4/26/2017

Early blog our this week, as I will be gone on Friday to celebrate my sons birthday=) Mrs. Everts will be here and the kids love her!

I seriously can not believe it is May next week!! As of next week we have 6 weeks left of school! We are running hard, and having fun! So proud of these kiddos!

Notes:

-Because we have had some issues lately with toys, we are asking that students please not bring them to school. If students are seen playing with them at school we will have to take them and put them away=(

-Remember to register for next year if you have not already!

Important Dates coming  up:

Tuesday, May 9th: Lunch and Recess with  Moms and Grandmas. 11:15-11:55.

Saturday, May 13th: Sonshine Dinner and Auction A Night in Italy 2. Tickets will be going on sale soon! 

Monday, May 22nd: Whole school zoo field trip. Please let me know if you would like to chaperone!

Monday, May 29th: Memorial Day, no shcool.

Tuesday, June 6th: Field Day/ Lunch with Dads and Grandpas (9:30-12:00) at Klineline. (Save the date, details to come.)

Friday, June 9th: Last day of school/ half day/ Kinder graduation and program. 

Auction Cooler!

We have a few things for our cooler but still needing to fill it up! Here are a few ideas

-Camping chairs ($10 at Wal-mart)

-Squirt guns, camping toys ect.

-Canteen

-Pitch in $10 to get a cooking stove

-Gift card to a camping store

-Sleeping bags

-Tarp

-Flash lights

-Camping utensils

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee

4/23/2017

Happy Sunday parents! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!

Important Dates coming  up:

Tuesday, May 9th: Lunch and Recess with  Moms and Grandmas. 11:15-11:55. (Save the date, details to come!)

Saturday, May 13th: Sonshine Dinner and Auction A Night in Italy 2. Tickets will be going on sale soon! 

Monday, May 22nd: Whole school zoo field trip. Please let me know if you would like to chaperone!

Monday, May 29th: Memorial Day, no shcool.

Tuesday, June 6th: Field Day/ Lunch with Dads and Grandpas (9:30-12:00) at Klineline. (Save the date, details to come.)

Friday, June 9th: Last day of school/ half day/ Kinder graduation and program. 

Auction Cooler!

We have a few things for our cooler but still needing to fill it up! Here are a few ideas

-Camping chairs ($10 at Wal-mart)

-Squirt guns, camping toys ect.

-Canteen

-Pitch in $10 to get a cooking stove

-Gift card to a camping store

-Sleeping bags

-Tarp

-Flash lights

-Camping utensils

Our Week in a snapshot- Last week was fun and busy! We worked in our garden, and a few little plants are starting to sprout! We all worked very hard on finishing up our class book about our favorite animals. I can't wait for parents to see, it turned out very cute! We also celebrated Earth week and talked about ways we can help take care of our earth. Friday was our unit test day, and they all rocked it!

Next week:

Reading- We will begin talking about cause and effect in stories. This actually goes very well with out character traits too, because every cause has an effect! We will also be learning plural and singular and how to add a s to the end of words when there is more than 1!

Math- We are continuing to work on our fact fluency, which will be very important as they move into first grade. Two groups are working on review of the year and one math group is working on shapes and measurement. If your child is not bringing home math papers please know they are doing math but most likely working on our review book, which stays at school.

Writing- We are finishing up our Fiction unit and will be having our Writer's celebration  on Friday! (Side note I will be having a substitute teacher Friday so I can spend the day with my son for his birthday=))

Bible- Jesus and the Children.

Character Trait- We can love Jesus and others./ 

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their day!

Mrs. Lee

*Again sorry about no pictures I have been having trouble uploading them lately=(

4/14/17

Happy Friday everyone! We had another busy week, as you will see in pictures below. We started our garden. The kids had so much fun cleaning the garden out and planting the seeds. We also began our animal research project. We will use this project to help us write our class book. And of course we learned about the true meaning of Easter. Each day this week we opened a few Easter eggs that held part of the Easter story. We finished up our week with a painting.

Next week will continue to be busy as we finish up our animal reports and get ready to turn in our final draft to be published! Please remember to fill out the sheet saying if you would like a class book. If you do not want one, please check no and return it. It is due Friday!!!!!

Next week in reading we will be reviewing what we have learned over the last month. Friday will be our test.

In math we have started our addition and subtraction tests. The students are doing great! As we go in to the end of the year, we get to do what I call fun math, measurement, shapes, and position. As we wrap our math curriculum we will review everything we have learned and begin to look at first grade concepts. I really cannot believe we are starting to wrap up our year!!!

- In science we are celebrating earth week. We will learn about why recycling is important, and how we can reduce and reuse items.

- Our Bible story this week is the Ten Lepers. In this story only one man comes back to tell Jesus thank you. So our character building trait this week will be being thankful in our everyday lives, and we will be practicing what that looks like!

