Sunday, November 22, 2020

Week 14: Happy Thanksgiving

From the class bloggers-Grace and Olivia

What a great week! All of us are so excited for Thanksgiving break. On

Friday afternoon, we had a fun time playing board games. It was a great way

to celebrate our Walk-a-Play-a-Thon lap number. This week was full of tests

so we could finish up the week well for Thanksgiving break. We are in the middle

of a very fun social studies project, where we are making a Google Slides

presentation about the Great Lakes. We also have started our Christmas art.

Overall, we had a lot of fun!

From Mrs. R

Last Monday marked the midpoint of 2nd quarter. It is a good time to talk with your child about the Friday papers that came home and help them set goals for the 2nd half. A great goal? READ over the break! Get those AR points before the last week of the quarter!!! And your kids are not too old to read with you. You can model fluency and have great conversations over books. Traveling? Listen to audio books in the car.

A note about Sycamore - I am spending my weekend grading tests and catching up with e-learning students. Don't panic if you see a missing assignment, but have your child email me. I won't have grades for my subjects updated until Monday. Please don't hesitate to contact me with other questions you have about your child's progress.

I hope you are able to find rest and fellowship with family over Thanksgiving- even if it is just over Zoom. We thank God each day for the blessing of being together to learn and grow in our faith! Your children are such a blessing to me! I am thankful for all of your prayers and support this year.

Worship at Zion

You are invited join us as we gather to praise God at the following special services:

Wednesday, November 25 at 7 pm Thanksgiving Eve worship
Thursday, November 26 at 9 am Thanksgiving Day worship (mask mandatory)
*Recorded service available on our website

Midweek Advent (mask mandatory)
Wednesdays (December 2, 9, 16)
3:30 pm
Led by the pastors
*Recorded service available on our website

Christmastime worship plans will be communicated in early December.

Friday, November 13, 2020

Week 13: Kairos of God

What's new?

Galatians 4:4-5
English Standard Version

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

In Religion we began our New Testament study looking at God's perfect timing (in Greek: Kairos) as

we learn about the birth of the Savior. The world under the Roman Empire was readied for the spread

of the Good news! Students are being encouraged to partner and create devotion

time to help grow in their relationship with God. What a wonderful opportunity to share stories

of your own faith walk with your child!

In Social Studies, we are exploring the Human Environment interaction with the Great Lakes

Ecosystem. Students held a lively debate today on the state of the lakes and will go on to investigate

other environmental issues around the U.S. and Canada. In Literature, we are working with

character development and motive. T-Math finish onestep equations next week and G-Math

continue their pre-fraction work with Prime Factorization and GCF.. in SCIENCE , students have

been studying cells. Information on their CELL PROJECTS came home. Be sure they show you!!!

Parent signatures due MONDAY.

QUICK REMINDERS:

BOOK ORDERS came home LAST WEEK. I will place orders on Sunday afternoon. Remember I

am happy to set books aside as gifts - just email me!

SEE SYCAMORE for school picture orders and Auction Roundup

THANKSGIVING FOOD/SUPPLIES drive needs to be in by WEDNESDAY of this week.

TJ's Pizza Pickup - Thursday 11/19/2020 3PM - 5PM
Product can be picked up from the parking lot between the Middle School Building and the Main School Building (where the basketball hoops are). All of the product will be in TJs Boxes and will include your original order sheet. Please wear a mask when you come for pickup. To streamline pickup this year, we are asking each family to double check their product against their order sheet when they get home. In the event you have any missing product, please email samuelswofford@gmail.com and we will schedule separate delivery from TJs to complete your orders. If you are unable to pick up on Thursday, please reach out via email to arrange pick up.

You can help set a Guinness World Record

The World Sport Stacking Association is attempting to set a new Guinness World Record this year for
“The most PICTURES of people Sport Stacking”. Due to Covid restrictions and the impossible
task of disinfecting our stacking cups after each use our First through Sixth graders will not be working
on our stacking skills at Zion. However, if you have Sport Stacking cups at home I encourage you to
pull them out and submit some photos of you stacking. The event takes place between:
November 18th - December 2nd.

Register TODAY! Visit https://stackup.speedstacks.com/register/ and sign up for this year’s event!

Please email msteinbacher@zionharvester.org if you’d like to borrow a set of cups in order to participate.

If you’d like to purchase official sport stacking equipment go to Speedstacks.com. They often have some
great deals around Thanksgiving.

Here are a few of our trees from charcoal art:

Friday, November 6, 2020

Week 12: Drama time!

Students thoroughly enjoyed the Metro Theater play this week as well as learning about the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. We had a good discussion about how we are all children of God and through His love, we can be respectful and celebrate each other's differences.

Watching a drama led right into our own acting. In Lit. we have been learning how writer's develop characters. We turned the story, "Dragon, Dragon" into a drama to help illustrate character traits and enact a plot. With the beautiful weather, we were able to take our acting outside. It is so fun to see these kids work together and let their personalities shine!

What's happening in 6th grade:

Religion - wrapped up our Reformation unit enjoying a comedy sketch called "Happy Birthday, Luther." We next get into our Religion text and our study of the life of Christ.

G-Math - divisibility rules, exponents

T-Math - learning the "language" of math, solving algebraic expressions

English - VERBS!

Science - studying cells and using a microscope

Social Studies - presented our Thinglink projects on Canada. Ask your child to show off his or her project! Moving on to study the Great Lakes ecosystem and human environment interaction.