God's Most Amazing Creatures...: Happy Weekend...March is HERE!

Hi, 4^th grade families! I hope you have had a great week! We have been busy in here! Can you believe it is March?!

Reminders:

*MARCH 8th is going to be a busy day! We are going to start the day at 7:45 with MORNING WITH MOM (or Special Person)! Please come and enjoy a donut and some coffee or milk with your kiddo. There will also be a fun activity to do with them too. You are also invited to stay for Chapel at 9:00.

*Then, that same evening, our students will sing at the LENTEN SERVICE at RD Mize at 5:30 pm. Please have students wear Timmy gear (or red, white, and navy) and sit with their families. PLUS, we are serving the pizza Lenten dinner from 5 – 7 that night. Please be there at 5:00 and enjoy dinner with us before the service. 😊

*HEIT’S POINT came and visited us this week and shared with us some information about their upcoming summer camps! If you have never been down to Heit’s Point Lutheran Camp in the Lake of the Ozarks, it is beautiful, breathtaking, and so much fun! Check it out! (I know they offer scholarships for some of their camps too!) https://heitspoint.com/welcome

*Who’s ready for a good old-fashioned Lutheran POTLUCK? Mark your calendars too attend the potluck dinner at Timothy! It will be on Sunday, March 19th, starting at 4 pm. All are welcome! Make one dish and feed your whole family! (Please see the chart below.) There will be fellowship activities, fun games, and delicious food for all!

-Last name starts with A-I; bring a main dish.

-Last name starts with J-R; bring a side dish.

-Last name starts with S-Z; bring a dessert.

-Drinks, coffee, tea, water, and tableware will be provided.

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS- (4^th-6^th grades) We are headed to the School of Economics on Monday, April 3rd, and we are SO excited for this trip! We started preparing this week already! As many of you know, interviews were today. Your child will find out next week what job he or she will have. We will be meeting with the 5th and 6th graders twice a week, (Mondays and Wednesdays), learning skills such as making a budget, buying supplies, understanding supply/demand, writing checks, selling goods, working cooperatively, HAVING A TON OF FUN, and much more! It takes a lot of work in class to make this special day flow, and we are getting ready! We are attending the School of Economics with St. Thomas Moore, a Catholic school in Kansas City, and are excited to meet some new friends!

We will need some of you to help that day! We will need exactly NINE volunteers for this trip. Parent help is needed ALL DAY, but space is limited, so slots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. They don’t let any other parents in the building that day, except these NINE volunteers for our school. Thank you so much for your help!! These parents will have training at the School of Economics at 8:45. We will meet them there, which also means we need some parents that will only be able to drive us there and drop us off. We will need to leave school no later than 9:10.

Here is the link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4DADAB2DA7F58-school

Other important information is below:

-The cost for you for this field trip is $5. A generous donor is covering the other $10 per student. ($15 total) We are so THANKFUL! Please send this $5 to school. (There is no cost for parents.)

-Students will NOT need to pack a lunch, as this fee includes food for them. **If your child has food allergies and would rather bring in their own food out of safety concerns, that is preferred - please speak with your child's teacher. (Volunteers do NOT need to pay the fee, but your lunch is included, too.)

-Our day ends there at 1:30, so we should return to school about 2:00.

-If you want to help, but all the spots are taken, please contact your child's teacher, and we'll put you on a "will-call" list in the case that another parent has to back out. Thank you in advance for your help!! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Date: 4/3/23 (Monday)

Time: 9:00am - 1:30pm

Location: School of Economics, 200 NW 14 St, Blue Springs, MO 64015

Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION- We have been learning about Jesus preaching in Nazareth and raising Jairus’s daughter. We have a beautiful discussion about heaven and what we know for sure, what we wonder, and some misconceptions people have. We consulted God’ s Word for the answers. Today we test over unit 6, and will begin talking about Jesus performing more of His miracles next week.

MEMORY work for next week:

3/7-For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ~John 3:16

3/10- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ~John 1:1

LANGUAGE ARTS- This week, we finished up we “Ramona and Her Father,” by Beverly Cleary. This was a great book, and led to many great discussions about family, health issues, family pets, and loss. We tested over the story today. This week, we also shared our Mystery Book Reports and posters! These are AMAZING and well done! They are hanging up in the hallway outside of our room, so please come and check them out! Information has also come home about our March book report, which is over a non-fiction selection. This one does not need to be 100 pages, but just needs to be at a 4^th grade or above reading level and be okayed by me. The student will be creating story windsocks for their projects. Please see the handout for details. These are due March 31t. Thank you!

SPELLING WORDS for Friday, March 10^th: from the story, “A Very Important Day”:

horse, chore, firm, learn, dirty, curve, world, pure, board, course, heard, return, cure, score, worm, thirteen, worn, curl, shirt, search, *allegiance

MATH-We learned how to make equivalent fractions and put them in simplest form. We also compared and ordered fractions and learned how to use benchmark fractions. We have SO many kiddos pass their final mad minute this week! Congratulations!

SOCIAL STUDIES- In Missouri History, we discussed the climate and natural resources of Missouri. We learned where resources are located and which ones are renewable and nonrenewable. We also discussed Missouri’s highest and lowest points. Please quiz your kiddo to see what they learned! ;)

SPECIAL CLASSES:

MUSIC- We practiced our songs for the Lenten service next week!

ART- We finished up our sports pictures this week, and they are amazing! You should see our athletes in action! These are hanging up in our school hallway.

COMPUTER-To practice our keyboarding skills, we typed out friendly letters. We worked on spacing, punctuation, and spelling correctly.

WRITERS’ WORKSHOP- We continued our poetry unit, where we searched for, studied, and wrote different types of poetry-- Similes, Metaphors, Alliterations, Onomatopoeia, and Personification!

HEALTH-We have been combining Health and Computer Lab this year, and learning on Google Slides. Yesterday, we reviewed how to deal with certain emotions, and we concentrated on anxiety. We had a great discussion about things that make us nervous and how anxiety causes us to have headaches and tummy aches, etc. So many of the kiddos shared personal experiences. I shared some personal ones too. We discussed ways to calm ourselves down and ease the tension in our bodies and minds. First of all, to PRAY. God is ALWAYS there. Secondly, to come see me. I have a chart that I shared with the kiddos with a scale of 1-5. This will always be at my desk. This will help both of us understand where they might be within the worry/anxiety realm. We discussed how some worry about certain things is natural and good. It shows that they care! (Like today’s interviews for School of Economics!) If they are experiencing a 3-5, they can take a walk down the hall, get a drink, find a pillow in the classroom and lie down for a bit, use a stress ball, talk to a friend, talk to a pastor, etc. I am thankful we have such a family atmosphere in this classroom, that we can be here for one another, that we can lean on God, and that we CAN talk about these types of things here at school! Please let me know if you have any questions.

P.E.-We had fun playing "Striker Ball" again, and learning how to play “Hook-On Tag” yesterday!

We shared book reports this week!