January 27, 2012

                              “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”  Acts 17:28

Office Notes:

    * Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Feb. 8, 2012.

   * If you have any questions about Sycamore, plese contact Domenick Lucca @          

      dlucca@splseagles.org

   * Please keep saving the soda tabs for 5th grade mission – Ronald McDonald House.

Classroom Notes:

   *  Thank you, Mrs. Lassanske, for coming to our class with Grandmother’s Trunk.

       Excellent presentation, and the children loved making the corn husk doll after.

   *  Rhoads School – docent is coming on Jan. 31 to our class to describe life in the

       1800′s as a student. Field Trip Cost per student is $7.60, and needs to be paid by Fri., 

       Feb. 3. Information is included in the folder about clothing & lunches (paper sack)

       that are recommended to keep with the era of the 1800′s. Adults attending do not have

       to pay the fee, but need to be dressed in prairie style clothing too. A waiver is included &

       needs to be signed & returned on Mon., Jan. 30. It’s given to the schoolhouse docent. 

    * Orange pocket folders are being sent with the children & will travel daily with the assignment

       notebook. Orange folder will hold homework papers. It comes back each morning. It appears

       some have lost their original pocket folder for this purpose, & so we are adopting the all class

       orange folder in hopes this will help the matter.

     *Assignment notebooks –  parents, please only sign the notebook if you see the work. Work left

       left here is not to be signed off as seen. This continues through all of 3rd grade.

 Curriculum:

     * Reading: Beginning 3.2 basal reader with story “Night of the Pufflings,” & related activities.

     *  Math: Chap. 6 begins with division, and how it relates to multiplication.

     * Social Studies: People from Many Places – Chap. 6 starts.

     * Bible: Verse: Psalm 47: 1 “Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy.”

     * Spelling:  (vowel + r sounds in hair) hair, care, chair, pair, bear, where, scare, air, pear, bare,

       fair, share, farewell, flair.

     * Spanish: Review of work places and workers.

     * Art/Music: Mr. Schultz has been teaching the students several songs, and hopes to showcase the

      children playing the recorders in our class on Family Appreciation Chapel day – Feb.15.

    *Science:

In His Service,

Mrs. Mitchell

email: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

1/31 – Docent from Rhoads School shares info. at 9:00.

2/14 – Valentine’s Day – class list included in folder.

2/15 – Family Appreciation Chapel.

3/2  – Report cards go home with students.

  Third Grade

Jan. 20, 2012

                                                 “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·        Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Feb. 8, 2012.
• ·        If you have not received your Sycamore password & direction sheet you may request it in the school office.
• ·          Message from Mrs. Kennicutt: Save those soda tabs! The fifth grade’s mission is to collect soda tabs for the Ronald McDonald House.  They recycle these tabs and use the money earned for children that they are helping. Last year they were able to earn $15,000 due to people like us who gave them the tabs!!!Please send in as many as you can before Feb. 3rd as we will be volunteering there on Feb. 3rd. Keep collecting all year long as we will bring them more tabs in the spring.

Classroom Notes:

• ·         Rhoads Schoolhouse – field trip coming up soon. We visit the schoolhouse in Elk Grove Park on Feb. 7^th. Docent Mrs. Peter’s comes to class on 1/31 @9:00 to give info. to the students about their experience on Feb. 7.
• ·         Mrs. Lassanske, Madelynn Bennett’s grandmother, comes on Jan. 24 @ 9:00 to share Grandmother’s trunk from the San Joaquin Historical Museum.
• ·         If there are tests or special projects or other assessments done on days your child is absent, those will need to be made up, even now on 1 day absences.

Curriculum:

• Reading:   Story “Garden of Abdul Gasazi,” with related activities. Theme wrap-up in Unit 3.
• Math: Multiplying by 9’s, practice and review of 0’s – 9’s. Test – Chap. 5 Friday.
• Social Studies: Finishing Chap. 5. Draw-it assessment in class.
• Bible: Verse: I Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed.” Activity sheet is from NIV version. I’ll accept either version for the test.
• Spelling: (words are homophone patterns) hear, here, new, knew, its, it’s, our, hour, there, their, they’re.
• Spanish: Continuing in Unit 3 with “School.”
• Art/Music: Music – Mr. Schultz is teaching the children to learn songs that enhance the fingering on the recorders.

