Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Principal's Epistle



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Calendar                   
18 Chapel at 9:15AM, Martial Arts Club 3:30 – 4PM
20 End of 3rd qtr.
21 Father Daughter Dance
22 St. Mark’s has worship services at 8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
23 Strategy Club meets until 4:15
25 Chapel at 9:15AM, Martial Arts Club 3:30 – 4PM
28 Spring Break begins
Prayer Families
Roman M. (P3), Kara W. (3), Kexie W. (1), Jordan S. (K)
Saint Salute
A big Saint Salute to those students climbing up on the AR Wall of Fame
    • Maggie S. (4)                        800 points
Notes
            The Fellowship Hall has carpet that is about 12 years old.  It is time to replace it.  This Thursday and Friday, it will be done.  Thanks to Mike, Russell, and Isaac Woeste, Michael and Markus Vrbanac, Taylor Rehmer, and Mr. Postenrieder for staying Tuesday after school and lending a great amount of effort.  Demolition was completed in 1 ½ hours.  It is now ready for a new coat of blue moon.  The students will eat in their rooms on Thursday and Friday.
Important Dates to Know
21      Father-Daughter Dance
28 – April 6   Spring Break – No School
Full Day PK next year
St. Mark's will offer PK students two options for next year.  Students may attend the AM session – 9-11:30 PM, Monday-Thursday or all day – 9AM-3PM, Monday – Thursday.
Father Daughter Items Needed
Following items are needed for the Father Daughter Dance being held this Saturday, March 21st.  Please have items in church kitchen by end of school day on Friday, March 20th.  Please mark "dance" on the items.
No red, blue or bright colored frosting (don't want to stain the new carpet).  Thank you!!
  • Cookies
  • Brownies
  • Cupcakes
  • Rootbeer - 2 liter
  • Cream Soda - 2 liter
  • Orange Soda - 2 liter
Art Club to Start April 9
St. Mark's will start a new Art Club on Thursday, April 9.  It will meet every Thursday until 4:15.  This is for grades 1-8.
New Carpet Workers for Fellowship Hall Needed
St. Mark's will have new carpet installed in the Fellowship Hall on March 19-20 – in time for the Father-Daughter Dance.  Students in grades 5-8 that needed some volunteer hours may help remove the old carpet on Tuesday, March 17after school until 4:30 PM.  Others can help that evening at 6:30.  The cove base and the carpet need to be removed.  Spades, scrapers, and putty knives will help do the trick.  See you then.
Box Tops Update
Keep those Box Tops coming in!  It looks like the Preschool 2 year old class is still in the lead for the "Make-Your-Own Sundae" Box Tops Contest.  They are out in front with 21.14 Box Tops per student.  Way to go 2 year olds!  That is wonderful!  They are followed by Grades 3 and 4 with 13.86 Box Tops per student and grades 1 and 2 are in third place. Today the contest ends but there are Box Tops that need to be counted.  A final report will be in the newsletter next week with the announcement of the contest winner.  Thank you for collecting the Box Tops for St. Marks.  Please continue collecting them and next school year we will have more challenges.  Have a good end of the school year!  God bless, Mr. and Mrs. Schepmann.
Happy Birthday
25        Maggie S. (4)

