Have a blessed weekend! Happy October!

 Dear 4th Grade Parents,

Happy October!  We have had a great week, full of learning and fun!  

Reminders/Updates: 

*WALK-A-THON donations are due next Monday, October 5th.  :) You can still donate online too!   I have attached the QR code. 

*DONUTS WITH DAD is next Wednesday, October 7th.  Dads and other special people, please join us from 7:45-8:20ish and enjoy donuts, milk, coffee, and games with your kiddos!  Donuts/coffee will be served in the 4-G's area and seating will be in the gym. 

*UPCOMING FIELD TRIP-On Friday, October 9th, the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders will be traveling to Kauffman Stadium for a stadium tour and some activities!  We will leave school at 8:45 and return by 12:00.   We will be eating lunch in our classrooms, so please be prepared to send a lunch.  (Please eat a big ol' breakfast too!)  We have all of the parent drivers that we need.  Thank you!  

*PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES are coming up--Thursday and Friday, October 29th and 30th. I am looking forward to visiting with you about your child's grades, work habits, and how they are generally doing in 4th grade!  Please pick a time that works best for you and your family.  If you cannot find one that suits you, please email me, and we will work something out! 

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*We will be commemorating VETERAN’S DAY on Wednesday, November 11th, with a service celebrating them!  Our students will be singing, reading poetry and prayers, and thanking God for our veterans!  Please invite family, friends, and neighbors to Timothy Lutheran School’s Veterans Day Celebration.  Everyone is welcome! 

 Date:  Wednesday, November 11th, 2026

Time:  9:00 am

Coffee and Donuts will be served at 8:30 am

*Also, if you have any veterans you love and want us to celebrate in our slideshow, please send information to me (kimb@timothylutheran.com) by November 2nd.  Thank you!

Here is what is needed for each veteran:

-A photograph (digital copies are preferred, please):

-First and Last Name of the veteran

-Which student this veteran is related to, and how...

-Branch of Service

-Years of Service

-Any other important information you may want added! 

(If your photos were in last year’s slideshow, please let us know this, as that information has been saved and you don’t need to send it in again.)

THANK YOU to all veterans!  It is humbling to know how many have given their lives, their time, and their service to God, to us, and to our country.  Thank you SO much! 

Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION- This week, we learned all about the tabernacle and God’s lessons with the snake on the pole!  We have talked about the sovereignty and power of God, and also of His forgiveness and grace.  We talked about the “fiery serpents’ in our lives, and what those might be.  We took some time to lift these silently up to God in prayer.  On Tuesday, we had a wonderful discussion about heaven and how our faith in Jesus leads us there.  

MEMORY- 10/6-THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT Honor your father and your mother. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise or anger our parents and other authorities, but honor them, serve and obey them, love and cherish them. 

10/9-THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT You shall not murder. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and support him in every physical need. 

LANGUAGE ARTS-We read a new genre of a story this week: a fractured fairytale!  It is titled, “Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude.”  It was one of those stories that was a blast to read, and really just gets kids on fire for reading!  They loved it!  I also found two other stories written by Kevin O’Malley that I shared with the class this week!  We had some fun. We shared our book reports in a Readers’ Theatre setting.  We received information about our October book reports.  Be on the lookout for this in folders!  We also learned how to compare and contrast using Venn diagrams and how to make predictions.  We reviewed suffixes and hyperboles.  We also discussed different types of verbs—action, helping, and linking.  

SPELLING WORDS for the Week of October 9th:

Story: Coming Distractions

bloom, cookbook, tool, shampoo, put, wool, stool, proof, prove, group, brook, foolish, bush, crooked, booth, raccoon, hook, groom, roof, soup, bulletin, cocoon

Challenge Word: omnipotent

MATH- We have been learning how to use multiplication to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparisons.  We have learned some new skills on how to solve word problems!  We are also working through fives in mad minutes! 

SPECIAL CLASSES

ART- We talked about taking our line knowledge that we learned last week and turned them into a composition drawing.  We created a still-life, using everyday items from our classroom.  We used “viewfinders” and chose a certain view of our still-life, drew it, and painted it using primary colors, and mixing the secondary and tertiary colors we needed.  They are beautiful! 

