Make a JOYful Noise!

Make a JOYful Noise!

Friday, November 11, 2016

Happy Veteran's Day!

Good afternoon!  I hope you are doing well!  We have been busy, busy in the 3rd/4th grade room!  See what we have been up to:

Today marked the end of our collections for Operation Christmas Child!  Both groups participated in our box-packing party this morning.  I’m so proud of how hard the kids worked in assembling gift boxes for children all around the world!

Religion-We have begun talking about our Heavenly Father this week and His AMAZING power and love.  We have been discussing Creation the last couple of days and will complete a fun art project depicting it next week. 
Memory for next week:
November 15-THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

November 18-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.

Math-3rd grade just tested over subtraction with borrowing this week, and will begin multiplication next week!  :)  We will be learning the basic skill, as well as our mad minutes will begin to be multiplication as well.  Please work with your child at home at memorizing their facts.  (Flash cards/computer games)  Thanks for your help with this!  4th grade is working with multiplying longer numbers and numbers with zeroes.  We are all learning so much! 

Language Arts-This week, we focused on finding verbs in our written work.  Next week, the whole class will read some selections about the first Thanksgiving, and will have the same set of spelling words.  We will not test over these until Tuesday, November 22nd.  I am sorry that I was behind a few weeks on the spelling words online.  They are updated.  Please look there to study the spelling words ahead of time!  We will begin cursive next week.  :)

Social Studies-We “traveled” to Washington, D.C., and have learned about the Jefferson Memorial and the White House.  Next week, we will learn about the House and Senate and how a bill becomes a law.  We will even create some of our own!  We will also learn about the first Thanksgiving and adopt a Native American or Pilgrim name.  Next week, our learning will be so much fun! 

Art-We have learned all about Georgia O’Keefe, her life, her love of nature, and her beautiful artwork!  We created flowers in the style of Georgia O’Keefe, and have placed this in a collage for our auction next week.

Writing-We learned about persuasive essays, and read some samples.  We then started planning and drafting our own.  These should be very interesting! 

P.E.- We enjoyed playing outside this week!

Music-Please pray for Mrs. Pennington, as she has a horrible case of poison ivy…  :(
Please remember that 3rd grade sings this weekend!
When:
Sunday, November 13
During the 8:30 and 9:45 am services
Where:  Timothy’s North Campus (425 NW R.D. Mize Road) 
Please arrive by 8:20 am.  Students sit in the pews by the piano.  They will join their families after we sing.  Meet in the lobby at 9:40 am to sing at the very beginning of the 9:45 am service.  Students will be dismissed after we sing the second time. 
What to Wear:  Timothy shirt with nice bottoms or dress clothes (no jeans or shorts, please).

We go to the circus on Friday!  If you have not yet signed up your child to go, please do so!  We need to know how many tickets we will have left over, as we will still have some parents that are wanting to come.  Thank you! 

As a culmination of our Thanksgiving Unit and learning about the first Thanksgiving next week, we will have a Thanksgiving Feast!  (This includes all 3rd/4th students!)  This will be a feast for our class (Pilgrims and Native Americans) during lunch time (and beyond), but I will need your help, please. We will begin about 11:00, if homeschool friends can join us early that day.   I will make the turkey, and if you are able, would love help with the rest of the fixins’!  I will send that sign-up on Monday!  Thank you! 

NOVEMBER
13- K-3 Choir Sings (North Campus) 8:30 and 9:45 am—notes are coming home today!
18- 3-6 field trip to Shriners Circus—8:45-1:00, School Auction that evening—6:30
22-3rd/4th Thanksgiving Feast—sign-up coming home soon! 
23-25- No School, Thanksgiving Break
30- TLS Students Lead Advent Services 5:00 and 7:15 pm

Have a great weekend!
God’s Blessings,


Kim Brunkhorst

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