12 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Market Day
13 Science Club until 4:15PM, Stacking
Club until 4:15
14 Principal’s meeting in Dayton
16 St. Mark’s has services at 8AM,
10:30 AM and 6 PM with Sunday School at 9:15AM,
Grades 1-8 sing at 10:30 AM service
18 Picture retakes 10:30-noon, Science
Olympiad until 4:15PM, Stacking Club until 4:15
19 Chapel at 9:15 PM
20 Science Club until 4:15PM, Stacking
Club until 4:15, No PK – Parent conf.
21 Silly String the principal at 12:15,
No Pre-4-Parent conf.
Prayer Families
Tristin T. (P4), Boothe S. (PK), Haley
K. (6)
Saint Salute
v
A
big Saint Salute and thanks to Mrs. Laird for washing so many of the preschool toys
and materials.
v
A
big Saint Salute and thanks to Mrs. Boedecker for the beautiful turkey in the
hallway.
v
A
big Saint Salute to those students climbing the AR Wall of Fame
o
Tyler
F. (6) 1200 points
Notes
I
have decided to give you a few notes from John Rosemond. I am not saying I agree with everything he
says – some of it is insightful, though.
“The
new ideal in American fatherhood is that of being the child's best buddy.
Yesterday's dad was an authority figure, a mentor. He taught his child magic
tricks, how to ride a bike, use a hammer, train a dog, and the like. He and his
child had fun together, but he was not his child's friend. He knew that
parenting came before friendship, and that one could not be a good friend when
the time came - after the child's emancipation - if parenting issues were still
begging for resolution. Yesterday's
parents were married to one another. They knew, intuitively, that their
relationship had to be stronger than either of their relationships with their
children. In today's all-too-typical family, the parent-child relationship is
stronger than the husband-wife relationship, which is a clue to why so many
marriages dissolve after the emancipation of the last child. Yesterday's parents were attuned to the voice
of common sense, which is why they did not complain that raising children was
the hardest thing they'd ever done. For today's parents, the voice of common
sense has been drowned out by a deluge of psychobabble, which is why so many
parents tell me that raising even one child leaves them emotionally and
physically exhausted at the end of many a day.
Yesterday's parents took child rearing, but not their children,
seriously. Today's parents - the ones who are likely to read this column, at
least - take both child rearing and their children seriously. The former is
essential; the latter is a form of self-oppression that drains all humor from
the enterprise and turns it into drudgery.
Why are today's parents having so many more behavior and school
performance problems with their children than did parents just two generations
ago?
Important Dates to Know
12 Market Day
16 Grades 1-8 song in
church at the 10:30 AM service
17 Operation Christmas
Child boxes due
18 Picture Retakes
10:30-noon
26-28 Thanksgiving
Vacation
Walk for Resources
The results
of the Walk-a-thon are in.
Total Donations $8,778
Preschool 614
Kindergarten 1,261
Grades 1-2 1,768
Grades 3-4 2,678
Grades 5-6 1,854
Grades 7-8 582
Classes with 100% Participation: 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 8th
Top Seller Jake Schepmann (6th)
Total Donations $8,778
Preschool 614
Kindergarten 1,261
Grades 1-2 1,768
Grades 3-4 2,678
Grades 5-6 1,854
Grades 7-8 582
Classes with 100% Participation: 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 8th
Top Seller Jake Schepmann (6th)
None of the money collected is needed
to pay any expenses including prizes.
Thrivent provided all the money to cover all the expenses.
Family Fun Night
Join
St. Mark’s School and the Family Ministries Team on Thursday, November 20 at
6:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall for a wonderful evening filled with activities
for all families to prepare for the beautiful Advent Season. Make a special
Advent Candle Display, enjoy delicious snacks, and fellowship with other
families as we share the message with our children about God’s Greatest Gift of
All!
Student Council
Cookie Fun Night
St.
Mark’s Student Council is sponsoring a cookie exchange on Friday, December 5 in
the Fellowship Hall 7-8:30 PM. Each
family is encouraged to bring two dozen (24) cookies. There will also be games, snacks, and
activities.
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.
Picture Retakes
Those wishing retakes for their school
pictures must be here between 10:30 AM and noon on Tuesday, November 18. Students in K-8 may dress up that day for
retakes.
