School Newsletter November 26, 2018 Walk with God, Talk with God! 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: Parent Survey: We would ask that you take a moment to please fill out this short Parent Survey about St. Paul s. This survey is part of our accreditation process and we would like to get full participation from our school families. Thank you in advance for your help! You can access the survey from this link: https://goo.gl/forms/t2uf5ip73v3alzks2 St. Paul s SCRIP: We are now selling SCRIP cards for St. Paul s. This is a great opportunity to support St. Paul s while also helping your family out. We will be selling cards in the school gym on Fridays, both in the morning and afternoon. We also will be selling cards at church on Sundays. If you would like to pre-order cards that are not local, we have SCRIP sheets available to do so. Questions? Contact one of our Coordinators: Kristen Paul, Jodi Hirsch, or Kinzie Paulsen. School Apparel: Christmas is right around the corner and School Apparel is the perfect present for your child! The store will be open until this Friday, Nov. 30 th. If you would like to personalize any items, please make a note of that during the checkout process online in the comments section. Personalization is $3. The store can be found at www.stadiumsportswayne.com and our password is spcl18. Christmas Song Night: Our annual Christmas Song Night will be held on Wednesday, December 5 th starting at 6:30pm. We will be having our annual Bake Sale immediately following in the school gym as well as our Scavenger Hunt. We can t wait to taste all of those delicious treats! Bake sale information will be on a separate note coming home. PSG Meeting: Our monthly Parent Support Group Meeting will take place this Wednesday, Nov. 28 th @ 5:30pm. All parents are invited to attend! See you there! PSG Wreath Making Night We are excited for our wreath making night! We have 37 ladies signed up so there is still a couple of spots left if you would like to come! Please bring a glue gun and wire cutters if you have them. The cost is $20 to cover the cost of the wreath and decorations. We will start around 5:30 and should be done by 7:00 on Friday, November 30th. Christmas for Kids Christmas for Kids is on Saturday, December 8th from 10:00 to 12:00. We are looking forward to seeing many children to share the good news of Jesus' birth! You can sign up on www.stpls.com under the school part of the website or let your teacher know if your children are planning to attend.
St. Paul s Church singing: December 5 PreK 8 CHRISTMAS SONG FUN NIGHT! December 9 PRAISE Choir December 22 nd K-8 School Children s Christmas Program (4:30 & 6:30) Sports: Basketball Practice starts this week! Girls Monday and Wednesday 3:45-5:30pm Boys Tuesday and Thursday 3:45-5:30pm Winter Sports Meeting will be held on Thursday, Nov. 29 th @ 5:30pm. Chapel This Week: Mission Offerings: I am super thankful for NELHS and for the Christian education that I received. The teachers were excellent role models for how Christian men and women behave in this sinful and crazy world. Through my four years, my love of music grew thanks to Mrs. Martha Johnson (Miss Kitzrow!!), which lead me to pursue a degree in elementary education and secondary choral music from Martin Luther College. Currently, I am proudly serving at Martin Luther School in Neenah, WI as principal and 5-6 grade teacher. I am thrilled everyday to greet the students and parents whom I am blessed to serve, and my prayer is that I am able to be a strong male Christian role model for each child my school, just like my teachers did for me at Nebraska Lutheran. -- Tyler Weinrich,Class of 2008 Amount collected: (2 weeks ago) $ 39.84 ----------- Total amount collected this semester: $547.64 Sunday Worship Attendance This Week: K = 4 / 10 1 = 6 / 10 2 = 7 / 11 3 & 4 = 8 / 19 5 & 6 = 6 / 17 7 & 8 = 3 / 15 -------------------------------- TOTAL: 34 / 82 (41%) ==================================================================================== Mrs. Mullen's Room (Preschool) MWF Morning/Afternoon Class David & Goliath is our bible story this week. Stop down to our end of the school and take a look at Goliath in the hall, he's huge!!! God is our refuge and shield, he is always with us! Tue/Thur Class David Sings to God is the bible story for this group. We will learn how David used music to make a king feel better. Music is still a way of comforting and helping many people. It is also how we praise and worship God. We will all be practicing for the upcoming open house at church! We look forward to this BIG event!! Have a wonderful week walking with Jesus, Mrs. Mullen
