28 Chapel at 9:15AM, Special Martial
Arts Club 3:30 – 4PM
29 Science Club & Dancing Club
until 4:15PM
1 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
3 Science Olympiad until 4:30, Dance
Club until 4:15PM
4 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Martial Arts Club
3:30-4PM, staff mt. 3:30 PM
5 Science Club until 4:15, Dance Club
until 4:15, School Board 7PM
Prayer Families
Lily R. (P3), Chloe S. (P3), Mason W.
(P3), Colby W. (P2)
Saint Salute
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A
big Saint Salute to all those students singing at last Sunday’s service. The members and parents loved it.
Notes
If you had to name one characteristic of a child
with the strongest connection to future success, what would it be? IQ? Early
Reading? Technology? Aside from the spiritual answer of faith in
God, I believe that the correct answer is delaying gratification. I have mentioned this topic before on my blog
and in this setting. One researcher
(over 45 years ago) tested young children on their ability to wait for 15
minutes for a marshmallow. When he
revisited these same children 18 years later, he found that those that were
able to wait when they were young were more successful in school, had happier
friendships, had higher SAT scores, were more likely to be college-bound, and
were less likely to be in trouble in school.
In school, the children wait for attention, for recess, for that purple marker, or for the best
swing. Later as children are required to
organize their time and set their own goals, those with more practice in
delaying gratification will be better able to stick to goals and ignore
temptations. Delaying gratification is
not something simply learned at one age: it is a skill practiced over a
lifetime. Don’t wait to start!
Important Dates to Know
Feb. 3 Science Olympiad
practice starts dismissing at 4:30
14 Parent’s Night Out 5-9
PM
13 & 16 No School
Calendar Changes for
15-16 School Year
St. Mark’s will not have Teacher’s
Conference Oct. 19-20, 2015 as the published calendar stated last
Wednesday. It will be October
15-16. No school will be held on Oct.
15-16, 2015.
Enrollment for 15-16
If you haven’t turned in your enrollment form for the 15-16
school year, you are encouraged to do so.
The enrollment fee increases March 1.
National Lutheran School
Week
St. Mark’s will be celebrating
National Lutheran Schools Week March 8 – 13 this year. If any parent wishes to help plan that
weeklong event, please see Mr. Reisenbichler.
Camp Lakeview
Camp Lakeview, a Lutheran camp in Indiana,
is mailing brochures about their summer programs and will start accepting
registrations this year on Feb. 2nd.
Students who have completed second grade through eighth grade may attend
a week-long session. Weekend sessions
with parents are available for younger campers.
Campers can request cabin mates on their forms, so you may want to
discuss with classmates which week your campers want to attend.
For campers who wish to attend in the same
week as their friends, the camp suggests mailing registration forms and
deposits together, and to ensure a first choice, it is recommended that these
be postmarked on Feb 2nd.
Registration forms can be printed from the website, if you have not yet
received a brochure (www.camplakeview.com).
To facilitate mailing registration forms
together, you may send your completed form and deposit (payable to Camp
Lakeview) with your child to school.
Please mark the envelope “Camp Lakeview Registration – Attn: Mrs.
Schepmann” by the end of the school day on Wednesday,
January 28th, if you would like your form to be included in the
group packet. (Thank you to Michelle
Huhn who has agreed to mail the packet to ensure the February 2nd
postmark.) If you would like to mail
your registration forms directly to the camp, that is perfectly acceptable –
just do not postmark before February 2nd, or it will be held until
after registrations with on-time postmarks are reviewed.
If you have questions about Camp Lakeview,
Paula Schepmann (Schepmann@gmail.com or 513-314-9957), Michelle Huhn (osufan1031@yahoo.com
or 513-805-6282), or Rebecca Scholl (thescholls@zoomtown.com) are
willing to answer to the best of their ability.
Happy camping!
Babysitter needed for
15-16
One family has expressed to me the
need to have child care for one child for next school year. If you or someone you know that is able 31 Isaac W. (1)nd willing to watch a
4-year-old while not at St. Mark’s, please contact the office and we will give
you their information for contact.
