Dear Families, 

It was a great week and the weather was perfect for winter.  

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR P/T Conferences…THESE WILL BE STUDENT LED. Your student needs to be there. 

This Past Week:

This week we began our journey of Moses’s adventures.  We learned about his birth circumstances and how he killed the Egyptian and fled to Midian.  I am using clips from the cartoon Prince of Egypt and the old 1956 movie the Ten Commandments to show some parts of the story.  It might be fun to watch one of those movies at home too.  For Reading, we are getting to the end of our Mystery Unit.  The Jr.. detectives are working on solving cases with input from their crime solving partners.   In Science, we have had so much fun building our pinball machines.  The students have showed many clever skills.  We will wrap up our unit on Force and Motion next week. We are working on our Mystery Stories.  All Final Drafts are due Wednesday, Jan. 19 and they can be submitted for a writing contest.  Details will come home soon. 

Next week:

Christian Character Formation Project will read the Parable of the Farmer and the Seed.   Our virtue is DILIGENCE: God’s power for you to focus on your work. We will pose this question: How can you determine to grow a faith that is fruitful?

A peek ahead takes us on the saga of Moses and his journeys.  In math we will begin to prepare for the start of MULTIPLICATION.  (IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE A SET OF FLASH CARDS OF MULTIPLICATION FACTS AT HOME.  Dollar Tree has some.) This is our final week of the Mystery Unit and we will prepare Group presentations to present to our 2nd grade classes! In Science we will wrap up our unit, Force and Motion, and we will complete our Pinball Machines.  We will be able to play each other’s pinball machines at PINBALL MACHINE MANIA on Friday.   

Scholastic Book online order: RMQFW Due Date Monday, January 17. Then I will place all online orders. 

Spelling City: To practice, have the students go to this link..https://www.spellingcity.com/users/jcspl

Upcoming Events:

January:  

19 Wed Delta Kappa Gamma Writing Competition Story Due

20-21Th-Fr K-8 Parent/Teacher Conferences
21 Fri 1/2 Day of School 11:40am Dismissal (NO 3&4Pre-K AM Classes PM classes attend in AM

23-29 Sun-Sat National Lutheran Schools Week

FEBRUARY:
2 Wed Chapel – 3rd Grade (Clemens)
8 Tue Gr. 1-4 Field Trip to CUW

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Spelling– Week of 1/16

1.thumb
2.gnaw
3.written
4.know
5.climb
6.design
7.wrist
8.crumb
9.assign
10.wrench
11.knot
12.wrinkle
13.lamb
14.knob
15.knit

Challenge Words

1.  wrestler
2. bologna
3. cologne
4. honeycomb
5. knickknack

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Memory–  Week of 1/9

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Tests Week of 1/9

Monday- 

Tuesday- Memory

Spelling Pretest

Wednesday-   Mystery Story DUE

Thursday-Memory

Friday- Spelling Test