24 Chapel at 9:15, PM
25 Runner’s Club meets until 4PM,
Family Fun Night 6:30 PM
28 St. Mark’s has services at 8AM,
10:30 AM and 6 PM with Sunday School at 9:15AM
30 Runner’s Club meets until 4PM
1 Chapel at 9:15 AM, first day with
chapel buddies
2 Runner’s Club meets until 4PM
Prayer Families
Taylor R. (7), Andrew B. (2), Lucy M.
(PK), Lily M. (PK)
Saint Salute
v
A
big Saint Salute to Jake S. (6) and Maggie S. (4) for making their service
hours goal.
v
A
big Saint Salute to A big Saint Salute to those students climbing the AR Wall
of Fame:
o
Aaron
A. (5) 500
points
o
Ava
B. (4) 600 points
o
Taylor
R. (7) 700 points
o
Calvin
B. (6) 1100 points
o
Brendan
B. (7) 1800 points
o
Jake
S. (6) 2200 points
Notes
If you had to name one characteristic
of a child with the strongest connection to future success, what would it
be? IQ? Early reading? Technology?
No! The correct answer is a topic
I addressed last year and wish to continue this year – delaying gratification,
the ability to refuse a small treat now in order to get a bigger one
later. Several research studies have
been conducted on this topic. One
tested young children on their ability to wait for 15 minutes for a marshmallow. When he revisited those children 18 years
later, he discovered that the children able to wait for the reward when they
were young were more successful in school, had happier friendships, had higher
SAT scores, were more likely to be college-bound, and were less likely to be in
trouble in school. Those students able
to wait were goal-oriented, and they knew how to stay focused on that goal,
whether it was marshmallows or a college scholarship. When a child gets to school, they will have
to wait for attention, for recess, for the purple marker or for the best
swing. Delaying gratification is not
something simply learned at one age; it is a skill practices over a
lifetime. Don’t wait to start!
Important Dates to Know
25 Family Fun Night 6:30
PM
30 Tuition for September
is Due – No invoice is sent
Oct. 14-15 School Pictures
Family Fun Night
September 25 is our first Family Fun
Night of the year. Several display stations that show students different
aspects of life during the 19th century will be presented along
with hands-on learning activities for the students to see and
experience the daily life and work of their 1800s counter parts. Students
will be able to try a corn grinder, use a drop spindle, card wool, stitch
embroidery, play Jacob’s Ladder, carry wooden buckets and more. The fun
starts at 6:30. We hope to see you then.
Box Tops for Education
St. Mark’s will be participating in
the Box Tops for Education program. My
name is Gil Schepmann and I’m thrilled to be the Box Tops Coordinator for St.
Mark’s. Clipping Box Tops is an easy way
for you to help our school buy what it needs.
Box Tops are each worth $0.10 and they quickly add up to real cash for
our school. This year, our school’s
earnings goal is $1,000
To help our school, just look for pink
Box Tops on products, clip them, and send them to school. For more information on the Box Tops for
Education program, including a list of
participating products and our school’s progress, visit www.BTFE.com
Be sure to become a member to receive
exclusive coupons and recipes and learn about extra ways for our school to earn
$.
I hope you’re excited for everything
we can do this year with Box Tops! If
you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at gscepmann@cinci.rr.com. I’m here to make our school’s Box Top for
Education program a huge success this year.
Thanks for your help.
Parents’ Night Out
The 6-8 grade students of St. Mark’s
school invite you to have a night out on Saturday, Oct. 11, 5-9PM. Parents with children from infants to 6th
grade may drop them at St. Mark’s so they can spend some quality time
together. The students will watch them
under adult supervision with a variety of activities, games, pizza dinner ($3),
and other forms of fellowship. Children
will be divided into groups based on age.
A free will donation fwill be taken upon pickup. The proceeds will go toward their
end-of-the-year trip. When was the last
time you had a date with your spouse or time to shop without the kids?
Fund Raisers
Another fund raiser that St. Mark’s has
but isn’t used is a Kroger Plus Card. If
you have a Kroger Plus Card you can help St. Mark’s earn rewards. Go online and register your card with our
school. Our school number is 81119. This is the easiest way to earn rewards for
our school without you having to donate or buy anything extra. St. Mark’s receives a reward every time you
use your plus card. Please help us earn
money for daily supplies and fees.
NLSA Committee Members
Needed
Every five
years St. Mark’s Lutheran School undergoes a vigorous process to attain
accreditation with the National Lutheran School Accreditation Association. This process will make our school improve
significantly. It is well worth the time
and effort. We cannot undergo this process without the help of parents
and members of the congregation. We
would like you to serve on one committee.
Please contact the office or email me with a response by Friday, October
3. This commitment would mean 2-3
meeting of about 1-2 hours each. The
committee chairperson will be contacting you if you agree to serve.
