Dear Families,
HE HAS RISEN INDEED!!!!!! Welcome back to school!!!! I trust you had a wonderful vacation, relaxing with friends and family, celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We are ready to dig right in and finish strong as our year begins to wind down, but there is still lots of learning and fun to enjoy!!!
LANGUAGE ARTS – In READING, we will continue with our Anthology and Leveled Readers. They will also work on comprehension that focuses on drawing inferences from text in preparation for 2nd Grade. WRITING – We will begin learning how to do Key Word Outline which is also reviewed in 2nd grade.
MATH – We will continue with our Math Contract of Adding and Subtracting to 20. We will have a test on this chapter on April 14th. A chapter review will come home on Wednesday, April 8th. After we have completed this chapter we will go ahead and finish our Contract on double digit addition and subtraction which we started in order to prepare the children for testing. Our last two chapters will be Geometry and Fractions and Measurement.
SCIENCE – We will begin a unit on the Rainforest and our room will be transformed into a rainforest with a Kapok tree and all!
SOCIAL SCIENCE– We will begin a unit on the Marketplace which will take us through the end of the year.
BIBLE – We will be studying the Ascension and Jesus’ promise that He would be with us always.
WORK ENVELOPE & BOOK BAGS – Please send back the envelope that went home before vacation by Friday, April 10th as well as the book bag.
FIELD TRIPS -We are taking two field trips in the upcoming weeks. The first one will be to Great Harvest Bread Company and Waterhouse Animal Hospital on April 9th. We will leave at 9:30 AM, traveling by bus and return by 1:00 PM. The children will bring a lunch and we will have a picnic in the park behind Waterhouse after we’re done. Our second trip will be our annual trip to Hanford on the train on May 13th. We will leave at 9:15 AM and return by 1:00 PM. We will need drivers to take us to the train station and back from Hanford. Please check the sign up sheet outside our classroom door if you can help with transportation.
END OF YEAR CONVOCATION– As the year draws to a close we would like to gather as a family to celebrate all that God has done for us on Thursday, May 7th. All of you (parents, grandparents, family, and friends) are invited to join the teachers, students, administration, and staff as we gather together for this ending convocation held in the Peoples’ Church sanctuary. It is a time of celebration, worship, and prayer as we end our year with thanksgiving and praise.The service begins at 8:00 am and will end by 8:30. All students K-12 are to report directly to the sanctuary by 7:55 AM. Every class will be designated with a sign and balloons, making it easy to locate your child’s class.It is exactly the same as our opening convocation seating arrangement. You are welcome to sit with your student in their designated area or if you have more than one student attending Fresno Christian, choose where you would like to sit. I look forward to seeing all of you at this closing event as we end our year acknowledging God’s hand upon us through prayer, worship, and heartfelt celebration.
OPEN HOUSE – The Fine Arts Festival is coming up on May 5th. The children are doing a Diorama which will be due on the morning of the 5th. Please do not send it sooner, as there is no place to store them as we share space with the church. This is a very fun project. A handout will come home on Monday, April 7th explaining this assignment which will be on a book or movie that the children have experienced. You can also google the word “diorama” and come up with lots of ideas.
SHOW AND TELL – This week will be Team A.
LIBRARY INFO – Parents please note: As we come to the end of our school year would you please encourage your students to return all items checked out from the Library. The final due date for all items checked out is Friday, May 2. Reminders of items checked out will be sent to the students beginning the week of May 5. There is a fine of $25.00 for each item that is not returned. Many wonderful titles are lost each year because they are not returned. We greatly appreciate your assistance in getting books back in and onto the shelves so the collection is ready to go again in August. Please contact me if you have any questions. Lin Brown, Librarian 299-1695 ext, 119
YEAR END SWIMMING PARTY – Our final celebration of the year will be Monday, May 18th, from 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM. at the DeGroot home. All are welcome to attend. You will meet at Jordyn’s house at 10:30 AM. You do not need to come to our campus first. If you will need a ride from school, please let me know, as we will not be organizing formal carpools. You will also need to pick up your child after the party is over, or make arrangements for them to get home. We will not be going back to People’s Campus. Again, if you need help with this, just let me know. In May there will be a sign-up sheet outside our classroom door for the items needed for our party.
4-7 – School Resumes
4-9 – Field Trip to Waterhouse/Great Harvest
4-10 – Happy 7th Birthday Sydney Hazelton
4-24 – Happy 8th Birthday Joshua Mirea
5 -5 – Spring Open House
5-5 – Happy 7th Birthday Kyleigh Bacca
5-7 – Year-End Convocation – 8:00 AM Peoples Sanctuary
5-13 – Hanford Field Trip
5-18 -End of Year Celebration – 10:30-1:30 at DeGroots
5-21 – Happy 7th Birthday Kennedy Schwab
5-21 – Early Dismissal at 12:00 PM
5-22 – Last day of school – Dismissal at 12:00 PM
6-4 – Happy 7th Birthday Brooklyn Medeiros
6-21 – Happy 7th Birthday Arlyn Rylander
8-1 – Happy 8th Birthday Lala Briggs
Spirit Day is every Friday. Please wear one of your favorite FCS shirts!
SPELLING – LESSON 31 – April 7-10
Lord
start
sort
horse
far
chore
more
hard
part
jar
an
were
his
BIBLE VERSE – April 7-10
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Matthew 28:20b 17 pts.