Week 17 Merry Christmas!

 It's been a fast paced week, with special dress days, Christmas music on the P.A. 3D printed ornaments of students unique designs,  end of unit tests,  watching The Nativity Story in Religion, and a bit of fun mixed in.  Thanks to the room moms who picked up food and provided goodie bags for our Christmas party.

 

 I pray you and your family are able to have a restful and worhsipful holiday.  Jesus came to bring peace, love, and joy.  May we reflect the wonder of knowing He saves us!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Mrs. Riemenschneider 

 

Note from the office. We are going to return to school, Wednesday, January 6th. This is a change from the original calendar. We will be in school Wednesday, January 6th

Week 16: Christmas Card project

 Christmas Service Project

    This year, 6th grade is sharing time and talents in our Christmas service project by creating Christmas cards for seniors. In all of our excitement in decorating our classroom, Advent devotions, and special dress up days celebrating together, we wanted to remember those who might be alone during this season.  Pastor Haun, husband to our Early Childhood director, will be delivering our cards to residents at Laclede Groves where he serves as a Chaplain for Lutheran Senior Services.  If you have a loved one who might like a personal card this year as well, let your child know and he/she can bring one home to mail.

**Donations - do you have old Christmas cards that you wish to donate?  We have been re-purposing cards as well as creating our own with collage art and watercolors.  Send in any now or before you recycle them after Christmas, send them my way for next year!

 HOT CHOCOLATE MONDAY -Thanks to PTL for sponsoring a special treat for our kids at morning recess on Monday.  Please let me know of any allergy concerns.  

 

CHRISTMAS PARTY and EARLY DISMISSAL

We will celebrate the birth of the Savior together with a class Pizza Party on Friday before our noon dismissal. Teachers also have some fun games planned.  Thanks to the room moms of 6th grade for getting the goodies together for us.  Remember we dismiss at noon on Friday, Dec. 18. 

 

Planning commissioner leading the policy board for urban growth

Helping the city planners come to an agreement

We studied Portland, Atlanta, and Toronto to see how these cities approached city planning

Sharing our disciple posters

 

Missing Christmas concerts?  

 

Week 15: Advent begins!

 

December 4, 2020-Austin and Olivia

 

Burrrr....it was a really cold week this week!  We even had a few flurries.  

All of us presented an environmental presentation in social studies, and we 

learned about passive, aggressive, and assertive behavior in Second Steps.  

We are in the Advent season, so the wreath and devotion books are out!  

Everybody finished their cell project for science and they all look fantastic! 

We ended with art on Friday.  It was a great end to a great week!

Click the link to Mrs. Donner's blog at the right for cell photos!! 

 

 

Religion: We started exploring Jesus's life and focusing on his temptation by the devil and learning more about the disciples. We have been comparing these events in Jesus's life with our own experiences! We have also been watching the Matthew account of Jesus's life with The Visual Bible: Matthew.  

See the Religion tab above for the unit overview.

 

English: Adjectives! 

Science: More about Cells! We built our cells in class this week too!

T-Math Divisibilty and Exponents

G-Math GCF, LCM, and the Distributive Property

 Literature: Among the Hidden novel study

 

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, 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 new 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!

 

Christmas Spirit week coming Dec 14-18!!

 and finally....

Mrs. Crenshaw has been working with 7th and 8th grade students on Passion 

projects. Students pick something they are passionate about and design, create,

and follow through on it. Two of our 8th grade boys have been working on learning

video and editing with the desire to create a comedy show bringing joy to people. 

Here is a quick peek at their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-mLVvgI3M