26 Chapel at 9:15 AM
27 Runner’s Club until 4PM
30 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
1
Runner’s Club until 4 PM
2
Chapel at 9:15AM, Preschool staff
mt. 1PM
3 Runner’s Club until 4 PM, Preschool Parent’s
Night
Prayer Families
Kylie C. (K), Rusell W. (6), Isaac W.
(2), Rylan M. ()
Saint Salute
A big
Saint Salute and thanks to the Kluender family for organizing Rally Day last
Sunday.
A big Saint Salute to Liam J. (4) for making it
to the 600 Point Club and thus earning a special AR pin.
A big Saint Salute to Calvin B. (7) and Haley E.
(5) for reaching their volunteer hours goal.
Notes Many people make New Year’s resolutions. Since this is a “new year,” what resolutions
might parents of students make? Here are
a few suggestions. “I’m going to stay
out of the homework business unless my child asks for help”. You may decide not to drive back home to fetch
that forgotten assignment. Maybe natural
consequences will be the teacher. Some
experts state that letting your child “fall” is better than not letting them
fall. Someday everyone falls
anyway. Teach them how to fall and how
to learn from it. How many afterschool
activities will you let your child participate?
Most experts say one is enough.
Let them go outside and play. “I'm
not going to expect my child to excel, or even be good, at everything”. What are your new resolutions?
Important Dates to Know
25 Runner’s Club starts
Sept. 7 No School – Labor Day
Oct. 23 Walk-a-thon
Medical Forms
Medical forms are now due in the
office. If you are in kindergarten or 7th
grade, that means you are due for at least one new shot. Any other student whose did not receive any
new shots since last year, does not have to turn in a medical form.
Epistle News
The Principal’s Epistle will always be
published on Wednesdays that school is in session. The first two weeks, everyone will receive a
hard copy. If you wish a hard copy
starting in September, please notify the office. Otherwise, the Epistle will be emailed, made
available on my blog, and accessible on our school’s web page.
Box Tops for Education
Welcome
back to school! I pray that all of our
students will have a wonderful God Blessed School Year! Once again we are collecting Box Top$ for
Education. Clip and send your Box Top$
to school with your child(ren) each week and have your child place the Box Top$
in their classroom collection bag or container.
Each Wednesday when I am at the school, I will collect them and take
care of sending them in before each deadline.
Our first deadline will be Sept. 23rd.
With
this first collection we are going to have a contest to see which classroom can
collect the most Box Top$ per student.
That classroom will receive a special treat. Our winners last year were the 7th
& 8th grade room and the Two Year classroom. I hope they all enjoyed their ice cream
treat.
A
list of the products that you will find Box Top$ on will be by the school
entrance and in the Church Narthex area. Watch for BONUS points on your grocery
receipt and in the newspaper when they have special promotions. Be sure to ask grandmas and grandpas, aunts
and uncles, and friends to save their Box Top$ for you and St. Mark’s Lutheran
School. It is helpful if you would trim
the Box Tops on the designated line around the Box Top$. Gil and Judi Schepmann, coordinators.
Runner’s Club
Runner’s Club will include any student
in grades 1-8. Runners and walkers will
meet under the pavilion by 3:30. After
doing a few stretching exercises, we will run and/or walk laps. Each participant will count their laps
completed and record that number on a chart.
Rewards will be given upon reaching 40 laps, 80 laps, and 120 laps. Adults are invited to participate.
Pizza and Milk
Pizza is available on Fridays with two
options. 1) Pay $47 per student for the year for one kind of pizza. 2) pay $2 per Friday you wish to have
pizza. Parents are invited to eat with
us on any or all Fridays. Milk also has
two options. 1) Pay $25 per student for
as much milk as the student wishes to drink – including extended care. 2) Pay $2 for a milk card that allows a
student to drink 10 milks any time or day.
Lunch Room Helpers Needed
Over the last 3 years St. Mark’s has
been able to offer a hot lunch as an option for students. Helpers are needed to make this happen
smoothly again this year. If one or two
could volunteer to help on Wednesdays, it would be much appreciated.
Happy Birthday
30 Will N. (4)
Classroom information
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
The
Kindergarteners are making new friends and settling into the classroom
routines. At Bible time, the class will explore the Bible and begin in
the beginning with the account of God's creation. In the morning, the
boys and girls will name letters, sort letters using alphabet fruit snacks
(yum!), recite nursery rhymes and create a book, "The Color
Farm", during reading. They will compare lengths, graph the number of
letters in their names and countdown to zero at math time. In the
afternoon, the class continues to count to 10 in Spanish and learn color
words. They will complete several activities with the letters in their
names, make pattern block pictures and number towers. They will
also make a letter coconut tree after reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1)
Our first full week of school taught
us about creation, the fall into sin, and Cain and Abel. That is a
lot to cover in a week, so we got started our first days of school. STAR
reading tests were administered to those children showing signs of
readiness. The others will take the test within the next few weeks as
they become ready for the Accelerated Reading program. In math, the
children worked with number lines and learned the math station
rotation. We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Schepmann and Mr. McMasters
as helpers in our classroom. The children also started literacy
centers. OSMO seems to be everyone's favorite center at this time.
In science, we are learning about skunks and other mammals of the woods.
Ms.
Rhonemus (2)
This is our
first full week of school which is quite exciting. In reading this week we read “Henry and
Mudge” and focused the sequence of events in a story. We also worked on locating our short vowel
sounds. In art we learned about primary
and secondary colors while making a color wheel umbrella. For math we are familiarizing ourselves with
counting money, number lines, and analog clocks. Overall second grade has proven to be exciting. 7th and 8th grade
science - This week we dove right into levels of body organization and organ
systems. As part of the chapter project,
students are engineering a prosthetic hand out.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
For the first full week of school we
eased into doing all the classes. In religion we began with the account
of the 3 men in the furnace and talked about how that relates to the
Savior. In grammar we worked with prepositions: learning them in song,
doing activities, and playing preposition Bingo. In science we began
researching bees and will be writing paragraphs about them. We will be
learning about states and regions of the U.S. this year in social
studies. This week we learned about Maine and New Hampshire. In
math, the 3rd graders reviewed numbers, number grids, math tools, and graphs.
The 4th graders worked with points, lines, segments, rays, angles, and
polygons.
Mr.
Postenrieder (5-6)
In
our Bible time this week we looked at the creation and the fall with an
emphasis on sin and a Savior, drowning in sin and drowning in mercy. In 5th grade math we worked with
factors and multiplication. In 6th
grade math we worked on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole
numbers and money. We also worked with the order of operations. In our Language
Arts time we worked on the setting of our first book, Summer of the Monkeys. We also took some character notes. In Social
Studies we reviewed geography basics. In Science we reviewed what science is
and how it does confirm the Bible. We also worked on worm bin observations and
bluebird data sheets. In Spelling we worked through our first lesson with a
theme from Proverbs 17:17.
Mr. Mayo (7,8)
In History
we’re learning about the different cultures that developed in different areas
of the Americas. We’re also learning
about the sophisticated cultures of Western Africa. We know these two cultures are going to
change greatly as Europeans enter the mix.
We’re reading a story about a girl from a place that was part of the
Soviet Union, before it broke up, in 1989.
There are so many things we take for granted here in our blessed
country, including our ability to learn about God, and mention His name in
every class.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we are studying God’s
amazing grace. In 7th grade
math the students are solving equations and being introduced to sequences. In 8th
grade math we are solving word problems and converting measures. The students are building a buoyant structure
in STEM.
