Happy Spring!

Hi, parents! It has been a fun and busy week!  We all have some Spring Fever around here!  ;)

 Reminders:

🚨 Fundraiser Time Update! 🚨

Here’s where we stand in our 4^th Quarter fundraiser for Care Beyond the Boulevard:

🍎 PK-K: $163.36

🍎 1st-4th: $293.60

🍎 5th-8th: $203.27

💰 Pastor Ryan is just $138.77 away from a pie!

💰 Mr. Holland is $338.77 away from a pie!

 🎯 Grand Total: $661.23

📢 Goal: $1,000 – We have until 4/7 at 11:59 PM to make it happen!

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Let’s push to the finish line! Who else wants to see some pies flying? 🥧😆 #PieFundraiser #HelpUsReach1000

*Next Friday, April 11^th, is the mid-term.  We will be dismissing at 12:30.

 *We will have SNOW MAKE-UP days on April 17th and 21st.  If you already have traveled planned, please just let the office know.  Thank you! 

 

Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION: This week, we learned of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem and also reviewed the Second and Third articles of the Apostles Creed.  We discussed how God shows His love for us by giving us a King, the Messiah, who saves us.  We have practiced memorizing the entire 23^rd Psalm. 

 MEMORY: 4/8-Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

 4/11-Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. ~Proverbs 3: 5-6

 LANGUAGE ARTS: We began reading and learning about the childhood of Harry S. Truman this week.  We have learned a lot of new vocabulary words, and have focused on sequencing and cause and effect.  During class, we have been working in Literature Circles, with each student taking on a different role during discussions.  We shared nonfiction book reports this week too!

Today, each fourth grader received a biography of a famous Missourian.  Your kiddo’s job is to read the biography, take notes about this person, and then, in class, we will begin writing about the person we studied.  This will be our April/May book report and project.  We will create a Biography Lap Book, which we will begin in class, but will need to be finished at home.  They have been given a due date of May 9th.  In the meantime, please help your child come up with a plan to dress up as his or her famous Missourian.  Please use resources you have at home or borrow from a friend.  We will be reciting the facts we have learned about these people, dressed as them, at our Famous Missourian Living Museum on May 14th.  (Think:  Night at the Museum!)  You will get to meet Josephine Baker, George Washington Carver, Dick Van Dyke, Yogi Berra, Harry S. Truman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Maya Angelou, Molly Brown, Daniel Boone, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Ulysses S. Grant, and Helen Stephens!  I have some excited kiddos in here!  (Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. In the past, I have had students wear a track uniform for Helen Stephens, bring a bat for Yogi, a suit for Harry Truman, a head scarf for Maya Angelo, a coon skin cap for Daniel Boone, etc.)  😊

 SPELLING WORDS for next Friday, April 11^th:  (from the book Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States)

although, magazine, introduce, predicted, tremendous, stomach, disease, probably, gradually, difficult, *diphtheria

 MATH: We tested over Chapter 11 and began Chapter 12, where we are learning about decimals and comparing decimals and fractions. 

 MO HISTORY: We worked on our renewable and non-renewable group projects.  I witnessed a lot of great conversations about our state during this time. 

 SPECIALS:

Art- We learned how to draw Missouri’s state insect, the honeybee, and create cool looking honeycomb for them.  We used a lot of octagons!

Music- We practiced our songs for our Spring Concert, which is May 8^th.

P.E.- We ran relay races and practiced the running long jump and the turbo javelin throw. 

Writers’ Workshop- We began writing persuasive essays this week!  We will work through the writing process and publish these in the Computer Lab soon!

Computer Lab- We published documents and worked on our keyboarding skills. 

 

God's Blessings,

Kim

It is beautiful! :)

 Hi, parents!  It has been such a fun week!  We had a wonderful time at the School of Economics, and we are so thankful for our parent volunteers.  THANK YOU for being so amazing!  We learned A LOT, and had some fun doing so!  

 ***I am sending this a day early, as I am not feel well, and will have a sub tomorrow.  The flu got me!  Thank you for your prayers!

 Reminders: 

*SING A SONG TO THE LORD!  We are excited to be part of worship THIS SUNDAY, March 30^th,  at Timothy Lutheran Church.  Preschool – 8th grade students will sing first thing at the 9:00am service as well as being first at the 10:30 service.  We hope you’re able to participate in worshipping our Lord, plus letting the members at Timothy know what a blessing it is being part of Timothy Lutheran’s family.  They appreciate seeing and hearing you.  We will see you at the front of the church a little before 9 am!  😊 

 *March BOOK REPORTS are due on Monday! 

 *TRACK practice begins Tuesday, April 1st.  Thank you! 

 *We will have SNOW MAKE-UP days on April 17th and 21st.  If you already have traveled planned, please just let the office know.  Thank you! 

 Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION: We discussed the story of Jesus riding in to Jerusalem.  Thank God that He showed His love for us by giving us a king, the Messiah, who saves us.  We discussed the lyrics of “I Know That My Redeemer Loves.”  These are so powerful and these words of praise connect Christians across all time and I all places through worship. 

 MEMORY: 4/1-He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

  I will fear no evil, for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,  they comfort me.

 4/4-You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

  my cup overflows.

 LANGUAGE ARTS: This week, we read the biography, “Harvesting Hope,” which is about Cesar Chavez and his quest to find equal rights form migrant farm workers.  We had wonderful discussions about peaceful protests, U.S. citizenship, and God creating us all equal.  We worked on these skills:  conclusions and generalizations, finding solutions, using suffixes, and idioms.  We learned about our new Author of the Month, Louis Sachar, and began the book “Holes” this week. 

 SPELLING WORDS for next Friday, April 4th:  (from the book Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States)

unfortunately, breakfast, handkerchief, cautiously, prayer, caress, doctor, notice, anxious, pamper, Challenge Word: Missouri

 MATH: We learned how to take an improper fraction and turn it into a mixed number and how to multiply fractions. 

 MO HISTORY: We finished up our first chapter in our MO History books, and reviewed it this week.  We are researching renewable and non-renewable resources in Missouri and creating informational posters about them with a partner! 

 SPECIALS:

Art- We finished our crowd and action paintings. 

Music-We practiced our two songs we will be singing for worship on Sunday, March 30th. (“Make Me a Servant” and “Gethsemane”)  We also worked on songs for the Spring Musical.  

P.E.- We learned how to use batons for a relay race!

Writers’ Workshop- We began our persuasive writing project. 

Computer Lab-We published our essays on Google Docs. 

 

God's Blessings,

Kim