29 Chapel at 9:15 AM
1 Turn your clock back 1 hour
2 St. Mark’s has services at 8AM,
10:30 AM and 6 PM with Sunday School at 9:15AM
4 Science Olympiad until 4:15PM,
Stacking Club until 4:15
5 Chapel at 9:15 PM, Preschool chapel
at 1PM, Staff mt. at 3:30
6 Science Club until 4:15PM, Stacking
Club until 4:15
Prayer Families
Natalie H. (5), Emma L. (P3), Tyler F.
(6), Dylan F. (4), Kyle F. (1)
Saint Salute
v
A
big Saint Salute to those students climbing the AR Wall of Fame
o
Joel
B. (8) 1100 points
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Jake
S. (6) 2300 points
Notes
As the end of October approaches many
young minds think Halloween. As Christians
we must look at the holiday to determine how it complements our religious
beliefs and teachings. The name
“Halloween” is innocent enough. Its
literal meaning is “the day before All Saints’ Day.” But it appears that Halloween has two
faces. For some, Halloween is a fall
festival - celebrating the harvest of
God’s plentiful earth through costumes, bobbing for apples or carving
pumpkins. But, Halloween can also have a
dark side. One can find little to
commend its emphasis on death, violence, the occult, gore and harmful pranks
done under the cover of darkness. The
devil and his evil spirits are real.
They are powerful beings and spiritual enemies. It would be dangerous to underestimate
Satan’s power and influences and the celebration of witchcraft and
superstitions certainly have no place in the life of a Christian. Christian families may differ in their
observance of Halloween and the celebration of fall fun is quite appropriate. All Christians must consider the reason of
how and why we celebrate any holiday.
Important Dates to Know
30 Parent-Teacher Conferences
November 7 Walk-a-Thon
Walk for Resources
The students have been challenged to
request donations for our Walk-a-thon.
All the information was sent home last Wednesday attached to a collection
envelope. Please read all the
information concerning the only big fund raiser of the year for St.
Mark’s. This is in place of the usual
selling something fund-raiser.
Pictures
Students and/or parents must go to www.expressionsbyshannon.com/stmarks2014 and pick the
pictures that they like. Please pick the
picture that you would like for the yearbook.
You can also order, but that is not required.
Fund Raisers
Box Tops for Education Challenge – Starting November 3, 2014, we are
challenging each classroom to bring in the most Box Tops per student for a
special treat. The classroom that has
the highest percent per student will have a “Build Your Own Sundae” sometime in
January. Each classroom should have a
place to collect the Box Tops and we will collect them from the classrooms each
week. A running tally of how many have
been turned in for redemption will be kept and posted. The Challenge will end January 19,
2015. Have fun collecting Box Tops!
Science Club
Starting Thursday, November 6,
students in grades 1-4 may stay after school until 4:15 for unique science
activities – one each week. Mr.
Reisenbichler is the leader of this group.
Parents are welcome to attend and help.
Science Olympiad
Starting Tuesday, November 4, students
in grades 5-8 may stay after school until 4:15 for the start of our competitive
Science Olympiad. Students can pick from
23 different events. Any student or
parent that has a question about this team may come to our first introductory
meeting on Nov. 4. Students must be able
to compete on Sat., March 7.
Stacking Club
Starts Nov. 4
Students are
able to join Stacking Club starting Nov. 4.
Stacking Club is a hand-eye coordination activity in which the student
must stack 12 cups into a certain design and then unstack them. Mr. Postenrieder is the leader. Grades 1-4 meet on Tuesdays until 4:15 while
grades 5-8 meet on Thursdays in his room
Increment
Weather Notice
St. Mark’s
may have days this year that require us to have a delay or be closed. The best means to find out the situation is
to watch your email. Another way is to
view channel 9, WCPO. Another way is to
go to www.wcpo.com. If Milford is closed, so is St. Mark’s.
Operation
Christmas Child
It’s Operation Christmas Child
time! The Women’s Guild invites all to
participate in this mission. Operation
Christmas Child is a program that allows us to provide Christmas presents to
children in other countries who are affected by war, poverty, disease or
disaster.
Here’s how it works: Grab a shoebox from under the Women’s Guild
table near the fellowship hall. Choose
either a box for a boy or girl. Follow
the directions in the attached flier which will tell you how to fill the
box. Write a check for $7 to
‘Samaritan’s Purse’ to help cover the cost of shipping these gifts
overseas. Place your check inside your
filled box, put the rubber band back around the box, and make sure your
boy/girl label is on the box with appropriate age range marked. Return the filled box to the Women’s Guild
table by November 16. Thank you! Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share
the Good News of Jesus Christ with a hurting child.
