Hi, 4th Grade Parents! We have had a WONDERFULLY AWESOME second week of school! Parents, I am enjoying this class so very much. We laugh all the time, they are all so creative and hard-working, and they seem to love to learn, love Jesus, and love school. It is heart-warming for me every day. Thank you for sharing them with me! :)
NEWS:
*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.) So far, everybody is doing very well and working very hard!
*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. Thank you!
*Graded work is recorded on Sycamore. Please take time to see how your child is doing. You will also be able to see their missing assignments and remind them to get their work in! This week has been very transitional, as I have been learning how each child learns and works. The students are learning what lessons and work time looks like in 4th grade. Thank you for your patience and help with this.
*4th graders will be taking our MAP Growth Assessments during the week of 9/8.
What is a MAP Growth Assessment?
It is a measure of what your student knows and how they are growing academically. Timothy Lutheran School will be assessing students three times each school year for academic growth; early September, early January, and late April/early May.
*Get ready to rock your spirit gear for the 2025–26 school year! Our merchandise store is open now but will close on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at 11:59 PM CDT — so be sure to place your orders before then!
Discover all your favorite items here:
Whether you’re stocking up for yourself or grabbing family gear, don’t miss out—once the store closes, no late orders can be accepted!
Need assistance or have questions?
• Email: Clancyh@timothylutheran.com
• Email: Clancyh@timothylutheran.com
*PLEASE CONSIDER donating some time to work in our TIMMY BURGER BOOTH at the Fall Fun Fest over the weekend of September 18-21! It is a lot of fun, a perfect time to witness, and of course, a Timmy Burger will be in your future! ;) Families can sign-up together to work too. You can find the link at the bottom of this page:
Here is what we have been up to this week:
RELIGION-We’ve been talking about Abram and Sarai, and God’s many promises to Abraham, and to us. We had the mature discussion about Abraham choosing not to wait on God’s timing on his birth of a son, but to take matters into his own hands. Our God forgave Abraham, and while there were consequences, He was able to turn those choices into blessings! We related this to our lives today. We discussed Jacob and Esau, and Jacob’s family, and how we need to be careful in our relationships with our families and friends. We need to love, serve, and honor one another. We have been following our classroom Bible timeline and discussing how each of these families leads to Jesus, our Savior. Next week, we will focus on the family of Joseph and on God’s many blessings in our lives.
At the beginning of the week, the kids write a prayer on a piece of paper…something that is on their heart or mind. They can alter or change this prayer during the week, as they need. At the closing of each day, we pray these prayers! At the end of the week, I pass out these prayers to the students. They don’t receive their own, so they can pray for someone else all weekend…So, if you see these little slips of paper coming home, that is what they are! How blessed we are that we have the privilege to take our needs to God in prayer!
MEMORY for Next Week:
9/2-
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 & 2 Samuel
1 & 2 Kings
1 & 2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
9/5-
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
LANGUAGE ARTS- We read the first six chapters of the novel, Because of Winn Dixie. We LOVE this story, and have had some great discussions about character-building, and some fun stories of antics of our pets! We analyzed the characters, wrote summaries of the chapters, and studied the new vocabulary words. We took our first reading and spelling tests today and the students did very well! The students also received information about their first book reports. They have each picked out a Newbery Award winning book to read and understand their projects. This information should be in their homework folders. We also worked on using editing symbols this week, as we corrected sentences with grammatical and spelling errors, in something called a DOL (Daily Oral Language). Busy, busy!
SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 5th:
Story: Because of Winn Dixie (Chapters 7-15)
admire, magnet, contest, method, custom, rally, soccer, engine, sudden, finger, accident, mitten, intend, fabric, flatten, rascal, gutter, mammal, happen, cannon
Challenge Word: concoction
MATH- This week, we finished up our chapter about what “Math Is…" This was a short introduction to our math books and reviewed some things we will be learning this year. Next week, we will begin reviewing place value and the vocabulary words digit and period. We will also work with putting numbers in standard, word, and expanded forms. We will read numbers up through the millions, and work with ordering numbers, and using place value to round. We have also been working hard on memorizing our multiplication facts in class. We are up to our 2’s! They are really starting to realize the importance of learning these! By the end of the year, it is my hope and prayer that each student will have their multiplication tables memorized. (0-12)
SCIENCE-We worked in our new Science books this week! We discussed how God created our world and how His design plays a part in the structures and functions of living things. We observed plants and their structures and learned what the words worldview and botanist mean. We have been discussing ecosystems, communities, organisms, and populations within our habitats here in Missouri. We discussed what plants need in order to live and emphasized the space needed for both animals and plants to survive. We had a short object lesson concerning space, and how it would be hard to thrive without enough. Students wrote short stories called “A Day in the Life of a Crowded Plant.” We shared these in class.
SPECIAL CLASSES
ART- We reviewed our cursive letters, wrote our names in cursive, did a mirror image of them, and made them into Cursive Creatures! Please come check them out int he hallway outside of our classrooms. :)
MUSIC-We had our first classes with Mrs. Beckie Hatcher! We have music class with 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, and when I went to pick them up this week, they sounded SO beautiful!
SPANISH-We had our first Spanish classes with Mr. Simon Murray, and boy are we having fun! The kiddos come back to class speaking Spanish and on "fire" for learning more! This is EXCITING!
WRITERS' WORKSHOP- We read the story "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" and discussed sequencing and chronological order. We then talked about our own summer vacations and began writing down important events and are going to shape these into our own written work.
COMPUTER LAB-We learned how to log into the school laptops, and how to create a document on Google Docs. Each student wrote a friendly letter to me, (with all 5 parts), and I am in the process of wring all of them back! Only our class shares a Google Docs account under my name. Your child is welcome to use this at home. Please just send me a private email, and I will send you the information to log in at home. We have promised one another that we will be gracious and respectful of each other’s private folders within this account, as we publish and work on our written work here in our classroom this year. We also began Typing.com this week, where kiddos are learning to use the home keys on the keyboard, and the beginnings of memorizing where the keys are.
P.E.-We have P.E. with the 3rd graders! This week we learned the correct way to stretch, run our laps, and we reviewed body skills like skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, crab walk, grapevine, and bear walk. We had some fun in relay races!
This was such a FUN week! As always, thank you for your prayers and guidance as we travel through this school year together. Have a wonderful and safe, LONG Labor Day weekend!
God’s Blessings!
Kim
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