Week 16: Advent and Lit. Novel

What a thrill it was to hear your kids share the message of our Savior this week, through song, drama, and art!  Thank you for getting kids to the service and all your help behind the scenes with learning songs/parts.  We are truly All For One serving a Savior who loves us so much that he put aside heaven to live with us, be our friend, and rescue us from sin.  I pray the service gave you a new perspective on the way Jesus is revealed in Scripture and the Advent season.

INFORMATION:

**USO donations are due on Monday.  Please consider giving of your blessings.
**Book orders came home today.  Paper orders due Friday or order online by Sunday, 12/11
**Field trip forms for our Dec. 16 trip to the MO History museum came home today to be returned by Wed.  We travel by bus. Ana's mom and Gavin's mom will chaperone for us.  Thanks ladies!
**Please return the AMEREN U.E. surveys by Monday so I can mail them in by the due date.  Thank you for taking the time to help your child learn more about energy efficiency.

 

WHAT IF...

...the government could force you to sell land?
...we had laws on what you could grow on your farm? or that said NO PETS ALLOWED?
...your family was limited to one or two children?

Would you exist?

I hope talks about our Literature novel have popped up in your family conversations.  Students began the novel, Among the Hidden by Margaret Petersen Haddix on Wednesday, and I have to put a STOP sign in the novels to get them to put it down.  Through the novel we discuss literary elements like characterization and conflict, but also propaganda, morals, and faith.  It also coordinates with our S.S. unit on Urban Sprawl in which students are taking on the roles of local citizen activist groups to debate how best to plan a city for population growth.  Ask your child about it!
  P.S.  Need a gift idea?  This is the first of a series of seven.  Scholastic has the The Shadow Children series for $28.  I will send book orders in on  Sunday, Dec. 11 and get them before Christmas break.  Email me any gift order and I'll send them to the office for you to keep the secret!


A Belated THANK YOU...

Right before Thanksgiving Break the students surprised me with cookies and a TWB gift certificate for my birthday.  Thank you all for the generous gift!


Christmas Worship
As part of your holiday celebrations, please consider joining us at Zion to worship the newborn King.  I hope one of our services fit into your family's plans.


Dec. 24  1:00 p.m.,  3:00 p.m.  5:00 p.m.  11:00 p.m.
Dec. 25  9:00 a.m.