4 Chapel at 9:15, Preschool chapel
1PM, Staff mt. 3:30PM
5 Jump Rope Club until 4:15PM, School
Board at 7PM
6 Math Camp, $1 Dress Down Day
8 St. Mark’s has worship services at
8AM, 10:30AM, and 6PM with Sunday Sch. at 9:15AM
9 Last Strategy Club until 4:15
10 Jump Rope Club until 4:15PM
11 Chapel at 9:15 AM
12 Jump Rope Club until 4:15PM
13 Principal gone to meetings
Prayer Families
Kristen L. (5), Taylor R. (8), Haley
K. (7)
Saint Salute
A
big Saint Salute and thanks to Gil and Judi Schepmann for serving as Box Tops
coordinators for the year. We recently
received a check for over $400.
A
big Saint Salute to Grady H. (1), Carson H. (2) and Kristen L. (5) for reaching
their volunteer hours goal.
Notes
Five weeks ago a visitation team for
accreditation was at St. Mark’s for 3 days.
Here are some of their suggestions for improvement (not in any
particular order):
ü Perform an annual
financial audit.
ü . Use volunteers or paid staff to provide more
support if needed.
ü At the start of each
school year, a formal school professional development plan should be
adopted.
ü Research free and paid
membership to professional organization for every teacher
ü Adopt a formal salary
scale to determine where each staff member falls in comparison to district
guidelines
ü Adopt a formal plan to
have all curriculum maps completed by next NLSA visit
ü Find ways for teachers
to intentionally collaborate with one another pertaining to lessons, student
achievement, technology.
ü Plans for specific
training (CPR, blood born pathogen, first-aid,etc.) need to be incorporated in
your school staff development plan.
ü Develop a plan to
perform annual background checks for volunteers.
ü Secure the church
entrance.
Important Dates to Know
2-6 Achievement testing
6-7 Math Camp (grades 1-6)
Math Camp
Math Camp begins Friday
after school. Please bring your tents to school with instructions in the
morning. Tent pitching begins at 4:00. All participants help
with this process. This is a learning process for
children. In the event of severe weather or predicted severe
weather for the night time hours, tents will not be set up as no one will be
spending the night. Parents who volunteered to help with
set up need to be present at 2:30. Report to the teacher work room for
instructions. It shouldn't take long. If possible, please do
not pull your child for a few hours to go to a sport practice. The children
have strategically been placed on a math team. There teammates
will be counting on them. I'm sure the weather will be grand, and
everyone will have a fabulous time.
New Box Top$ leader!!!
Now we have
grades 5 & 6 in the lead with more than 10 Box Top$ per student.
Kindergarten is in second with 5 Box Top$ per student. Grades 3 & 4 are
close behind with 4.6 Box Top$ per student. Keep collecting and remember the
contest ends May 18, 2016.
Judi and Gil Schepmann, coordinators
Judi and Gil Schepmann, coordinators
Tuition for May
All tuition payments must be paid by
May 10. Students will not be allowed to
attend after May 10 unless payment in full has been made. 8th graders will not be allowed to
attend graduation unless tuition is paid in full. This does not apply to those families on
auto-deduct.
Achievement Testing
St. Mark’s will not be taking the
PARCC like last year. The students in
grades 1-8 are taking the Terra Nova achievement tests this week. This is an
updated test similar to the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Parents will receive a summary copy when the
results are known.
Yearbooks for Sale
Yearbooks
for 15-16 are on sale for $12 each. You
will have at least 48 color pages of wonderful and memorable pictures. To order send a check made to St. Mark’s. Since we are using a different company this
year, no special options are available (like name on front, personal note,
etc.). Order forms have been distributed
and are also available in the hallway.
Yearbook ad and
love-lines
Love
lines for the yearbook can be reserved using the form being sent home. Also, ads for the yearbook are
available. See the office.
