Happy Epiphany!

 

Hi, Parents!  It was so wonderful to see your kiddos after our long break!  We are happy to be “back in the swing of things!”  It is hard to believe that today is the last day of the 2^nd quarter…goodness!  Report cards will come home next Friday!

 Here are some things that are coming up: 

EPIPHANY PARTY! Please mark your calendars! The PTL Epiphany Party is Friday, January 14th. Arrive any time from 6-8:00 pm for a fun fellowship event. Each child, who brings a canned good, can take a fun journey filled with crafts, fun, and treats. Plus there will be a pizza dinner! This fun event isn’t possible without helpers! See how you, and your family, can help! We especially need help from our 4th-8th grade students! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4AAAAE23A2FEC70-ptlsign

 TALENT SHOW-On Friday, January 28th, which is also Grandparents’ Day, we will have our Talent Show.  Each class will be attending, and children can sit with their grandparents.  If your child is interested in performing in the Talent Show, tryouts are Wednesday, January 12th, after school, in the music room.  Permission slips came home already!  Questions?  Please email me!

 LUTHERAN SCHOOLS’ WEEK IS COMING UP!  January 23rd-30th:  This is a special week set aside by all Lutheran Schools nationwide to celebrate together.  Timothy has a fun Spirit Week that week, where we dress in a special way every day and also do special activities.  (PLEASE don’t go out and purchase anything for these days—Just use items from around your home!) 

Theme:  “In ALL Things”

Monday-CHRIST ***Wear Christian shirts or hats.  Discuss:  What does Jesus mean to me?  All-School Project:  Make crowns—We are members of the Kingdom of God!

Tuesday-CREATION ***Dress up as any part of Creation!  (Nature, people, animals, etc.)  All-School Project: A school mural of Creation

Wednesday-CHILDREN ***Wear your class color!  4th grade is PURPLE!  All-School Activity: A Bible Bee!

Thursday-CHURCH ***Career Day—Dress up as what you want to be when you get older!  Discuss:  How do you take the church into the world?! All-School Project: Make cards for shut-ins, healthcare workers, soldiers, etc.

Friday-COMMUNITY ***Dress Your Best!  All-School Activity: Grandparents/Special Person Day/Talent Show—12:30 dismissal  (There is NO hot lunch on this day.  If your child is not leaving with their grandparent or special person, and is going to after-care, please send a sack lunch.  Thank you!)

 

TLS AUCTION!  -- Please mark your calendars:  TLS Annual Auction—Let’s Go to the Hp:  Bid Around the Clock

When? Saturday, February 19, 2022

What time? 6:00-10:00

Where? Hilton Garden Inn, 19677 E. Jackson Drive, Independence, MO 64057

***This is a FUN time!   All classes will be creating projects to auction off!   To buy tickets and read about more details, please check out the school’s website, or see this link: https://event.auctria.com/34a99a7c-d0af-4d7d-9828-4fcf5692afd3/

 

Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION- This week, we discussed the stories of David and Bathsheba, as well as King Solomon.  We talked about the many ways that God gives us that help us to overcome temptation—His Word, our church leaders, parents, elders, teachers, and peers.  We also discussed how God always forgives and helps us by wiping the slate clean for us!  We have such an AWESOME GOD!  We also discussed what Epiphany is this week!

MEMORY next week:  1/11- 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.

1/14- What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not entice or force away our neighbor’s wife, workers, or animals, or turn them against him, but urge them to stay and do their duty.

 

LANGUAGE ARTS- We read the phenomenal story called Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World.  This review states it well:  “Sketchbook in hand, an artist leaves home to spend four months in Antarctica. She hikes up glaciers, camps on deserted islands, and sees mirages of castles in the air. She sails past icebergs and humpback whales. And she fills her sketchbook with drawings of penguin chicks huddled in their nests and seals basking in the sun. Jennifer Dewey's sketches, photographs, journal entries, and letters home let you see the last great wilderness on earth through the eyes of an artist at work.”  We LOVED it and it led to some great discussions, and a few videos where we got to see actual footage.  We learned so much!  In Language Arts, we also discussed metaphors, similes, and sequencing this week.  During DEAR time, we were introduced to our new Author of the Month, Beverly Cleary.  We already love Ramona Quimby and her sis, Beezus!

 

SPELLING WORDS for next Friday, January 14th: (from “My Brother Martin”) west, steep, member, gleam, fresh, freedom, speed, steam, beast, believe, speck, kept, cheap, pretend, greed, shelf, least, eager, reason, chief, echo, menu, *segregation

 

MATH- You have probably heard, but we are completing long-division with remainders in here!  Our brains have grown, we gotten better at asking questions, and we are learning some MATH in 4^th grade!  ;)  We literally have been working on this all week, and are mastering it.  Please continue to review simple math multiplication facts at home.  Our mad minutes are getting better, and most have memorized all the way up through the 12s, but are still have some struggles when we mix all of those facts up.  The kiddos are learning that with these facts memorized, long division is easier and faster.  Imagine that!  ;)  Thank you for your help.  I am SO PROUD. 

 

SCIENCE- We finally finished up the second lesson about genus, species, and classifying animals and plants.  (It was as if we were off of school for two weeks or something!)  We discussed the Red Tide too, and were amazed at how harmful this bacteria could be! 

 

SPECIAL CLASSES

Art- We made Snowflake Snowmen using oil pastels, watercolors, coffee filters, and construction paper.  They are beautiful!  We also listened to the story of Snowflake Bentley. 

P.E.- This week, we played a fun dodgeball game called “Pin Down!”

Computer- We got onto www.beverlycleary.come to learn more about Beverly Cleary and take some fun quizzes about her characters. 

Music- We learned some new fun movements and story songs in Music class this week.  The kiddos came back from Music class all energized!  We LOVE Ms. Rathke!

Writing-  We wrote birthday letters for Ms. Rathke (today is her birthday!), and then continued on our fictional narratives.

 

God's Blessings,

Kim Brunkhorst