It's Friday! :)

Hello!  It has been another fun, but busy week! 

Reminders:

*FALL FUN FEST is this weekend: September 13-15!

We are participating in the parade tomorrow morning!  Everyone is welcome! 

Here are details:

Float Theme: Timmy Wonka and the Burger Factory

Wear: Timmy Gear or Willy Wonka Gear

Lineup time: 9:45am-10:00 am (Parade begins at 10:00am)

Lineup number: 55 (entry number will be marked on the street)

Lineup location: Front Drive Freshman Center 

* School pictures are Monday, September 16, beginning at 8:30. 

* THE WALK-A-THON IS COMING!  Timothy’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon is Friday, September 27.  Help us reach our Phase 1 goal of $22,000!  We are over halfway towards this goal, having raised $12,206 last year!  Get ready!  Pledge forms were sent home September 11.  (Please check your child’s backpack for these!) Parents are needed to assist during the Walk-a-Thon and to provide snacks for students.  Use this link to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090e4bafaf2ca46-walkathon

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Religion- We talked about Abram and Lot, and how God blesses people through trials.  We discussed the commandments and their meanings, and what to do when we struggle with them and fail.  We have such a loving God that gives us forgiveness daily!  We also have been digging into God’s Word and learning all about His amazing gifts!  We studied Abraham and Isaac and discussed Abraham’s awesome faith. 

On September 11th, we discussed the horrific events of that day eighteen years ago, but we also talked about how God loves us, how He is in charge, and how we are NEVER separated from His LOVE.  We used the verse below for inspiration for illustrations.   

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  ~Romans 8: 37-38

Next week’s memory:

September 17-

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

September 20-Recite all of the OT books

Language Arts- 3^rd graders read about helping other in “Destiny’s Gift.”  4^th graders began their first Literature Circles.  We have read chapters 1-4 of “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” and have had fun meeting in groups to discuss the book.  We will continue this story next week.  We also talked about adjectives this week! 

Spelling Words for Friday, September 20^th:

3^rd grade: Story-“Pop’s Bridge”

load, open, told, yellow, soak, shadow, foam, follow, glow, sold, window, coach, almost, throat, tomorrow, sailboats

Challenge Word: copasetic

4^th grade: Chapters 5-8 of “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing”

innocent, dashed, measure, strand, manage, traffic, ruin, flung, sparkle, impossible

Challenge Word: copasetic

Math- Both groups worked with rounding, estimating, and adding with longer numbers.  We are all struggling with rounding quite a bit and will work on this again next week until it gets mastered!   

Social Studies- This week, we finished Chapter 1 in out Missouri History books and learned about the state motto, state bird, state flag, state animal, and state insect!  A study guide is coming home today.  We will play a Missouri Jeopardy game to review next week and then have a test the following Monday, September 23rd.  We shared our Oral history interviews today and we learned so much from those too… THANK YOU to those of you that helped with that! 

Next week, we will begin our School of Economics studies with the 5^th/6^th graders.  We will be learning how the economy works, how to pay off a loan, how to price items according to supply and demand, and much more.  We are excited!  We will visit the School of Economics on October 16^th.  A permission slip will be coming home very soon! 

SPECIAL CLASSES

Art- We studied primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, created a color wheel with tempera paint, and then began painting our impressionistic style horizon pictures.  We will continue these on Tuesday. 

Writing- We wrote and published Bio-Poems this week. 

P.E.-This week we worked on volleyball skills--passing, setting, and serving.  We put these skills together on Thursday for some fun drills and game situations!

                 

Have a wonderful weekend!  See you in the morning!

Blessings,

Kim

Our "hero" this week... :)