (And we think it’s a lot of fun too!)
Miss DiGiovanni
Mavis Beacon
We have just started their fall typing unit. We are currently taking a fall speed test and will be working on improving their typing skills for several weeks. We are working mostly in Mavis Beacon, though 1st and 2nd Grade are getting to use Word pad as well.
“My whole heart follows hard after you and clings closely to you!”
We were thrilled bout our first spiritual emphasis week for the 2010-2011 school year. It was held September 20-24.
The theme for Elementary School was “Spirit of the Seas.” Each day during bible time, students focused on a bible story which all centered in on obedience. The stories covered during this week were: Jesus Calming the Storm, Noah and the Ark, Jonah, The Disciples Casting Their Nets & Peter Walking on the Water. Each day students were able to have worship time, a bible lesson, memory verse and complete a craft. The week concluded with an interactive bible story, including a large boat and someone “walking on water,” during chapel. It was a great week and students received a certificate and snack for their completion of our Spiritual Emphasis Week.
Pastor Tom Mahairas (founder of Manhattan Bible Church) came in to speak to our Middle and High Schoolers. He graciously shared his testimony with them and spoke about how God rescued him from a life of drug addiction. Pastor Mahairas also shared that there are 3 types of Believers….. The Believer, The Non-Believer, and the Make-Believer…….he challenged them as to which one they were. At the end he asked all those that would like to rededicate their lives to Christ to come forward. On Friday he shared with them that they are special and that God loves them very much. Seven students came forward to receive Jesus as their personal Saviour. He also asked student to pray for one another.
We praise God for His presence and for moving amongst our students. We are excited to see what He has in store for us this school year!
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