Friday News 9/17-9/21

Reading: This week we focused on Tuning into Interesting Words. As we read books together and on our own we looked for words that were interesting or that we did not know. We talked about these words together and added them to a big word collector. We will continue to do this through out the school year.

Writing: In Writing we focused on adding a strong ending to our story. We looked through our finished stories to see if they had a good ending and added one if it was not there.

Math: We finished our 1st chapter on Tuesday. Then we started our next chapter on number patterns. This week we focused on skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Social Studies: We learned about the 7 continents. We learned how to identify them on a map of the world.

Bible: We learned about Moses and the Judges. We learned that God took care of His people by leading them out of Egypt. We also learned that God helps us when we call out to Him.

Important Information:

1. Spelling Words: gym, city, circle, gone, age, centre, giant, space, garden, cycle, square, oval

2. Memory Verse: What pleases the Lord more? Burnt offerings and sacrifices, or obeying him? It is better to obey than to offer a sacrifice. 1 Samuel 15:22

3. Our Scholastic Book Order will end on Tuesday. If you would like to order you can do so online at http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl or send in the order form and money to me.

4. Our class will be going on a field trip on Thursday, October 25th. More information will be coming soon!

Upcoming Dates:

10/8 - Professional Development Day - No School
10/25 - Grade 1 and 2 Field Trip
11/1-11/2 - Parent Teacher Conferences
11/12 - School Holiday - No School
11/17 - PTF Holiday Market
11/21/11/23 - Thanksgiving Holiday
11/30 - Christmas Program and 12:30 early dismissal

Have a great weekend! :)