Happy Birthday
31 Michayla E. (6)
1 Hadassah . L. (P3)
2 Ian S. (2)
3 Ava D. (P3)
5 Madison C. (K)
Classroom information
Mrs.
Schulte (Pre-2)
This was our final week ‘on the Farm’. We
reviewed all that we have learned together this month about farm life and
animals. We shared the story The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin
Lewis. We finished our Creation Books…AND IT WAS GOOD!
At the end of our day we celebrated together by having our Fall Party complete
with great snacks, crafts, and activities to help celebrate God’s blessing of
autumn!
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
It’s Pumpkin
week in Preschool! We are excited to lift the top off a pumpkin and discover
what’s inside! Both classes will be cooking and enjoying class parties this
week. We will make pumpkin muffins or pumpkin pudding to share with our
friends. 3’s will create pumpkin bracelets with cereal, and 4’s will create
pumpkin life cycles. In Bible Time 3’s will act out the account of crossing the
Red Sea. 4’s will learn about Moses’ birth and how God uses him to His glory.
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK)
Pre-K loved their trip to Shaw Farms last
week! We were able to get a lot of cute pictures that will soon be displayed in
our classroom and in the hallway. This week in Pre-K we will be learning the letter N and words that begin with the letter in N like nuts. Nuts is our theme of the week. We will talk about different kinds of nuts and what animals eat nuts. In Bible we will be reading the story of Jacob and Esau and how ugly jealousy can be. In math we have been practicing our counting skills by counting to 30 daily and we are also learning a few addition problems.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
It is an exciting, spidery week in Kindergarten!
Sally the Spider will pay a visit to teach the class about word families that
are caught in her web. The boys and girls will make a factual book
about spiders, spin spider webs, create a spider graph and eat a
"spider". In math, the class will learn about symmetry and
count on to 8 as they add missing spider legs. On Friday, Kindergarten
will celebrate the 50th day of school. They will count to 50, do 50
exercises and measure 50 objects. During Bible time, they will hear the
account of Moses and learn of the special job God had for Moses. The full
day students continue their study of nocturnal animals. They will count
the rainbow bats around the room, sort nocturnal and diurnal animals, and
complete their book of nocturnal animals.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
This week the
children learned about Ruth in Jesus Time. Ruth taught us about
commitment, trust, and selflessness. In math, the first graders worked
with patterns and odd and even numbers while the second graders worked on place
value, coins, and telling time. Second graders published their original
humorous story, researched and wrote about animals with antlers. They
continue to work with nouns and verb tense. First graders learned to take
notes with a concept map and used the concept map to write. We also
had some fun with our spelling words. Beakers, scales, microscopes, and
magnifying glasses were tools used in science this week.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
The week we watched videos on the life
of Joseph and talked about how God has plans for our lives, too. We'll
also talked about the Reformation. We continued to read There's a Boy
in the Girls' Bathroom in reading and began whole subjects and predicates
in grammar. In social studies we learned about the Constitution and Ohio
government. In science we learned about simple machines, force, and
motions. In math, the 3rd graders worked with perimeter and area.
The 4th graders began a chapter on decimals.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we practiced for our chapel skit which we will presented last
Wednesday. We also learned how to use God’s gifts to us. In 5th
grade math we continued to practice using our geometry template. We also
enjoyed our 3rd test. In 6th grade math we enjoyed our 5th
test! We also worked our protractor, area of rectangles, and elapsed time
problems. In our Language Arts time we completed our paper on recess. In Social Studies we began to prepare power
points on countries of North Africa. These power points are done individually.
In Science we changed our worm bin schedule to help the kids see the changes
better. We also began our study of Protists and Fungi. In Spelling we looked at words with
predictable changes when adding the suffix -ion.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
I’m very
excited about Literature for our 7&8th graders. They get to read the book, The
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
It is one of my favorite books and I love taking young people through
it. I enjoy watching their faces as I
tell them that Golding included a Christ figure in this fine example of
literature. We’ll watch as the different
characters reveal themselves through their actions. Too many young people don’t get a chance to
read this fine novel until high school.
The theological implications are tremendous!
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study what God’s Word
says about In 7th grade math the students are calculating
areas, interpreting graphs, and proportions.
The 8th grade is working with areas, properties of equality,
and circumference. In science we are making
Punnett squares to determine the traits passed on by parents. The students are planning and making a structure
in STEM that stands tall and holds a lot of weight.
