17 Chapel at 9:15 AM
18 Science Club until 4:15PM, Last Stacking
Club until 4:15, K-8 Christmas service 7PM
19 Last day of semester, Free Dress
Down Day, Can the Principal, Water balloon at noon
Prayer Families
Ethan S. (7), Hunter C. (K), Bethany
A. (P4)
Saint Salute
·
A
big Saint Salute to those students moving up on the AR Wall of Fame
o
Alaina
Scholl (4) 1,100 points
o
Jake
Schepmann (6) 2,400 points
Notes
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to be “the
odd man out”? The only single at a party full of couples; a lone student at the
table in the lunch room; the only man without a suit; or the only woman without
a dress; are just a few examples. Yet sometimes being unique isn’t so disheartening.
Having a winning ticket; getting a promotion at work; sinking the winning
basket in the championship game; or being the only grandparent who remembered
to bring pictures of the grandchildren are examples of times it can be a joy to
be odd. You may have wondered what shepherds and wise men have to do with
Advent. They are also all “Blessedly Odd!” It is hard to know exactly how many shepherds
lived in and around Bethlehem. There would have been shepherds a plenty. It may
be like asking, “How many fast food servers are in Miami Township?” It was a
lowly profession with many
practitioners.
Out of the vast number of potential people to
hear the message of the angels only a few odd shepherds abiding in the field
saw the awe of the angels and hastened to find Mary, and Joseph, and the babe.
How blessedly odd they were! Every nation is
proud of its scholars, academics, advisers and wise men. Certainly Judea must
have had more than a few learned individuals who were worthy of seeing the star
announcing the birth of the king. Yet miles and miles to the east across
deserts and dunes, mountains and valleys a few odd wise men packed up gold,
frankincense and myrrh to kneel in joy before the new born King, the infant
Savior. How blessedly odd they were! While
shoppers seek sales and grandma avoids reindeer; while atheists moan about
nativities and cashiers mouth, “Happy Holidays;” while Scrooges declare
“humbug” and commentators complain about countless commercials; there will be a
few who are blessedly odd! These
odd few will join a long train of faithful who will step out of the crowd. They will light Advent wreaths and have family
devotions. They will read scriptures and teach children. They will bundle up on
Wednesday nights and join other blessedly odd faithful believers in worship at
midweek Advent services. They will delight in Emmanuel, who comes to ransom
captive Israel. They will worship the Rod of Jesse and the Dayspring, from on
high. To these few blessedly odd, The
Key of David will open wide their heavenly home. The Wisdom from on high will
grant them the wisdom of the Wise Men and with shepherds they will rejoice to
see the promise of Emmanuel fulfilled.
Important Dates to Know
18 K-8 Christmas Service
(7PM), January lunch orders due
20-Jan 4 No School –
Christmas vacation
Christmas Program
The K-8 musical is on Thursday,
December 18 at 7PM. Both programs are
not services and therefore photography is allowable. However, please do not make it a distraction.
Market Day Coordinator
Needed
St. Mark’s is in need of a Market Day
coordinator. This job would take about
1-2 hours per week. It involves entering
paper orders and calling customers that have not yet ordered for the
month. Please contact the office if
interested.
Lunch Server Needed on Mondays
St. Mark’s needs a lunch server on
Mondays since one of our present ones has a job schedule change. This would be a 11:30-12:30 commitment. Please contact the office if interested.
AR
The AR site will be available during
the Christmas vacation 8AM – 8PM. The
site can be found on our web page under parent resources.
Dance Club starts January
6 for grades 1-4 and Jan. 8 for grades 5-8
Can the Principal and Box
the Pastor
On Friday of this week the students
have the opportunity to can the principal and box Pastor Fenker. This is done by having enough food in cans
and enough boxes of food. All donations
will be distributed to MMM (Milford Miami Ministry) for Christmas meals for
those in need. Please bring items by
Friday morning.
Spelling Bee
The St. Mark’s Spelling Bee will be on
Monday, January 12, starting at 10:30.
