Third and Fourth Grade News
From the Week
of March 8, 2013
Dear Parents,
We have finally had a full week of
school…and a “regular” week of school!
It felt good to get back on track!
The big news today in our classroom, and
the news that makes me want to shout for JOY, is that Mason shared that he is
getting baptized! I wish you could have
heard the “Hooray!” that went up in our classroom and that you could have seen
his face shine! J If you are able to make it, please bring your
child and family to our church, south site (here), on March 17th, at
9:30, to worship with us and witness Mason’s baptism. We are truly brothers and sisters in Christ,
and I know many of the children would love to be there! Thank you!
On Monday, we finished up our achievement
tests. Your children worked so
hard! Today, we celebrated our hard work
by having a Star Party. We enjoyed
popcorn, soda, and we watched Ramona and Beezus. We have been reading
the books by Beverly Cleary in class, and we really enjoyed seeing the scenes
we have been reading about. They seemed
to come to life! J
Fourth graders shared their movie poster
book mystery book reports on Monday!
They did such a fantastic job!
These are hanging in the hallway!
You can also check out the picture on our website. On that note, I have finally posted pictures
from National Lutheran Schools Week.
Please check them out.
Information about March book reports are coming home today. Third graders’ book reports are due March 15th,
next Friday.
Our annual Trivia Night fund raiser is
Friday, April 19. It is a fun night, including a team trivia competition
and silent auction. We encourage you to gather your team of 8 friends and
join us for the fun. Don’t have a team? Don’t worry! Teams of
individuals can be formed that evening. The theme is “Dancing Through the
Decades”. Each class is creating a one-of-a-kind item for the live
auction. Ticket sales begin April 2. We are accepting new items for
the silent auction. We welcome individual and/or business donations of
goods or services. If you would like to help, contact Amanda
Pascoe. amandap@timothylutheran.com
Our students have been invited to
participate in Timothy’s spring pageant, “The Story”, on April 13 &
14. We are learning three new songs for this special event.
Please remind your child to bring in
change for Children’s Christian Concern Society each Wednesday in March. Each $25.00 we raise will sponsor a student
for a month. This money shares the
message of Jesus and educates this child.
Thank you for helping us to support this organization. The kids are excited!
Next
Friday marks the end of our quarter. Students will be dismissed at 1:00.
Next year’s enrollment time is here! Enrolling
soon helps us with our planning for the next school year. We do expect
some of our classes to be full next year, especially in the lower grades.
The sooner your papers are in, the sooner your position is set.
There has been an adjustment to the school calendar.
Because of our recent snow days, we are
extending our school year through Friday, May 24th. We will
have a closing chapel and early release at 1 p.m. that day.
Below, I have
highlighted some of what we have done this week:
Social Studies: We finally
finished up our unit on “Getting Along!”
This culminated this week with learning the 5 Steps to Peaceful Problem
Solving. We each put on skits where we
had conflicts, and the kids had to prove that they knew how to use the five
steps to solve the problem peacefully.
They each passed with flying colors, and received their Peacemaker
Award. I am sending home some of these
skits today. I would like you to read
these over as a family, and discuss ways to solve as well. I think this leads to great discussions about
life skills and about how to love our brothers and sisters in Christ. Many of these skills can be used with
siblings at home. Be on the lookout for
theses and for the 5 steps coming home today.
Thank you!
Art: We listened to some Sousa marches, and now are creating parade
scenes! First, we are making the crowds,
and street scenes, and then are adding our marching bands. We have talked about depth perception, and
how to make this recognizable in our art work.
These will be completed in a couple of weeks.
Music:: In choir we began learning
songs for the Spring Pageant. We learned “When I Think of You”, a peppy
song with an African flair. We began learning “The Word”, a beautiful
song about the precious Word of God. Thursday, we learned about the
quarter rest. We reviewed the quarter note and 4/4 time. We
practiced counting and clapping different rhythms.
Memory:
March
12- THE NINTH COMMANDMENT
You
shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
What does this mean? We should fear
and love God so that we do not scheme to get our neighbor’s inheritance or
house,
March
15- or get it in a way which only appears right, but help and be of service to
him in keeping it.
March
19- THE TENTH COMMANDMENT
You
shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox
or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
March
22- What does this mean? We should fear
and love God so that we do not entice or force away our neighbor’s wife,
March
26-- workers, or animals, or turn them against him, but urge them to stay and
do their duty.
March
26- We will have a short matching test about the commandments.
Math: third graders are learning how to
read word problems, choose the symbol to use, and then solve. We learned the differences between equations
and expressions. Fourth graders learned
how to multiply two and three digit numbers.
We also tested over rounding them and solving. This was tough, and will retake the test on
Monday. Please review the test that came
home with your child today. Thank
you!
Reading/Language Arts: This week we reviewed singular and plural
possessive nouns. We had some fun doing
this and it was a good reminder. In
Reading, third graders read the funny story called Dogzilla. They had so much fun with this story. Fourth graders read about Cesar Chavez, and
his role in helping migrant farmers with his peaceful protests. This tied right into our discussing with
Getting Along and about what we learned about MLK. What a great, inspiring example!
We will begin Science again next
week! We will be learning about the sun,
the moon, and the earth.
Upcoming Events:
15- End of 3rd Quarter, 1:00pm Dismissal
28- 1:00pm Dismissal, Maundy Thursday
29- No School, Good Friday
30- Lois Warren's Birthday
31-Easter
APRIL
1- No School, Easter Monday
13 & 14- Spring Pageant
19- Trivia Night
24- Administrative Professionals Day
Have a wonderful weekend!
God’s Blessings!
Love,
Kim Brunkhorst
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