Third and Fourth Grade News
From the Week
of March 22, 2013
Dear Parents,
We have had another wonderful week! It is hard to believe with all of this snow
on the ground, that spring has begun, and we are headfirst into the 4th
quarter of school! This year has sped
by…goodness! Report cards came home this
Wednesday. I am pleased with your
child’s progress and hard work! Please
continue to uplift them in words of praise and with prayer, as we diligently
finish out this school year! We have so
many things yet to accomplish… J
Please continue to pray
for Mr. Burns. As I noted earlier this week, he
was injured in a motorcycle accident on Friday. He has sustained a broken
clavicle, rib and a punctured lung. He is at home and is healing. We are so thankful that his injuries were not
more severe. Please keep Kent and his family in your prayers as he
recovers. Because of this, the Spring
Pageant (April 13 & 14) has been postponed to the fall.
The children have already begun working on their
next book reports! Third graders will be
reading a biography and will have a special project to go with that. I will introduce this next week. Fourth graders are reading fantasy books and
making windsocks. I have extended the
due date on this one until after Easter—April 2nd (instead of March
28th). They will then be
reading biographies for April and will do the same project as the third
graders!
Easter Break is coming
next week! Students
will be dismissed at 1:00 on Thursday, March 28 to begin our Easter
Break. We will have specials classes in the morning this day, to
accommodate our homeschoolers. In honor of Easter, students will not
report back to class until Tuesday, April 2.
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
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 SO excited! (So far, our class is the front runner in
this!!!)
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. We also have some great news regarding
this! Because enrollment is up next
year, we have enough students to split first and second grades! It has always been Timothy’s intent to have
separate grade classrooms, and now we enough numbers to split those two
grades. Praise the Lord! If you have any questions regarding this,
please contact Mr. Kuerschner. Thank
you!
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:
Religion: This week in Religion, we talked about the
job of a pastor, and what he does for us and our congregation, as well as for
the community! We have such amazing
pastors here at Timothy. We are so
blessed. We also talked a lot about the
life of David, and we studied his Psalms.
Today, we each wrote our psalm to God, poured out our hearts to Him, as
David did, and then made it look like one of the old scrolls stored in the
temple back in Bible times. These will
be coming home today for you to enjoy! We
had fun writing them! Thank you again
for your amazing faith-filled kiddos!
Memory
Next Week:
March 26--
workers, or animals, or turn them against him, but urge them to stay and do
their duty. We will have a short matching test about the commandments. Please
make sure your child can identify the commandments. We will be working on this in class as
well.
Science: This week we learned about moon and what size it
is compared to the earth. The children
wrote down their beliefs and prior-knowledge about the moon. We ruled out some of these misconceptions,
and began learning about the moon! The
students are very excited to learn about these things and to soon build our
Space Stations!
School of Economics: Students
found out this week what jobs they will have at the School of Economics. We then met in teams and decided what
supplies to buy for our shops, and how much money we will have to buy these
supplies. We began creating our shop
signs too…and are learning great communication skis, as well as how to work
with all kinds of different people. This
is such a character-building time! What
a great experience for these kids…! Next week, students will
have preparation sessions to get the pricing for their items solidified and
think about ways to advertise their products. Please remember that we visit the School of Economics on April 17th. A SignUpGenius link has been email to
you with further details and parent-helper information. We still have
some open spots left for parent helpers! If you are missing the email
about School of Economics, check out this link: www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E49AAA722A57-school
Math: Third graders worked with dividing with 11s and
12s. They also tested over simple
division today and have done so well!
Fourth graders are learning longer division and are quickly catching
on! Please continue to work on math
facts at home!
Reading/Language Arts: This week the 3rd graders read
about Two Bad Ants and the 4th graders read about The
World According to Humphrey. Both
stories were told from the insect/hamster point of view and they were so
intriguing and funny! Next week, in our
writing, we will attempt to do the same thing.
It will be fun to think of the world from the point of view of something
so very small! Next week, we will have vocabulary and spelling
words. Our tests will be on Thursday,
instead of Friday. Thank you!
Writing: Most of the children are finished with their
persuasive writing. This piece is due
March 28th, next Thursday. We
will begin new writings next week.
Art:
We finally finished up our parade scenes this week, and also worked on our
caricature drawing, with step-by-step directions. That was fun!
Parades will be in the hallway soon!
Music: In choir, the
children had fun picking out our favorite songs to sing this week! It is such a moving moment for all of us to
hear the kids sing out, “In Christ Alone!”
Goodness, they belt this hymn out!
Love it!!! On Thursday, the kids
practiced their recorders and finished up their solos!
God’s Blessings!
Love,
Kim Brunkhorst
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