Students may start studying the words found at www.spellingbee.com.
Happy Birthday
17 Ethan Q. (K)
19 Markus V. (4)
21 Seth B. (5), Heidi B. (2), Ava A. (1)
Classroom information
Mrs.
Schulte (Pre-2)
In our classroom this week we finished
“Celebrating Christmas” by reviewing the First Christmas Story and having a
Christmas Party together with our family and friends. During the party we
sang the two Christmas songs we have been practicing. At Center Time we
played with a remote control train set. We will close our time together
in prayer thanking God for the Greatest Gift of All, Jesus.
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
Preschool
will focus on letter J for Jesus’ birth. We are excited to present our Christmas
program to our families on Tuesday night and celebrate Jesus’ birth with a
class Christmas party on Thursday/Friday. Both classes will create nativity
artwork and learn about the reason for Christ’s birth: to come to Earth to be
our Savior!
Mrs. Reynolds
(PK)
This week in pre-k we will be
reviewing the letters y and g and talking more about the nativity story. We are
excited for our christmas program Tuesday night and our Christmas class party
on Thursday!! This is our last week with our classroom elf it will be sad to
see him go but we sure have enjoyed having him and cannot wait to see what he
does this week.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
It's
beginning to look and sound like Christmas! The Kindergarten boys and
girls are crafting and wrapping gifts for their parents and singing favorite
Christmas carols. They are rhyming around the Christmas tree and using
their 5 senses to make observations about candy canes. During math, they
are helping elves identify 10's and 1's in teen numbers. During
Bible time, the class is focusing on the birth of our Savior, Jesus. The
full day Kindergarten students are making a book of Christmas words,
practicing addition and completing a study of reindeer
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
This week, we
got to learn about the birth of John and Jesus. Our devotions have
been leading up to these events. The joy of celebrating Jesus' birthday
is finally here. In language arts this week we learned about synonyms and
antonyms, singular and plural nouns, suffixes, and much more. In
math, the second graders completed their unit on three -dimensional
shapes, symmetry, and other geometric shapes. This week we were able
to finally finish our STEM project of designing a candle holder.
Merry Christmas
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
We will be reading the Christmas
account in the Bible this week, after looking at some prophesies. In
language arts, we will write a Christmas haiku and then type and illustrate it
on the computer. If we have time, we'll try our hand at other poetry
types. In math, the 3rd graders will work with numbers to the millions
and explore polygons. The 4th graders will review and take a chapter
tests. In social studies we will continue studying Ohio Indians as we
learn about the Shawnee and Miami Indians. In science we will be learning
about different inventors and inventions. Along with all that, we'll do
some Christmas crafts and play some Christmas review games.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we heard from Andy Griffith to help us understand the true
meaning of Christmas. In 5th grade math we worked with percents, bar
graphs, and circle graphs. We also enjoyed our Unit 5 test! In 6th
grade we worked with circumference, dividing by a decimal number and dividing
by fractions. We enjoyed our 9th test! In our Language Arts time we
worked with context clues to define words.
In Social Studies we continued to study African culture with a focus on
languages, music and dance, and farming. In Science we continued our study of
plants by replanting green beans and figuring out the problem with the ones we
had already planted. We also took a test on Chapter 4. In Spelling we studied words with
alternations long to short and included the schwa sound.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
All of
history points us to this one, rather tiny, but yet transformative night of
Christmas. Calendars change, a new major
religion begins, the very relationship between God and mankind is forever set
on a new path. We thank God that we get
to tell that story, in all its truth at St. Mark’s Lutheran School. Parents make sacrifices to send their
children here, so that we can tell them about Jesus, whose sacrifice for us is
greater than we can ever repay. God
bless you for supporting this school.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study what God’s Word
says about decision making. In 7th
and 8th grade math the students are reviewing for a test and then
testing. In science we are finally
finishing our study of cells and heredity.
The students are planning and making a game in STEM.
