The Tyler Times: 8.19.17

WEEK TWO
Whole School Picture!

Next Week:

SOCIAL/SPIRITUAL
Jesus Time: Creation
Memory Work: Psalm 139:4 - Memory Work is in the front of your child's RED folder. It can be said any day next week. There is an opportunity as classmates are washing hands for lunch. I will put a sticker next to it when it is completed.
Our Classroom Community
COMMUNICATION
Reading: Mrs. Wegner (our literacy coach) will take each child to read to find a starting point for the year.
Literacy Stations: We will start learning about some of the literacy stations.
Spelling: -at words - We will have a practice test on Friday so the boys and girls get a feel for what they are like. The spelling pattern list was sent home on the first day of school.
EXPRESSIVE
Art - Color Wheel
Music - Start special classes with music teacher, Mrs. Crumrine
WELLNESS
PE - Physical activites in the gym with Mrs. Steinbacher - Gym shoes are needed!
Recess - Start Mileage club
DISCOVERY
Math: Review of numbers and shapes
Science: What a Scientist Does

News and Notes:

Solar Eclipse
On Monday, our school will have a Solar Eclipse party. We will have fun stations with other classes to learn more about the eclipse. Please have your child bring a towel to sit on for lunch and viewing, bring a cold lunch (no peanut butter) or picnic lunch is available to purchase that day (for Hot Lunch), and you might want to put sunscreen on your child. We will be outside from 11:30 until 1:30. The boys and girls have already learned so much! We are looking forward to an exciting day!

Water Bottles
Your child may bring a water bottle to school to drink during the day. Please send a water bottle that has a sip type lid that pops up to keep spills to a minimum. If we have several spills and we will just keep the bottle in their backpack and get drinks from it from there. Some of the bottles form condensation and one idea is to put a sock on to cover the bottom so that our desks don't become wet. :-)

Red Daily Folder
The red folder that has come home every day this past week, we call our "Bobcat folder." Please check and remove any papers that your child has inside EVERY DAY. Your first grader will need this folder every day so please help them remember to return it the following day. This is also where you will find your child's homework each night once we start having math homework next week. (There will be no homework on weekends.)

Friday Folder
Please look in your child's Friday folder each weekend. It will be sent home each Friday. Please mark the Church/Sunday school attendance and initial, and remove all papers inside so that I know you have looked in the folder. (Church and Sunday school is ANY church, not just Zion.) Please return the folder the following Monday.

Back to School Night
It is very important that at least one parent attend the Back to School Night. There will be a lot of information about our literacy program and first grade program. You will also be able to see your chid's desk and can see some of the things they have done already. :-) First session starts at 6:30pm on Tuesday, August 22nd.

Photo Gallery:

Introducing our new first graders!

Coloring on the First day!

New folders!

Friends!

Our AWESOME group!

We can love each other...

And be silly together!

Recess fun!

We made ourselves for Student of the Day!

Friends read together!

Decorating our desk for our birthday!

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Observing the Hermit Crabs

Writing in our Wonder Journals

about what we think we might do in first grade.

Making towers to match numbers!

Enjoying books in our library

We LOVE those Hermit Crabs!

Praying together and for others!

We talked about how when we look at a book, we can learn about ourselves as readers. We marked with a sticky note what we noticed we knew about words and books!