Science: This week we have been reviewing materials that magnets are attracted to and made some generalizations (magnets stick to metal – but not all metal). Next week we’ll continue learning about magnet strength and factors that can influence a magnet. To facilitate learning, ask your student what loadstone is (a natural magnet rock) and look on a map to find the North and South Pole.

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

2/24 – End 2^nd trimester.  Mrs. Lassanske comes with Grandmother Trunk.

1/31 – Docent from Rhoads School shares info. at 9:00

2/15 – Family Appreciation Chapel.

3/2 – Report cards go home with students.

`  Third Grade News

                                                                Jan. 6, 2012

                                                 “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·         Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Jan. 11, 2012
• ·         First school fellowship meeting of the New Year, Thurs., Jan. 19 @ 8:40 and 6p.m.

Classroom Notes:

• ·         Settling back into routine from a blessed Christmas, children are doing great using  the assignment notebook, as well as other transitions.

Curriculum:

• Reading:   Story “Mysterious Giant of Barletta,” & related activities.
• Math: Practicing here & at home will help students with their multiplication tables. Test on Tues., Jan. 10 – Chapter 4.
• Social Studies: Test this Friday, Jan. 6 on Chap. 3. Then begin Chap. 4 on Explorers and Colonies. Study guide went home with the students Wed.
• Bible: Verse: Luke 2:32 “A Light for the revelation to the Gentiles and for the glory to your people Israel.”
• Spelling: town, small, needle, tomorrow, kitchen, design, program, find, high, courage, insect, scurried, tonight lying, field, enough, seen, scene, rock, job.
• Spanish: Test on Thurs., Jan. 12.
• Art/Music: (Music – Mr. Schultz is teaching the children to play “Hot Cross Buns” with the recorders, & is checking them individually to earn color “belts” on a chart as they make progress.)  (Art- Praises Through Art – Master paintings include artists Currier & Ives, Paul Klee, & Picasso.)

Science: 1^st-4^th:

It is good to be back in science. I love the exploration and learning about God through His creation. We’ve spent this week just practicing our procedures and use of equipment. Next week we will be starting our Magnet and Electricity unit. Just a note for new families: we have a very hands-on science program here at St. Peter’s. Your student will rarely have homework. In the Friday notes, I will share what we have done and give suggestions for things you can do at home to further understanding of our concepts. Students keep all their work in a portfolio that goes home at the end of the unit. This will not only include their work, but ideas for home exploration and background information for you and your family. Due to feedback from last year, I will include the day they are going home. Evidently some students were not taking their portfolios home. I’m looking forward to a great year!

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

1/7 – Sat. Sycamore parent meeting 10 – 12 noon.

1/16 – MLK, Jr. holiday – school closed

1/19 – School Fellowship 8:30 & 6:00; Tacky Day

2/24 – End 2^ndtrimester

May the season of Christmas remind us of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and His love for us.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you from the staff St. Peter’s Lutheran School.

  Third Grade News

                                                                Dec. 9, 2011

                                                 “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·        Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Dec. 14.
• ·        No gifts will be exchanged amongst the children as in the past 3 years.

Classroom Notes:

• ·         Our Chapel program for 3^rd grade is on Dec. 14 at 8:40 a.m. Please set this date aside and come if you can. There will be refreshments afterwards. Children have worked long and hard on this reader’s theater play.
• ·         4^th Grade has invited us to join them on a field trip to the Roseville Maidu Indian Center on Mon., Dec. 12. We leave school at 9:00 and return about 2:30. We will not be going individually in the gift shop, nor stopping for any food items there or back. Cell phones must be left off when out of the vehicle. Drivers must have current proof of insurance on file in the office in order to drive. Sack lunches will be needed. Please let me know if you have a change of plans and can’t drive after all. Students are to wear their blue St. Peter’s shirts. Temp. on Mon. is high of 55 degrees.
• ·          Book Report choice list is included in folder. Your choice of project is due back on Jan. 6.
• ·         No Friday folder will go home on the 16^th.  
• ·         Transitions in Jan. include using the assignment notebook (homework packet is dropped). It’s available in the school office & will begin on Jan. 3.  Children copy daily assignments in it, parents see it and sign daily. Yellow markers are earned by the student for missing parent signature, & green for leaving the notebook home. Bible verses will be fully written out.