-Lastly in writing, we are continuing to write fiction stories. We are focusing on learning about characters, setting, and creating a clear beginning, middle, and end. This may sound like alot, however, their stories go something like this "Hello kitty went to the park. She played on the swings and slide. She went home." Some students do more and some are just working on this.

Note 

-Our auction "cooler" is out front of the class ready to be filled=)

- April 16th- Easter service and Easter egg hun.


- May 9th- Mother's day lunch. (11:15)

-May 13th- Auction

-May 22nd- Zoo field trip

-May 29th- no school

-June 6th- Father's field day

-June 9th- Last day of school/ half day/ kinder graduation and program. 

Pictures-Please find more pictures in next post! 

4/5/2016

Hello wonderful kinder parents! I hope everyone is enjoying their Spring Break! I can't believe that once we get back we only have 9 weeks left of school! We have so much to get done before then! We will be working on our published book this month, as well as start our school garden!

Speaking of school garden, if you have any extra gloves we would appreciate being able to borrow some. The kids will be doing everything for the garden, from pulling out last years sunflowers, planting the seeds, watering them, and pulling the weed! We voted on what we should plant and the students decided to have one vegetable, one flower, and one fruit. I am excited to get started=)

For our published books, please let me know if you would like to come in and help! We will work on it all the way through April. Students will need help with researching and eventually writing up their piece of the book. Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who donated to our food drive! our bins are full and ready to be sent to the food bank! Congratulations to Alayaah, Aubriee, and Abigail for having their writing piece chosen to go to the food bank to deliver the food!

 Scarlet leading calendar

So far for our Auction "cooler", we have our cooler and some s'mores sticks. We have about 4-5 weeks left=) Also, as you are going to all of your favorite places we would love if you asked for a donation. Only with our families and community can our auction be successful! This is our auction money will go to our remodeled building for our 4th and 5th graders (I accidentally said technology last time=))

Well I look forward to these last few months at school! Thanks for the great year so far!

Mrs. Lee

If you would like to get started on our homework for next week here is next weeks news letter

 The kiddos with their stuffed animals

3/26/2017

Happy Sunday everyone!

Hope everyone is enjoying this rainy day!☂☂ I enjoyed meeting with everyone last week for conferences! It is fun to celebrate how far your children have come in the short months they have been here. Thanks for all the support your families give to your children and to our school.


Notes:

*March 31st is the last day to get the early registration discount! As well, after the 31st registration it is open to the public. Our classes are filling quicker this year, so make sure you register early=)

*Next week is Spirit week! A little fun right before we go to Spring Break! Flyers should have been in folders. If you missed it somehow, tomorrow will be mismatch day!

*Next week is also the last week to turn in our canned food! This was our focus for missions month and showing students that they can be missionaries even in their own neighborhood. We will be doing a writing about this next week, and 3 students from our class will be picked to go to the food bank to drop off the food after Spring Break. Let's fill our bucket!

*Talking about donations we also have our auction "cooler" ready to be filled! It is camping themed=)

Next week in reading we will continue to work on substituting sounds. This is an easy activity to do in the car with your kiddos. You can say "what word would I have if I took pig and took away the /p/ sound and added the /r/ sound." a little practice goes along way, and it is helping students hear the difference between sounds. We will also be focusing on the parts of a book and nouns. So as you read stories each night ask who the characters are, what the setting is, and what happened first, second, and last.

In writing, we have started our fiction stories. I am so impressed on how well they are catching on to this! It has been fun watching them create their own stories. This unit goes well with what we are learning in reading, the parts of a story. Helps create connections to what they are doing and why=)

In math, addition and subtraction is still our main focus, though we continue in our other chapters about shapes, and putting numbers together. After Spring break, we will begin our addition and subtraction tests. I know sounds crazy for kinders, but don't worry there are 6 problems in 1 minute and only includes number 5 and under. Children will get to go at their own pace as well, so if they have to do +1 a few times, no worries! I do this to give them more practice and one standard for kindergarten is that they are fluent in addition and subtraction up to 5. These are just small building blocks that will help them later in their schooling=)

Next week in Bible we will be learning about The Good Samaritan. Our focus will be on that we should show compassion to ALL people. This is a good connection to our canned food drive as well. I love when things fit together!

Have a great rest of  your today! See everyone tomorrow!

Amber Lee

Mrs. Bates Class led us in Chapel Monday

Abigail sharing her writing

Learning about the food groups

Buddy reading

3/17/2017

Happy Monday Parents! Sorry for the late post!!

The big thing on the calendar is conferences next week! These will be co-led with the students, so make sure to bring them with you=) Our school does student led conferences in Spring to help students feel more ownership and responsibility for their own learning. I think it is nice to also hear from your child on how they are liking school and what they are learning. This helps students learn the life long skill of a growth mindset, where they learn that if they try they can learn and do anything. Report cards will be sent home after Spring Break. During the conference if you have questions just for me, that is fine, I will have quiet activities your child can do while we talk. If you forget your time you can message me, or find the conference clip-board out front with all the times. 

