National Lutheran Schools Week

Happy Lutheran Schools Week!
Here are the basic things you will need to know for the week:

Spirit Dress Days

• Monday - Comfy Day (please bring tennis shoes)
• Tuesday - Crazy Hair/Hat Day
• Wednesday - Dress Up for Jesus Day (wear your nicest clothes)
• Thursday - Favorite Team Day

• Friday - Make a 100th day shirt to wear on Friday Jan. 27th.  Attach or draw 100 things to a shirt to show off at our 100th day parade.   

Oatmeal Challenge
Our school will be collecting boxes of instant oatmeal with single serve packets to help hungry children in our area. This is part of Operation Food Search, where they send a backpack full of food home each weekend to needy children. The children return the backpack to be filled again. Please send boxes of instant oatmeal any day next week. The class that brings in the most, will get a little Emoji to clip on their backpacks. Thanks for helping!!

Math: 
We are beginning multiplication this week!  Starting Wednesday we will begin doing time tests for multiplication facts just like we did for addition during 1st semester.  The goal is that each child will MEMORIZE their facts 0-12 by the end of the year.  They will need to be able to finish 21 facts in 1:30 minutes.  Please help them practice these at home!  

Religion: 
Meet our Seminary student, Mr. Bartok.  Mr. Bartok is from Michigan and moved his family here so he can attend the Seminary.  Part of his course week includes spending 3 weeks in a classroom to learn some good teaching strategies.  He will be spending the next 3 weeks with us teaching the kids every morning for religion.  Please welcome him if you see him in our classroom in the mornings!

January 9th

Hello parents,
I pray that you are all staying healthy and warm this week.  I want to say a big thank you to all the parents that came for our Christmas party.  It is so nice that you all take the time to plan things for the kids!  Here's what is coming up this week:

Religion/Memory:
We will begin working our way through the Apostle's Creed.  I have put up the rest of the memory work for the year.

Math:
We are doing a unit on Fractions right now that will take us through the middle to end of next week.  I plan to stray from the book for a lot of the assignments and the end test as well.  Next week we will begin working on multiplication as well.  This will be something that we work on for the rest of the school year.  The goal is that your child develops fluency and speed with their multiplication facts 0-12.

Reading/Language Arts:
Currently we are looking at non fiction texts about space.  We will be working very hard on finding the main idea of paragraphs and articles that we read.  I am also having the kids do several writing assignments which will require them to use a main idea and detail correctly.  Most of this writing will be worked on in class so that I can conference and work through the difficult parts with them.  However, depending on the speed of their writing, some of it may need to be finished at home.

Social Studies:
We are joining Mr. Fishburn's class in learning about our country's government.

Science:
We have begun a new unit on Force and Motion that will take us most of the way to Spring Break.  A letter describing the unit in more detail will be sent home tomorrow.