Curriculum:

• Reading:  Related activities for Robocat.
• Math: Multiplication tables activities: circles & stars, real estate, & arrays.
• Social Studies: 13 buildings children should know # 3- Notre Dame – Paris. (# 1 was the Great Pyramid of Giza & #2 is Parthenon.)
• Bible: No verse. Practicing for 3^rd Gr. Chapel program on Dec. 14.
• Spelling: (Pre-test on Tues. & post test on Fri., 12/16) List words: and, said, goes, going, some, something, you, your, friend, school, where, myself.
• Spanish:  Who works in our community?
• Art/Music: None.
• Science: None 

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

12/12  Indian Museum field trip,

12/13 ECC Christmas program 6:30

12/14  3^rd grade Chapel

12/16  Minimum day – noon dismissal. Have a blessed Christmas & a joyous New Year.

  Third Grade News

                                                                Dec. 2, 2011

                                                 “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·         Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Dec. 14.
• ·         School Christmas program for the Elementary grades will be on Thurs., Dec. 8 at 6:30 – 8. Please have children dress in their holiday best, leaving coats/ jackets etc. with parents. Plan to arrive by 6:10 to put costumes on. Meet inside hallway near Fellowship Hall. All of 3^rd grade is in the Nativity. Classrooms are closed.

Classroom Notes:

• ·         Our Chapel program for 3^rd grade is on Dec. 14 at 8:40 a.m. Please set this date aside and come if you can. There will be refreshments afterwards.
• ·         4^th Grade has invited us to join them on a field trip to the Roseville Maidu Indian Center on Mon., Dec. 12. We leave school at 9:00 and return about 2:30. Permission notes are included in today’s folder. Cost is $7.00 per child, and the same for adults that would like to go as chaperones. We will not be going in the gift shop, nor stopping for any food items there or back. Cell phones must be left off when out of the vehicle. Drivers must have current proof of insurance on file in the office in order to drive. Sack lunches will be needed. Please let me know if you have a change of plans and can’t drive after all.
• ·          Book Report choice list is included in folder. Your choice of project is due back on Jan. 6.

Curriculum:

• Reading: Story Dogzilla, with related activities. Also reading Charlotte’s  Web, a class novel.
• Math: Input – Output boxes, Candy Box research, practicing tables of 2’s, 3’s, 4’s.
• Social Studies: None. (Practices for Elementary Christmas program & 3^rd Gr. Chapel.)
• Bible: None. Practicing for 3^rd Gr. Chapel program on Dec. 14.
• Spelling: clown, lawn, talk, sound, cloth, would, also, mouth, crown, soft, count, law
• Spanish: Workers in the community (2.6-2.7).
• Art/Music: Christmas program practices
• Science: None 

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

11/23  Report cards

12/8  Elementary Christmas program 6:30

12/12  Indian Museum field trip,

12/13 ECC Christmas program 6:30

12/14  3^rd grade Chapel

Third Grade News

Nov. 18, 2011

  “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·         Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Dec. 14

• ·         Student Council set the next special day on Nov. 18 for the whole school to wear designated colors if you can.  3^rd grade has the color of Orange. So on that day if your student has an orange shirt for example, please have them wear it that day.
• ·         Report cards will be mailed home on Wed., 11/23. They do not need to be returned for this is your copy.

 Classroom Notes:

• ·         Sign-Up Sheet – Thanksgiving Feast: Nov. 23 – for the primary grades from 11:00-12:00, as we have done in the past, is posted on the classroom window. We need parents to help with set-up and clean-up too. If you could come at 10:30 to help out and plan to be here until 12:15, we would be very thankful. It counts for parent hours too. (Noon dismissal that day.)
• ·         Our Chapel program for 3^rd grade is on Dec. 14 at 8:40 a.m. Please set this date aside and come if you can. There will be refreshments afterwards.
• ·         4^th Grade has invited us to join them on a field trip to the Roseville Maidu Indian Center on Mon., Dec. 12. We leave school at 9:00 and return about 2:30. Permission notes are included in today’s folder. Cost is $7.00 per child, and the same for adults that would like to go as chaperones. We will not be going in the gift shop, nor stopping for any food items there or back. Cell phones must be left off when out of the vehicle. Drivers must have current proof of insurance on file in the office in order to drive. Sack lunches will be needed. Please let me know if you have a change of plans and can’t drive after all.

