16 Chapel at 9:15 AM
17 Science Club and Stacking Club
until 4:15, K-8 Christmas 7PM, lunch orders due
18 School dismisses at noon, Free
Dress Down Day
19-Jan. 3 No School – Christmas
vacation
20 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
24 St. Mark’s has worship services at
7 and 11PM
25 St. Mark’s has Christmas worship
service at 10:30 AM
27 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
31 St. Mark’s has worship service at
7PM
3 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
4 School resumes
5 Science Olympiad and Dancing Club
until 4:15
6 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Staff mt. 3:30 PM
7 Science Club and Dancing Club until
4:15
8 Spelling Bee 10:30 AM, End of
semester, school dismisses at 12 noon
Prayer Families
Kolbie B. (P4), Marshall F. (P4),
Silas B. (K)
Saint Salute
A
big Saint Salute to those students climbing up on the AR Wall of Fame
Megan
B. (2) 100 points
Kristen
L. (5) 1000 points
Alaina
S. (5) 1500 points
Thoughts
What is Christmas? The historic record of the birth of
Christ can be found in Matthew
1:18-25
and Luke 2:1-20. Unlike any other baby, the one born that
night in Bethlehem
was unique in all of history. He was not created by a human
father and mother.
He had a heavenly pre-existence (John 1:1-3,
14).
He is God, the Son—Creator of the universe
(Philippians
2:5-11).
This is why Christmas is called the incarnation,
a word which means “in the flesh.” In the birth of Jesus, the eternal,
all-powerful and all-knowing Creator came to earth in the flesh. Why would God do such a thing? Why would he
come as a baby, instead of appearing in power and majesty? Why make himself a
true man and live among us, when he knew full well how terribly he would be
treated? It was LOVE! It
was necessary, if we are to be saved! Merry Christmas!
Important Dates to Know
17 Grades K-8 Christmas
Music Program 7PM
Lunch orders for January are due
Jan. 8 School for
K-8 dismisses at noon
9 Father-Son Breakfast 8:30 AM
AR open over Christmas
The web site for taking AR
(Accelerated Reader) tests during the Christmas vacation will be available each
day, 8AM – 8PM. Have fun reading.
Dancing Club Starts
The
Dancing Club for grades 1-4 starts on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Students in grades 5-8 may attend on
Thursdays.
Student Council
As Christmas is right around the corner, Student Council would
like to invite you to our food drive, the proceeds of which will go towards
Milford Miami Ministries. There will be a table in the fellowship hall where
you can bring in non-perishable items. These are defined as cans and boxes.
This food drive will continue through this week.
Check with your district
with the availability of bussing on Friday!
The school spelling bee is Jan. 8 at 10:30AM.
Box Top$ for Education
Today is the
last day for turning in your Box Top$ for the classroom contest. At this writing 5th and 6th
grades have the lead with over 34 Box Top$ per child. Kindergarten is in second place with 23 per
child. We will do a final count over the
Christmas break and will announce the winner when we return the first week in
January. We will also announce when we
will have another contest. Keep
collecting those Box Top$. Thanks for
all your help. Have a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!
Gil and Judi
Schepmann
School
Coordinators
Photos needed for
yearbook
Your photos are needed by the yearbook
staff to help make this year’s yearbook the best possible. To help parents pass these photos that they
take all the time at school, a special email account has been established to
gather pictures only. Staff and parents
are invited and encouraged to attach great pictures to an email and send it to stmarksmilfordphotos@gmail.com.
Thanks for your help.
Father-Son Breakfast
The Family Ministries
committee of St. Mark’s will be hosting a Father-Son breakfast on Saturday,
January 9. Caleb Miller, a formal Bengal,
will be the presenter. Please mark this
date on your calendar. More information
will be coming.
Happy Birthday
16 Tyke U. (P4)
17 Ethan Q. (2)
18 Mark H. (K)
19 Markus V. (5)
21 Ava A. (2) & Heidi B. (3)
22 Liam D. (P4)
Classroom information
Mrs. Frey
(P-3 & P-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 & P-2)
Pre-K
is having a fun week! Tuesday was our Polar Express day. We wore pajamas, rode
our very own polar express (a box train) and made a snack fit for the North
Pole! We are learning about the letter J this week. J is for Jesus we are also
practicing spelling and reading Jesus's name. We had a blast performing for our
parents in our Christmas program and are looking forward to our Christmas class
party tomorrow.
