6 Chapel at 9:15 AM, Staff mt. 3:30 PM
7 Science Club and Dancing Club until
4:15
8 Spelling Bee 10:30 AM, End of
semester, school dismisses at 12 noon
9 Father-Son Breakfast 8:30 AM
10 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
12 Science Olympiad and Dancing Club
until 4:15
13 Chapel at 9:15 AM
14 Science Club and Dancing Club until
4:15
Prayer Families
Jacey L. (P4), Jake S. (7), Maggie S.
(5), Michael B. (4), Megan B. (2)
Saint Salute
A
big Saint Salute to those students meeting their volunteer hours goal:
Alaina
S. (5) & Heidi B. (3)
A
big Saint Salute to those students climbing up on the AR Wall of Fame
Michayla
E. (7) 1000 points
Michael
V. (8) 1400 points
Russell
W. (6) 1700 points
Thoughts
Happy Epiphany! What is Epiphany? The
Feast of the Epiphany, or Manifestation (revelation) of Christ to the Gentiles,
is observed on January 6th. Epiphany comes from a Greek word meaning “showing
forth, appearance, manifestation, revelation.” The Feast of Epiphany proclaims
the good news that Jesus revealed God to all humanity. At Christmas the church celebrates the birth
of Jesus, when God entered fully into the human experience. The Feast of the
Epiphany takes the Christmas proclamation a step further, when the divine
revelation in Jesus was revealed to the world as the magi came from the east. The eve of the Feast of the Epiphany (Twelfth
Night) marks the end of the Christmas celebration. Epiphany is today, January
6th.
Important Dates to Know
8 school spelling bee is
at 10:30AM, School for K-8 dismisses at
noon
9 Father-Son
Breakfast 8:30 AM
14 Family Fun Night –
Rollerskating 6-7:30 PM
Dancing Club Starts
The
Dancing Club for grades 1-4 is on Tuesdays.
Students in grades 5-8 may attend on Thursdays.
Enrollment for 2016-17
Enrollment for next year begins
today. Open House is Sunday, January
31. At that time, the community can
begin to register. All enrollments are
on a first-come, first-served basis starting Jan. 31. Please read the enclosed information that is
coming home with a child.
Family Fun Night – Rollerskating
The Family Fun Night is Thursday,
January 14 from 6-7:30PM at Castle Skateland in Loveland. Admission is free. You can either bring your own skates or pay
$2 per person to rent their skates. All
family members are invited.
Box Top$ for Education
We Have A Winner – The Box Top$ for contest ended
December 16th and the winner is….5th and 6th
grades with more than 46 Box Top$ per student.
Congrats 5th and 6th grades. Good job!
First grade came in second with 30 Box Top$ per student and Kindergarten
was in third place with 24 Box Top$ per student. You all did a wonderful job of
collecting. Keep saving those Box Top$
for the next contest. Watch the Epistle
for that date. With this collection we
took in 2,139 points for $213.90. This
school year we have collected over $400.00 in Box Top$. Way to go St. Mark’s students! Every little bit helps. Gil and Judi Schepmann, coordinators
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.
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. Registration
is due Thursday, Jan. 7.
Happy Birthday
6 Olivia J. (PK)
11 Jude T. (K) & Kennedy C. (P4)
Classroom information
Mrs. Frey
(P-3 & P-4)
Preschool
is excited to be back and learn about W for Winter! 3’s will experiment with
the color white in a color mixing activity and play a ‘dress the snowman’ game.
4’s will add snow to their pictures and create snowglobes. Both classes will
have a ‘wear blue and white’ day and pajama day. During Bible Time 3’s will
learn about Jesus as a young boy in the temple. 4’s will learn about Jesus’ healing
power in Jairus’s daughter. He is stronger than death!
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK & P-2)
Pre-K is learning all about penguins this
week! We are studying their life cycle and making a list of penguin facts. We
are using different shapes to build our own penguins and mixing up some
snow paint for our penguins to nest in. We will be practicing our
handwriting by writing the letter P in salt on our cookie sheets in the classroom.
