Everyone was excited after our Fall Fest assembly last Friday! Excited to earn incentives and prizes, excited to go to Fall Fest to play with friends. We hope parents are excited, too for all the ways they can help make BLS a better school. Be sure and check out the goals we're raising funds to cover and find out how you can help support our school. Donate, volunteer and come to Fall Fest to celebrate the BLS family.
It's a shorter week, with Friday being a no school day. Teachers will be working at school for professional development. We are learning how to increase student comprehension at BLS.
As we study God's Word this week, we'll learn about Joseph and his brothers. This is a great story of family disfunction and how God uses forgiveness and healing. Our class will meet their Bethlehem Buddies on Tuesday. These are BLC members who volunteer to come in once a month to tell the Bible story to a small group from our class. These special people share their faith and pray for our kids throughout the year.
We start a new section in math where students will compare groups and numbers. Students will learn what greater, less and equals means and apply it to groups and numbers.
In reading and writing this week, we'll cover the letter Gg. Students will learn the sound, symbol and how to write Gg correctly. We'll spell words using all the letters we've covered so far. Our class is doing well remembering the parts of a book and concepts of print. At story time we'll continue to practice identifying the characters and setting in a text. This week we'll focus on sequence or story order. We apply this same concept in math (counting order) and letter order in a word (beginning sound, middle and end). Students will practice writing words and a sentence correctly with a guided drawing of an owl. We are practicing 'red words' often through whole group chants and games. On Thursdays, our 8th grade reading buddies help us review and practice new concepts.
In social studies, we'll learn more about the jobs in our building by interviewing our custodian, Mr. Youngstrom. I bet many will think his job is the coolest in the building!
Students will move deeper into their understanding of the weather by learning about the water cycle in science. We'll do a cool cloud experience to watch how rain fall out of clouds.
Mrs. Arnold will have us moving and dancing to the beat as we learn and sing songs that review concepts we're learning.
At tech time, students will be playing letter games or reading leveled books on Tuesday.
It will be a good week, a full week with lots of smiles and learning.
Mrs. Luoma
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