Mrs. Bernhardt's First Grade: December 12, 2025

1st/2nd Grade Advent Service

We are working on our Advent Service. We continue to practice our special Bible verse part and songs.

-Our Advent services will be Wednesday, December 17th in the Zion Sanctuary.

-The students will be leading the Advent chapel during school at 10 am . For the morning service Christmas shirts are welcome, but please keep designs simple and appropriate for church. Avoid humorous, loud, or overly distracting images. Subtle Christmas tops—trees, snowflakes, nativity themes, or classic patterns—are great. Regular uniform bottoms are still required. If you’re unsure about a shirt, a red or green polo works well. All dress-up days are optional; regular uniform dress is always fine.

Students may wear Christmas accessories on Wednesday, but they will remove them for the morning service and may put them back on afterward.

-Students will also be leading the church service at the 7 pm service that evening. Please have your child arrive at 6:45 p.m. in the church basement. Teachers will not be in the church basement until this time, so please stay with your child until a teacher arrives. Students will need to be wearing standardized dress or church clothes. No jeans please. Please keep your child's coat and belongings with you because after the service you will be meeting your child in the narthex/welcome center area near the sanctuary.

-Your child will need to be in attendance at both services; parents and family are welcome to come to either service.

We will move to the front of the church to do our speaking part and song. I will take a picture that I will share.

I want you to know that it is harder to see the kids when you are in the front/side pews.

A Look Ahead:

Religion: Jesus is Born

Memory: No Memory

Phonics/Reading: lesson lesson 64 -ed lesson 65 -ing

Spelling- short vowels, blends, FLSZ, all, oll, ull, ck, sh, th, ch, wh, ph, ing, ang, ung, ong, ink, ank, unk, onk

Heart Words: many, any, been, into

Math: adding three numbers

Art: Christmas Art

Writing: informational paragraphs

Knowledge Building: Early American Civilizations-Incas

FRIDAY IS A HALF DAY WITH DISMISSAL AT NOON!

We will be having our class party Friday at 9:30 am. Thank you to parent helpers. We will be having different stations that will be run by our helper parents.

We will be making hygiene kits for the Bethlehem Lutheran St. Louis Food Pantry. We will also be playing games, making a craft and eating pizza, and oranges If your child doesn't want or can't eat pizza feel free to send them a cold lunch.

100 CERAL BOXES: We will need 100 empty cereal boxes by January 23. Please send in your empty cereal boxes!!!

A BIG THANK YOU to my dad, Paul Trinklein, for helping me finish spraying these last weekend!

LOOK FOR ALL CHRISTMAS ART TO COME HOME NEXT WEEK IN A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS BAG!!! Also in the bag will be your child's parent gift to you and my gift to them. There is a cupcake in my gift to them I included copy of the ingredients from back of the box for you to view. (it is peanut free)

I wanted to share an important update regarding our upcoming singing in church, originally scheduled for Saturday, January 31st at 5:00 p.m. The new date and time will be Sunday, February 1st at 10:30 a.m. Please update your calendars accordingly. Thank you for your flexibility!

Zion’s Bobcat Benefit is quickly approaching!

Mark your calendars for Friday, April 17, 2026.

As in years past, the Benefit Committee is looking to our Zion Family for support in our school’s largest fundraising effort of the year through classroom contributions. In the New Year, we will share more details about the item our class will be donating to this year’s Auction.

Thank you in advance for your generosity and support!

This week we learned that an angel are God's messengers.

An angel told Mary and Joseph that they would have a special baby and they should name him

JESUS, which means "GOD SAVES".

May we be God's messengers as we tell others the GOOD NEWS that Jesus the Savior is born!

Don't forget to light the PINK candle on Sunday!

In the Joy of Jesus,

Amy

If you are looking for last minute unique Christian Christmas gifts please join me at the Christmas Craft Fair at Immaculate Conception. I will be selling wood art work and floral arrangements.