May God Bless Your Weekend... :)

 

Hi, 3^rd/4^th grade parents!  Happy snow-filled, beautiful day!  

 Important information: 

*This week, each child made several New Year’s resolutions: one for home and one for school.  These led to some great conversations!    I promised the kiddos that I would try to hold them accountable for their school one.  Please be sure to ask your son or daughter was his or hers is! 

 *I have had a few students that are not taking home and/or returning their homework on time.  Please partner with me on this, so they do not get too far behind.  Thank you!  We are trying to start third quarter off on a great note!

 *Second quarter grade cards come home today!  They are in a sealed envelope in your child’s backpack.  You do not need to sign and return these.

 *We do not have school on Monday, January 18^th, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.  Enjoy this day with your family! 

 *Our class is hosting Chapel this next Wednesday.  Our message will be all about Samuel and listening to the voice of God.  I will make sure that I share pictures with you. 

 *Talent Show Tryouts are after school this coming up Wednesday, January 20th, from 3:45-4:30.  If your child will be coming to tryouts, please make sure you let me know!  Thank you! 

 *Lutheran Schools Week is coming up! 

Lutheran Schools Week will be celebrated January 24th-January 31st.  Our theme this year is “Sent to Serve,” so every day we will be discussing different ways to serve our God and others.  This is a very special week, where ALL the Lutheran schools around the world celebrate their Lutheran school!  We are so thankful to God that we are able to learn, teach, and witness in our amazing Timothy Lutheran!  At Timothy, we have special dress days and do special activities every day.  This year, because of Covid restrictions, we are not able to do as many things as a whole school, but we are still going to be having some fun! 

 Here are our list of activities:

Every day, we will have devotions in the gym as an entire school.  We will sit socially distant like we do for Chapel.  These will be led by the 7^th/8^th grade teacher, Mrs. Self. 

 Monday 1/25 –Crazy Sock Day!  Theme:  “Jesus – Sent to Serve”

*We will have our kickoff assembly for our 3^rd quarter mission project: Leukemia Lymphoma.  The Scholastic Book Fair also begins:  The website is www.scholastic.com/bf/tlsrams.  The book fair will go "live" January 22 and close February 4.  This is also the 100^th Day of School!  We will  have some fun classroom-fun with this!

 Tuesday 1/26 – Dress up like your hopeful future occupation!  Theme:  “Pastors and Teachers – Sent to Serve”

*In the classroom, we will be researching jobs and how to share God’s love in everything we do.  We will be writing letters and drawing pictures to thank our pastors, teachers, and workers in this building. 

 Wednesday 1/27  – Dress up as your favorite team or sport!   Theme: “Serving Together on God’s Team”

*In the classroom, we are going to make cards for our Timothy volunteers (Timothy’s team), local heroes (our local team), and veterans (our country’s team).  J  Mr. Holland is bringing donuts for everyone! 

Thursday 1/28 – Class Dress Theme- 3^rd/4^th graders voted to dress like animals!  Theme: “Serving in Home and Community”

*In the classroom, we are to going to do some Getting Along activities to help our classroom home.  We will also be discussing ways students can serve at home.  Be ready to enjoy some little helpers! 

Friday  1/29 - Travel Day/Tourist Dress  Theme: “Sent to Serve in the World”

*At 1:00, we will have our Talent Show!

**PLEASE do not go out and buy anything for these fun dress days.  Please just use something from home.  (The year that my Annabel chose to dress as an animal, we just dressed her in gray sweats and pinned ears to a stocking cap to make her a koala!)  ;) 

Here is what we have been up to in the classroom:

Religion-This week in Religion, we discussed the office of the pastor and how the meaning of pastor is shepherd.  We talked about ALL of the important and amazing things our pastors do for us, for the congregation, for the school, and for the community.  We wrote letters to our pastors thanking them for all of these things!  We also practiced our chapel message. 

Memory for next week: 

1/19- Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

1/22- And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever.  Amen. 

 Language Arts/Social Studies-

This week, we learned all about Martin Luther King Jr.  We studied his life, his ministry, the difference he made, and how God helped him along the way.  We listened to his “I Have a Dream” speech, and then wrote dreams of our own.  We discussed the words “just” and “unjust, and played a game where we had to decide in each scenario if the topic was jst or unjust.  We watched the short movie about Dr. Seuss’ “Sneetches,” and discussed ways that they were being treated unfairly.  We will continue studying MLK next week too!

Sharing a book report!

Spelling words for next Friday, January 22^nd: (from "Happy Birthday, Dr. King!)

peaceful, protest, boycott, civil rights, dream, equality, freedom, movement, treatment, kindness, *stupendous

Math- This week, 3^rd graders worked with multiplying and dividing by 5 and working with word problems.  4^th graders learned how to solve 2 digit by two-digit multiplication problems this week.  Both groups have been working hard!  

Science- We tested over Chapter 1 today!  This week we reviewed together and played Science Jeopardy! 

SPECIAL CLASSES

Art- We finished up our snowflake snowmen.  They are hanging in the hallway, and are beautiful!  We also began our auction project.  I will send more details soon! 

Computer- We worked on publishing our stories and papers.

Writing-We watched/listened to Martin Luther’s “I Have a Dream” speech and then wrote acrostic Martin Luther King, Jr. poems.  Here is a link to the speech: MLK "I Have a Dream"

Music- The kids are working on songs for National Lutheran Schools Week. 

P.E. – We are still working on basketball skills.  This week, we practiced dribbling, shooting, and passing. 

Spanish- The kids have learned the months of year. 

May God bless your LONG weekend,

Kim Brunkhorst