2 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Staff mt. 3:30 PM
3 Science Club and Stacking Club until
4:15
4 Picture money due or pictures due,
Scripts orders due
6 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
8 Science Olympiad and Stacking Club
until 4:15
9 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Preschool staff
mt. 3:30 PM
10 Science Club and Stacking Club until
4:15, School Board 7PM
11 K-2 Field trip 8:45 AM
Prayer Families
Fischer S. (P4), Hunter S. (P4), Avery
L.(P3), Emma L. (P4)
Saint Salute
A
big Saint Salute and thanks to the Student Council for decorating the school
hallway
A
big Saint Salute to those students moving up on the AR Wall of Fame
Ian
S. (3) 300
points
Markus
V. (5) 1400 points
Thoughts
What is Advent? The word 'Advent' is from the Latin 'Adventus,' which means 'coming.' Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year (in the Western churches), and encompasses the span of time from the fourth Sunday before Christmas, until the Nativity of Our Lord is celebrated. The first Sunday of Advent will always fall somewhere between November 27th at the earliest and December 3rd at the latest. The liturgical color for this season is purple. Like Lent, Advent is a preparatory season. It has significance because it is a season of looking forward and waiting for something greater; both for the annual celebration of the event of Christ's birth, and for the time when Christ will come again. It is observed so that Christians are able to prepare themselves worthily to celebrate the anniversary of the Lord's coming into the world as the incarnate God of love, and to make themselves ready for His final coming as judge, at death and at the end of the world.
Important Dates to Know
4 Picture money or pictures due, Scripts orders due
12 Parents’ Night Out
5-10 PM
15 Preschool Christmas program 6:30 PM
17 Grades 1-8 Christmas
Music Program 7PM
Parents’ Night Out
Parents’ Night Out Babysitting Fundraiser—December 12
The 7–8 grade students of St. Mark’s school invite you to have a night out on Saturday, December, 5:00–10:00 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, 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? This is a great time to do that Christmas shopping.
The 7–8 grade students of St. Mark’s school invite you to have a night out on Saturday, December, 5:00–10:00 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, 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? This is a great time to do that Christmas shopping.
Student Council
Student Council is sponsoring a
Christmas ornament contest. Students may
make their original ornament and enter it by Dec. 4. No kits allowed.
Box Top$ for Education
BOX TOP$
COLLECTION UPDATE – We have a leader in the Box Top$ collection contest – 5th
and 6th grades. They have
collected over 29 Box Top$ per student.
The next leading classroom is 3rd and 4th grades
with 1st grade in third place.
Keep those Box Top$ coming in before December 16th only two
weeks away. Remember to ask relatives
and friends to save the Box Top$ for your classroom. Keep them coming!
Photos needed for
yearbook
Your photos are needed by the yearbook
staff to help make this year’s yearbook the best possible. To help parents pass these photos that they
take all the time at school, a special email account has been established to
gather pictures only. Staff and parents
are invited and encouraged to attach great pictures to an email and send it to stmarksmilfordphotos@gmail.com.
Thanks for your help.
Scripts Gift Cards Helps
St. Mark’s
Many families choose to purchase gift
cards during the holiday season. Why not
receive the gift cards that you wish without having to leave the house? When you purchase through the school, you
received the full value of the card plus St. Mark’s receives the percent listed
on the order sheet. Orders are due Dec.
4 and will be received by Dec. 9. Make
checks payable to St. Mark’s Lutheran School.
The Cookie Walk is back!Saturday, December 12th 9AM-12PM
Father-Son Breakfast
The Family Ministries
committee of St. Mark’s will be hosting a Father-Son breakfast on Saturday,
January 9. Caleb Miller, a formal
Bengal, will be the presenter. Please
mark this date on your calendar. More information
will be coming.
Happy Birthday
6 Lilly P. (P4)
Classroom information
Mrs. Frey
(P-3 & P-4)
Preschool will focus on Gingerbread this week! We will read The
Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Baby. 3’s will practice
gingerbread lacing and decorate their own gingerbread man. 4’s will create
gingerbread ornaments and write a class book about the gingerbread man. In
Bible Time we will continue to learn about the events surrounding the birth of
Jesus through our practices for the Christmas program. He is the reason for the
season!
