1 Chapel at 9:15 AM, first day with
chapel buddies
2 Runner’s Club meets until 4PM
5 St. Mark’s has services at 8AM,
10:30 AM and 6 PM with Sunday School at 9:15AM
7 Runner’s Club until 4PM
8 Chapel at 9:15, PM
9 Runner’s Club meets until 4PM, staff
mt. 3:30 PM
10 Principal gone all day to meetings,
K-2 field trip 8:30AM-11:30 AM
Prayer Families
Avery B. (P3), Evan N. (7), William N.
(3), Kylie C. (4), Chaz C. (K)
Saint Salute
v
A
big Saint Salute to Calvin B. (6) and Heidi B. (2) for making their service
hours goal.
Notes
Of course, everyone wants to attend
the best school in the world so that their child receives the very best
education possible. Only one school can
be the best. What would be your rubrics
for determining the very best school?
The Department of Education in Washington D.C. has come up with their
criteria. If a school qualifies in all
the academic, attendance, and staff standards, they can become a Blue Ribbon
School. St. Mark’s again qualified in
all areas to receive this award but one – we are 18 students short of their
minimum enrollment. To know that our
teachers and students are at that level for the 4th year in a row is
good enough for me. How about you?
Important Dates to Know
11 Parent’s Night Out 5-9
PM
14-15 School Pictures
17 Early dismissal –
grades K-8 dismiss at noon
20-21 No school for all
classes, Teacher’s Conference
Picture Day
St. Mark’s will have their school
pictures taken on Oct. 14 and 15. No
forms or money is due at that time.
Shannon Hickcox is back to taking our pictures. She will have several proofs available to you
and then you can choose if you want one or more and what package your family
desires. Of course, if none of the
proofs are to your liking, we will offer a retake day. Shannon takes awesome pictures. The information is coming home today.
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. Due date is Oct. 8-next
Wed.
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 gschepmann@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.
Happy Birthday
3 Andrew B. (P2)
10 Lily K. (PK)
Classroom information
Mrs.
Schulte (Pre-2)
October brings our second month of school and
we will be spending the month ‘on the farm’. This week we made tractor
wheels track prints with paint in Art. We filled different sized silos
with corn in Sensory Play. During Circle Time, we sang “The Animals on
the Farm go…”. We read “Down by the Barn” by Will
Hillenbrand during Story Time, and during Outdoor Time we searched and gathered
‘chicken eggs’. During Bible Time we worked on Day Four of our Creation
Books: Sun, Moon, and Stars.
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
Preschool
is enjoying L for Leaves this week! 3’s will read Leaf Man and create
leaf man puppets to retell the story. 4’s will create fall trees using Q-Tips
dipped in fall colors. Both classes will bring in a fall leaf for leaf
rubbings, leaf prints, and sorting by color/shape/size. On Thursday and Friday
students can wear orange or black to support learning our colors of the month.
This week our sensory table will feature a fall scene of acorns, seeds, leaves,
pine cones, and other nature items. In Bible Time 3’s will learn about God’s
faithfulness in blessing Abraham and Sarah with their son Isaac. 4’s will learn
about the prideful people of Babel and the consequences of sin.
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK)
Pre- K is reviewing the letters we learned in
the month of September. We will be reviewing the letters F,H and A and the
sounds that they make. We will also be discussing fall and things that start to
change during this season. In Bible we will read the story of Noah and learn
about the things that God asked Noah to do and the promise God made to Noah.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
Kindergarten
continues their study of favorite fairy tales as they hear several versions of The
Gingerbread Man. The class will make and bake their gingerbread man
on Wednesday. Will he run away again this year? During math, the
class will combine shapes to make a scarecrow, explore ten frames and
participate in math stations. At reading workshop time, the boys and girls
will make fall sight word trees, identify characters and settings, and play an
alphabet game. The Bible lesson, this week, is about the birth of
Isaac/ God kept His promise to Abraham and Sarah. He always keeps
His promises.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
Our taste
buds were given a work out this week. The second graders made
toad faces with bagels, cream cheese, and Ritz Bits in
celebration of the completion of their first language arts unit.
The class tasted bread, voted for their favorites kind, and graphed the
results. First graders also made bread and wrote about the process using
transitional words. In math, the children worked on addition
facts. Our lessons in Jesus Time were about the children of Israel, the
bronze snake, and the crossing of the Jordan. First graders worked with
contractions for the first time and made Mr. Sneaky E puppets.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In religion we will talked about
prayer this week as we continued the accounts of Abram and Lot. We were
excited to meet our chapel buddies and got to read them a story. In
social studies we worked with map skills. In science we continued
learning about matter and did several experiments. We didn't get to make
smoothies last week, so we made them this week. In reading, we continued
to explore more genres. In grammar we have covered prepositional phrases,
subjects, verbs, and compound subjects. This week we worked on compound verbs,
too. In math, the 3rd graders worked on different adding and subtracting
strategies. The 4th graders began the week with a test and then moved on
to a multiplication chapter. In Spanish we've reviewed colors and numbers
to over 100 and this week we began learning school words.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we looked at who the devil is, are heaven and hell real places,
and we worked on our favorite Bible verse book. In 5th grade math we
worked with lattice multiplication, compared millions, billions, and trillions.
We also enjoyed our second test! In 6th grade math we worked with
factors and prime numbers before our third test. In our Language Arts time we spent the week
building our vocabulary and continued reading our next story, “The Horse
Snake.” Thursday was the day of our selection test over “The Horse Snake.” In
Social Studies we continued building globes and studying Africa’s history. In
Science we worked on cell models and began to study viruses. In Spelling we looked at words where the
spelling doesn’t change when adding the suffix -ion.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
We have begun
our discussions of Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. We are starting to understand how much
animosity there still was between the North and South after the war. After Lincoln’s death, this job fell to a
less-able president. Andrew Johnson’s
attitudes weren’t always as forgiving as Mr. Lincoln’s. Mr. Johnson and Congress didn’t seem to be
able to agree, either. Imagine that!
In
Literature, we’re learning about myths and their meanings. We’ll study Icarus and Arachne in myth and
poetry. We hope we don’t fly too close
to the sun in this study!
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study what God’s Word
says about advertisements. In 7th
grade math the students are subtracting mixed numbers, reducing fractions, and
dividing fractions. The 8th
grade is multiplying and dividing mixed numbers and decimals. In science we will be continuing our study of
cell division by mitosis and meiosis.
The students are planning and making a special snack in STEM.
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