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
8 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
10 Science Olympiad until 4:30, Dance
Club until 4:15PM
11 Chapel at 9:15AM, Martial Arts Club
3:30 – 4PM, Preschool staff mt. at noon
12 Science Club & Dancing Club
until 4:15PM, Market Day orders due
13 No school
Prayer Families
Jake S. (6), Maggie S. (4), Mia P.
(K), Silas B. (P4)
Saint Salute
·
A
big Saint Salute to those students moving up on the AR Wall of Fame
Lauryn G. (4) 400 points
Noah Jacobsen (6) 2300 points
Notes
A little bit more on delayed gratification. Learning good stewardship regarding money is
a great way to develop delayed gratification as well as good financial
literacy. Help your children to divide
their allowance, tooth fairy, and gift money into spending, saving, and tithing
portions. Show them how you make plans
for money and connect treat activities and vacations to the benefits of saving
money on smaller, less enjoyable things.
Be sure to point out how the church uses offering money. Attending church each week has its own
benefits in forgiveness and faith. Church also offers parents a unique
opportunity to teach children how to pay attention to what is happening in the
moment. As your children grow, so should
your expectation of their ability to participate in church. Teach your children the prayers, hymns,
liturgy, ad about the beauty of confession and forgiveness so that they can
participate in a meaningful way. If you
bring along quiet toys, begin to reduce the times in the service when the toys
are accessible so that your children’s attention is available to take in the
service as you quietly point out what is happening. On the way home from church, talk about the
children’s message. All of this will help your child to grow in faith as well
as the ability to wait.
Important Dates to Know
13 & 16 No School
21 Parent’s Night Out 5-9
PM (This is a change from last week’s Epistle)
Ed Choice Scholarship
applications are now available for next school year. Please see the office for information/forms.
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.
Market Day
All Market Day orders are
due by Thursday, February 12th. This is different than the flyer
date. Thanks for supporting St. Mark’s!
Helper needed for serving
lunch
We now have no helpers to
serve hot lunch on Mondays. If this is
something you could do to help the children have lunch, please contact the
office.
Happy Birthday
7 Olivia L. (P4)
8 Thomas M. (4)
10 Ava A. (P4)
Classroom information
Mrs. Schulte (Pre-2)
Our class began our
new theme this month, "About Town" with a focus on "Moving Mail
and Making Valentines". We changed our Dramatic Play area to the
Preschool Post Office complete with mailboxes, envelopes, cards, and
stamp. We shared the book Move by Steve Jenkins and Robin
Page. During Art we made our own Valentine's mailboxes. During
Bible Time we shared the story of "Samuel as a Boy" and made very BIG
listening ears to remind us of 1 Samuel 3:10, "Speak Lord, your servant is
listening". We ended the day with a fun game of Package Delivery
Relay.
Mrs. Frey
(Pre-3,4)
Preschool is studying letter X for X Ray. We will focus on dental
health as February is Dental Health month. 3’s will practice flossing and
brushing in their artwork and fine motor skills practice. Both classes will
learn about foods that make our teeth happy and sad. 4’s will make a collage of
healthy and unhealthy foods and create their own elephant toothpaste as a science
experiment. In Bible Time both classes will learn about Jesus special love and
attention to children when He blessed them despite His disciples’ objections.
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK)
This week Pre-K will be learning about
the letter X. We will be talking about Doctors and Dentist and how they keep us
healthy. Our classroom has been transformed into a "doctors office". We will also discuss how we can stay healthy
by eating nutritious foods, washing our hands often, covering our mouths when
we cough, and brushing our teeth. We will also be checking our eyesight
and doing some surgery on some sight words. In Bible we are discussing how God
blesses us and counting our blessings.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
It's another
busy week of learning in Kindergarten. The class will explore
their senses through several sensory activities. They will participate in
"character chat" as they describe a storybook character. During
math, Kindergarten will count using a calculator, make craft stick patterns and
write numbers to 100. They also continue to identify coins and their
value. At Bible time, the class will hear the account of Jesus turning
water into wine. The children know they can turn to Him when they
face big problems or small ones. The full day students are enjoying Hooway
For Wodney Wat, a story that focuses on bullying and turning perceived
weaknesses into strengths. They will also "add the room",
create a snowman glyph and analyze the data and use their senses to investigate
popcorn.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1-2)
This week we
learned about Jesus first miracle in Cana and how all of Jesus's miracles were
intended to bring people to faith. In language arts, the first graders
started reading cumulative stories before reading Bringing the Rains to
Kapiti Plain. The second graders started a new unit based around the
story Amelia Bedelia. First graders worked with ar words this
week. They made pirates and searched for treasure. In science, the
children completed their unit on observing matter.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
This week in religion we will be going
over the amazing account of Sampson - how God chose him, how he sinned, and
then repented. In reading we're almost through The Whipping Boy
and we finally see a change in some of the characters. We continue to
work with prefixes and suffixes. In math, both grades are finishing up
chapter and will be taking chapter tests - the 3rd graders on fractions and the
4th graders on dividing and angles. Then the 3rd graders will start a
chapter on lines, rays, and segments while the 4th graders will begin their
chapter on fractions. In social studies we will learn about the Northwest
Territory and the immigrants of the 1800s. In science we will learn about
the solar system and we'll try our hand at making a scale model of it in art.
In Spanish, we'll review the parts of the body by playing a Bingo game.
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
worked with scientific notation, order of operations, and line graphs. We are
now working with exponential notation. In 6th grade math we added
fractions, subtracted mixed numbers, classified quadrangles, and found prime
factors through factor trees and division. In our Language Arts time we
continued our study of bullying. 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 feeding the world. We will look at
new ways to grow food. In Spelling we
added the suffixes ic, -ity, -ty, -ous.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
We are
finishing A Separate Peace, which gave
us pause, like the characters, poised between childhood and adulthood. It’s our job to prepare them for whatever
kind of world they will face, but no matter what the world is like, our world
view is focused on Christ. We are
finishing our study of the late 1800’s and early 1900s, and how immigrants were
forced to live, sometimes. We learned
about Jacob Riis, who, in his fervor to take pictures of immigrants and the way
they lived, almost set fire to a tenement!
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study lesser known
accounts in God’s Word. In 7th
grade math the students are studying implied ratios, negative numbers, and
fractional word problems. In 8th
grade math we are studying multiple unit multipliers, formulas for sequences,
and square roots. In science we are learning
about phases of matter. The students are
building and testing a well- insulated coat in STEM.
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