Third and Fourth Grade News
From the Week
of December 5, 2014
Dear Parents,
We
have had such a fun week! The highlight
of our week was definitely our participation in the Advent services at
church! Our kiddos did such a fantastic
job, and I am so proud of them! Thank
you so much for your extra time and efforts as well, as I know it was a long
night for everyone involved. It was
wonderful to hear from Pastor Rich how congregational members were moved by our
service as well. It is my prayer that
our words of Jesus’ love—of being Clothed in His Love-- may just reach one
unbelieving heart. These kids are
amazing as they share their faith with one another. It is such a joy to be around that every
day! They constantly floor me with their
observations and with their thoughts about how to share their faith with
others. God gives me these amazing
little nudges everyday through them… Your children are such blessings to
me!
CLASS
CHRISTMAS GIFTS: In lieu of buying Christmas gifts for one another
in our classroom, our class has chosen to help families in need. I have
talked to your children about this and they are so excited in helping out and
sharing God’s love in this way! Many of the children have expressed their
want to contribute from their own allowances. This really moved me that
they are so willing to witness and love their fellow brothers and sisters in
Christ! Below, I have listed the age of the child in
each family and his or her wants or needs. If you are so inclined, please
send in a small gift with your child, or a few dollars and we will put them
toward gifts. We will do all the wrapping here at school! The kids
are excited! We will need to have the gifts by December 11th.
Girl,
age 5—clothes size 6
Boy,
age 6, jeans, size 10
Boy,
age 10—knit hat and gloves
Girl,
age 11, shirts-size 14-16, loves green and aqua
Thank
you again for any help you can give!
We
will have an all-school Christmas
Party on Thursday, December 18th. We are going to Lunar Bowl from
9:00-11:00. This will be $4.00 per
person. Afterwards, we will be coming
back here for lunch. 3rd/4th
grades will also be going to sing at Waterford Nursing Home at 1:30. We will need drivers for both events. Please email me if you can! Also, please send in $4.00 for your child (or
for you, if bowling!) when you can. Thank
you! All kiddos are invited!
We
will have our own version of a classroom Christmas
Party the next day, December 19th!
We will watch the Polar Express, have hot chocolate and snacks, and wear
PJs to school! If any home-school
friends want to join us that day, they are most certainly welcome to. We will have a short Religion lesson in the
morning, but then the rest of the day will be filled with making Christmas
cards, watching a movie, and fun! We
then get out at 1:00 that afternoon, and they all yours… ;)
Here is what we did
this week:
In
Religion this week we have
talked about the gifts from God—not only His One True Son, but also gifts of
forgiveness, mercy and love. We are so
blessed! We learned the word iniquity this week.
Memory
for next week:
December
9- 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.
December
12- What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not
entice or force away our neighbor’s wife,
In Language
Arts this week, the third and fourth graders read Jump!, and The
Screech Owl Who Liked Television, respectively. They both enjoyed their stories! Third grade’s story was about Michael Jordan,
and it surprised me (and aged me!) to know that there were some students who
did not know who he was! Fourth graders had a lot to share about their story
too. It was a true story from the
author, who will take in wild, injured animals from time-to-time, and she
shared about her pet owl. We shared a
lot animals stories this week…
Fourth grades shared their fantasy book
reports. The comics are hanging in the
hallway and they are awesome! They
received information about their January book report—over historical fiction books.
Please remind your child to keep filling in Reading
Logs for December. It is not too late to
hand November ones in…
We finished reading Indian in the Cupboard today.
What a great, interesting book!
It kept the students on the edges of their seats! For our Star Party, we watched the
movie. All of us agreed, however, the
book was SO much better than the movie!
In Math
this week, third graders worked with showing data in lots of different
formats: line graphs, pictographs, bar
graphs, number plots, etc. Fourth grade
is zooming through a short chapter about multiplication and will begin longer
multiplication next week!
In Social
Studies this week, we began our short unit on maps! We will lean about the continents, the
oceans, the compass rose, how to use a map, how to use a grid, etc. This will be fun!
During Art,
we studied a still life and made a torn paper project using the shapes we found
within it. They are hanging in the
hallway! Check them out!
In P.E.
this week, we continued learning basketball skill—layups and offense and
defense.
In Music
this week, we practiced for our Advent service!
On Thursday, we practiced songs with Mr. Burns for the upcoming church
Christmas Program on Sunday, December 21st, at 6:30 P.M.
This spring, we will be learning
recorder with Mrs. Patterson. This is a wonderful opportunity for your child to
learn notes and values, breath control, and the fun and responsibility of
playing and practicing a musical instrument!
We
will need to make sure that each child has an instrument to bring to class
EVERY Tuesday and Thursday during our recorder unit. If you don’t already have
one from an older child, please send $4.00 to school in
an envelope with “Recorder Money” written on it by Monday, December 15, 2014. These envelopes will go to Mrs. Fangmann
in the office so that we can order recorders to start January 27th. If your child will be using a
recorder from a previous year, please send it to school on Tuesday or Thursday
next week, so that Mrs. P may make sure it is in good working order and will
work with our recorders. Sometimes recorders from different manufacturers are
made with different pitches, so we want your child’s recorder to make the same
note as the rest of the class. If it is determined that it will work, you have
the option to use it or order a new one.
All
recorders will be the child’s property and he or she will be allowed to keep it
once the school year is over. If you have any questions or concerns regarding
ordering recorders, please contact her at lindseyp@timothylutheran.com. Thank
you!
For Writers’
Workshop, we worked on poetry!
We began writing poems that were called, “How to Talk to…” We then wrote funny poems about how to talk
to inanimate objects like, snowmen, ogres, and skateboards. We will make class books out of these and
share them with you soon!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
DECEMBER
6-Mrs. Krekel's Birthday
18- Lunar Bowl Party (9:00-11:00) Christmas Caroling 1:30
19- 1:00 Dismissal; ¾ Polar Express Party—wear PJs to school!
21-Christmas Program--6:30
21-Christmas Program--6:30
23- Mrs. Barber's Birthday
23-31- No School, Christmas Break
JANUARY
1-2- No School, Christmas Break
5- Classes Resume
9- End of 2nd Quarter, 1:00 pm Dismissal; 3rd grade book report
due
19- No School, Martin Luther King Day
21- Talent Show Try-Outs
25-31- National Lutheran Schools' Week, Scholastic Book Fair
25- K-8 Choirs Sing, North Campus
26- Mrs. Carrasco's Birthday; 4th grade January book report due
26- Mrs. Carrasco's Birthday; 4th grade January book report due
30- Grandparent's Day, Talent Show, 12:30pm Dismissal
Have a fantastic weekend!
Yours in Christ,
Kim Brunkhorst
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