School Newsletter February 12, 2018

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1 School Newsletter February 12, 2018 We Follow the Good Shepherd St. Paul s Lutheran School exists to assist the congregation and community by partnering with parents for the gospel growth of children spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally, and physically all through the Life-saving gospel of Jesus Christ. General: - Lutheran Schools Week is next week (Feb )! There are going to be a lot of fun activities taking place all week long, and here is the overview: DRESS UP DAYS School Events* Monday Crazy Day Sun. K-8 Sing in Church 9:00 AM Tuesday Hawaiian Day Tues.- Donuts with Dad 7:30-8:00 AM Wednesday Sports Day Wed. Muffins with Mom 7:30-8:00 AM Thursday Green and White Day Wed. Spelling Bee 2:00 PM Friday NELHS Tournament and No School Thurs. Movie Night 6:30 PM * More information about Movie Night and other events to come! - The Lost and Found has been accumulating a good amount of materials over the course of the year. The Lost and Found is located by Mrs. Leuthold s office. - Koine will be having a concert at St. Paul s Church on Sunday, February 25 th at 4 PM. The area school children (K-8) will be singing with Koine for two songs. Please come and join us for this great fellowship opportunity. - The Science and Arts Fair is coming up in just over a month (March 17 th ) and with that comes our annual Science Projects. Please be looking for more information about the projects coming home shortly, and please mark the 17 th of March on your calendars. Thanks! Central Lutheran Saints: - Girls HOME game vs. Dreamers Tuesday, February 13 th at 4:30 PM. - Boys HOME game vs. Dreamers Tuesday, February 13 th at 5:15 PM. - Boys HOME game vs. Columbus Christian Tuesday, February 13 th at 6:00 PM. - CoEd B Team AWAY game vs. St. Paul, NELHS - Friday, Feb. 16 th 3 PM - CoEd A Team AWAY game vs. St. Paul, NELHS - Friday, Feb. 16 th 4 PM If you are not planning on going to the NELHS tournament on Feb , please let Mr. Paulsen know so that he can plan accordingly for the tournament rosters. Thanks.

2 Music Singing Dates: February 14 K-8 Ash Wednesday (First Wednesday Lent service) practice in 5:50pm! February 18 K-8 Lutheran Schools Week Sunday February 25 Koine Christian Band church 4 pm (kids can join in on 2 songs they know!) March 14 Praise Choir (Wednesday Lent service) [please note that Praise always sings in the balcony] Chapel This Week: Mission Offerings: By 2021, Truth in Love Ministry will train and provide opportunities for 80,000 Christians to share Christ with Mormons. The goal is to build bridges, not barriers. Our Wednesday chapel offerings will help accomplish this. Amount collected: $ Total amount collected this semester: $ Sunday Worship Attendance This Week: K = 8 / 11 1 = 6 / 11 2 = 5 / 9 3 & 4 = 13 / 20 5 & 6 = 13 / 16 7 & 8 = 8 / TOTAL: 53 / 85 (62%) ==================================================================================== Mrs. Mullen's Room (Preschool) MWF Morning/Afternoon Class Jesus Calms the Storm is our third miracle lesson. Our focus this week is TRUST. Taking our troubles to God when we need him the most should be second nature. We will practice trust with a partner as we take turns being led around our room while blindfolded. Tue/Thur Class This class will study the Zacchaeus bible story a second week. My goal is to have each of the children understand that being kind and helping others, shows our love for Jesus through actions. Forgiveness is a big part of the picture as well. All of us are looking forward to the Valentines Day parties! The boxes are amazing! We are building our annual cereal box wall. If you wish to contribute any boxes we would be happy to add them to our collection. Our goal is 100. Have a wonderful week walking with Jesus, Mrs. Mullen Mrs. Paulsen's Room (Kindergarten) SUPERKIDS: This week we will be starting the letter Rr. We will also be working on distinguishing between d and b because this is a challenge for children. A great distinction between the two is where you start the letter when you write it. If you spend time writing at home, ask your child to show you the difference.