MUSIC- In music class, students learned about rhythm/beats, and dynamics while continuing to progress toward the Veterans Day Concert.  

P.E.- We worked on underhand and overhand serving and began game play!  

SPANISH- In Spanish class, students reviewed previously known parts of the body and days of the week. 

WRITERS’ WORKSHOP-We started writing fractured fairy tales this week!  These are going to be fun!

COMPUTERS-We published our stories and worked on typing.com.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings to all of you!

Kim

Leaf Detectives

Sharing our book reports...

It was a great Walk-A-Thon!

 

Dear 4th Grade Parents,

It has been a great, fun week!  We finished up with our Walk-A-Thon today and had tons of fun!  God blessed us with beautiful weather, healthy bodies, and great friends. THANK YOU for all of your support, volunteerism, and donations!    Your child will be coming home with a name tag today that indicates how many laps he or she completed.  If you need to use this to collect money from your loved ones, please do so.  We will be collecting until October 5th.  :)  You can still donate online too!   I have attached the QR code.  We are excited to purchase the much-needed new tent for our playground.  ;) 

 Upcoming Events:

*UPCOMING FIELD TRIP- UPCOMING FIELD TRIP- On Friday, October 9th, the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders will be traveling to Kauffman Stadium for a stadium tour and some activities!  We will leave school at 8:45 and return by 12:00, just in time for lunch! We have all of the parent drivers that we need.  Thank you!  Please sign and return the waiver.   

*PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES are coming up--Thursday and Friday, October 29th and 30th. I am looking forward to visiting with you about your child's grades, work habits, and how they are generally doing in 4th grade!  Please pick a time that works best for you and your family.  If you cannot find one that suits you, please email me, and we will work something out! 

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Here is what we have been up to this week:

TESTING-We finished up our Fall NWEA testing this week and your kiddos worked hard!  For those that missed a test, they will make these up next week.  Results will come home at parent/teacher conferences.  

RELIGION- Pastor Ryan came in on Tuesday so we could ask him a lot of questions about becoming a pastor, what his Calling entails, and how we can pray for him and assist him.  It was a wonderful time, and we learned so much from him!  We learned that we must always listen to the “nudge” or Call from God, and that He truly does speak to us through different people.  We also need to make sure that we are always praying for our pastors—uplifting them in daily prayer, that God gives them peace, clarity, and rest.  They are such a BLESSING to all of us, and we must take care of them!  

Upcoming MEMORY: 

9/29-THE THIRD COMMANDMENT Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it. 

10/2-Matthew 22:37-39 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

LANGUAGE ARTS- In class, we read a play entitled, “The Power of W.O.W,” which was a story of kids collaborating together to save their beloved library.  Fourth graders had some fun acting all of this out and showcasing our acting talents!  :) In class, we discussed sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and how to use a graphic organizer to document a story.  We have been busy!  Please remind your 4th grader that Newbery Award book reports and projects are due next Wednesday!  

SPELLING WORDS for the Week of October 11th:

Story: Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

bunch, fruit, argue, crumb, crew, tune, juice, refuse, truth, young, clue, trunk, amuse, suit, rude, trust, dew, stuck, rescue, brush, computer, mustard

Challenge Word: horrendous

MATH- This week, we worked on solving long word problems with multi-step solutions.  I am proud of the kiddos and their hard work.   We tested over Unit 3 and will begin multiplication and division next week!  We are onto our 5’s in mad minutes and doing well!  

SPECIAL CLASSES

ART- We discussed blind contours and practiced doing several blind contour drawings in class.  This was a lot of fun, and we had a ton of giggles!  We then studied some adorable cats, and drew cat contours, filling them in with tempera paint.  They are beautiful!  

MUSIC-In music class, students furthered their understanding of the difference between pitch and notes while also being introduced to beats and rhythm. The students also spent a large amount of time learning their songs for the Veteran's Day concert. 

WRITING- We worked on BioPoems this week and also worked on finding run-on and fragmented sentences.  

COMPUTERS- We published in the Computer Lab. 

P.E.- We stretched and ran as a group, and played outside in the beautiful weather this week.  

SPANISH- In Spanish class, students continued to develop their understanding of the Spanish alphabet; additionally, students read their first story in Spanish which was around four lines long. 

Have a blessed weekend!

Kim 

Walk-A-Thon!