23 Chapel at 9:15 AM
24 Runners’ Club until 4 PM, Family
Fun Night 6:30-7:30 PM
25 Principal’s mt. in Dayton
27 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
29 Runners’ Club until 4PM
30 Chapel at 9:15AM
1
Runner’s Club until 4 PM, School Bd. mt. at 7PM
Prayer Families
Makayla J. (P4), Liam D. (P4), Claire
F. (P4)
Saint Salute
A big Saint Salute to those students reading
up the AR Wall of Fame
Aaron
A. (6) 600 points
Maggie
S. (5) 900 points
Notes
How
important is technology to your child’s life?
What your child does on a school computer, iPad, phone, etc. is the
parent’s business. Children
should be unequivocally informed that the computer (or iPad, or phone) does NOT
belong to them. It is the property of the adult that pays for it. They are to
use it within very strict parameters and anything outside of those parameters
is not tolerated and will result in loss of use. Period. A child can get into trouble real quick if
not monitored. As children get older,
they will become more and more involved with technology and social media. As
such, parents need to be vigilant and set limits and constraints that are to be
strictly followed. All screens should be used in a family area and NO ONE
should be allowed to be on a computer or any similar device without an adult
present and nearby. No exception, even if that makes life tough for the
parents. Employ any parental safeguards available. If your kids play video games - set time
limits and stick to them. 30 minutes means 30 minutes - and if you return in 35
minutes and the game is not shut down - the privilege is revoked and screen
time is lost for a week (or more). Make your children responsible for their
time. If they are old enough to play the game, they are old enough to watch the
clock. With any privilege, including video games, comes
responsibility. Same goes for the TV.
Important Dates to Know
24 Family Fun Night
6:30-7:30
14 Half day of school,
Dismiss at noon for K-8
15-16 No school –
Teachers’ Conference
23 Walk-a-thon
Nov. 5-6 Picture Day
Lunch orders for October
due Thursday, Sept. 24
September tuition is now
due
Family Fun Night
St.
Mark’s has a family fun night every two months in place of a PTA meeting. All families and their members, whether
students or not, are invited for a one hour presentation starting at 6:30 PM in
the Fellowship Hall on Thursday, September 24.
We will be having a special guest that night. A beekeeper will bring a live bee colony and
explain it to the families. A snack will
also be part of the night.
Box Tops for Education
BOX TOPS NEWS –
We have had a wonderful response to the BOX TOPS collection! Keep them coming! Today, Sept. 23rd, marks the end
of our first contest to see which classroom will collect the most per
student. At this writing 7th
& 8th grade room is in the lead with 43 BOX TOPS per
student. Way to go 7th &
8th grades! The 5th
& 6th grade room follows with 21 per student, with Kindergarten
in 3rd place closely followed by 1st grade. The winner will be announced in next weeks PRINCIPAL’S EPISTLE.
Thanks
to everyone who has been trimming the BOX TOPS.
We appreciate your help. Watch
the Epistle for the next contest deadline.
School Sweatshirt Order
St. Mark’s will again this year offer
sweatshirts for sale at our cost. All
youth sizes are $15 each while adult sizes are $19 each. An XXL costs $22. Order forms are being sent home and are also
available in the school hallway. Orders
are due Oct. 9. These make great
presents.
Happy Birthday
26 Paul P. (2), Reece A. (P2)
27 Mrs. Sherman, Gus H. (P4), Hailey D.
(P4)
29 Kaitlyn B. (1)
30 Jack H. (4)
Classroom information
Mrs. Frey
(P-3 & P-4)
Preschool will have fun
with Letter A for Apples this week! We are excited to taste-test apples, graph
our results, and use apples as stamps. We will fill our sensory table with
apple pie scented mix and pie tins to create our own apple pies. We will also
enjoy playdough scented with Apple Pie spice at Table Time. One of our story
time books is Dr. Seuss’ Ten Apples Up On Top, which will help us learn
to count apples. At Bible Time we will hear the account of Abraham and Sarah
and learn how they trusted God and moved to their new home in Canaan. They were
blessed by God, and so are we!