3 CHRIST LIGHT: Our Bible stories this week focus on more of Jesus miracles. We will be learning the stories of Jesus Calms the Storm and Jesus Walks on Water. Bible Verse: Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver you Psalm 50:15 Hymn of the Week: CWS 103 Glory be to Jesus MATH: We will be working with geoboards, length, and patterns again this week, specifically ABC patterns. They will be copying, continuing, and creating their own patterns. THEMES: This week we will continue talking about the postal service. We will be discussing how mail works and delivering mail or valentines to each other! This is a great transition into focusing on what addresses are. We will be working on addresses this week. We will start with what street we live on and move on from there. MORE: Wednesday is not only Valentines Day, it is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Kindergarten-8 th grade will be singing with the adult choir in church. We ask that the children be there at 5:50 to practice with the choir. Church starts at 6:30 but there is a Lenten dinner before that begins at 5:00. Please join us for dinner and a celebration of Christ s love and sacrifice. Valentines day is Wednesday! We will be having our own small celebration in the morning. Please have your children s box to school by Tuesday! Thank you for supplying the 100 juice boxes for our 100 th day of school. We made a tower out of them and they will be used by K-2 nd grade for various activities in the next week or so. I sent home book orders; they will be due back by February 21 st. Thank you! Have a wonderful week! Hopefully we will see a little warmer weather a day or two this week, the children are anxiously awaiting getting back outside. Mrs.Paulsen Mrs. Spreeman (Grade 1) Happy Monday! The 100th Day was so much fun! Thank you for bringing in the items for the Trail Mix. We had enough left over to share with the 5-8th graders since they don t get to celebrate the 100th day the way we do. :) This is another special week. We will celebrate Valentine s Day and the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. I guess that is fitting God is Love. He showed us how much he loves us by giving us Jesus. We will also continue reading biographies about Abraham Lincoln, Ruby Bridges, Pablo Picasso, and George Washington. On Friday we will learn a little bit about Chinese New Year. Our science explorations will be about teeth and the effect of different foods and beverages on our teeth. Our Bible lessons are about God s faithfulness to Ruth and Hannah. We will see that God answers our prayers. *The kids sing on Wednesday night for our Ash Wednesday service. Supper is served before the service, starting at 5:00. The kids will practice in the church at 5:50. *The kids also sing on Sunday to kick off Lutheran Schools Week. *Please have your child bring a Valentine for each classmate by Wednesday. We have Alivia, Alyssa, Bentley A., Bentley G., Bryson, Eli, Emma, Flor, Hayden, Olivia, and Sydney. You may also bring treats if you wish.

4 *Last week your child brought home a list of words for the all-school spelling bee. All students will take a written test on Thursday to see who will advance to the oral spelling bee next Wednesday. Two students from each class with participate. *Keep working on BookIt! goals. Remember that I have magazines the kids can check out if you need them. HOMEWORK Monday: read 13A and 13B The lessons about Ruth / journal / read through memory verse sheet. Tuesday: math/ read through memory verse sheet Wednesday: no homework because of Lenten service Thursday: read lesson 1A Hannah / journal / read through memory verse sheet / Blue book student should read On the Way to the Pond out loud two times. Friday show and tell bring something that means winter. Briefly rehearse three things to say about the item. Be sure to check out the special days for next week. Have a wonderful week! Mrs. Nelson (Grade 2) This week in Christlight we ll hear: The Fall of Jericho and Achan s Sin. In these lessons we will hear how God blesses the obedient faith of his people and warns them against disobedience. Your child will bring home their Christlight journal on Monday and Thursday. In 2 nd grade language arts the students will learn about /f/ to /ves/ words, antonyms, and writing an action story. Wife wives leaf leaves elf elves shelf shelves life lives rooftop true bone draw whose We had a great time celebrating the 100th day of school! Thank you for sending in the balloons. The students continue to have fun with them during our many indoor recesses because of the cold weather. Wednesday is Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday. We will be talking about how special both days are throughout the day on Wednesday. Please send in a Valentine box or bag and Valentine cards by Wednesday. Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent when we remember that Jesus suffered and died for our sins. K-8 will be singing at church on Wednesday night at 6:30. They will sit with you until it's time to sing (after the sermon). Have a blessed week, Mrs. Nelson Mrs. Rixe's Classes (Grades 3 & 4) Singing: We sing Ash Wednesday the 14th and Sunday the 18th for the start of Lutheran Schools' Week. Please join us if you can. Spelling Bee: The school spelling bee is Wednesday the 21st. We plan to have the classroom test for it this Thursday.

