Dear 4th Grade Parents,
It’s been another great week! :)
Please take a look below to get updates on upcoming events and to see
what we have been “up to” in here!
*MULCH DAY is TOMORROW, September 10th at 8am! We need all hands on deck to spread mulch on our playgrounds, please! Bring your shovels, rakes, tarps, gloves, anything you like and be prepared to have some fun! There will be yummy Lamar’s donuts and water too!
*PICTURE DAY is next Tuesday, September 13th! You can only order pictures online this year. The address is www.inter-state.com/order. The code that you will need is 70209WT. Thank you!
*The next PTL (Parent Teacher League) meeting is next Tuesday, September 13th at 6:00 pm in the conference room. Please come if you can!
*Timothy Lutheran will be walking in the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest PARADE on Saturday, September 17th! We don’t have all of the details yet, but we’d like for you to mark your calendars! This is such a fun event! In the past, the parade begins about 10am, and we wear our Rams t-shirts, uniforms, or Timothy colors (red, blue, white). It normally begins near the Blue Springs Freshman Campus on Vesper Road, and always ends at St. John LaLande on R.D. Mize Road. We ask that parents walk (or ride) with your kiddos, please. Mrs. Hatcher has been working on the songs the kiddos will sing while we walk too! What a way to show share the love of Jesus and show our Rams pride!
*Please remember: Timothy Lutheran School’s 6th annual WALK-A-THON is Friday, September 23rd! We are hosting this fundraiser to raise funds for our school-- classroom tools and updated materials, as well as helping teachers with continuing education and training. All students will participate by getting pledges and completing laps around the school’s parking lots.
Pledges can be online!
Please click here: https://timothylutheranschool.com/walkathon/
We also need volunteers to assist during the Walk-a-Thon to
make it a success! We will be walking
from 1:30-2:30 pm. Please use this link
to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4dadab2da7f58-timothy
We will also need snacks for the day, so if you would rather
donate in that fashion, please do so here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4dadab2da7f58-walkathon
*It is time to order TLS SPIRIT WEAR! The store will be open for the next 2 weeks. It will close at 11:59 pm on September 21. Here is your link to order: https://tls2022.itemorder.com/
*HOMEWORK FOLDERS will come home this afternoon filled with graded work. Please empty these and return the folder on Tuesday (usually Mondays!). Anything with a letter grade lower than a B can be “redone” for half a credit per answer, and turned back in when they return to school the next week. (Except tests, please.)
Here is what we have been up to this week:
RELIGION-This week, we created A Book of Blessings. We discussed how God created this beautiful world and all that is in it for US! We thanked God for each letter of the alphabet, and the blessings that go along with it! We also discussed the relationship of Abram and his nephew Lot, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and God’s promises to Abram. We discussed God’s Laws and His expectations of us, as well as the Good News of the Gospel—that we cannot by ourselves follow God’s Law perfectly, but JESUS did it for us! Because if this, we get to live with him forever!
MEMORY for Next Week:
9/13- The Old Testament
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
9/16-
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 & 2 Samuel
1 & 2 Kings
1 & 2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
LANGUAGE ARTS- We read the thought-provoking story entitled, “How Tia Lola Came to Stay.” We discussed respecting our elders, and how to respect people’s differences and uniqueness. We had some very good conversations! This story actually led us into a great discussion about how we should be kind to others, and really be in tune to their feelings. We talked about verbal and non-verbal cues. This is a very intuitive class! Please continue to urge your child to read those book report books! Thanks! We also discussed cause and effect, and found examples of this in our story. We also reviewed how to write complete sentences, making sure it had a noun, verb, and was a complete thought. We talked about how to write sentences in 4th grade style, with more detail! We have been working on DOL (Daily Oral Language) where we use editing marks to correct sentences that are just a mess! ;) We have done one together and one on our own. You will see these come home this week. Each child graded his or her own as we corrected them as a class.
SPELLING Words for the Week of September 16th:
Story-“The Power of W.O.W.”
block, shown, oatmeal, wrote, fellow, scold, coast, odd,
locate, slope, throat, host, online, shock, solve, known, remote, stock, boast,
globe, bonus, approach
Challenge Word: treacherous
MATH- This week, we reviewed Chapter 1, tested over it, and then began Chapter 2, which is all about addition properties, subtraction rules, and patterns with both. We will “zoom” through this review chapter so we can focus on longer multiplication. Please keep working on rote multiplication at home! Flash cards are always helpful, and here are some great websites: www.multiplication.com
and www.timestables.com/games.
SOCIAL STUDIES- This week, we studied physical and political maps. We also learned many new things about our awesome state: The state bird, the state nickname, when Missouri became a state, the state capital, and the highest point in Missouri. We love being Missourians in here! ;)
SPECIAL CLASSES
ART- We learned what a horizon line was and studied some
Expressionistic artists. We then drew
landscape drawings with a horizon line.
We will studied primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, created a color
wheel with tempera paint, and then began painting in our horizon pictures with
that Expressionistic style! We will
finish these up next week! They are
beautiful!
MUSIC- This week, the students practiced songs for the parade! They sound SO beautiful with their praises to God! Hopefully, you will be able to come and hear them!
WRITING- Many of us finished up our BioPoems and illustrated our final drafts. The finished ones are hanging up in our school hallway for all to enjoy!
COMPUTER LAB- This week, we began working with keyboarding, and where our fingers go on the home keys. We are using a site called www.typing.com. Each child has his or her own sign-in and password. They are free to practice at home. Please just let me know if you need this information to do so!
P.E.- We worked on volleyball skills this week—passing, setting, and hitting!
Have a BLESSED weekend!
Kim
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