October 11, 2024

 

We SING in Church on this SATURDAY October 12, at 5:00pm!

We sing pre-service so it is important that your 

child is there at 4:45.

Please have your child go to the upstairs music room 

to warm up. Look for Mrs. Kuhlmann to direct you up the stairs, her daughter will be at the top of the stairs to direct your child to the music room.  The class will come down for the children's message and will then go and sit with their family for the remainder of the service.

 A reminder that I will be out of town this weekend for Mr. Bernhardt's great nephew's baptism.

NEXT WEEK:

Tuesday:  We will have a fun APPLE DAY and SERVICE PARTY packing college care packages. Thank you for the donations to buy the items for the care packages!

Thank you to these parents for helping: 

Please sign in at the office and meet us in our classroom at
12:30.

WEDNESDAY: FIELD TRIP TO MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN.  Thank you to the parents below for driving and chaperoning. If for some reason you are unable to drive or attend please let me know ASAP!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR FIELD TRIP

We will be outside the whole time so please dress your child accordingly!

Don't Forget...

-Each child will need a carseat.  Please send in your child's LABELED carseat on Wednesday.

-Your child should wear his/her field trip shirt, red Zion shirt that was given on the first day of school and uniform bottoms.

-Each child needs a sack lunch with a drink as we will be eating near Botanical Garden.  Mrs. Bernhardt and Mrs. Kuhlmann will collect all lunches and keep them till lunch time.

-Due to allergies we ask for no peanut butter or peanuts in your child's lunch.

 

Drivers please arrive by 8:15 to put the carseats in your car as we will need to leave right at 8:30 to get to our Botanical Garden class on time!

THURSDAY:  Parent Conferences, I look forward to seeing you Thursday, October 17. 

I have a full schedule, please keep me on time by knocking when it is your scheduled time.  

FRIDAY: No School Fall Break

 Red Ribbon Week:  October 21-25

This is a week where we celebrate being healthy in mind, body, and spirit.  Student Council will come in an give us a special presentation.

Please look at the special dress days!

Monday: Pajama Day (full dress down)

Tuesday: Movie Character Day (full dress down)

Wednesday: Superhero Day (dress bottoms required)

Thursday: 1980's Day (dress bottoms required)

Friday: SUPER SPIRIT Day (dress bottoms required)

Avengers Assemble!

On Wednesday October 23, we will be having a special Super Hero Day.  In honor of Drew Albrittons’ birthday, we will be wearing Super Hero T-Shirts with jeans or athletic bottoms and collecting superhero items that will be delivered to the superheroes at Friends of Kids with Cancer and they will distribute them to children and their siblings through the pediatric cancer treatment centers in St. Louis at Mercy Kids, St. Louis Children’s, and Cardinal Glennon hospitals. Drew’s family has donated over 3,000 superhero items, in the memory of Drew, to kids battling cancer.

Drew was a preschooler here at Zion who bravely fought cancer and now is with the biggest superhero of all, Jesus!  The Albrittons thank you for your support in avenging pediatric cancer in honor of Drew.

You may  bring your superhero items to school anytime by October 2, we will take them over to chapel on Wednesday, October 23.  Action figures, costumes, toys, movies, backpacks, Lego sets, video games, shirts, or any items with a super hero theme are all welcome. 

You may notice this week's spelling test grades are a bit lower.  We are done with review of Kindergarten and are starting new concepts.  If you noticed a lower grade you may want to start using the home practice pages in the Friday Folders.

Baptismal Birthdays

helping to lead devotions

We are enjoying the Fairy Tales and Folk Tales from other countries.

.Ho Gu Po from China

Little Red Riding Hood from Germany

Issue Boshi from Japan

Thumbelina from Denmark

We can't wait to see real Dale Chihuly

 art at the Botanical Garden!

Look up when you come to parent conferences to see our Dale Chihuly inspired art sculptures.

math fractions

sequencing a story

heart word practice

snake on a pole reminds us of Jesus who forgive all of our sins

subtraction word problems

fluency work

helping in the classroom

math shape sort

shape robots

October 4, 2024

Keep My commandments

John 14:15

in sign language

A Look Ahead: 

Memory:Joshua 1:9

Religion: Snake on a Pole, Rehab and the Spies

Core Knowledge: We are learning some fairy tales from different lands

Writing:  continued sentence work

Phonics: digraph th

Heart Words: they, their, were

Grammar: articles and statement and question sentences

Handwriting: lowercase letters with slants

Math: geometry 

Science: plant life cycles

Social Studies: maps

Art: Dale Chihuly

We SING in Church on October 12, at 5:00pm!

Please have your child in the upstairs music room at 4:45 to warm up. Please be prompt as we sing preservice. Look for Mrs. Kuhlmann or her one of her daughters to direct your child to the music room.  The classes will come down for the children's message and then RETURN to sit with you during the rest of church.  I will not be at the service as my husband's grand nephew is getting baptized that night out of town and we will be attend the celebration of his new life in Christ.

October 15: Johnny Appleseed Day and College Care Package Party

Thank you to the parents who are helping:

(I could still use a few extra hands in the afternoon for the Service Party)

Last call for donations for the college care packages.  Please visit last week's blog for the information on how to donate!

October 16 - Field Trip to the Botanical Garden

Specific information next week for the field trip.

Thank you parents who are chaperoning:

If you are chaperoning please look for an chaperone information paper in the Friday folder today.

Thank you that so many of you have already signed up for a parent conference.  If you haven't please go to Sycamore to schedule your Parent Conference.

Parent Conferences October 17, 11-1 and 4-8

Fall Break NO SCHOOL: October 18

We are working on math fact fluency.  

The goal is 30 facts in one minute.  Look in the Friday folder to see how your child is doing with the facts to 10.

Enjoy the weekend and make church and Bible Study a priority for your family,

Amy

A Sneak Peek at our week...Our class has collected $114.28 in offering 

and the school has collected $1,210.  

We have funded John 14 to be translated into the Kerewe Language!

Miss Steinbacher came in to teach us about the 10 commandments.

maps

puzzles are great with spacial relationships 

We had a great time making dragons!

Billy Beg's magical stick defeated the dragon!

10 commandment matching game

We ate all parts of a plant!

practicing being a Mathamagican

being the teacher

fluency work

Jesus is the only one who can fix our brokenness of sin.

word work

sentence building

articles

math facts

Pablo Picasso inspired Frankenstein's Monsters