Dear Parents,
We have had another great week, and
as always, super-busy!
Reminders:
- Achievement
Testing is next week! (Feb. 23-27) Home-school families are welcome
to come each day for this testing too! We will be testing just in
the mornings, beginning about 8:45, and will finish each day around
noon. In the afternoons, (M/W/F only, since we’ll still have
specials classes on Tu/Th), we will have Religion, D.E.A.R. Time, continue
on our new Science unit, and also get the kids working on our Trivia Night
live auction item. There will not be spelling, reading, or
math classes next week, so we will not have a lot of homework at
all! (They will get plenty of all that on the achievement
tests!) For your child’s best
success, you may want to consider the following:
*A good night’s sleep! This is the week to get lots
of rest!
*A good breakfast! A hungry tummy can be really
distracting.
*Healthy snacks - students are welcome to munch on
something healthy between tests to keep up their energy and focus.
*Water – each child can bring in a water bottle to keep on
his or her desk. Keeping your brain
hydrated is a smart idea, too!
*Activities for fast finishers – their book report book,
another chapter book, crossword puzzles, or magazines—nothing that will be
distracting to other students.
*If you would like to send in peppermints for your child,
or for the whole group, please feel free to do so. Some research has shown that peppermint
stimulates the brain for better memory and more alertness. J
- Enrollment
forms have been issued to all current students. Enrollment will open
up to new families soon. Please send your forms back in as soon as
possible to reserve your spot for next year!
- Our
ECC and School are sponsoring the Lenten supper on Wednesday, March 4.
We will be serving pizza, salad, and cookies. If you are willing,
we would like a $5 donation toward costs, OR dozen cookies.
We will have student artwork on display for our congregation to see.
We’re excited for this opportunity to be more visible to our church!
Thank you for your help!!
- Aside
from the class trivia art project, which we will be working on next week
in school art, our class is sponsoring a STL Cardinals basket! If you
are able and willing, you can send in anything to go in this basket that
has anything to with the Cardinals, St. Louis, birds, etc., anything will
be fine! Thank you for help with this…and I would be open to ideas
too!
Here
is what we have been up to:
On Thursday, Delta Dental visited us, to put on a short
play about dental health care. It was
cute! They gave each child a bag of
dental goodies. Be on the lookout for this!
In Religion
this week, we begun dissecting the Lord’s Prayer and talking about the
different reasons why we pray and the power of prayer. I shared with the children a lesson that my
mom taught me so many years ago...and it has always stuck around. J First, many
of our prayers, because we are sinful and greedy people, are “help me”
prayers. God wants to hear those, but
often times we just leave it at that. My
mom always said that she tries to begin each prayer with that of “thanksgiving”
first, that way, we are remembering all of our blessings before our troubles. I
shared with the kiddos, that while I still fail miserably at that sometimes,
that it now has become a habit for me to begin my prayers with “thank
you.” God is so good to us!!! We do not have memory work for next
week.
In Language
Arts this week, we also read two amazing stories: “A Tree is Growing”
(which directly ties to our Science!)
and “Moon Runner.” We learned how to write the cursive letters I
and J. We have continued to rad about Ramona and her
antics in “Ramona and Her Father.” Please
work on getting February Reading Logs in next week. Thank you!
During Math
his week, third graders learned the words expression and equation,
and worked with dividing by 0 and 1.
They also began solving word problems with division. Fourth graders had a tough week! They learned how to divide with remainders
and how to divide larger numbers. This
was tough, but as I write this, ALL of them have caught on. Thank you for your extra work at home! Again, both groups, please keep practicing
those math facts…our Winstead’s Trip in May is quickly approaching!
We will begin
our next unit in Science next
week, and are learning all about plant and animal life cycles. There is a ton of new vocabulary to
learn. Your child should be bringing
home vocab cards to review and study!
Here is what we
did during Specials this week:
Art-we
created starburst hearts! These are in the hallway. Our Martin Luther King Jr. portraits will be
on display at the Lenten dinner and then will come home next week.
Music-we
practiced our recorders and had our third and fourth Recorder Karate
sessions. They are doing great! Please urge your child to practice
at home…
P.E.-we
had fun with the parachute. Please ask your child about popcorn, washing machine, and tent.
Writing-We
continued writing persuasive essays. Many of them are on the publishing
step now!
Spanish-They are getting ready
for Cinco de Mayo. Yesterday, the girls
all got fitted for beautiful skirts! They
will have a vocab quiz on Tuesday.
Upcoming Events:
FEBRUARY
23-27-Achievement tests
27-4th grade February book report due—we
will share these in the afternoon
MARCH
4- TLS Serves Lenten Dinner
13- End of 3rd Quarter, 1:00pm Dismissal; 3rd grade book
report due
31-4th grade March book report due
31-4th grade March book report due
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Kim Brunkhorst
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