Friday News 2/18-2/22

We had a wonderful week celebrating our love for books and reading! Here are some pictures from the week:

Monday: Stuffed Animal Day

Tuesday: Character Parade

 Thursday: Buddy Reading Day and Wear a Shirt with Words

Friday: Pajama Day

Here's a look at the rest of our week:

Reading: This week we celebrated books! See above for some fun pictures from the week! :)

Writing: We continued writing our poems! This week we learned how to add patterns to our poems and how to write poems with different moods.

Math: This week we started learning about graphs! We learned how to take a survey, make a tally graph, make a picture graph, and make a bar graph.

Bible: We finished learning about Jesus's miracles. We learned about Jesus raising his friend Lazarus back from the dead. We finished the week by making a puzzle to show all the things we learned about Jesus's power.

Important Information:

1. Spelling Words: spend, front, thumb, sending, triangle, climb, hung, strong, along, thank, trunk, bring, donkey, think, February, himself

2. Memory Verse: Forgive one another, just as God forgave you because of what Christ has done. Ephesians 4:32

3. Please mark Friday, March 22nd on your calendars! We will have our 2nd grade field trip on that day. More information will be coming soon!

4. We have a new Scholastic Book order! If you would like to order you can send in the order form and money to me or order online at http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/okinawa-christian-school-intl. The last day to order will be Friday, March 8.

Upcoming Dates:

3/21 - Student Led Conferences

3/22 - Field Trip to the Aquarium
4/5 - Elementary Field Day/End of 3rd Quarter

4/8-4/12 - Spring Break
4/19 - Kid City
5/3 - No School
5/27 - Memorial Day No School
6/12 - Last Day of School

Have a great weekend! :)

Friday News 2/11-2/15

We enjoyed celebrating Valentine's Day this week! We decorated our Valentine bags and passed out our Valentines. We also got the chance to make and give out Valentines for the High Schoolers and Office Staff!

Reading: This week we learned about Point of View. We learned that different characters view the story differently and worked to identify their point of view.

Writing: We continued writing poems. We learned how to look for a big feeling and small moment to write about.

Math: We learned about money this week. We practiced counting different amounts of money including pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

Bible: This week we learned about Jesus feeding 5000 people, walking on the water, and healing a man that was born blind. We learned that Jesus has power over water, blindness, and multiplying a little into a lot.

Important Information:
1. Spelling Words: slide, sprint, smile, swish, scream, squeal, splash, skate, start, snow, score, sport, scene, school, January, from

2. Memory Verse: I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even if they die. John 11:25

3. Please mark Friday, March 22nd on your calendars! We will have our 2nd grade field trip on that day. More information will be coming soon!

4. NEXT WEEK IS WEEK OF READING (2/18-2/22)! We are excited to spend the whole week celebrating our favorite books!

Monday: We love reading with stuffies! Bring a stuffed animal to school.

Tuesday: We love reading our favorite books! Come dressed up as your favorite character from a book. Please bring the book with you. At 8:40 we will have our Character Parade where we will walk around the school with our favorite books!

Wednesday: We love reading Dr. Seuss books! Wear a hat.

Thursday: We love reading with a buddy! Wear a shirts with words.

5pm-6pm Family Reading Night. Please meet in the cafeteria.

Friday: We love reading in our pajamas! Wear pajamas to school (please make sure you are still in dress code).

Upcoming Dates:

2/18-2/22 - Week of Reading

2/21 - Family Reading Night
3/21 - Student Led Conferences

3/22 - Field Trip to the Aquarium
4/5 - Elementary Field Day

4/8-4/12 - Spring Break
4/19 - Kid City

Have a fantastic weekend! :)

Friday News 2/4-2/8

Last quarter we wrote award nominations for our favorite books. We asked Mrs. Roe to read them and pick the winner. This week she came to our class to announce the winners who received a medal and got to have lunch with her!

Kindest Character: Snow Queen on Ice
Most Creative Story: The Kissing Hand
Funny Award: Happy Birthday to You, You Belong in a Zoo!

In Music class we started learning the bells!

Reading: We continued learning about cause and effect. We read several books together and identified the cause and effect in groups and on our own.

Writing: We have been writing poems! This week we thought of ideas that we could write about. We thought about things we love and will be writing poems about them next week.

Math: We finished three-digit subtraction and now we are learning about money. We learned about the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. We also practiced adding up different coins.

Phonics: This week we learned about contractions! On Wednesday we became word surgeons and performed surgery on our words to make them into contractions.

Bible: We learned three miracles of Jesus. We learned about Jesus healing a woman who was bleeding for 12 years. We also learned how he raised a girl from the dead. In our last story we learned how Jesus healed a man who was lame for 38 years. We learned that Jesus has power over long sicknesses and over death.

Important Information:

1. Spelling Words: close, brave, through, place, crash, clothes, threw, glad, flash, ground, traffic, prize, strange, drive, seen, become

2. Memory Verse: I am like a gate. Anyone who enters through me will be saved. John 10:9

3. Next Thursday is Valentines Day! We will have a small party at the end of the day. If you would like to send Valentines with your students you may do so. This is not required but if you would like to send in something please make sure you have something for every one in the class (22 students).

4. Please mark Friday, March 22nd on your calendars! We will have our 2nd grade field trip on that day. More information will be coming soon!

5. WEEK OF READING is coming soon (2/18-2/22)! We will spend the whole week celebrating books!

Monday: We love reading with stuffies! Bring a stuffed animal to school.

Tuesday: We love reading our favorite books! Come dressed up as your favorite character (k-2 Character Parade).

Wednesday: We love reading Dr. Seuss books! Wear a hat.

Thursday: We love reading with a buddy! Wear a shirts with words.

Friday: We love reading in our pajamas! Wear pajamas to school.

Upcoming Dates:

2/14 - Valentine's Day
2/18-2/22 - Week of Reading

2/21 - Family Reading Night
3/21 - Student Led Conferences

3/22 - Field Trip to the Aquarium
4/5 - Elementary Field Day

4/8-4/12 - Spring Break
4/19 - Kid City

Have a great weekend! :)