Hello, terrific K/1 parents! I hope that you are all off to a wonderful start to your weekend! As always, the bees have been super-busy! I want to share some highlights of our week, what we will be working on next week, some important dates to remember and some things that will be sent in your child's home folder this week.
Something I love about our chapel time is how interactive it is! Students often participate in the messages. This week they built a Tabernacle. What little designers we have here at Sonshine!
The bees have "buzzed" and the consensus is that we need a weekly show-and-tell share time. This will happen every Monday afternoon and can include a few small items from home (please don't send anything that is costly or not easily replaced). Students can also share work they are proud of during this time or something they have worked on at home (numbers, words, stories, artwork). They could even share a meaningful story. While we do have a short share time during morning meeting on a specific topic and we share our writing, this extra share time will provide students an opportunity to share items that help us to learn more about them, lead into talking about an adventure they had, or give them a chance to elaborate on a special event in their lives. These bees love to share!!
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| Nyahana and Wyatt demonstrate great skill in tether-ball as well as taking turns! |
We learned more about the scientific method this week and practiced the steps of making observations and recording data. Our subject was fall-inspired-nature and our data was illustrating what we saw, writing words about it, and telling others about our observations.
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| Addison is a thoughtful scientist. |
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| Evaleen thinks about how to best record her observation. |
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| Makenna examines carefully. |
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| Wyatt, Dante, Hadley, and Aiden are serious scientists! |
We love our Spanish class with Ms. Monica! Practicing common phrases, how to introduce ourselves, times of the day, colors, names for animals, and counting in Spanish are lesson topics that she has engaged the busy-bees in. Gracias, Ms. Monica!
Grandparent's Day was a blast! We started with some wonderful chapel songs, worked at centers in the classroom with our grandparents, had recess with them, made an awesome art project together, and they even joined us for lunch! We are so thankful for our grandparents other people that play big roles in our lives and support us!
Saturday, October 24th is our Harvest Festival. Please let us know if you can help. There's lots to do, including set-up, running booths, and cleaning up. Also, students may come dressed in costumes (nothing scary). It will be a fun event for the whole family! It starts at 6:30 pm.
Things to be on the look-out for in your child's green folder:
*Journeys Home-Letter, Sight Words, and Spelling Words List (please review these at home).
*Information on Operation Christmas Child Shoe-box, which each class will be participating in.
*Conference Confirmation Times
We will be studying more about Fire Safety, being a Bucket-Filler, how animals grow in Science, how animals communicate as a focus in our Journeys reading text, and Moses in Bible. In math, kinders will be writing numbers up to 10, practicing counting, and reviewing the concepts of greater than/less than. First-graders will be working on subtraction.
Spelling words this week:
Sight-words this week:
May God bless you and your family this week with opportunities to spend time enjoying one another as a family. We are here to lift one another up and help to lighten the loads we carry in life. If you have a need or a prayer request, please do not hesitate to let me know. I am praying for you as you go into your week, as well as these precious little "bees" that He loves so much!
Our verse this week (Psalms 50:15):
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