Pre-2 is also
having a fun filled festive week. We will also be having our class party. The
2's are excited to give their presents that they made to their parents this
week. We will be talking more about the true meaning of Christmas during our bible
lesson and continuing our alphabet books with the letter I.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
Kindergarten
is filled with Christmas excitement as the boys and girls finish special
projects and Christmas activities. During Bible time, the class will
continue to hear about the birth of Jesus and sing favorite Christmas
carols. The boys and girls will continue their gingerbread man unit as
they hear different versions of the story. They will bake and decorate
cookies. Hopefully, the cookies will not run away again this year! The
full day students have been working on a book of reindeer facts which they will
complete this week.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1)
Merry Christmas! This week was
our opportunity to celebrate Jesus' birthday. We had extra practices for
the Christmas concert and continued our devotions and study of the birth of
Christ. Several special activities took place this week also as we
learned more about singular and plural nouns and when to add -s and -es to
words. Each day the children also had fun searching for twelve hidden
elves in the classroom. In math, we had an assessment and are working on
trying to improve our addition fact power. In science, we finish our
lessons on perspective and directional words. The highlight of the week
was on Sunday, when Jordan S. became a child of God through baptism.
Welcome to the family, Jordan!
Ms. Rhonemus (2)
The
week K-8 put the finishing touches on their Christmas program which will be at
7pm this Thursday. In reading we will be exploring opinion writing through
the reading of "Click, Clack, Moo" which is a story where the cows
get a hold of a typewriter and go on strike until the farmer and the cows can
come to an agreement which involves heated blankets. Watch out parents
because soon your students will be armed with the persuasive powers of writing!
In science we are continuing to look at food webs using a website called
Science4us. We are also working on our map skills in social
studies with a focus on directions and using coordinates to find certain locations.
We also had 3 birthdays this week along with our celebration of Christ
birth which will involve activities and treats on Friday and a noon dismissal.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
Preparing
for Jesus' birthday celebration continued in our class (and throughout the
school!) We studied the Christmas story, put the finishing touches
on the Christmas program and made ornaments. We finished up our language
arts unit with studying adverbs and homophones. The 4th graders finished
a math chapter and took a test. The 3rd graders used decimals while
measuring. We did map work on the Great Lakes states. In science we
learned about weather and climate. We finished the week with Christmas
review games, spent our Mayo money at our end-of-the quarter sale, and had a party.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In
our Bible time this week we practiced for our program on Thursday. We also
listened to Andy Griffith stories about Christmas. In 5th grade math
we continued to work with data. In 6th
grade math we took our 9th test. We also worked on displaying data.
In our Language Arts time we continued building our vocabulary and finished
reading The Face in the Besseldorf
Funeral Parlor. In Social Studies we presented our power point on provinces
or territories of Canada. In Science we continued to discuss populations and
communities in our environment. We did not have Spelling.
Mr. Mayo (7,8)
As
we look forward to our Savior’s birth, with so much time devoted to Christmas
Service Practice, even children feel the hustle and bustle of the season. We get two weeks off to breathe a little
deeper, and appreciate the great things God has given us, from our families to
our ability to read and comprehend great novels like To Kill A Mockingbird. We
also get to appreciate the freedoms our country affords us, which we learn
about in History. Hark, Harold the Angel
is singing!
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we are studying how God gives
us blessings and what we are to do with them. In 7th grade math the students are classifying
quadrilaterals. In 8th grade
math we are displaying and interpreting data.
The students are experimenting with soda bottles and every day chemicals
in STEM.
Pre-K is learning the letter Y this week our
theme is Christmas. We will be practicing sight words and color words this
week. Decorating paper trees by adding a pattern to them. Measuring things in
our classroom with wrapping paper. Asking ourselves does it take more wrapping
paper when things are bigger to cover them? We will review the Nativity
story and make our own ornaments.