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK & P-2)
This
week Pre-2 is starting a new theme of Christmas and Jesus' birth. We will be
learning "Away in a manger" and reading the nativity story. We are
also continuing our alphabet book with the letter G and starting our Christmas
crafts. Pre-k is learning the letter G
and talking about Giving this week. We will talk about how Jesus was the
greatest giver of all for sacrificing His life for us. We are also reading
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and discussing how even the Grinch
learned that giving was more important than receiving. We are making
gingerbread men and counting the number of decorations we put on them and
measuring different items in the room with wrapping paper. We continue to
practice for our Christmas program that is on December 15th. The students love
the songs we are learning!
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
After
counting our blessings at Thanksgiving, our thoughts turn to the birth of Jesus
and Christmas! At Bible time, Kindergarten will learn about Advent and
hear of the birth of John who prepared the way for Jesus. The
literacy theme focuses on books about weather and seasonal
changes. The class will blend phonemes, identify subjects of sentences
and ending sounds and discuss figurative language. At math time, the class will
learn about probability and play number card games. They will observe and
draw a Nutcracker during art. The full day students will begin a study of
Christmas trees in science and Mexican Christmas traditions in Spanish.
They will also measure Christmas trees, play ABC Scoot and an elf ending sound
game.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1)
This week the children learned about
the children of Israel returning to Jerusalem after the exile, and the prophets
that foretold the coming of Jesus. The children learned to write
directions in language arts, and they learned that adults often use imperative
sentences. In phonics we worked on the /ou/ sound and long e. Maps
were the topic in Studies Weekly. We had a lot of fun learning to
read and use maps.
Ms. Rhonemus (2)
This week in
second grade we are reading about ocean life and more specifically
jellyfish. We are also learning how to differentiate between fact and
opinion through text and conversation. In grammar we are working on
contractions and focusing on the tense of the verb while in writing we are
learning how to write instructions. We also learned about food chains
found in nature and we made our own model food chains. Seventh and Eighth graders are learning about
the scientific method and how to write a science report for the science fair in
March.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
In
religion we'll study the parable of the rich fool and talk about where our
focus is. In reading, we're beginning the book, Catwings. In
grammar we're working on common, proper, singular, and plural nouns. In
social studies we'll learn about Wisconsin and Michigan. Oceans and
waterways will be our focus in science. In math the 3rd graders will work
on numbers to millions. The 4th graders will work on estimating in
multiplication and review several ways to do multiplication.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In
our Bible time this week we completed our study of the relationship between
Jethro and Moses. We also looked at The Tent Church. In 5th grade
math we worked with percent graphs and enjoyed our Unit 5 test! In 6th
grade math we worked with equivalent fractions, compared and divided decimals,
and we enjoyed our 8th test. In our Language Arts time we continued
working on a paper about our favorite pet. We also built our vocabulary and
read more of The Face in the Besseldorf
Funeral Parlor. In Social Studies we learned about the physical geography
of the United States and Canada. We also learned the provinces of Canada. In
Science we looked at how technology affects society and both positively and
negatively. We also began to work on growing flowers for our flower beds. We
also had a regular week of Spelling.
Mr. Mayo (7,8)
In
History this week, we talked about how to set up a government. We’re taking a look at the Continental
Congress, and realizing they gave themselves too little power. At a time when “less government” has become a
mantra, it’s interesting to see a time in our history where less government
wasn’t such a good thing. Our study of
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
continues. We’re at the point in the
novel where integrity, the ability to match up your words and actions, becomes
important. I hope it is always so with
the students we teach.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we are studying how God gives
us blessings and what we are to do with them. In 7th grade math the students are evaluating
math problems according to the order of operations and solving ratio problems. In 8th grade math we are converting
measures and studying angle relationships.
The students are launching straw rockets in STEM.
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