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK & P-2)
In Pre-K we are learning about the letter H.
The theme of the week is Homes/Houses. We will be drawing a picture of our
homes and describing what we like about our homes. We will be counting the
number of people that live in our homes and seeing who has the most family
members at home. In Bible we will continue to look at the story of creation and
how God made us, people and animals.
In Pre-2 our
theme is turtles. We will be playing with green items in our sensory table. We
are learning to recognize our names at circle time. We will be completing peg
puzzles to work on our fine motor skills. In Bible we will continue to talk
about the Creation story and start working on creation posters.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
At Bible
time, Kindergarten begins a new unit, "God Blesses Families."
They will begin with the account of the family of Abraham, Sarah and hear about
the special plans that God had for them. During reading workshop, the
class will hear realistic fiction and informational text as they learn to care
for pets. They will finish the alphabet review, match beginning sounds
and name nouns for animals and things. The boys and girls will explore shapes
and use 10 frames in math. They continue studying weather as they
identify types of clouds, observe a rain demonstration and sort clothing for
different types of weather. In the afternoon, the full day students will
work in their math journals, create geo trees using shapes and play grab, count
and graph with leaves. They will illustrate and read the emergent reader
"Our Colorful Fall."
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1)
This week in Jesus Time we learned
about Moses. Moses was God's chosen leader for the people of
Israel. We learned that following our leaders like parents, teachers,
coaches, etc. is not always easy, but with God's help we can honor our
leaders. In math, we learned about analog clocks and the hundreds
chart. We played board games and online games to help us practice these
skills. Our science mammal was the opossum this week. We learned
many facts about the opossum, learned a song about it, and learned to draw the
opossum. Adjectives were the part of speech of the week. We learned
that adjectives add sparkle to our writing.
Ms.
Rhonemus (2)
This week in
second grade we made mosaic bookmarks to help keep our place in our books while
keeping our books in good shape. We also continued to work on addition
and subtraction with a special focus on double facts and our +/- 9 facts.
In Social Studies we took a look at the United States geography and
measurement. We also continued to look at families and compare families
we read about to our own families. Seventh
and Eighth grade science finished looking at the cardiovascular system and the
lymphatic system and took at test over chapter 3.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In religion, we'll be continuing
learning about Jesus's first miracle. We finished reading Helen Keller.
This week we'll watch The Miracle Worker and a documentary about Helen's
later life in reading. We'll also explore braille and sign language and
make a time line about of Helen's life. Our state to explore this week is
New York. In science, we'll learn how matter changes and do an experiment
to make a polymer. In math, the 3rd graders will be working on word
problems. The 4th graders will work on adding and subtracting multi-digit
numbers.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In
our Bible time this week we continued our discussion of the relationship of
Isaac and Rebekah and the role God played in their relationship. We also
studied Isaac blessing his sons. In 5th grade math we worked with
chance events, estimating products, and the lattice method to
multiplication. In 6th grade
math we took our 2nd test. We also worked with rounding, estimating,
mixed numbers, average, and prime numbers. In our Language Arts time we
continued reading Summer of the Monkeys
and taking character notes and writing conclusion-proof paragraphs based on
those notes. In Social Studies we looked at different climates in various parts
of the Western Hemisphere. We will also work with climate graphs. In Science we
completed our first test on Science basics.
In Spelling we worked through our fifth lesson with a theme from
Proverbs 3:12.
Mr. Mayo (7,8)
We’re well
into The Red Pony, and we’re picking
up Steinbeck’s themes of life and death on a farm. Some of the students have more experience
with farm life than others. Their
insights are valuable as we discuss this book.
In History we’re learning why Europeans were looking for a faster way to
get to the Indies, and a way to avoid the merchants, as well. We’re learning of the Christian emphasis on
telling other people the Good News as well.
It wasn’t ALL about money.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we are studying how we fit
in God’s plan. In 7th grade
math the students are finding perimeter and calculating square root. In 8th grade math we are studying
polygons and triangles. The students are
learning to writie directions in communicating a project in STEM.
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