Happy Birthday
31 Isaac W. (1)
1 Griffin M. (P4), Thomas C. (P4)
Classroom information
Mrs. Schulte (Pre-2)
We are excited to continue this month's
theme, "At the Zoo" with a study of "Excellent
Elephants". We worked on our Letter J for Jesus, used our fine motor
skills to feed some hungry elephants peanuts at our Sensory Table. We
shared the book, Nancy Knows by Cybele Young. We made an elephant
watercolor silhouette during Art. At Bible Time, we shared the story of
"Joshua and the Battle of Jericho" where we made our own trumpets and
marched around the walls until they came tumbling down.
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
Preschool is studying letter Q for Queens and Kings. Both classes
will create different castles and crowns. On Queen and King dress up day
students will imagine what life would be like if they were the Queens and Kings
for a day. We will discuss elements of a fairy tale and read various fairy
tales. In Bible Time 3’s will hear the account of Jairus’s daughter raised from
the dead in which Jesus will show His power over death to Jairus. 4’s will hear
the parable of the Good Samaritan. Jesus made an example of this foreigner to
show an expert in the law how to show mercy.
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK)
This week Pre-K is learning about the
letter D and dinosaurs! I am excited about this week because kids just love
learning about dinosaurs! We will be constructing our own dinosaurs from
different shapes, making dinosaur fossil cookies, digging up dino bones in our
sensory bins and even doing the dino-pokey. We will discuss different types of
dinosaurs and how some of them are herbivores while others are carnivores and
what those words mean. In Bible we will be looking how Jesus chose his
disciples and how he called them to be fishers of men. We will talk about what
it means to be fishers of men and we too are called to also.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
Jesus calms
the storm is the Kindergarten Bible lesson this week. They will learn
that Jesus is always in control and cares about them. The class will
begin a new literacy unit called Appreciating Differences. During science,
Kindergarten will identify and sort states of matter. They will conduct
an edible demonstration to better understand solids, liquids and gases. They
will read 2 digit numbers and represent them with manipulatives and work with
number bonds at math time. The week will end with a celebration of
the 100th day of school! The full day students will conduct a book study
of Snowmen At Night, build numbers with 10's and 1's, identify numbers
before and after and practice popcorn words.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
Woo
hoo! We made it to the 100th day of school. Friday was the 100th
day and we celebrated being 100 days smarter. This week we also walked
with Jesus to His baptism. We talked about the special blessing our
baptism is to us. The children performed surgery on words this week and
made contractions. The first graders finished sewing their pigs and read
to the kindergarten class. The children also wrote letters of
encouragement to Benjamin Helge, a missionary to people in the Czech
Republic. Second graders made a lot of progress on their fairy tale and
are close to completion and publication.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In religion we learned about Gideon
and his leadership. In reading, we've learned more and more about
medieval times while reading The Whipping Boy. The more we read,
the more we're glad we live in modern times! In social studies we learned
about the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence. In
science we continued to learn about the moon and eclipses. In math, the
3rd graders worked with fractions - making equivalent fractions and comparing
fractions. The 4th graders worked with angles and coordinate grids
while reviewing long division. In Spanish we continued to work with face
and body words. We celebrated the 100th day of school by having a pajama
day where we spent the whole day in our pajamas while doing work on the floor
in our sleeping bags. We did many activities in history, math, and
language arts revolving around 100.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we looked at how Jesus is manifest in our lives as well as is
our discipleship passive or active. In 5th grade math we took our
Unit 6 test. We are now working with exponential notation. In 6th
grade math we took our 11th test.
We also reviewed fractions and basic algebra. In our Language Arts time
we completed our story about a young man displaying heroic qualities. We began
to look at bullying through the eyes of a character in our next story. In
Social Studies we worked with the countries of Central Africa. In Science we
continued our study of plants by reading and noting a section of our textbook
dealing with plant response and growth.
In Spelling we added suffixes to words and looked at the change in the
sounds of the syllables.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
We’re moving
along with A Separate Peace. We’re
starting to draw parallels between the
relationships in the book and our own. History is moving apace. We’re learning more about immigration of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. We
wonder if our country would be as great NOW if the immigration policies had
been different THEN. We continue to be
amazed at God’s rich blessings given to our country throughout its history.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study what God’s Word
says about decision making. In 7th
grade math the students are studying volume of prisms, fractional word
problems, and algebraic equations. In 8th
grade math we are studying direct variation and scale factor. In science we are learning about elements,
compounds, and molecules. The students
are building and testing a ski lift in STEM.
