Principal's Epistle

St. Mark’s Lutheran School, 5849 Buckwheat Rd., Milford, OH, 575-3354

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rreisenb@hotmail.com or stmarksmilford@yahoo.com

Calendar                   

30 Chapel at 9:15AM

1  Runners’ Club until 4 PM, School Bd. mt. at 7PM

4 St. Mark’s has worship services at 8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM

6 Runners’ Club until 4 PM

7 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Preschool chapel 1PM, staff mt. 3:30PM

8 Runners’ Club until 4PM

9 Special “fire” night with Student Council 7-8:30 PM

Prayer Families

Willy G. (PK), Gus H. (P4), Andrew B. (2)

Saint Salute

A big Saint Salute and great thanks to Mrs. Schulte for her love, comfort, concern, and care given to a student while they were waiting for a broken arm to be transported to the hospital.

A big Saint Salute to those students changing point clubs on the AR Wall of Fame

Thomas G. (2)           100 points

Calvin B. (7)              1300 points

Thoughts

            Why does a child have homework?  There are a multitude of reasons to answer that question.  Preschool children occasionally have “fun work” to learn how important it can be, to help the educational bond between the child and a parent, and to support the learning process that took place during their class that day.  K-8 may have some homework so the student can practice what they learn in school.  The student may also have homework because of poor choices they made at school – like not spending time when given to work on some of their work.

            So, what can a parent do to help this process?  I suggest letting the child relax for a little while upon returning home.  If your child wants to get started right away, let them, but monitor them to make sure it is going great.  Some students get restless when working on homework.  I suggest letting them get up and move to a new spot.  A planned break can also do wonders.  Solving problems can still be a challenge for any student.  As a parent, you could help your child make a list of strategies they could use when they get stuck.  Another tip is call a friend or the teacher.  One or the other usually works great!

Important Dates to Know

10  Parent’s Night Out 5-9 PM

14 Half day of school, Dismiss at noon for K-8

    End of first Quarter

15-16 No school – Teachers’ Conference

23    Walk-a-thon

Nov. 5-6   Picture Day

October tuition is now due

Extended Care for Oct. 14

If you need extended care for Oct. 14 starting at noon (when K-8 dismiss), please contact the office by Oct. 9.  PK and P4 PM classes will meet until 3PM.

Parents’ Night Out

Parents’ Night Out Babysitting Fundraiser—October 10
The 7–8 grade students of St. Mark’s school invite you to have a night out on Saturday, October 10, 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?

Box Tops for Education

BOX TOPS NEWS – WE HAVE A WINNER – The Box Top$ challenge to collect the largest amount per student has been won by the 7^th and 8^th grades.  Congrats kids!  They collected over 51 Box Top$ per student.  First grade came in second with 28 per student followed by 5^th and 6^th grades in third with almost 24 Box Top$ per student.  The 7^th and 8^th grade students will enjoy an ice cream treat for all their hard work collecting all those Box Top$.  They collected 672 Box Top$! 

Keep collecting those Box Top$ and watch the Principal’s Epistle for the announcement when we will run another contest.  You may want to save your Box Top$ until that time.  Thank you to everyone who sent in Box Top$!  We have over 21,500 Box Top$ that we are sending in for this early submission date.  Gil and Judi Schepmann

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

30        Jack H. (4)

6          Kinley M. (PK)

Classroom information

Mrs. Frey (P-3 & P-4)

Preschool is enjoying L for Leaves this week! 3’s will read Leaf Man and create leaf man puppets to retell the story. 4’s will create fall trees using Q-Tips dipped in fall colors. Both classes will bring in a fall leaf for leaf rubbings, leaf prints, and sorting by color/shape/size. This week our sensory table will feature a fall scene of acorns, seeds, leaves, pine cones, and other nature items. In Bible Time 3’s will learn about God’s faithfulness in blessing Abraham and Sarah with their son Isaac. 4’s will learn about the prideful people of Babel and the consequences of sin.