Mrs. Paulsen's Room (Kindergarten) SUPERKIDS: Fritz, our fishing friend, will be our focus of the beginning of the week. We have been working on writing sentences, not forgetting spaces and end marks. Our list of words we know keeps growing. CHRIST LIGHT: Jericho is our story for the week. In this story, we hear the miracles of God s deliverance of his people. It is a great comfort to hear all the ways that God keeps his people safe, including us! We will also be hearing the story of God Speaks to Samuel. We will be back on track for our Bible Journal this week! Bible Verse: 1 Corinthians 10:31 Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Hymn of the Week: CW 6 Come, O Long Expected Jesus MATH: This week we will be introducing some 3D shapes like a cube. and using geoboards again. We will be playing games with dice THEMES: This week we will be discussing hibernation. We will talk about what animals hibernate, why they hibernate, and how their bodies do it. We will be watching videos, pretending to hibernate ourselves, reading books, doing an art project, and a Scholastic news! It will be a busy week. MORE: December s Bookit! Sheets will be coming home today. They will be due December 10 th as I hope to get the books delivered before break! Next Wednesday, December 5, is Christmas Song Night. It starts at 6:30. There will be the cookie sale afterwards and an open house! Christmas Program Practice will officially start this week. Show and Tell Girls on WEDNESDAY Boys on THURSDAY. Please have your child bring something that is funny. I pray that everyone had a relaxing but wonderful Thanksgiving break. I enjoyed the days off to reflect on the year so far and prepare for Christmas. I want to say that I am very thankful for each of you and your children. It is a blessing to serve you! God s blessings on your week. Mrs. Paulsen Mrs. Spreeman (Grade 1) Happy Monday! Did you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving break? We have much to be thankful for. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas with both sides of our family this weekend, so we had a house full of cousins. This week we will wrap up our Thanksgiving book, Cranberry Thanksgiving, so that we can move on to our Advent devotions and preparations for Jesus birthday starting next week. Ask your child about the cranberry taste test we did in school. Also ask your child how cranberries are harvested. We have been working on our Song Night presentation for you. Some children memorize more easily than others which is why I sent it home to be reviewed each night. We want people to be able to understand our important message. :). We will be working on transforming our classroom for you to see at our Song Night open house. Our reading/spelling word focus this week is the -ed ending on each word. Sometimes the -ed ending says -ed, sometimes -d, sometimes -t. Try to notice that ending in words and have your child help figure out which sound it is.
HOMEWORK MONDAY: read lesson 5A The Good Samaritan/ wksht / memory Matthew 22:39b Love your neighbor as yourself. Read Supershort Flubble Bubble Gum. TUESDAY: math WEDNESDAY: read In a Pickle, wksht. THURSDAY: read lesson 5B The Unforgiving Servant/ wksht / memory Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Show and tell this week is something red. Next week bring a baby photo. This is the last week to work on BookIT! Goals. How are you doing with the 25 books? You may bring in the sheet any day this week if it is finished. Thank you to the kids that could be there on the 18th to sing The First Song of Isaiah. You sounded beautiful. What a great song to remember when you feel worried or afraid. Book Orders. I will send the order in tomorrow in case you didn t get to look at the flyers over break or want to have another look. DWQ3M is our classroom code. Have a wonderful week! Mrs. Nelson (Grade 2) I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break! This week in Christlight we ll hear about The Death of John the Baptist and The Woman in Simon s House. In these lessons we will hear how Jesus enemies reject his Word, but believers respond with love and thanks. Your child will bring home their Christlight journal on Monday and Thursday. In 2 nd grade language arts the students will learn about s blend words, reading a diagram, and verbs. Spelling Words Sprout streams through strong strap springtime spray throat three pioneers air different light We will be talking about inventors and magnets this week. Show and Tell: Girls bring something they are thankful for on Wednesday We will be practicing for our Christmas open house (Wednesday, December 5th at 6:30) and our Christmas program (Saturday, December 22 at 4:30 and 6:30) quite a bit this week. Please let me know if you child will not be at these events so we can plan accordingly. Have a blessed week, Mrs. Nelson Mrs. Rixe's Classes (Grades 3 & 4) I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving and a nice break! Song Night: December 5th, boy is it coming up quickly! There will be entertainment, a bake sale, and classroom open house. **We have some sections of Longfellow's poem to learn.
