Hello, super-star-K/1-parents!!! Thank you for checking out our blog! Fall is officially upon us. Today we painted beautiful fall trees and read a book about fall leaves. Bring on Autumn and all its beauty! What a busy-bee-week we have had! I want to share some things we have done and what we will be up to next week.

 

Chapel has been going great! The kids love to sing their hearts out and listen to the special message from Mrs. Warner.

 

We had a fun apple-words word-work center during Daily 5 that the students "ate right up"!

 

Speaking of eating, we had an apple-tasting and voted on our favorite apple! We compared the data on the graph and answered important math questions using what we saw. The students also made mini-graphs from the data.

 

We talked more about Tucker Turtle and thinking-like-a-turtle. We made a chart of ideas that the students had about things that could happen that could make us upset. These are the sorts of things that would make us stop, go into our shell", take three deep breaths, and think about what to do. The students love these discussions and it helps them to make really smart choices when they get upset.

 

 

Wyatt was our first Star Student! Everyone will get a chance at some point this year to be a star-student, decorate an all-about-me poster and share that with the class. On Fridays, the Star Student leads morning meeting!!!

 

 

 

Way to go, Wyatt!

 

We had music this week and it was a blast!!!

 

 

We also had library! The students LOVE, LOVE, LOVE their library time!!!

 

Our sight-words for the coming week:

                                                               Our spelling words:

First-grade parents, please practice these words with your children at home. Every night for five minutes would be ideal! For kindergarten students, always consider these words "challenge words" for the week. They are welcome to work on them at home, and will practice them in class with the first-grade students.

Something the students have been learning about are the Fruits of the Spirit as described in
Galatians 5: 22-23. Each month, a new fruit-of-the-Spirit will be discussed and that month two students from each class who exemplify that fruit will be acknowledged at our last chapel of the month. The group picture taken of these students will be posted on a Fruit-of-the-Spirit board in our hall. When you have a moment, it would be a "juicy" thing to check out! (Sorry, I couldn't resist).

 

 

This coming week, students will be learning about community helpers in Social Science, and learning how things move with the help of air, water, and magnets in Science. In reading they will be focused on the standard: RL 1.2: "Retell stories and demonstrate understanding of the message or lesson". A vocabulary strategy we have is Alphabetical order and they will be putting some fire safety words into ABC order during word-work time. In math, orange group (first grade) will be working our story problems and yellow group (kindergarten) will be working on writing and identifying numerals. Both groups will be working out addition problems with play-doh representing apples in trees and doing number-of-the-day activities. We have a big week ahead, so I wish you all a rejuvenating weekend full of rest, play, prayer, and the bounties that God brings us in the Autumn! On that note, I leave you with next week's verse. May we think about it and may it sink into our hearts. Remember, if you have a prayer-request you would like me to share with Hive-parents, I would be overjoyed to do so. I am a parent myself and I know I need the help of the Lord. Let's support one another in this journey of parenting these most precious gifts from God!