Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Principal's Epistle



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Calendar                   
8 Chapel at 9:15AM, Preschool chapel 1PM, Staff mt. 3:30 PM, Martial Arts Club 3:30 – 4PM
9 Jump Rope Club and Art Club until 4:15 PM
11 Parent’s Night Out 5-9 PM
12 St. Mark’s has worship services at 8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
13 Strategy Club until 4:15 PM
14 Jump Rope Club until 4:15 PM
15 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Martial Arts Club until 4PM, Preschool staff mt.
16 Jump Rope Club and Art Club until 4:15 PM, Market Day orders due
17 Principal’s mt. in Dayton
Prayer Families
Haley E. (4), Michayla E. (6), Kailynn A. (P3), Eli B. (P4)
Saint Salute
A big Saint Salute to those students climbing up on the AR Wall of Fame
    • Amanda P. (6)                      100 points
    • Audrey T. (3)                         300 points
    • Kara W. (3)                            500 points
    • Alaina S. (4)                          1200 points
    • Jake S. (6)                             2500 points
Notes
            Alleluia! He is risen!  He is risen indeed!  Have you taken time to reflect on the true meaning of this day?  Have you seriously thought about our Lord’s resurrection and what that means for you and your future?  Easter celebrates that our heavenly Father has kept His word.  He promised to send a Savior to save the world, and He did it!  He promised that our Savior, His Son, would die so that you and I would be forgiven, and He did it!  And He promised that Jesus Christ, our Lord, would rise victorious from the dead, having conquered Satan, death, and the world.  And He did it!
            On a smaller note, I will be gone on Monday and Tuesday.  I am part of an accreditation team visiting St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Napoleon, Ohio.
Important Dates to Know
11     Parent’s Night Out
23     Jump Rope for Heart
24     Spring Music Presentation 7PM
Math Camp
Parents are reminded that Math Camp for grades 1-6 will be held May 1-2.  Students in grades 7-8 may help with no fee and receive volunteer hours.  An information sheet went home yesterday.  Please ask for it from your child and read it.  If you have any questions, please ask.

Parent’s Night Out
The 7–8 grade students of St. Mark’s school invite you to have a night out on Saturday, April 11, 5:00–9:00 pm. Parents with children from infants to 6th grade may drop them at St. Mark’s so they can spend some quality time together. The students will watch them under adult supervision with a variety of activities, games, pizza dinner ($3), and other forms of fellowship. Children will be divided into groups based on age. A free will donation will be taken upon pickup. The proceeds will go toward their end-of-the-year trip. When was the last time you had a date with your spouse or time to shop without the kids?
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.
Jump Rope Club to start
St. Mark's will have a Jump Rope Club that will start April 7 and ends May 21.  Students in grades 1-8 may attend on every Tuesday and/or Thursday.
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.  The last art club day is May 21
Sign Up for Kroger support
St. Mark’s has been assigned a new NPO number 81119.
TO USE THE KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM:
Simply encourage your members to register online at
krogercommunityrewards.com
Be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy and register your card with your
organization after you sign up.
If a member does not yet have a Kroger Plus card, please let them know that
they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger.
Click on Sign In/Register
Most participants are new online customers, so they must click on SIGN UP
TODAY in the ‘New Customer?’ box.
Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering zip code, clicking on favorite
store, entering your email address and creating a password, agreeing to the
terms and conditions
You will then get a message to check your email inbox and click on the link within
the body of the email.
Click on My Account and use your email address and password to proceed to the
next step.
Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information and input your Kroger Plus
card number.
Update or confirm your information.
Enter NPO number or name of organization, select organization from list and
click on confirm.
To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization’s name on the
right side of your information page.
REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your group until after your member(s)
register their card(s).
Do you use your phone number at the register? Call 800-576-4377, select option
4 to get your Kroger Plus card number.
Members must swipe their registered Kroger Plus card or use the phone number
that is related to their registered Kroger Plus card when shopping for each purchase to count.
Happy Birthday
10        Kennadie K (P3)
13        Taylor R. (7) & Hunter C. (K)