Curriculum:

• Reading: Finishing Theme 2 test.
• Math: Review of reasonable answers in multiplication, more relating of + and x.
• Social Studies: Compare & contrast Indian groups.
• Bible: 2 Timothy 4:17-18 (Test on Dec. 2) “I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom.”
• Spelling: Review words: lay, feel, hold, wild, might, paint, seem, patch, three, own, speak, need.
• Spanish: Places in the community (2.4).
• Art/Music: Recorders.
• Science: None

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

Third Grade News

                                                                Nov. 10, 2011

                                                 “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·        Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be Dec. 14

• Samaritan’s Purse: Boxes will be due in the classroom by Mon., Nov. 14, and the contents for the box can be brought in a separate bag that day.  We will pack the boxes in class Tues., Nov. 15, and take to chapel on Wed., Nov. 16. If you would like to make the $7.00 donation online, which covers the cost of postage, you will receive a receipt with a tracking barcode.  You can then track where your child’s box is going. If you would like to do this with your child, here are the directions:

                            *Go to www.samaritanspurse.org/ezgive

                            * Fill out the form

                            * Pay $7 online

                            * Print receipt with barcode & reference #

                            * Bring receipt with barcode to school

If you would rather enclose a check for $7, include it in the envelope provided with the flyer.

• ·         School Fellowship is sponsoring a Parent Education Forum on Thurs., Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m. The subject will be Internet safety for all ages. The speaker is from the EG Police Dept.
• ·         Student Council set the next special day on Nov. 18 for the whole school to wear designated colors if you can.  3^rd grade has the color of Orange. So on that day if your student has an orange shirt for example, please have them wear it that day.

 Classroom Notes:

• ·         Sign-Up Sheet – Thanksgiving Feast: Nov. 23 – for the primary grades from 11:00-12:00, as we have done in the past, is posted on the classroom window. We need parents to help with set-up and clean-up too. If you could come at 10:30 to help out and plan to be here until 12:15, we would be very thankful. It counts for parent hours too. (Noon dismissal that day.)
• ·         Our Chapel program for 3^rd grade is on Dec. 14 at 8:40 a.m. Please set this date aside and come if you can. There will be refreshments afterwards.
• ·         4^th Grade has invited us to join them on a field trip to the Roseville Maidu Indian Center on Mon., Dec. 12. We leave school at 9:00 and return about 2:30. Permission notes are included in today’s folder. Cost is $7.00 per child, and the same for adults that would like to go as chaperones. We will not be going in the gift shop, nor stopping for any food items there or back. Cell phones must be left off at the Center. Drivers must have current proof of insurance on file in the office in order to drive. Sack lunches will be needed. Please let me know if you have a change of plans and can’t drive after all.

Curriculum:

• Reading: Story: Dancing Rainbows, with related activities. End of Theme 2.
• Math: Begin Chap. 4 – multiplication.
• Social Studies: The Cherokee and Haudenosaunee groups.
• Bible: I Cor. 10:13 “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful…”
• Spelling: wild, bright, die, sight, child, pie, fight, lie, tight, tie, might, mind.
• Spanish:  Months.
• Art/Music: Recorders.
• Science: Mad Science: garbage 

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

11/11  School & daycare closed – Veteran’s Day.

11/14 – Picture retake day

11/16  Shoeboxes to chapel

11/17  Parent presentation by EG Police on Internet Safety 6:30

11/18  Class color day

11/23  Report cards

11/28 Book Fair starts.

 Nov. 4, 2011

  “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

     Office Notes:  

• ·        Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be on November 9.