We are learning about David this week in Bible and how brave he was even when
he stood against a giant because he knew God would protect him.
Pre-2 is
starting a study on Zoo animals. We will name different animals that we know
are at the Zoo and reading the book "Put me in the Zoo" and making
our own spotted leopards. We will also continue our alphabet book with the
letter J. J is for Jesus!
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
Happy New
Year and welcome back to school! The boys and girls are excited to
welcome winter and the activities associated with the season. The
class will study Inuits and igloos as they enjoy the classroom
igloo. They will also begin a unit about walruses and other arctic
animals. The Bible lesson for the week is the account of Simeon and Anna
meeting Jesus. They had waited a long time for the baby who would fulfill
God's promise of a Savior. During math, Kindergarten will identify coins,
review probability and play math games. The reading lessons focus on
informational texts about animals. The class will identify beginning and
ending sounds and blend and build words. The full day students will
research walruses and create an informational book. During math, they
will learn new math games which reinforce probability, counting on
and making 10.
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1)
Happy New Year! It was so nice
to see "my kids" on Monday. This week in Jesus Time we learned
about Elijah and Elisha. These were two great prophets who experienced
many of the same troubles we face today in sharing God's Word with others.
In math, we completed our scrolls in counting to 1,000 and work with comparison
stories using greater than, less than, and equal. The scientific methods
was taught so that we can begin work on our science fair projects. We
also started a new author's study on Phoebe Gilman. She likes to use
rhyme in her writing and hides illustrations from other books she wrote in her
illustrations.
Ms. Rhonemus (2)
After a lovely two week break, second grader are continuing to
hone their skills with persuasive writing while reading "Smart
Animals" and "Charlotte's Web." We are looking at 3-D
shapes and learning how to sort shapes based on attributes in math. For
Science we are finishing a module on Food Webs and ecosystems and then we will
be setting up a classroom experiment. This week's spelling list also
includes the many different ways we make the long "a" sound in
words. Seventh and Eighth graders are
learning about how the moon affects the earth and how the Earth moves through
space.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
Happy New
Year! In religion we studied two of Jesus' parables: the rich fool and
the lost sheep. In language arts, we began a new book, Riding Freedom,
and worked on possessives. In social studies we learned about Iowa (and
heard about Christmas trips.) In science we learned about natural
disasters and made models for a tsunami and seismograph. In math, the 3rd
graders finished a chapter on decimals and took a test. The 4th graders
began a chapter on long division. We finished this last week of the
quarter with a spelling bee and early dismissal.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In
our Bible time this week we studied how the tabernacle foreshadows what Jesus
does for us as our Savior. We also studied Korah’s rebellion. In 5th
grade math we worked with fractions and took our Unit 6 test. In 6th grade math we rounded
decimals, divided decimals mentally by 10 and 100, simplified fractions,
divided fractions, and worked with common denominators. In our Language Arts
time we worked on late and missing assignments as well as wrote a descriptive
paper on the orange. In Social
Studies we worked on the effect of history on the U.S. and Canada. In Science
we worked on our Science Fair projects and continued to study populations and
communities. In Spelling we worked through Unit 15 on words with the k and kw
sounds.
Mr. Mayo (7,8)
As
we get back to the routines of the classroom some of the students seem
comforted by a return to the familiar.
Others got pretty familiar with lounging around doing as little as
possible. We’re finishing up the
Revolutionary War and continuing our study of prejudice and courage, as found
in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Since it came out in 1960, it was such a
poignant book for the times. Did you
know that 10 different publishers had rejected it before one took a chance on
it, but had her re-write it for nearly 3 years?
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 adding
and subtracting negative numbers and calculating the circumference of a circle. In 8th grade math we are simplifying
fractions with negative exponents and converting rates. The students are in STEM.
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