Newsletter: September 27 to October 4th, 2010

Class Newsletter_September 27 to October 8th 2010

September 27, 2010

Kindergarten Homework and Word List:

Kindergarten Word List_September 27, 2010

First Grade Homework and Word List: 

First Grade page 1

First Grade page 2

Second Grade Homework and Word List:

Second Grade page 1

Second Grade page 2

October 4, 2010

Kindergarten Homework and Word List:

Kindergarten

First Grade Homework and Word List:

First Grade

First Grade Word List

Second Grade Homework and Word List:

Second Grade

Second Grade Word List

The students completed their positive caterpillar for the week, so for our “Fun Friday” surprise, we made homemade butter.  The kids had a blast as they shook and shook the heavy whipping until butter emerged : ) We enjoyed our homemade butter with Italian bread and crackers.

Faith, Lissy, and Emma all purchased wands from the class store with their hard earned animal dollars.

Emma working on the United States puzzle.

Jaedyn

Anna, Josiah, and Cierra working together on some puzzles.

Faith and Elyana

Lissy and Emma

My daughter, Kiersten, a seventh grader working with the kindergartners.

Third and Fourth graders during Writing Workshop.  We are working on how to write an opinion paper.

Cierra and Eli- our bible study this week was on “Joseph”.  Cierra is wearing the coat of many colors

We had read “The Library Mouse” by Daniel Kirk last week.  This week we read the second in the series.

Elyana assisting Jaedyn with her journaling.

Second graders working together during group time.

Students have been working on learning their states in alphabetical order by singing a song.  To go along with the theme, we have been receiving one postcard per week from across the United States.  By the end of our study we will collect all 50 postcards representing all 50 states from our friends across the United States.  So far we have received Pennsylvania and Delaware.  Next week we will study New Jersey.

Study on word families.  This is our fishy word families, just like a fish swims with their family… so do our words.  The students had to locate which fish went with the family represented.  A fun activity : )

Great Job Jaedyn! You wrote all your ABC’s

The first graders have been working on number words and numbers- here is an octopus activity we did to learn this concept.

We studied how to pray:

1. Praise God

2. Confess our sins

3. Thank God

4. Pray for others

5. Pray for self

6. Closing

We also learned J.O.Y:

J: Jesus First

O: Others Second

Y: Yourself Last

The kids have spent quite a bit of time looking for caterpillars during recess (finding many along the way).  This has become such an interest that I turned it into a bible study.  We made “Gospel Caterpillars” to go along with the “Gospel Story”.  Each color on our “Gospel Caterpillars” represented a part of the plan of salvation:

Black : Sin

Red: Christ’s blood

Blue: Baptism

White: We are as washed from sin and are as white as snow because of Christ’s blood

Green: We grow in knowledge and faith through reading the bible daily

Yellow: By living a life of faithfulness we will receive the crown of life

Enjoying our time at recess

Elyana and Faith’s journals on our study of Johnny Appleseed.  Each student is keeping a journal through the year (will be taken home at end of year).

More journaling from our reading of the second book in the series of “The Library Mouse” by Daniel Kirk.

State Song Lyrics:

THE UNITED STATES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Once the kids have mastered the song, I will record them singing it and add it here : ) Something to look forward to…

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Mrs. Hyatt’s Class Newsletter_September 20 to 27th 2010

Kindergarten Word List_September 20, 2010

First Grade Word List_September 20, 2010

Second Grade Word List_September 20, 2010

Students learning about Singular and Plural Nouns

Study of Place Value (Ones and Tens)

Students enjoying our “B” for “Bubbles” Study : )

Students enjoying some free time

Emma brought in her snow globe from Philadelphia.  She explained that she collects snow globes from across the United States each time her family visits a new place (she travels a lot).  Cierra brought in her doll baby, which she says she really takes care of.

Anna brought in her Barbie Computer and Ashton brought in his DS.

Faith brought in a healthy treat (YUMMY)

Cori brought in his sea shell collection and homemade robot.

Lissy brought in her favorite barbie doll, named “Sarah” (like Abraham’s Wife)

Josiah educated us with the study of penguins  : )

Cori forgot his show and tell, so he was giving us clues for what he would bring in on Monday to share

Emma and Lissy

Students with their first “Show and Tell”.  Students really wanted to do a show and tell.  They earned a show and tell by filling up their positive caterpillar the week before.  The assignment was to bring in something that was very special to you.

The second graders enjoyed their study of math so much they asked if they could bring it to recess! Who was I to say no : )

Abrielle looking through a glass prism and what she found when she let natural light (white light) shine through was a rainbow (where’s our pot of gold : )

Emma, Lissy, and Elly studying math with their manipulatives (place value)

Learning How to Pray:

Students busy working on their books and the writing process:

Our Class “mouse-size” books:

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Mrs. Hyatt Classroom News_ September 13 2010

Kindergarten_Word List_September 13 2010

First Grade_September 13 Word List

Second Grade_Week of September 13

Our Word Families:

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September 7, 2010 Newsletter

Kindergarten Word List_Week of September 7 2010

First Grade Word List_ Week of September 7 2010

Second Grade Word List_Week of September 7, 2010

August 30, 2010 Newsletter

First Grade Word List_ Week of September 7 2010

Second Grade Word List_Week of September 7, 2010

Student compass roses

Week of August 23rd, 2010

or see below : )

My Star Students: an introduction for the beginning of the school year.

Introducing my Kindergartners:

Introducing my First Graders:

Introducing my Second Graders:

All students are Ready to Learn

and PLAY

and to Learn God’s Word

Sharing our Weather Journals

Hello Parents and Students!

We have been busy as bees this past week as we ventured into the first full week of school.  We have been learning lots and all the students have been wonderful.

Kindergarten: Counting (1-10), Colors, Patterns, ABC (Letter Tt and Ii) recognition, Story Time, Shapes (Circle, Square, Rectangle, and Triangle).  We also met Farmer Brown, Mrs. Brown, Cheddar, and the Vick Family and Friends.

First Grade: Lesser than and Greater than, Vowels and Consonants, Handwriting Practice, Color Words, Sight Words, Review of 1-100 Number Chart, Single Digit addition, and Word Families (see August 23rd Word List), Initial Letter Sounds (Tt, Ii, Zz and Hh), and journaling.  We also met our Character Families.

Second Grade: Sentences (capitalization, ending punctuation marks, sentence subjects and action), Reading and Comprehension, Final Consonants, Handwriting Practice, Long and Short Vowels, journaling, Word Families, Enrichment Words, and Sight Words (see August 23rd Word List).  There will be a Spelling Test on Monday.  We have also been working on Tallies in Math.

Look at What Else we’re Learning…

All grades are learning about the Days of Creation.  All grades have also been learning sign language.  First and Second Graders are learning about Weather- ask about our cloud experiment.

Reminders…

Parents please make sure all school supplies have been sent in.  Also your children may bring in individual pencil sharpeners (with shaving catchers) to keep at their desk.

I will be sending Homework Assignments home by Monday… Homework is not due back until the next Monday.

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Teaching for Him,

Mrs. Hyatt

First and Second Grade Word Lists

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First Grade_August 23 to September 3 2010

Second Grade_August 23 to September 3_Word List

Welcome to Mrs. Hyatt’s Classroom Blessings!

To see a glimpse of our class- see the page titled “A Glimpse into our Classroom” (above).