Classroom information
Mrs. Schulte (Pre-2)
We welcomed the children back after Spring Break to celebrate our theme, "Seeing Seeds Grow".  We planted seeds for our window greenhouse, decorated a little flower pot to look like a silly face and planted grass seeds to grow like hair.  In Sensory Play we mixed shaving cream and tiny seeds (messy but fun!).  We filled our Letter S with seeds.  We sorted seeds by shape, color, and size.  At Storytime, we shared the book "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle.  During Bible time, we shared the story of "Jesus Appears to the Disciples".
Mrs. Frey (Pre-3,4)
Preschool is learning letter U for umbrella as we focus on weather this week! We will create projects relating to rain, clouds, wind, and rainbows. We will answer the question: How do rainbows form? We are excited to be back from Spring break! In Bible Time we will hear about some of Jesus’ last days on Earth before he returns to His Father in heaven. 3’s will hear about Jesus’ reveal to His disciples as He cooks them breakfast. 4’s will hear about Jesus’ reveal to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. He is risen!
Mrs. Reynolds (PK)
Pre-K is excited to be back after our week off for spring break! We will be starting the week by taking a trip to the Milford Library to learn about what happens at a library and what a valuable resource a library can be. We love books and it is great to see young children so excited about reading. In class this week we will be learning about the letter "E" for Earth and Space. We will be making planets from coffee filters, making rockets with our names on them, flour paint moons and make constellations of our own. We will also be exploring what its like to walk on the moon and have a tinfoil "moon rock' fight in the classroom. It is sure to be a fun week in Pre-k! 
Mrs. Sherman (K)
With the arrival of spring, Kindergarten begins a study of plants.  They will create a sunflower and label its parts.  They will list items found in a garden and write about a mystery seed.  During math, the class will add the room and divide objects into equal groups.  They will also review coins and time.  At Bible time, the class focuses on the resurrection ~ Jesus is alive!  They will hear that Jesus appeared to several people who then shared the Good News.  The full day students will play addition bump, cover it and Kindergarten yahtzee during math.  They will begin a study of pond life and learn how frogs change.
Mrs. Reisenbichler (1-2)
Spring break was refreshing for the children and teacher.  Now that we are refreshed, we have the privilege of celebrating the resurrection and learning more about the victory won for us over sin, death, and the devil.  In math this week the second graders worked with making change, and the first graders worked with using a counting chart to help them add large numbers.  A STEM project is also being started this week.  The children worked with bio mimicry in designing and making bird nests.  The first graders made posters inviting others to their pet show on Friday.  We also started building a community out of milk cartons.  It was a busy week.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In religion we will start the week reviewing the events of the Resurrection and finish the week learning about David and Bathsheba.  In reading we will begin the book, The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo.  In grammar we will be working with nouns.  In math the 3rd graders will work with measurement and multiplying and dividing money.  The 4th graders will be working with area of different polygons.  In social studies we will learn about Ohio inventors.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible time this week we looked at confession or excuses. In 5th grade math we worked with the area of rectangles and triangles.  In 6th grade math we worked with proportions and order of operations. We will take our Pre-Test 16 on Friday. In our Language Arts time we take a selection test on our story, “Nadia the Willful.”  We also worked on our writing skills by crafting a story about the life of a gum ball. In Social Studies we looked at the countries of Southern Asia. In Science we continued our study of plate tectonics. In Spelling we studied the word elements: micro-, mega-, and hyper-.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we will continue our study of Easter.  In 7th grade math the students are studying the probability of dependent events and calculating the volume of right solids.   In 8th grade math we are graphing pairs of inequalities calculating the slant height of pyramids and cones.  In science we are learning about the periodic table.  The students are building bridges in STEM.

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