Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: January 17, 2025

Last week I talked about the gift of a Christian Education. This week I want to tell you about another gift my parents gave to me, it was the gift of weekly worship together. When I was growing up there was no question what we would be doing on Sunday morning. We would be in church and Bible Study or Sunday School. We went to church as a family, 8:00. I didn't always like getting up for early church and many times as a teenager I begged to drive myself to a later service. But my parents insisted that we went to church together. I still remember being on vacation and finding a local church to attend. Yes, I think I would have rather got up and swam some more on vacation but on Sunday we went to church. Wow, what an impression. God is most important. My parents showed me that in their actions. God is worth one hour even on vacation. I continue to worship on a weekly basis. Jon and I try to always go to church as a family and cherish when our girls are home and we can worship together. I am thankful for the opportunity to worship weekly for it is in worship that God comes to us and fills us up for the coming week, where God forgives us and gives us new life, where we stand with the body of believers and are built up, where we hear God's word explained to us, where we belong. We are in a new year and a new quarter here at school, maybe weekly worship could goal for you this year/quarter. It would be a great gift to give your family.

A Look at Next Week:

NO SCHOOL MONDAY- MLKJr Day

Memory: John 3:16

Religion: Jesus calls His disciples and Nicodemus Visits Jesus

Math: subtractions stategies

Grammar:prepositions and objects of a preposition

Heart Word: because

Reading/Phonics: Lesson 67 Compound Words and Lesson 68 Open and Closed Syllables

Spelling: Lessons through lesson 55

Core Knowledge: Astronomy

Science: animal groups

Social Studies: leaders

Writing: information writing paragraphs

Art: Jim Dine

Instead of giving out offering envelopes please put your offering in the special offering box. Please return the box during National Lutheran School's Week. We will join all Lutheran Schools in the nation to support missions in Kenya, Africa. We will learn about the missions during Lutheran School's Week!

100 CERAL BOXES: We will need 100 empty cereal boxes by January 20. Please send in your empty cereal boxes!!! We are getting close have about 70 right now!

Mark your calendar: All students are expected to attend our singing in Church on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2 at 10:30 am.

100th Day Celebration will be on FRIDAY, January 31.

We will spend the afternoon doing fun activities with the number 100! Students will not need to bring anything special to school.

SCHOOL VALENTINES

We will be making our Valentine Boxes here AT SCHOOL!

Each child may bring Valentines to hand out.

Please include a Valentine for each child in our class.

We are asking that you DO NOT send candy or food to school with the Valentines.

PLEASE NO CANDY OR FOOD!

Our party will be on Thursday, February 13.

Please bring Valentine's to pass out at the party!

Thank you

Our Class List

Elaina Barrett Nora Reid

Rozlynn Samson Brody Cody

Clara Noah Charlie Ari

Quinn Levi Milani Luke

Ryker Ethan

If you have any extra Valentines Julia and Tyler, the cafeteria workers, would love to get some Valentines!

We welcome Lutheran High School Senior Maddie Kearns to our classroom. Miss Kearns is doing an education internship in our class. She will be with us 1:30-3 each day this semester. She wants to be a teacher and she will be helping in our room. We are thrilled to have her with us.

A reminder if your child is sick or absent school work should be pick up in the foyer cubby. If it is not picked up I will send it home when the child returns. If it is at all possible please get your child's work and help them do it. School policy states that missed work needs to be returned the in the number of days absent. Thank you for your help as we now will be working at a quicker pace.

We learned about the Kid's Heart Challenge after chapel. See the Friday Folder for more information about the Kid's Heart Challenge. Our School has a tradition of raising one of the highest amounts in all of Missouri. Keep the tradition alive and help share the love of Jesus with those who have sick hearts.

Enjoy the three day weekend. May worship be a priority for your family.

In HIM,

Amy

Dr. Bernhardt led chapel and shared with us our name is a BIG deal.

It tells us who we Belong to, our Identity, and we need to Go and tell others about Jesus!

Jesus in the Temple puzzle

We now have subtraction fact fluency with the same goal of 30 problems in 1 minute. We will continue to test on addition facts on Friday to keep them fresh.