We will be testing each morning this week up until lunch time. We will complete the last section by Thursday lunch time. Please remember promptness and nutritious food.
Reminder: Canned drinks are not allowed for first graders. Please do not send them for lunch or snacks. Boxed drinks and plastic bottles are great. Thanks for your cooperation in this.
There is no school next Monday, May 3 due to a Teacher In Service Day. We will be back on schedule Tuesday, May 4.
Our caterpillars are now getting ready to enter the chrysalis stage. Stop by and see them!
I will be on call for jury duty next week May 3-7. Mrs. Enos is on call to cover for me if I am asked to report.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Homework for Week of April 26
· READING: No reading homework this week due to SAT’s. Your child is welcome to read anyway. Let me know if you want them to bring their book home.
· LANGUAGE: Minimal academics this week due to SAT’s.
· MATH: No math homework this week due to SAT’s.
· SPELLING: The children will bring List 27 home this Friday to be returned next Tuesday, May 4.
· LANGUAGE: Minimal academics this week due to SAT’s.
· MATH: No math homework this week due to SAT’s.
· SPELLING: The children will bring List 27 home this Friday to be returned next Tuesday, May 4.
Bible for week of April 26
“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
John 15: 12, 13
This week we begin the life of Hudson Taylor, missionary to inland China. Our memory verse is I John 2:10, 11, which completes the April GCS passage. Please be diligent to help your child work on it at home.
I John 2:10, 11
“The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”
John 15: 12, 13
This week we begin the life of Hudson Taylor, missionary to inland China. Our memory verse is I John 2:10, 11, which completes the April GCS passage. Please be diligent to help your child work on it at home.
I John 2:10, 11
“The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”
Monday, April 19, 2010
Other Parent Information for week of April 19
We will be taking SAT testings the week of April 26. Please be sure your child arrives promptly each morning. Once we begin, no late arrivals will be let in. The testings are really not difficult, but it helps to be sure your child has had a good night’s sleep and a nutritious breakfast before coming to school, as well as a healthy morning snack. We will complete the testings by Thursday morning. Please let me know if there is any other way I can help you.
Please be sure that your child wears the field trip T-shirt, jeans and supportive walking shoes for our trip to Placerita Canyon Nature Center tomorrow. They should also bring a sack lunch and a morning snack if desired.
We now have a jar with 5 caterpillars. It is an exciting time for the children to watch them grow until they become butterflies. Stop by and see them.
Our class came in 3rd place for fundraising on the WalkAThon. HURRAY! This has won us a pizza party, which we will be having this Friday, April 23. Please let me know ASAP if you would like to send in something to supplement our lunch (ie carrots/celery, boxed drinks, cookies, etc). Also, please do not send a lunch ticket or lunch with your child this Friday.
Thanks in advance for your help, and more importantly, thank you for helping to raise money for GCS.
Please be sure that your child wears the field trip T-shirt, jeans and supportive walking shoes for our trip to Placerita Canyon Nature Center tomorrow. They should also bring a sack lunch and a morning snack if desired.
We now have a jar with 5 caterpillars. It is an exciting time for the children to watch them grow until they become butterflies. Stop by and see them.
Our class came in 3rd place for fundraising on the WalkAThon. HURRAY! This has won us a pizza party, which we will be having this Friday, April 23. Please let me know ASAP if you would like to send in something to supplement our lunch (ie carrots/celery, boxed drinks, cookies, etc). Also, please do not send a lunch ticket or lunch with your child this Friday.
Thanks in advance for your help, and more importantly, thank you for helping to raise money for GCS.
Homework for Week of April 19
· READING: Homework will come home Monday and Thursday only this week.
· LANGUAGE: This week we continue with telling/asking sentences, and applying proper punctuation at the ends of them. We also continue with creative writing.
· MATH: This week we continue our chapter on telling time and clocks. this as well. Homework will come home on Monday, Thursday and Friday this week. Please feel free to give your child practice at home if you like. I have extra student clocks if you would like to borrow one.
· SPELLING: We are on List 26 this week . This list reviews the suffix rules from the past 2 weeks. We have had much practice on these rules in class. Please be sure your child is understanding the difference. The practice test will come home Thursday as usual.
· LANGUAGE: This week we continue with telling/asking sentences, and applying proper punctuation at the ends of them. We also continue with creative writing.
· MATH: This week we continue our chapter on telling time and clocks. this as well. Homework will come home on Monday, Thursday and Friday this week. Please feel free to give your child practice at home if you like. I have extra student clocks if you would like to borrow one.
