October 13, 2017

Practicing in the balcony for leading the singing this Sunday.

WE SING THIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 15 at 10:30 in church.  .  Children will need to be in the upper choir room at 10:20 or right after Sunday School.  

The class will come down to the children's message 

and will sit with you for the rest of the service.

Please stand to help you child see you, thank you.

A Look Ahead:

Next week is a short week.  

There is no school on Thursday and Friday.

PARENT CONFERENCES ON THURSDAY - I look forward to meeting with you.  Please keep me on time by knocking on my door at your scheduled time!

Friday is our Fall Break. ENJOY!!

A look ahead:

Memory: NO Memory

Religion: Apple Trinity Lesson

Reading and Writing:  We will focus on Apple themed activities 

We will read a biography of Johnny Appleseed and the we will write a statement sentence about Johnny Appleseed.

Spelling: THERE WILL BE NO SPELLING NEXT WEEK

Johnny Appleseed Day, October 18: Please have your child bring an APPLE to school on TUESDAY.  As we will be celebrating Johnny Appleseed Day.  Thank you to Christine Kvet, Jenny Eickhorst, Emily Schmidt, Laura Arens, and Megan Lay for volunteering to help. We will start at 8:15-10ish.

Wednesday, October 18 is our Field Trip.

We will be doing a garden class about seeds, eating lunch, and doing a self tour at the MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN.  We also will be looking at the Chihuly art found at the garden.  

Children should wear the RED ZION T-SHIRT and uniform bottoms. Please dress for the weather and walking.  We will be outside most of the time. Please BRING A SACK LUNCH, no peanut or peanut butter please.  Please pack your child's lunch is something that can be thrown away as we can't carry a lunch box with us in the garden. 

We plan to eat in the provided room inside after the class then go on a self guided tour.  We will return to school around 2:30.

Thank you to the chaperones: Melissa Halbruegge, Laura Hugo, Bethany Coad, Abbey Wagoner, and Emily Schmidt.  You are welcome to join us for chapel or come at 8:30.  We will be leaving right after chapel at 8:45.

 WE ALL READY HAVE SOME TOYS IN OUR BIN!

Feel free to send the toys in early and we will take them to chapel on October 25!

Our offerings this year are going to Friends of Kids with Cancer.  

On Wednesday, October 25 we will be having a special offering.  

In honor of Drew Albrittons’ 8th birthday, we will be collecting superhero items and all donations will be delivered to Friends of Kids with Cancer.

Drew was a preschooler here at Zion who bravely fought cancer and now is with the biggest superhero of all, Jesus! 

Please bring your superhero items to chapel on Wednesday October 25.

Action figures, costumes, toys, movies, backpacks, Lego sets, video games, shirts, or any items with a super hero theme are all welcome.

Fall Party:  October 27 We will be doing a service project.  We will be make care packages for college students.  PLEASE HELP by going to the link and sign up to bring an item to include in the package.  I want to put together 25 packages.  I need 25 individual packages of the listed items.  Thank you 

Sign up for Care Package Items

I could use a few parent helpers at the Fall Party.  Please email me if you are available, Friday October 27, 1-2:45. 

Red Ribbon Week will be October 23 - 27.

This is the week that people and communities unite and take a visible stand against substance abuse.  Show your personal commitment to a drug-free and healthy lifestyle through the symbol of the Red Ribbon and these fun dress days.

 *Regular dress code applies to all dress days except for the special day’s theme

Monday: Messy Hair day, Messy hair don't care about drugs. The students can come to school with messy hair.

Tuesday: Twin Day, Keep your double out of trouble. You can wear the same shirt or color as your friend.

Wednesday: Calling Drew’s Avengers! - Wear a Super Hero Shirt and jeans  

Please bring your superhero items to chapel on Wednesday October 25

Thursday: Lumberjack day, Chop drugs out of your life. Wear a flannel shirt.

 Friday: Red Day, In Christ I Stand, against drugs. Spirit shirt and jeans.

This week in Faith Family Prayer time we learned about the give Him 5 program.  We are challenged to spend 5 minutes a day praying to Jesus.  
We use the word FAITH to help lead our time.  

F-focus on Jesus and find a quiet place to be

A-ask Jesus to be with you

I-tell Him what is important to you

T-thank Him

H-ask for His help

Please visit the website www.givehim5.net for more information or if your family would like to participate.

I look forward to worshipping with you this weekend,
In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

A SNEEK PEEK AT OUR WEEK...

We continue to bring offerings for FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER.

We are learning about Dale Chihuly. He uses glass to create sculptures.
Many of his sculptures are at the Botanical Garden.

We colored plastic plates and cups .

We melted them in the oven.

We molded them .

Look for our Chihuly inspired art in the hallway soon!

In Science we learned about living and non living.

We observed nightcrawler and gummy worms.

Some of us really liked our night crawlers.

We wrote about our observations.

We found out about living and non living.

living non living sort

Centers

guided reading

word work

sentence

spelling

guided writing

working on consonant blends

Recess...

using shape blocks

10 commandment memory game

learning about words using poems 

We read "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!"
We learned about exclamation sentences.
We even made a pigeon.

We wrote sentence that the pigeon may have said.
Check out our pigeons in the hallway!

We learned about plants being living and what plants need.

We made science posters.

 We put everything a plant needs into a clear balloon!

We can't wait to see what happens!

We used non standard units (linking cubes) to measure things in our room.

We cheered on the cross country team going to STATE.