Yearbook pictures needed
Any and
all pictures for the yearbook can be sent to stmarksmilfordphotos@gmail.com
Happy Birthday
5 Elijah
K. (3)
8 Ethan
S. (8)
Classroom information
Mrs. Frey (P-3 & P-4)
Preschool is reviewing
letter M for Mom! We will discuss what makes a Mom special and create special
Mother’s Day presents. We will read “Are You My Mother?” and talk about the
jobs that animal mothers have. Both classes will end the week with a special
celebration to honor their Mothers and Grandmothers. In Bible Time 3’s will
learn about how God cares for all creatures great and small. 4’s will hear the
account of Phillip spreading the Gospel to an Ethiopian man. It is our job as
well to tell others about God’s love!
Mrs.
Reynolds (PK & P-2)
This week Pre-K is preparing for our mother's
day party on Thursday and making gifts for our moms. Our classroom butterflies
have all come out of their chrysalis and we will be observing them and letting
them free this week. We are reviewing alphabet letters and their sounds this
week. Our Bible story for the week is the story of Phillip. Pre-2 is working with the theme of
"Under the Sea" we will be reading books on sea life and reading the
story of "Shipwrecked" from our Bible book about the storm that Jesus
calmed when He and His disciples were on a boat. We will also practice our
fishing skills in our water table and working on the alphabet letter Z for
zebra.
Mrs.
Sherman (K)
Kindergarten's rainforest adventure
continues as they read and write about animals that live in the different
layers of the rainforest. They will create howler monkeys and blue morpho
butterflies to add to the class rainforest. At Bible time, the class will
learn how God promises to be with us during difficult times as they listen to
the account of Paul being shipwrecked. During math, the class will tell
time, add and subtract. The full day students will measure, count money,
clap syllables and more as they rotate through rainforest themed math and
literacy centers. They will also learn interesting facts about sloths!
Mrs.
Reisenbichler (1)
This week we continued our study of
the parables of Jesus. One of our
favorites was what I like to call the Parable of the Forgiving Father. Testing went well and wasn’t very long. The children spent larger amounts of time
this week writing their science based story.
I am very pleased with the good writers the grace our room. In math we reviewed math concepts learned
earlier.
Ms. Rhonemus (2)
This week the second graders have been
working hard while taking the Terra Nova test. In addition to testing
they have been continuing to work with money and area in math as well as
learning how to build a kite as part of our reading curriculum. We read a
story about how two children become friends and build a kite together so then
the class worked on building a kite while following the directions in the book.
We also continuing to watch our tadpoles grow and it seems as though one
of them has a full set of back legs now which is very exciting. Seventh
and eighth graders are now learning about work and simple machines.
Mrs. Mayo (3-4)
Most of the
mornings this week were spent taking achievement tests. We looked forward to
celebrating the end of the tests at Math Camp on Friday. In religion we
studied the account of Philip and the Ethiopian and discussed our call to also
tell others about our Savior. In social studies we learned about Utah and
Nevada. In science we shared our research on endangered species. In
math the 3rd graders explored arrays and equilateral triangles and worked on
multiplying by 2 digits. The 4th graders compared population data and
multiplied decimals.
Mr. Postenrieder (5-6)
In our Bible
time this week we finished our study of Solomon building the temple. We also
looked at Rehoboam and Jeroboam. In 5th grade math we worked with capacity,
weight, and surface area. We also reviewed for our Unit 11 test. In 6th grade math
we worked on algebraic addition of integers. We also worked with compound
experiments. The 19th pre-test was given Friday. In our Language Arts time we
wrote an expository paper on our favorite game. In Social Studies we continued
to study South America. The kids were assigned a country to present a power
point. In Science we continued our look at “Living Resources.” We continued to
monitor our bluebird houses. We also planted flowers in the small bed by the
school entrance. There was no spelling this week as we also took our
standardized tests for this year!
Mr. Mayo (7,8)
In Literature
this week, we’ll be looking at the media’s attempt to control our
behavior. Whether they’re selling
something or telling us not to text while driving, they ARE trying to control
our behavior, sometimes for our own good.
We’re trying to determine some effective ways to do that. We are also administering Achievement Tests
this week, in the mornings.
Mr. Reisenbichler (7-8)
In religion we are discussing addictions.
In 7th grade math the
students are solving equations with exponents and compound interest problems. In 8th grade math, the class is
calculating consumer interest and converting repeating decimals to fractions. The students are constructing a key ring
using a CAD program on the computer and them printing it on a 3D printer in STEM.
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