Hi, parents! It has been another FUN week in 4th grade! We have been very busy and working hard!
NEWS:
*Mrs. Rachel Carper will be visiting our classroom four days a week, for the next several months! She is observing how to teach 4th graders and will eventually be teaching some lessons! We are so thankful that she is here and helping us! Welcome, Mrs. Carper!
*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. 🙂 We decided to have a Movie/Snack Party. (We will watch the movie Because of Winn Dixie!) I will bring in some popcorn and soda, and you can also send snacks too, if you wish. This can be an individual or for the whole class. Fun will be had by all! ;) Please congratulate them on a job well done!
*Homework Folders will come home this afternoon filled with some graded work. The rest will come back on Tuesday. I am behind on grading, and I apologize!
*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! 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.
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, 301 East Wyatt Road, Blue Springs, MO
Theme: "God Calls Us" (based on 1 Samuel 3:1–14)
Activities: Dinner, interactive activities, fellowship, and a Bible study/time in God's Word
Cost/Attendance: All ages are welcome to attend.
Please visit this website to RSVP: https://timothylutheran.shelbynextchms.com/external/form/02d7138b-c5a6-4471-824e-b0e26f82e655
*PICTURE DAY is Monday, September 17th! Ordering information will come home soon.
*PLEASE CONSIDER donating some time to work in our TIMMY BURGER BOOTH at the Fall Fun Fest over the weekend of September 18-20! 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:
https://timothylutheran.com/timothylutheransteakburgers/
*4th graders will be taking our MAP Growth Assessments during the week of 9/22.
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.
*Timothy Lutheran will be walking in the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest PARADE on Saturday, September 19th! 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. 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 10th annual WALK-A-THON is Friday, September 25th from 1:30-2:30. We are hosting this fundraiser to raise funds for our school to purchase a much needed canopy shade tent for our big-kid playground! All students will be participating and can get pledges for completing their laps around the school’s parking lots. If a student chooses not to get pledges, it is okay! We 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! Forms will come home next week!
-Pledges can be made online! Please click here:
-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 for supporting our school!
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 our 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 how to show empathy.
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 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 11th:
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 tested over Unit 2 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 learned what a horizon line was and studied some Expressionistic artists. We then drew landscape drawings with a horizon line. We studied primary, secondary, and tertiary colors and created color wheels with tempera paint. We will finish painting our horizon pictures next week with that Expressionistic style!
COMPUTER LAB-We finished up our friendly letters and began publishing our summer vacation stories.
P.E.- We worked on simple volleyball skills this week—passing with a partner and passing to a target.
WRITERS’ WORKSHOP-We finished up our Summer Vacation Stories and will share them during Readers' Theatre next week. We began writing BioPoems.
MUSIC and SPANISH-These will begin next week!
Personal News: My dad is home from the ICU, but he is now on hospice, after his battle with cancer. Thank you for your continued prayers and support. I am so thankful to have you and your children praying for my family. As my family and I try to navigate this and process this, I am thankful for your grace. Again, as I learn how to take care of my beloved aging parents, my plan is to be here as much as I can, but please know that I may have to miss some school. Serving you and your families, and teaching and taking care of your kiddos is my passion and love! Please also let me know how I can pray for you and yours. Much love!
Have a blessed, long weekend!
Kim
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