Have a BLESSED weekend! :)

 Hi, parents!  It has been another FUN week in 4^th grade!  We have been busy and doing so well!  I am super-proud of these kiddos!  THANK YOU for sharing them with me everyday! 

 Our MANY upcoming events and reminders:

*Homework Folders will come home this afternoon filled with graded work.  Please empty these and return the folder on Monday.   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.)

 *If you have not done so already, please send back in your child’s Faith Alive Bible.  We use these almost daily during Religion class.  Thanks!

 *Also, if you have not already sent in your signed Behavior, Internet, and Handbook forms, please do so.

 *4th graders will be taking our MAP Growth Assessments next week. 

 *The first PTL (Parent Teacher League) Meeting is next Tuesday, September 10^th, at 6 PM.  PTL provides a great opportunity to support Timothy through fellowship and fundraising. This year, PTL is helping with the financial needs of the TLS School Board’s strategic plans. We would love to have you join us!  If you have any questions, please email Kate Kuecker (kate@twitchetts.com)

 *OASIS Family Night: Families, life is crazy busy and we all long for some time to be restored, to reconnect, and to refresh. Join Timothy Lutheran Ministries again this year for Oasis!  Wednesday, September 11th from 6-7:30pm. Come share a free meal, fellowship, and spend some time in God’s Word. It’s a little Oasis in the midst of the busy. Please scan the QR code to RSVP by September 8th.

 *The 4th grade kiddos have earned their first STAR party for excellent classroom behavior and effort!  I am so proud of them!  This will take place next Friday afternoon, September 13th.  We voted (yay, democracy!) and decided to have a Movie/Snack Party.  I will bring in some popcorn and soda, and you can also send snacks too.  This can be an individual or for the whole class.  Fun will be had by all!  ;) Please congratulate them on a job well done!

 *PICTURE DAY is Monday, September 16th!  Order before Picture Day to receive free shipping to the school. Order online at https://inter-state.com/FlyerEntry/87067VF.

 *Timothy Lutheran will be walking in the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest PARADE on Saturday, September 21st!  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.  Please plan to be there about 9:30 am.  What a way to show and share the love of Jesus with all of Blue Springs!  Come and show our Rams’ pride!

 *Timothy Lutheran School’s 8th annual WALK-A-THON is Friday, September 27th from 1:30-2:30.  We are hosting this fun fundraiser to raise funds for our school—to buy a ClearTouch panel for the7th grade classroom and to put towards a new soccer goal.  All students will be participating and can get pledges for completing their laps around the school’s parking lots.  (Pledge sheets are coming home today.)  If a student chooses not to get pledges, it is okay!  We all are going to walk and celebrate the ENDURANCE God has given us!  We do need parent volunteers if you are available.   We will need people to send in snacks, to keep track of laps, and to stand as route guards and cheerleaders! 

-Pledges can be online!   Please click here: https://timothylutheranschool.com/walkathon/

-Please use this link to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4DADAB2DA7F58-timothy

-Please use this link to send in snacks:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4DADAB2DA7F58-walkathon

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION-This week, we learned about the lives of Jacob and Joseph, and talked about how God has an amazing way of turning our lies and our sin into truth and love. 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!  We have such an amazing God!  We also began creating “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! 

LANGUAGE ARTS- This week, we read another portion of pour novel, Because of Winn Dixie!  We met Otis, the owner of the pet store, and Miss Gloria Dump, a neighbor lady, who just needed a friend.  We had wonderful discussions about being a good friend, and how to not “judge a book by its cover.”  These chapters 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!

 We also discussed cause and effect, and found examples of this in our story.  We 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.  Please continue to urge your child to read those book report books!  Thanks!

SPELLING Words for the Week of September 13th:

Story: “Because of Winn Dixie” (Chapters 16-26)

skill, crime, grind, tonight, brick, flight, live, chill, delight, build, ditch, decide, witness, wind, district, inch, sigh, fright, remind, split

Challenge Word:  melancholy

MATH- This week, we all worked with the vocabulary words digit, period, and place value.  We worked with putting numbers in standard, word, and expanded forms.  We also read numbers up through the millions, worked with ordering numbers, and using place value to round.   We compared numbers, using greater than, lesser than, and equal to.  We put numbers in order from greatest to least, and least to greatest, and we learned how to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000.  Please also 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

SCIENCE- We made connections this week!  We demonstrated how organisms, population, community, and ecosystem are connected and how living things interact with other living and non-living things in a pond ecosystem. 

SPECIAL CLASSES

ART-  We will studied primary, secondary, and tertiary colors this week and created color wheels with tempera paint.  Then, we painted in our horizon pictures with that Expressionistic style! 

MUSIC-We practiced some songs for the parade and for worship. 

WRITING-We worked on our Summer Vacation Stories, following all of the steps of Writers’ Workshop.

COMPUTER LAB-We finished up our friendly letters and then learned how to log into our accounts at typing.com.  The students will learn the “home keys” in keyboarding and will learn how to memorize where the keys are to become more proficient at keyboarding.  I hope to have them work in this at least once a week.  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 VERY blessed weekend!

Kim

Painting our Horizon Line pictures...