Mrs. Reynolds (PK & P-2)

In the Pre-2 class we are talking about ducks this week. We will waddle like ducks, sing 

"Five Little Ducks" and make a duck craft using the letter D. In Bible we will continue to talk 

about the creation story and work on our creation books!  In Pre-k this week we are learning 

about the letter A. Apples is our theme of the week! We are tasting apples and doing a 

science experiment with apples to see what different substances like pop, vinegar, and 

lemon juice do to change our apples. We will also be dissecting apples and making a list of 

what we find inside!! In Bible we are reading about the first sin and discussing how we all sin

but God forgives us and still loves us. 

Mrs. Sherman (K)

Fall has arrived and Kindergarten is enjoying learning about fall colors by observing a leaf experiment, painting watercolor leaves and making colorful fall trees.  In math, they continue to explore shapes and numbers.  They are learning about community helpers during reading and becoming pizza makers in the class pizza shop.  At Bible time, they are hearing about the plans God had to bless Abraham and Sarah with a baby.  The full day students will read about different jobs and sort tools that different occupations may use at work.  They will, also, identify words that rhyme with pin, complete letter sorts, play counting math games and read about fall!

Mrs. Reisenbichler (1)

This week we learned about the crossing of the Red Sea and how God provided for the needs of His people by giving them manna and quail.  On Monday, we celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday by making applesauce, making a list of adjectives to describe apples, and completing a packet of material.  We worked on mastering our high frequency words and improving our fluency in reading.  In math, the students were introduced to analog clocks.  The children also completed their crash course on phonics and will spend the rest of the year working on mastering the rules and skills.

Ms. Rhonemus (2)

This week in second grade we decorated our door for the door decoration contest put on by student council so feel free to swing by at your leisure before or after Sunday school to check it out.  In reading we worked on determining the author's purpose for writing while we read about how to take care of dogs and how some dogs take care of humans.  Meanwhile, in writing, we focused on using descriptive words during narrative writing so that the reader can picture what the writer is saying.  The second graders also learned about animal adaptations like camouflage which aids in animal survival.  In seventh and eighth grade science we learned about the respiratory and excretory systems and the students prepared advertisements that inform different age categories of the effects of smoking.

Mrs. Mayo (3-4)

This week in religion we'll be studying the account of Nicodemus and talking about the Trinity. We're excited to meet our pre-K chapel buddies this week and we'll be reading to them. In grammar we'll be starting on complete subjects and verbs.  In reading we'll be making a timeline about Helen Keller's life in words and pictures.     In social studies we'll be learning about New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  In science we'll hopefully make the polymer we didn't get to last week.  Then we'll learn about cells and the world as seen through a microscope.  In math the 3rd graders will be learning different ways to add and subtract.  The 4th graders began the week with a test and then will move on to multiplication.

Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)

In our Bible time this week we looked at Jacob and Laban and the troubled families they had because of sin. We also looked at how God has blessed our families. We also began to study the life of Joseph. In 5^th grade math we worked on comparing millions, billions, and trillions. We also enjoyed our 2^nd test. In 6^th grade math we took our 3^rd test. We also worked with fractions in depth. 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 were fired up for our test over chapter 2. We also began our study of cultures of the world. In Science we worked on solutions to problems we are having with our worm bin. We also checked bluebird houses. Measurement was our last topic of the week.  In Spelling we had our first review week with a lot of tests over words from lessons 1-5.

Mr. Mayo (7,8)

In History, we’re learning about how the Spanish treated the natives here in the “New World”.  While it was part of their mission to convert the native population, they didn’t go about it as we’d like to think WE would have.  God, Guns, and Germs seem to win.  I’m certainly glad we have different ideas about conversion NOW.

Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)

In religion we are studying how we fit in God’s plan.  In 7^th grade math the students are subtracting mixed numbers and reducing fractions.  In 8^th grade math we are studying the distributive property and multiplying and dividing fractions.  The students are learning to write directions in communicating a project in STEM.