Sweatshirt Sale
Once a year St. Mark’s sells
sweatshirt at cost. The shirts sell for
$16 each and can be ordered using a form found in the school hallway. These are long lasting, embroidered with our
school logo. An example is also in the
school hallway.
Happy Birthday
27 Gus H. (P3) 29 Kaitlyn
B. (K)
Classroom information
Mrs.
Schulte (Pre-2)
Our
theme this week was “waddle, waddle, waddle like a duck” on our last day
“around the pond”. At Circle Time we learned the poem, Five Little
Ducks and practiced our pond animal sounds and movements. During
Bible Time, we created the Day 3: Land and Trees page for our Creation
Books. In Art, we made Duck puppets that we used as we read the book,
“One Duck Stuck” by Phyllis Root. During Center Time we played in the
duck washing station and cleaned those ducks that got stuck in the muck!
At Outdoor Play, we played a short game of Duck, Duck, Goose.
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK)
This week Pre-K is learning all about the
letter A and apples. We will be taste testing different kinds of apples and
voting on our favorites. We will be reading all about how apples grow and
dissecting apples to find the different parts of an apple. We will be reading
the story of Creation and learning that God created all of our fruits and
vegetables.We are very excited to begin our lesson on the letter A!
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
Preschool will have fun with Letter A for Apples this week! We are
excited to taste-test apples, graph our results, and use apples as stamps. We
will fill our sensory table with apple pie scented mix and pie tins to create
our own apple pies. We will also enjoy play dough scented with apple pie spice
at Table Time. One of our story time books is Dr. Seuss’s Ten Apples Up On
Top, which will help us learn to count apples. At Bible Time we will hear
the account of Abraham and Sarah as they trusted God and moved to their new
home in Canaan. They were blessed by God, and so are we! We will be blessed by
a Mystery Reader visit in each class on Thursday/Friday.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
As the
Kindergarteners welcome fall, they begin several seasonal activities.
They will paint watercolor leaves, create a torn paper tree and write about fun
things to do in the fall. During math, the boys and girls will work with
shape puzzles and rotate through math stations. The Bible lesson this
week is "God blesses Abraham." The boys and girls will learn of
God's special plans for Abraham and that Jesus is a descendant of Abraham!
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
This week the
children learned how God provides for our needs. This led into a
discussion on needs, wants and thankfulness. First graders started a
new unit in language arts based on the story of the Little Red
Hen. Their reading skills are improving daily. The second
graders finished their Frog and Toad unit. The web-quest was fun and they
wrapped it up by making Frog and Toad snack using bagels. With the
second graders becoming experts on frogs, they helped the first graders learn
about the metamorphosis of a frog in science. The class had
excellent math assessments last week!
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
Living in peace and love isn't always
easy, but that's what our theme is this week as we learned more about Abram's
move and his struggles and look at our own lives and our struggles. In
reading, read stories from different genres and looked at the characteristics
of each. In grammar we worked on compound subjects and verbs in
sentences. In preparation for Family Night on Thursday, we learned about
pioneer times in Ohio in social studies. In science we learned about
compounds, mixtures, and solutions. Last week we made a solution of sugar
water and we're waiting "patiently" for sugar crystals to form.
This week we hope to make a mixture to drink....a fruit smoothie. In
math, the 3rd graders worked on word problems while the 4th graders finished
their chapter on working with large numbers.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we looked at what angels do, who the devil is, and we worked on
our favorite Bible verse book. In 5th grade math we worked with
estimation, multiplying whole numbers and decimals, and chance events. In 6th
grade math we took our second test! We also worked with estimation, fractions
and mixed numbers, and line graphs. In
our Language Arts time we spent the week working on our reading comprehension
and began reading our next story, “The Horse Snake.” In Social Studies we took
a test over Africa’s physical geography. We also began looking at Africa’s
history and constructed our own globes. In Science we worked on our observation
skills and learned how to use a microscope.
In Spelling we studied words with the comparing suffixes –ness, -ful,
-less.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
In History,
after we are tested on our knowledge of the Civil War, we will begin to learn
about how the country will be mended after losing 620,000 men. After the tragic death of President Lincoln,
we’ll see how his vice-president, Andrew Johnson follows through on his wishes,
or will he have an entirely different idea for how to reconcile the two halves
of the country?
In
Literature, we’re taking a look at one story from a printed news source, from
an editorial, and from what a television news team reported. We’ll compare and contrast bias in the media,
which seems like a good thing to understand in our world.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study what God’s Word
says about music. In 7th
grade math the students are learning about exponents, roots, prime
factorization. The 8th grade
is studying triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem, and order of operations. In science we will be continuing our study of
photosynthesis. The students are
building and testing a catapult this week.