· SPELLING: We are on List 26 this week . This list reviews the suffix rules from the past 2 weeks. We have had much practice on these rules in class. Please be sure your child is understanding the difference. The practice test will come home Thursday as usual.
Bible for week of April 19
This week, as we continue learning about missionaries, we will complete the life of Amy Carmichael, missionary to India. Our memory verse is ! John 2:8, 9, as we begin the GCS April passage.
I John 2:8, 9
“On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.”
I John 2:8, 9
“On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.”
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
April 20 Field Trip
Grace Community School
First Grade Field Trip
Placerita Canyon Nature Center
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,
Our class will be going to Placerita Canyon Nature Center on a field trip next Tuesday, April 20. Please see below for details and please return the bottom ASAP if you can drive for us. Thanks! We are so excited at this opportunity to learn more about the creation God has given us.
TIME: Leave GCS 9:00 am. Return 2 pm
COST: $5 ($2 fee, $2 gas, $1 for gift shop). PLEASE send money in separate $1 bills.
WHAT TO WEAR: field trip T-shirt and jeans.
WHAT TO BRING: Disposable lunch (no lunch pails or plastic containers). Also send an extra drink or bottle of water. When we arrive, the children will have time for a quick snack before the tour starts if you would also like to send a morning snack.
Thank you in advance for your help with this field trip.
Rejoicing in Him,
Shirley Mollica
First Grade Field Trip
Placerita Canyon Nature Center
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,
Our class will be going to Placerita Canyon Nature Center on a field trip next Tuesday, April 20. Please see below for details and please return the bottom ASAP if you can drive for us. Thanks! We are so excited at this opportunity to learn more about the creation God has given us.
TIME: Leave GCS 9:00 am. Return 2 pm
COST: $5 ($2 fee, $2 gas, $1 for gift shop). PLEASE send money in separate $1 bills.
WHAT TO WEAR: field trip T-shirt and jeans.
WHAT TO BRING: Disposable lunch (no lunch pails or plastic containers). Also send an extra drink or bottle of water. When we arrive, the children will have time for a quick snack before the tour starts if you would also like to send a morning snack.
Thank you in advance for your help with this field trip.
Rejoicing in Him,
Shirley Mollica
Other Parent Information for week of April 12
Please don’t forget the Art Festival next Monday evening, April 19. School will be dismissed at 12 noon that day in preparation for the
evening.
We will be taking SAT testings the week of April 26. I will give you more preparatory information next week, but please plan on having your child at school each day that week, as there are no opportunities to make up missed sections. Thank you for your cooperation in this.
Please see attached sheet with information on next Tuesday’s field trip to the Placerita Canyon Nature Center.
evening.
We will be taking SAT testings the week of April 26. I will give you more preparatory information next week, but please plan on having your child at school each day that week, as there are no opportunities to make up missed sections. Thank you for your cooperation in this.
Please see attached sheet with information on next Tuesday’s field trip to the Placerita Canyon Nature Center.
Bible for week of April 12
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34
Having completed the life of Christ, we will now spend a few weeks on the lives of missionaries, to see how Christ’s command to preach the gospel to all nations has grown and spread. This week we begin with the life of Amy Carmichael, missionary to India. Our memory verse is ! John 2:7, as we begin the GCS April passage.
I John 2:7
“Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have heard from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.”
Having completed the life of Christ, we will now spend a few weeks on the lives of missionaries, to see how Christ’s command to preach the gospel to all nations has grown and spread. This week we begin with the life of Amy Carmichael, missionary to India. Our memory verse is ! John 2:7, as we begin the GCS April passage.
I John 2:7
“Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have heard from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.”
Homework for Week of April 12
· READING: Homework will come home Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week.
· LANGUAGE: This week we continue with telling/asking sentences, and applying proper punctuation at the ends of them. We also continue with creative writing.
· MATH: This week we begin a chapter on telling time and clocks. The children will learn to tell time on analog clocks from the hour and half hour. Please feel free to help them at home on this as well. Homework will come home on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday this week.
· SPELLING: We are on List 25 this week (when the root word ends in silent “e”, drop the “e” before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel ). The test will be Friday, and there will be a practice test for homework on Thursday as usual.
· LANGUAGE: This week we continue with telling/asking sentences, and applying proper punctuation at the ends of them. We also continue with creative writing.
· MATH: This week we begin a chapter on telling time and clocks. The children will learn to tell time on analog clocks from the hour and half hour. Please feel free to help them at home on this as well. Homework will come home on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday this week.
· SPELLING: We are on List 25 this week (when the root word ends in silent “e”, drop the “e” before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel ). The test will be Friday, and there will be a practice test for homework on Thursday as usual.
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