*Tomorrow, Saturday March 18th @ 5:00 is our snack and paint night! This is our first fundraiser help by our PTL (parent, teacher, league)! The cost is $35 and most all profit will go to our school! The instruction will come from Mrs. Kim Tener, an amazing artist who has done art with our kids for the last few years.

*Thursday March 23rd is a half-day! School will be dismissed at 12:00. On half-days we do not provide after-care. You may contact Brooke at the Daycare to get aftercare if needed. 

*Canned food drive! After we return from Spring Break we will be taking in our canned food to the food bank. 3 students from our class will get to go! Students will be chosen based on a piece of writing. We are holding our canned food drive in celebration of missions month, teaching kids we can be missionaries near and far. 

*Just a heads up, when we return from Spring Break we will be collecting items for our camping themed auction "cooler"! Nichole Stern is purchasing the cooler, I look forward to building our cooler! And I can't wait to bid on it! All proceeds this year will go towards purchasing technology for our school!

 Sorry for the lack of pictures this week=(

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee

3/3/2017

Happy Friday wonderful kindergarten parents! We had another fun filled week! Between all of our learning we learned about teeth and how to brush them, I hope you found your child's tooth brush in their bag. On Tuesday and Wednesday we fit in some extra art time, some of which you will see during conferences. Then on Friday we celebrated our 100th day of school and we were also visited by Franz Bakery! Franz was nice enough to donate a bag of cookies to each student and loafs of bread for each class to share!

Today just flew by and I did not test on the Bible verse. I apologize! I will still test on Monday.

Next week will be a lighter week, with only our Writer's celebration on Friday. Parents are more than welcome to come join us at out celebration! In reading we will be reviewing our unit for our unit test on Friday.In writing we will finish up our writing for a reason unit and pick a piece for our celebration. 

In Social Studies we will be focusing on missions! If you have ever gone on a mission I would love to have you come talk about your experience with us! Please let me know!

In math, we are continuing to focus on addition, subtraction, measurement, and geometry. As  

a whole we will be focusing on addition and subtraction, primarily in story problems. For example, susie had 3 stickers and got 2 more how many does she have, or susie had 3 stickers and joe gave her more and now has 5. How many did joe give her. These are problems that you can also practice at home. Splash Math is also a great resource for your child to practice! I know my son loves it!

Notes!

-March 18th- Snack and Paint Night with Mrs. Kim Tener!

-March 23rd Early Release at 12:00!

-March 24th- No school/ conferences!

-We are now collecting Box Tops! I was told we have already raised about $40 in the short time we have been doing this! Keep it up!

-Remember to bring book bags back on Monday!

Don't miss this email from Mrs. Warner!

Dear Sonshine Christian Day Care and Elementary School Parents,

I want to make sure that you are all aware of upcoming opportunities at Sonshine, but before I share these opportunities with you I am excited to report that Sonshine Christian Elementary School has been approved for national accreditation! This is a huge step and great accomplishment for our little school! Now, listed below is information about registration for next year’s elementary school program, summer educational camps, and more:

·         Elementary School Registration - We are offering early elementary school registration discounts for current Sonshine daycare and elementary school families. If you register for the 2017/2018 school year by April 1^st you will pay $250.00. After April 1^st the registration fee goes up to $275.00.  If you are a current student at Sonshine, you need to have your registration in by April 1^st in order to save your child’s place in next year’s class.

o   We are offering classes from kindergarten through 5^th Grade next year.

o   All 4^th and 5^th grade students will be provided with their own personal technology device!

o   Space is limited!

·         Summer Educational Camp: “Space Adventure!” - If you register your child for our summer educational camp, “Space Adventure!” by April 1^st you will pay $25.00. If you register for camp after April 1^st the fee goes up to $50.00. The cost of this year’s two week summer educational camp is $225.00 (not including the registration fee). Our summer Educational Camp takes place July 10^th – 21^st, from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM.

·          Kindergarten Assessments - If you would like your student to take our kindergarten assessment, please sign up for a time at the daycare. Kindergarten assessments are $10.00 and will take place on Tuesday, March 28^th from 9am to 3pm.

·         PREVIEW NIGHT – Sonshine Christian Elementary School’s  Preview Night scheduled for Thursday, March 23^rd at 6:30pm. The Preview Night is for all incoming kindergarten parents and NEW 1^st – 5^th grade parents. (The early registration fee will be offered to all parents who attend preview night).

SONSHINE’S MISSION: Sonshine Christian Elementary School’s mission is to work together with families, providing a high quality,

individualized, Christian education that prepares children physically, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually, to impact their world for Christ.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

In Him,

Rosemary Warner

Sonshine Christian Elementary School Principal

Pictures!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee