Principal's Epistle

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

www.stmarksmilford.org            http://stmarksmilford.blogspot.com            

rreisenb@hotmail.com or stmarksmilford@yahoo.com

Calendar                   

24 Chapel at 9:15 AM

25 Science Olympiad until 4:30PM

26 End of preschool 2^nd trimester, Preschool field trip to Newport Aquarium

27 Parents’ Night Out 5-9 PM

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

1 Science Olympiad until 4:30PM

2 Chapel at 9:15, Preschool chapel at 1PM, Staff mt. 3:30, Science Olympiad until 4:30PM

3 Science Olympiad until 4:30PM

4 Iditarod introduction presentation for grades 1-8 at 10:45AM, Science Olympiad until 4:30PM

5 Science Olympiad competition 7AM – 5PM at Xavier University

Prayer Families

Emma M. (P3), Emilee S. (PK), Grace D. (P3)

Saint Salute

A big Saint Salute to those students climbing the AR Wall of Fame:

Ava B. (5)                            1100 points

Russell W. (6)                     1800 points

Jake S. (7)                           2800 points

Thoughts

            The Walk-a-thon was 4 months ago, so I wanted to give an update.  Here is a list:

ü  Basketball goal in parking lot – purchased and ready to erect

ü  Striping for basketball court in parking lot – ready when goal is in place

ü  Club fees (we have over 10 clubs and some need equipment) (grades 1-8) - Done

ü  Science Olympiad costs over $1,000 per year – help! (grades 5-8) -Done

ü  Mini iPads for kindergarten and preschool - purchased

ü  Kidney shaped tables for preschool - purchased

ü  Discovery table for preschool - purchased

ü  Market stand for preschool - purchased

ü  Outdoor play equipment – soccer goals, etc. (K-8) – not complete yet

ü  AR library books for grades 5-8 – ready to order as soon as list is ready from teachers

ü  Various other resources for grades K-4 – mostly purchased

Your donations have gone a long way.  Thank you!

Important Dates to Know

26 Preschool-4’s to Newport Aquarium

27   Parents’ Night Out

March 6  Grades 1-8 sing in 10:30AM service

March 6-11 National Lutheran Schools Week

Parents’ Night Out Babysitting
The 7–8 grade students of St. Mark’s school invite you to have a night out on Saturday, February 27, 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, 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? 

Position opening for 2016-17

St. Mark’s will have an opening for next year.  Anyone interested in aiding for Mrs. Frey Tuesday and Thursday mornings and for Mrs. Reynolds on Friday morning is asked to give a resume to the office.  This position will pay $30 for each morning.  If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Reisenbichler

Call issued to Mr. Tim Kollmorgan

The committee issued a call to be St. Mark’s next principal to Tim Kollmorgan from Trinity Lutheran School in Toledo, OH.  Mr. Kollmorgan visited last week.  We await his decision.

Box Tops Update

The contest ends today. I hope you turned in your Box Top$. Watch for the announcement for the next collection contest. We will have one more before the end of this school year. At this time 2nd grade is in first place. We will announce the winning classroom in next weeks

Epistle. Keep saving those Box Top$!

Science Olympiad

Competition is March 5 all day at Xavier University.  Several notes have been sent home.  The final note will be coming tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 25.

Enrollment for 2016-17

Enrollment for next year has begun.  All enrollments are on a first-come, first-served basis   The enrollment fee increases March 1.

National Lutheran Schools March 6-11

March starts a celebration.  Here is a summary of what will happen on March 6-11

6          Grades K-8 sing at the 10:30 service

7          Dress in Words (sign up in hallway) & Prayer Pals

8          PJ dress day, Iditarod

9          Dress inside/out day, Make cards

10        Star Wars/Space dress day, care packages

11        Dress as a Bee Day, Grandparents/Special Friend Day

Winter Closings and Delays

Watch you email, wcpo.com, or channel 9 on the news for St. Mark’s Lutheran delays or closings.  We follow Milford’s lead on this matter.

Happy Birthday

24        Alexa N. (P4)

25        Emma M. (P3)

27        Bridget B. (4)

28        Addison B. (2)

Classroom information

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

Preschool is studying O for Ocean! 3’s will use streamers to create jellyfish and practice a crayon resist technique to make an ocean scene. 4’s will create shark hats, and octopus artwork. 4’s will check out the ocean life in action at the Newport Aquarium on Friday. Both classes will enjoy the parachute. In Bible Time 3’s will hear about Jesus’ meal with Zacchaeus, a disliked tax collector who wanted to learn about the kingdom of God. 4’s will hear about one man’s gratitude after ten were healed from leprosy. All of our blessings come from God.

Mrs. Reynolds (PK & P-2)

In Bible Pre-K is talking about Jesus feeding the 5,000 people with 2 fish and 5 pieces of bread.  We are learning about the letter Q. We will be making a paper quilt where each child will decorate their own square, making queens out of the letter q and using our handprints to make quails. We are also looking at rhyming words this week as well as opposites. We will be using Q-tips as writing utensils this week as we write in paint through plastic bags.

In Pre-2 we will be "washing" cars in the sensory table and building a town of our own with blocks. In Bible we will be looking at the story of David and Goliath and learning that even if you are small you can still make a big difference. We will use our fine motor skills by practicing making pretzels with play-doh.  Our letter this week is the letter P.

Mrs. Sherman (K)

What if you had animal teeth?  Kindergarten will have fun exploring that question and writing about the kind of animal teeth they would like to have!  During reading, the class will read fantasy stories about outdoor adventures, segment and blend phonemes and identify cause and effect.  At math time, they will measure with their feet, count on using calculators and play guess my number.  The bible lesson will be "The Widow's Mite" where the boys and girls will hear about how the widow trusted God to provide for her.  The full day students will play words games to improve word recognition and fluency.  They will also write sight words on paint bags, add and subtract as they play a Lego building block game and measure with smiles! They will read Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer, make predictions about what will happen to the character and "turn and tell" a partner the story details.

Mrs. Reisenbichler (1)

This week we continued to learn about the miracles of Jesus and see that He has power over the wind and the waves.  He also has the power to comfort us during the storms of our lives.  In math, the children learned about flat shapes and three dimensional shapes.  We learned to use quotation marks using our shapes in an activity called Quadrilateral Quotes.  Our winter stories are coming along.  Several children will be ready to publish their stories soon.  In Studies Weekly we completed our tour of National monuments.

Ms. Rhonemus (2)

This week in second grade we are learning about story structure involving characters, setting, and the plot.  We read Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble and learned about how sometimes you have to give in order to receive.  In math learned about organizing data and finding the mode, median, and range of the data set.  In science we are learning about energy sources as well as why we have leap years.  For social studies we are reading and learning about George Washington Carver, the Tuskegee Airmen, and we are touching on the Underground Railroad. In seventh and eighth grade science we are learning about the different kinds of telescopes and how we use them to learn more about far off galaxies and stars.

Mrs. Mayo (3-4)

In religion we continued studying the Lord's supper and then began the account of Jesus at the garden of Gethsemane.   We finished learning about pioneer times by reading stories in our anthology.  In social studies we learned about Alabama and Mississippi.  Heredity and diversity was the topic of science this week and we traced left or right handedness in our families.  In math the 3rd graders worked on multiplying and dividing in multiples of 10s and 100s and worked with money.  The 4th graders continued working with fractions and finding their equivalents.

Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)

In our Bible time this week we studied Samuel and Israel’s first kings. In 5^th grade math we worked with percents, fractional units of the whole, and dividing fractions. We also enjoyed our Unit 8 test.  In 6^th grade math we worked with parallelograms, fractions, exponents, and percents. In our Language Arts time we wrote our second persuasive argument paper. In Social Studies we completed our U.S. regional power points and began to study Central America. In Science we worked cycles of the Earth. In Spelling we worked through Unit 22 on words beginning with dis-.

Mr. Mayo (7,8)

We’re now delving deeper into the Constitution.  It is the world’s oldest such document.  We are amazed that in such a great country,  THESE are the best candidates for the presidency available to us.  We pray.  The class did such an outstanding job on the final test for To Kill a Mockingbird I just had to let you know!  I have read high school papers that didn’t show that degree of insight.

Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)

In religion we are discussing divorce and God’s plan for marriages.  In 7^th grade math the students are multiplying numbers in scientific notation and simplifying expressions using the order of operations.  In 8^th grade math we are calculating probability and the surface area of cylinders and prisms.  The students are building a bird feeder in STEM.