Book Orders: Please return them December 5th; they should be here in time for Christmas then. Drawing names: We plan to do this on Friday. Gifts can be between $7-$10, please. Christ Light: This week our lessons are Jesus teaches his disciples about earthly needs & Jesus and the Centurion. Memory for Tuesday is Matt. 7:7, while Friday's memory is the 3rd commandment. Spelling: Unit 13. Pages 90-91 are due on Wednesday; pages 92-93 are due on Friday. Language: We will be studying simple and compound sentences. Ask us what the 3 common conjunctions are. Math: 3rd grade will be working with thermometers, comparison symbols, line segments, and perimeter! 4th grade will be learning about symmetry and reflection, and making use of Venn diagrams. Reading (3/4): Stone Fox is the novel we are starting this week. BOOK REPORTS: Dioramas are due on Tuesday, Dec. 4th. **Remember to include a note card of information on the backside. Reading (5/6): We completed our novel, Number the Stars. Ask us how Ellen and her parents escaped to Sweden. Our test is set for Wednesday. Then we plan to create a pamphlet/booklet with some WWII information. Art: Grades 3-8 had notes that went home regarding some special supplies. Creative Writing (7/8): Friendship is our new unit. We will take a look at what the Bible has to say about it. Our assignment is to compare and contrast ourselves with a friend. "Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise..." Ps. 48:1 Mr. Brown's Classes (Grades 5 & 6) There are always so many things that we can thank God for in our lives. He truly blesses us. My family enjoyed the time off of school, and we enjoyed having some quality time with family and friends. Praying that your Thanksgiving was enjoyable as well! 5-6 ChristLight Our stories this week are The Transfiguration and Peter s Confession. In both of these stories we focus on the theme: Jesus came to die for us. We thank Jesus for leaving his throne of glory to die for us, and we look forward to heaven, where we will see him face-to-face. Memory Treasures: Christmas Recitation (ask students) 5-6 Spelling Unit 14 5-6 Social Studies We will start learning about central and eastern Europe this week. Students will continue studying ipad flashcards to study the Eastern country capitals. This week we will continue learning some of the different landmarks that are special to that continent. To further practice the countries and capitals, we will be using a website called Sheppard Software to review European Geography. Students can also do this at home: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/european_geography.htm
7-8 U.S. History So far in our government unit we have learned the basic ideas about government that our Founding Fathers had. This week we look ahead to find out that the first government our country had was a failure! These were called the Articles of Confederation. Looking ahead we will be learning how the Founders came to write the Constitution, our nation s rules for government we still have today! 3-4 Social Studies We will finish up the pilgrims and the Northeast this week. Then we study rural communities by looking at dairy farms and milk products! We will learn how both cheese and butter are made from milk. 5-6 Music We continue using our hand chimes. We also are reviewing Christmas program songs. 7-8 Music Our next unit of study is about American composers. Do any of these names ring a bell: Foster, Sousa, Berlin, Copland, Gershwin, Rogers? We will also continue learning our Christmas service parts. I am thankful for our partnership in Christ, Mr. Brown Mr. Paulsen s Classes (Grades 7 & 8) Religion: We are continuing to work through the Book of Psalms and are focusing especially on all the promises God gives to us. Reading: The Witch of Blackbird Pond is done and the class are working on their projects! Math: We are starting to tackle multi-step equations and proper steps to complete. English: We are starting a new unit on types of sentences and sentence structure. Spelling: Unit 13 this week. Hymn of the Week: #6 Mrs. Cook s Classes (Grades 3-8) 7-8 Science We will be continuing our studies on bacteria and viruses. There will be a test on Thursday. A kahoot will be available to help with studying. 7-8 P.E. We are continuing our unit on archery. The students will get a chance to get their hand on a bow this week. 5-6 Science This week, we are continuing the study of oceans. We will be doing lots of experiments involving waves and currents. 3-4 Music We will start working on music for the Christmas program.