Classroom information
Mrs. Schulte (Pre-2)
This week our class come to school in our Pajamas as we continued to enjoy our Camping theme by "Sleeping Under the Stars".  We read the book The Napping House by Audrey Wood, and talked about what goes on at night time.  In Art, we made shadow puppets, and painted our Letter P with pompoms.  During Bible Time, we shared the story of Easter and used props to make the story come alive.  During Center Time, we enjoyed our Night Sky reading nook filled with glow in the dark stars and fun flashlights.  We ended the day by singing and dancing to our new favorite song, He is Risen!
Mrs. Frey (Pre-3,4)
Preschool is studying letter K for kites this week! We are also excited to learn about the signs of Spring. 3’s will create kite scenes and discuss how we know Spring is on its way. 4’s will discuss animals in spring and make bird nests. Both classes will read Spring and Mouse’s First Spring. In Bible Time students will hear of God’s greatest gift to us: the sacrifice of His Son on the cross to take away our sins. Jesus suffered and died for us on that Good Friday.
Mrs. Reynolds (PK)
This week we are focusing on the letter R. R is for rainbow! We will be learning about rainbows and the color wheel. We will discuss the meaning of the rainbow and how it is God's promise to us that He will never again destroy the earth with water. We have two fun science experiments this week. First we will use paper towels and food coloring for a color blending experiment. This will show us how different colors can blend together to create new colors! Then we will be creating a rainbow in a jar out of various kitchen ingredients.  We will discuss that we are quickly moving into the season of Spring and what that means. As well as playing educational games and doing math puzzles to get us thinking and strategizing!
Mrs. Sherman (K)
Kindergarten excitedly awaits spring as they enjoyed the warmer temperatures!  In science, they sorted living and nonliving objects and identified the needs of living things. During math, the class made a chart of the characteristics of solid shapes  and learned a poem to remember the shape names.  During reading workshop, the class searched for words and vowel sounds in the sensory bins and also wrote about their favorite Eric Carle book.  Kindergarten had a surprise visitor.  Lucky the Leprechaun and his friends snuck into the classroom and shrunk hats that the boys and girls had made.  The leprechauns did not leave any gold but gave the children pieces of a rainbow!  At Bible time, the class heard about the beginning of Holy week as Jesus entered Jerusalem and prayed in the garden.   The full day students did leprechaun addition with coins and made addition towers.  They enjoyed making predictions and recognizing details found in illustrations but not in the text as the class studied the book, Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato.
Mrs. Reisenbichler (1-2)
This week in Jesus Time, the children learned about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.  In math, the first graders learned to make change and the second graders worked with units of capacity and weight.  Our science lessons were about physical and chemical changes of matter.  On St. Patrick's Day we learned the truth about St. Patrick.  He was a very effective missionary to the people of Ireland.  This is just a snapshot of what we learned this week.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In religion we will be working on some projects this week.  We are glad that we're taking our last PARCC test this week and we can get back to our regular schedule.  In math, the 3rd graders are finishing a chapter and taking a test on multiplication.  The 4th graders will work with probability, fractions, and multiplying fractions by whole numbers.   In social studies we will work on our map skills while learning some towns in Ohio.  In science we will learn how scientists classify living things into kingdoms.  We'll also be talking about different habitats.  In Spanish we will be learning family words this week.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible time this week we continued to look at when we should pray as well as why we should pray. The lessons on prayer are also a look at our Lord’s Prayer. In 5th grade math we worked with percents, relationships between the fraction and the whole, fraction division, and we enjoyed our Unit 8 test!.  In 6th grade math we worked with fractions, capacity, area of triangles, and ratio. In our Language Arts time we worked with idioms. We also built our vocabulary through our story about old westerns. In Social Studies we looked at the climate and vegetation of East Asia. In Science we created models of the layers of Earth. In Spelling we studied the prefixes pre-, fore-. post-, and after-.
Mr. Mayo (7-8)
We’re finishing our History unit, finding that women got the right to vote in 1920.  We are amazed that less than 100 years ago, women could not vote.  It boggled our minds a bit to find out that at one time John D. Rockefeller’s wealth was equal to 1% of the GDP of the United States!  When Andrew Carnegie sold his steel company, he sold it for more than the entire budget of the U.S. at that time!  In Literature, we’re discussing speeches and the biggest differences in reading them and seeing them delivered.  We’re learning the role TV plays in getting points across regardless of whether we agree with the point or not.  
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will study lesser known accounts in God’s Word.  In 7th grade math the students are multiplying monomials, converting units within rates, and calculating interior angle of polygons.  They will also be taking the PARCC math test.  In 8th grade math we are studying the scales of maps, proportional equations, and solving two equations for one unknown.  In science we are learning about the periodic table.  The students are building parachutes in  STEM.  We are taking 2 of the PARCC tests this week.

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