Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: January 24, 2025

We enjoyed learning our memory in sign language and then not even saying a word to 'say' our memory!

A look ahead:

Memory: Hebrews 12:1

Religion: Wild about Kenya- online mission trip for NLSW

Phonics: lesson 68 open/closed syllable words and lesson 69 words with ending-tch and -ch

Heart Words :woman and women

Spelling: through lesson 56

Knowledge Building: finish Astronomy and begin Habitat

Grammar: Prepositions and Objects of a Preposition

Math: review week

Math Fluency: subtraction and addition

Writing: Information paragraph

Science: NLSW activities

Social Studies: NLSW activities

Art: Jim Dine

Next week we will CELEBRATE our Lutheran School with National Lutheran School's Week- NLSW

January 27-31

National Lutheran Schools Week

Next week will be filled with special activities that include: a special whole school collaborative art project, special morning devotions and assemblies, fun dress days, special surprise gifts and a teacher swap.

Don't forget to bring your offering box on Wednesday!

We are supporting Global Kids Network

to provide Bibles to kids in Kenya!

The Whole School Art Show will be in the Welcome Center of Church the weekend of February 1 and 2! Plan to stop by before or after we sing and look at all the wonderful art!

All students are expected to attend our singing in church on SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 at 10:30 am.

Please have your child in the upper music room at 10:15, or right after Sunday School to warm up. Mrs. Kuhlmann and Mrs. Bernhardt will be there to help your child get to the room.

Class list for Valentines can be found on blog for January 17.

Important Dates:

January 31, Friday, 12:30-3 : 100th Day Celebration

February 42, Sunday, 10:30: Sing in Church

February 7, Friday, 9:15-12:00: Field Trip

February 13, Thursday, 1:45-2:45: Valentine's Day Party

March 14, Friday: Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day

Next week is a fun week to celebrate what makes Zion special and unique. Yes, we are strong in academics. Our schools scores consistently above the 75% on standardized testing and when our students go to Lutheran High (one of the most academic high schools in the St. Louis county with the highest average ACT scores in the county) the teachers at LHS comment on how well prepared Zion students are for upper level classes. Yes, Zion has awesome music programs and sport programs as well. Yes, Zion has teachers who are love Jesus and their students. Yes, Zion teachers are dedicated and continue to passionate about learning. Yes, Zion is a school family. But is JESUS that makes Zion special.

Here are somethings we do everyday

that you may not even know we do ...

We have a devotion leader who now at this point in the year says the invocation, leads the doxology, and extinguishes the candle after devotions...

...each day we take prayer requests and take time to individual pray...

...we have a prayer leader who says his/her own prayer

aloud before lunch...

...each month we learn a new lunch prayer to

sing after the prayer leader prays...

...each month we learn a new closing benediction that we sing to each other as we leave school.

These are just a few ways your child is learning to be a

disciple of Christ!

My prayer is that your family spends time in worship this weekend and thank God for the gift of Zion, a Christian education, and the blessing of your child being surrounded by Jesus love and disciples who are passionate to teach him/her to be a disciple and witness of Christ.

In HIM,

Amy