• The Crocker Art Ark will be @ St. Peter’s the week of Nov. 7-11. Families and students are invited to tour the Ark on Wed., Nov. 9 @ 3:15-4:45. It will be located in the small parking lot by the school entrance. Students will be also going to the ark during the week.
• Women’s Service Circle Craft Faire, Nov. 4^th (2 -6) and Sat., Nov. 5 (9 -3). It benefits St. Peter’s tuition assistance fund for families in need.
• Samaritan’s Purse: Info. is in the Friday folder today. Boxes will be due in the classroom by Mon., Nov. 14, and the contents for the box can be brought in a separate bag that day.  We will pack the boxes in class Tues., Nov. 15, and take to chapel on Wed., Nov. 16. If you would like to make the $7.00 donation online, which covers the cost of postage, you will receive a receipt with a tracking barcode.  You can then track where your child’s box is going. If you would like to do this with your child, here are the directions:

                            *Go to www.samaritanspurse.org/ezgive

                            * Fill out the form

                            * Pay $7 online

                            * Print receipt with barcode & reference #

                            * Bring receipt with barcode to school

If you would rather enclose a check for $7, include it in the envelope provided with the flyer.

 Classroom Notes:

• ·         On Tues., Nov. 8, 3^rd graders visit the Ark from 8:45 – 10:00. Then at 11:00 we will sing a song & give handmade thank you notes to the Service Circle Women as our mission outreach. We have been practicing the Books of the Bible song, and the 3^rd graders are doing great with the song and hand motions.

Curriculum:

• Reading: Story: The Talking Cloth, with related activities.
• Math:  Problem solving, place value review.
• Social Studies: Desert overlay booklet.
• Bible: Matthew 5:16  “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
• Spelling:  spring, knee, throw, patch, strong, wrap, three, watch, street, know, spread, write.  (3 letter clusters & unexpected patterns)
• Spanish:  Days of week and work places.
• Art/Music: Songs for Service Circle Ladies, and thank you notes.
• Science: Mad Science: Dry Ice.

 In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

11/8-10 Crocker Art Ark comes to St. Peter’s.

11/11  School & daycare closed – Veteran’s Day.

Third Grade News

Oct. 28, 2011

 “We live, move, and exist for Christ.”Acts 17:28

 Office Notes:  

• ·        Lanyard Day – Next Awards chapel for A.R. will be on November 9.

•  At St. Peter’s we do not celebrate Halloween, so please do not send your child in a costume that day.  Thanks.
• School Fellowship is paying for the Art Ark to come to school on Nov. 9, 10, & 11. Hands-on projects and discussions take place. After school on Wed., Nov. 9 there will be Open House in the Art Ark for families to come from 3:15 – 4:45. Please come if you can. At that time, children must be accompanied by an adult. Mrs. Cunningham has sent out an all school email to give you more information and to ask for parent helpers.
• Women’s Service Circle Craft Faire, Nov. 4^th (2 -6) and Sat., Nov. 5 ( 9 -3). It benefits St. Peter’s tuition assistance fund for families in need.
• Samaritan’s Purse: At this time of year, we look forward to packing a shoe box for children overseas. It is an all school missions outreach event, under the leadership of Franklin Graham. Boxes will be due in the classroom by Mon., Nov. 14, and the contents for the box can be brought in a separate bag that day too.  We will pack the boxes in class Tues., Nov. 15, and take to chapel on Wed., Nov. 16. If you would like to make the $7.00 donation online, which covers the cost of postage, you will receive a receipt with a tracking barcode.  You can then track where your child’s box is going. If you would like to do this with your child, here are the directions:

                            *Go to www.samaritanspurse.org/ezgive

                            * Fill out the form

                            * Pay $7 online

                            * Print receipt with barcode & reference #

                            * Bring receipt with barcode to school

If you would rather enclose a check for $7, include it in the envelope provided with the flyer.   

Curriculum:

• Reading: Proper & common nouns, thank you notes.
• Math:  Grams, kilograms, temperature F & C, story problems.
• Social Studies: Sand paintings – Navajo, Yurok Indians – life & economy.
• Bible: Zech. 13:9  “ They will call upon my name, and I will answer them.”
• Spelling:  coach, blow, float, hold, sew, though, sold, soap, row, own, both, most.
• Spanish: Unit 2 begins with days of week, and review of work places.
• Art/Music:  Practice songs for Service Circle Ladies.
• Science: Mad Science: Taste. 

In His Service

Mrs. Mitchell

e-mail: mmitchell@splseagles.org

Dates to Remember:

11/4-5 Craft Faire – Ladies Service Circle.

11/9-11 Crocker Art Ark comes to St. Peter’s.