Monthly Archives: October 2023

Week ending with Grand Friends!

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Reminders:

  • Please send in clean towels/blankets in on Monday.
  • Tuesday, October 31 Field Trip! You are welcome to meet us at Hemlock Crossing for a nature walk/scavenger hunt. We’ll form smaller groups and then meet at 10:50 for a snack and worship. Please make sure your child is dressed for the weather. I think it is looking much colder than this week! We will arrive back at school around 11:45/11:50.

What we are learning:

This week in Bible we continued the study of the Patriarchs. We read about how God blessed Abraham and Sarah with a baby at an older age. We talked about how with God ANYTHING is possible!

In math this week we continue to recognize numbers in different formats. We played a pizza game with our peanut butter and jelly partner to add toppings to our pizzas.

In Daily 5 everyone had a turn to either read or work with letter sounds with Mrs. Arnold. Other friends were then able to work with play-doh, stamps and magnets to create word wall words and practice sounds.

During our outdoor learning time we practiced putting on Oaki suits. These are suits that will protect us from the wind and rain as the weather becomes more unpredictable!

This week in social studies,(engaging God’s world), we learned about maps and about our very special place on the map. One that is unique to us. We looked at how big the world is and then marveled at how amazing God has to be to have created it all!

This week Kinsley Lotter was up in lights. Her parents came to share about her and all of the students were so inquisitive and had many great questions for Kinsley! We learned that Kinsley has lots of princess dresses at home! We are blessed to have Kinsley and her sweet spirit in our classroom!

 

 

Week ending October 13

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Reminders:

Please wash quiet time towels this weekend and send them back to school Monday. Thank you!

 Important Dates

  • October 16 at 10:10 am: Body safe presentation for our kindergarten class

What we are learning:

This week we added the word the to our word wall word board.

In Bible this week Mrs. Arnold and Mrs. Hunderman acted out the story of the Tower of Babel. We talked about how great we were and we thought we could build a tower up to God. (We used our class blocks.)We realized quickly that we couldn’t even agree on how to build a tower and how we just had a great big mess. We talked about how nobody is greater than God and that without Him we are a big mess.

In math this week we practiced writing out numbers and discussed different ways to figure out more, fewer and the same. We played games as well as made graphs.

In Daily 5 we worked in groups and chose which station we wanted to work at. We all were able to get to each station once during the week.

In phonics this week we made a list of things our class loves to do. We thought we could share these things with our grandparents in a few weeks. We learned that we write and read from left to right and that spacing between words is very important. Mrs. Arnold tried to read a few sentences without having spaces and it sounded pretty silly!

Up in Lights this week was Anders Sherman. His mom and dad came to share about him and brought his favorite toy, a yoto. It is an audio book for kids!!

Makenzie Velderman’s mom also came to share about her as she was sick while she was up in lights. We learned that Makenzie’s loves Caleb’s chicken Dolly and she even dares to pick it up!! I don’t think Mrs. Arnold would do that!!

Just a few glimpses into our classroom this past week. My biggest desire as a teacher is for my room to be filled with His overflowing joy!!

Week ending October 6

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Reminders;

Please remember to send your child’s towel back on Monday for our quiet time, also library books are due on Monday.

Important Dates:

  • October 16: Children’s Advocacy Center-Body Safety Presentations-papers will be coming home today or Monday
  • October 18-20: No School

What we are learning:

In Bible this week we learned about Noah and how God saved his family and sent a rainbow as a reminder that He will ALWAYS keep his promises. We painted a paper to remind us who God keeps his promises to!

In Math this week we continued working on fewer, the same and more. We also worked on ways to figure out if we have enough items for a certain number of friends. We worked on using five frames to figure out which of our friends like dogs or cats better.

In engaging God’s World we learned about our 5 senses and tasted apples. We learned we actually used all 5 senses when we did our tasting! We then circled back to math and used 5 frames to figure which color apples our class preferred. During this time, Holden’s sister Lynden came to help us! (This was a PBIS reward)!

During our Daily 5 this week, we all got an opportunity to work with Mrs. Arnold, use play-doh and stamps to make letters and words, worked to write our friends’ names as well as reading to self. We did a great job!

During writing workshop this week we learned about labeling! We labeled Mrs. Arnold with post it notes and then labeled a pumpkin! It was one of the highlights of our week!

We also said good bye to our amazing friend Sathvik today as he is moving out of town! Some of us dared to try hot cheetos which are his favorite! The rest of us had regular cheetos or veggie straws.