5 Field Trip: Our class field trip is April 17th to the Exploit Center. (I took that date because they were completely booked up the rest of April and May. Christ Light: Our lessons this week are The 12 spies & Korah's rebellion. Ask us what the Ark of the Covenant was and what was in it. Memory for Tuesday is Romans 6:23; Friday's memory is hymn 208 stanza 1 (we'll fill in the blanks). Science: Students (with parents) should have decided what animal they want to do for their report and whether they are doing the research project on their own or with a partner. I will be sending home pages to help guide the report in steps. It would be good to have the trifold board at the end of this week or next week. Language: Possessives will be our next unit. Plural possessives can be tricky; we may need some extra help. Spelling: Unit 20. Pages are due on Wednesday, while pages are due on Friday. Math: Both grades will have test 13 early this week. 3rd grade will be learning to tell time to the minute and rounding to nearest th grade will be learning story problems with division and units of mass. Reading (3/4): This week we plan to read some neat poems about Christmas lights, sunsets, parents, questions, the number 100, etc. Ask us for some alliterations used by local businesses. :) BOOK REPORTS: Poetry book reports for grades 3-6 are due on Friday. AR: Ask us where our car is on our classroom chart. Reading (5/6): Jenny Whitehead, Francis Thompson, and Robert Frost will be our poets we study this week. Ask us what the poet thinks is the most valuable in Precious Stones. For Friday we will have some questions to answer. Junior Art: We are continuing to work on our drawing skills using basic shapes. 5th & 6th Art: Our charcoal portraits of a classmate need to be completed. Senior Art: We have started a pointillism project--either an outer space scene or a shape collage. **We have an artist report/booklet that we will be working on over the next few weeks. It will be due in early March. Creative Writing: Our fantasy unit continues. Our new assignment is to finish the ending of a story that is read aloud in class. **We have a quiz on Wednesday on connotation and denotation. "Do not be anxious about anything." Phil. 4:6 Mr. Brown's Classes (Grades 5 & 6) Valentine s Day party: This Wednesday, at the end of the day, we will be having a little Valentine s Day party. Plan on exchanging Valentine s if you would like to. Also you may bring your own box, but I will have bags available also. Also, anyone is welcome to bring a snack for the class to share. Please let me know if you plan on doing so. Thanks! 5-6 ChristLight Our lessons for this week are Gideon s Call and Gideon s Victory. In these lessons we ll learn that God disciplined the Israelites for turning away from him by worshiping false gods, but God in his mercy showed love to his people and gave them a leader in Gideon who would drive their enemies away. God

6 also shows such underserved love to us as well in Christ, even though we don t deserve it. *Memory Work = 2 Corinthians 5:15, Mark 16:15 (Due Wednesday) 5-6 Spelling Unit Language Mechanics unit test this week. We will be starting a writing unit also. 5-6 Social Studies The next region of ancient civilizations we are studying is the first Native American s of North America. 7-8 U.S. History Our study of WWII has started, now we ll see how the war developed and America s involvement. 3-4 Social Studies This week we have a quiz on our Mississippi facts and capitals. We continue learning about the Midwest region. 5-6 Music We continue to study our new unit about woodwind instruments. 7-8 Music/Church History We continue our worship unit with a short unit on Christian Symbols. We love because He first loved us, Mr. Brown Mr. Paulsen s Classes (Grades 7 & 8) Religion: We are continuing to work through the early chapters of Revelation. The students are starting to learn and recognize some of the beautiful picture language used in this book. Reading: Where the Red Fern Grows is getting quite good. The students are enjoying how down-to-earth the author is and are starting to root for Old Dan and Little Ann. Math: We are continuing our work with new concepts and are starting to connect concept together as we move farther into the book. English: Our unit on verbs is coming to an end and we will be testing on the unit shortly. Spelling: Unit 21 this week. Hymn of the Week: 103