Happy Birthday
13 Grace Anne K. (P4)
15 Roman M. (P3), Peyton K. (K)
17 Caleb B. (PK)
19 Annsley V. (P4)
Classroom information
Mrs.
Schulte (Pre-2)
Our theme this November is “Bountiful
Blessings”, and this week we focused on “Friendship”. We continued share
pictures of our families and displayed them in our classroom. At
Story Time, we shared the book “A Splendid Friend, Indeed” by Suzanne Bloom,
and talked about friendships and how to be a friend. In Art, we continued
our Alphabet Books by filling the letter B with blue marker and bubble
paper. At Bible Time, we shared the story of "Noah and the Flood"
and sang, O Be Careful.
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
Preschool will learn about
letter B for boats this week. We will create Mayflower pictures, practice sink
or float tests, and list different types of boats. 3’s will enjoy exploring
buoyancy in the water table. 4’s will create aluminum foil boats and test their
strength by counting the number of pennies that the boat can sustain. At Bible
Time 3’s will learn about Gideon and how he put his trust in God. Even though
they used no weapons, Gideon and his army were able to defeat the Midianites.
4’s will hear the account of Israel in the desert and how the Israelite people
had to learn to rely on God to meet all their needs.
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK)
This week Pre-K is exploring the letter B
with boats and buses. We will be learning how to write a Bb and what sound it
makes. We will talk about things that float and things that sink as we make
boats out of apples. In Bible we will be discussing the fruits of the spirit
patience and goodness as well as beginning practice for our Christmas
program. We are also studying sight words and this week we are learning about
"have". How to spell "have how to write "have" and how
to build and read with the word "have".
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
During Bible
time, the class will hear about the Israelites crossing the Jordan River to
enter the Promised Land. God miraculously stopped the flow of the water
so that the people could safely cross. Kindergarten excitedly looks
forward to Thanksgiving. Many of their activities and projects focus on
the holiday including counting by 10's as they add feathers to a turkey
and practicing
capitalization,
punctuation and spacing as they write about their disguised turkeys. The
boys and girls will also make a nonfiction book about the first
Thanksgiving.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
This week the
children are learning about David and his friendship with
Jonathan. In language arts the second graders are working with
suffixes, long vowel sounds, and question writing. Our book crosses
the curriculum into learning about immigration and landforms. Friday
they made presentations on famous Americans. The first graders are
finishing up their unit on bears. They enjoyed a video on Polar
bears. In math, first graders learned to do frames and arrow
puzzles.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In religion we read the accounts of
the plagues before the Exodus, especially the Passover. In grammar we
began verbs and verb phrases. We're halfway through There's a Boy in
the Girls' Bathroom and are noticing that the main characters personalities
are changing. In social studies we learned about Ohio's earliest
peoples. In science we continued with force and motion by doing some
experiments. In math the 3rd graders began a multiplication
chapter. The 4th graders worked with metric measures and ended the week
with a chapter test. In Spanish, we began learning food words.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we learned why God blesses us and how we can offer those blessings
back to God. In 5th grade math we continued to work with division
algorithms. We also enjoyed our 4th test. In 6th grade
math we worked with fractions, decimals, mixed numbers, square roots, and using
0 as a place holder. In our Language Arts time we continued to read and work
with the book: The Great Gilly Hopkins.
We built our vocabulary and worked on understanding characters through
character perspectives. In Social
Studies we began our study of West Africa. In Science we completed our study of
Protists and Fungi. In Spelling we
continued to look at words adding the suffix -ation.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
We have
finished our study of life on the plains, and the Westward Expansion of our
country. Now, we’re moving on to the
Industrial Age, when now-familiar names like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Ford, and Morgan come to the fore. I enjoy most periods of U.S. history and this
is another of my favorites.
We’re
learning to look for clues to characters’ personalities through reading our
latest novel. Golding gives tantalizing
clues as to one of the characters as a Christ figure. We’re learning to spot them, as well as signs
of civilization’s decline and the rules of society.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study what God’s Word
says about angels and demons. In 7th
grade math the students are dividing decimals, solving rate word problems, and
calculating with powers of ten. The 8th
grade is solving rate and scientific notation problems and graphing functions. In science we are studying the mutations. The students are planning and making a structure
in STEM that stands tall and holds a lot of weight.
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