October 12, 2018

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, Tuesday, October 16: Please have your child bring an APPLE to school on TUESDAY.  As we will be celebrating Johnny Appleseed Day.  Thank you to Erin Theobald, Sara Lombardo, and Meghan Owens for volunteering to help. We will start at 8:15-10:15ish.

Wednesday, October 17 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: Mrs. Horn, Mrs. Coad, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Gaffney, and Mrs Maddick.  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 24!

 

On Wednesday, October 24 we will be having a special offering.  In honor of Drew Albrittons’ 9th birthday, we will be collecting superhero items that 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 24.  Action figures, costumes, toys, movies, backpacks, Lego sets, video games, shirts, or any items with a super hero theme are all welcome. 

Service Party:  October 15 
We will be doing a service project.  We will be make care packages for college students.  Thank you for signing up for items.  If you haven't signed up there is room to still sign up. PLEASE  bring an item to include in the package ON MONDAY.  I want to put together 25 packages.  I need 25 individual packages of the listed items.  Thank you

College Care Package Sign Up

Parent Helpers for the Service Project are: Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Owens.  Please help us from 1-3.  Thank you.

Red Ribbon Week will be October 22 - 26.

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, October 22: 

Wear red, white, and blue. T-shirts, regular dress bottoms

Tuesday, October 23:  

Wear your favorite sports team shirt. Regular dress bottoms

Wednesday, October 24:  

BRING SUPERHERO ITEMS FOR CHAPEL

Wear superhero shirt. Regular dress bottoms

Thursday, October 25:  

Crazy hair day. Regular dress code

Friday, October 26:  

Spirit shirt and jeans

Thank you to those of you who have sent me a baby picture.
Please send me the pictures by Wednesday!!

I am excited about welcoming our student teacher, Mrs. Sarah Duffy, on Monday.

She will be sitting in on some conferences if you would prefer her not to observe your conference please let me know.

I look forward to our conferences.

May God be a priority in your weekend plans,

In HIM,
Amy Bernhardt

A SNEEK PEEK AT OUR WEEK...

Optional Fundraiser in Friday Folder

We are practicing our new math facts with our partners.

We are excited about our new fact homework and take it very seriously as we work in our office.

We practice our facts in many ways.

We are unfreezing our stories by adding speech bubbles and movement to our characters.

Living vs Non Living Science Experiment

We have been working on rhyming words.

STEAM with our new Kiva Blocks.
Thank you for signing the papers so we could get theses.

working with a partner on matching rhyming words

Faith Family Prayer Time

We meet with our faith families each month.  This month we spent 15 minutes in prayer.  The prayer time was led by the 6th,7th,and 8th graders.

We made scientific poster to show what a plant needs.

Look at our Science Presentations...

We played 10 Commandment Memory Match 

We are working on fluency by reading like we talk with a partner.

We studied Dale Chihuly this week.
We look forward to see some of his art at the Botanical Gardens next week.

We colored plastic cups and plates...

 ...then we melted the plastic...

...last we molded the melted plastic.

Check out our 'glass; sculptures inspired by Dale Chihuly
in the hallway!

We worked on problem solving by covering designs with pattern blocks in many different ways.