God's Most Amazing Creatures...: JESUS is the Reason for the Season!

A gift from a special kiddo... :)

3rd grade hosted Chapel this week, and they did a great job!

Hi, Parents! It was a busy and fun week! Today, we saw the play “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” at the City Stage in Union Station. It was WONDERFUL! What a great paly about the true meaning of CHRISTmas! Thank you to all of our adult volunteers. It was a fun morning!

Next Friday is the end of the quarter, and students have been working hard to get work finished. Report cards will come home after Christmas Break.

There are A LOT of fun things coming up! Please see below:

WEDNESDAY-The school is hosting the Advent Service entitled, “Sacred Songs of Christmas Service.” at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, December 18th. Students need to be in their classrooms at 5:30. 4th graders are angels, and they have been fitted for outfits here at school. I am taking them home to iron them this weekend! The white material is thin, so if your child has a white shirt or dress, this would be most helpful. Even, a white shirt and black pants or skirt would be appropriate. They will put this robe over their clothes in the classroom before the service. Your student has also been given a short speaking part, which they brought home to practice. I have attached these parts too. They don’t need to be memorized, as we will have the paper up on the stage for them, but some shared that they wanted to memorize it. :) We are excited to prepare and celebrate Jesus’ birth with you!

THURSDAY-4th Grade POLAR EXPRESS PARTY-DECEMBER 19th! Kiddos can wear their pajamas to school, (please wear or send tennis shoes too!) and we will watch the movie in the afternoon with some hot cocoa and candy canes! Blankets and pillows are welcome for this fun day.

FRIDAY-ALL-SCHOOL BOWLING AND CAROLING TRIP! The whole school will head to Lunar Bowl in the morning. (10:00-noon) Kiddos need to wear tennis shoes this day! We will return to school for lunch. After lunch, (1:30) we will be going caroling at local nursing homes, and 4th grade is heading to Benton House (1701 NW Jefferson Street.) I have permission slips from all but 5 of the kiddos. (They are due on Monday, please.) If you are able to help out with transportation that day, it would be much appreciated. We need all hands on deck!

SUNDAY, December 22^nd—4^th Graders have been asked to help out at our 9 am church service. Please let me know if your child will be able to attend, so I can make sure we have enough to help. Thank you! Students just need to arrive by 8:45, greet people at the door, hand out bulletins, and help with the offering. Then, stay throughout the service to worship, and then greet people for the 10:30 service. After this, we are welcome to go! If you are able to make it to any or all of this day, please let me know. This is a wonderful way for our 4^th graders to serve! THANK YOU!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

RELIGION- This week, we covered the 7^th commandment and what it means to steal. We reviewed the story of Zaccheaus and learned the story of Achan, who disobeyed God and stole from Jericho. We also discussed the discipleship of Matthew and how God called him to be one of his own followers and to spread the God News or our Savior. We are called to do the same!

Upcoming MEMORY-

12/17- 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.

12/20- 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 wonderful biography of Jose Limon, an immigrant dancer, who overcame and persevered, an eventually owned one of the greatest dance companies in the U.S. In this selection, we learned some Spanish terms, and learned about the Mexican civil war. We reviewed skills such compare/contrast, cause and effect, and how to use context clues to figure our answers.

We will not have SPELLING WORDS next week.

MATH- This week, we have been working with longer division and how to use the dividend and divisor to make sense of word problems. Next week, we will gain an understanding of what remainders are and how to interpret them. We will tackle long division before Christmas Break! I am proud of how hard all of these kiddos are working! We are on our 9’s in mad minutes.

SCIENCE-We are working in groups to review the parts of animal and plant cells. These groups are creating posters to share this knowledge with the class. These will be completed next week. We also did an experiment with celery to learn how plants take in nutrients. Our noggins are growing! ;)