Week 8: Advent coming

Important Reminders

• Emails with scheduling info for PT Conferences went home Friday.  We are off 10/28 for meetings.
  
• Trunk or Treat is next Friday 10/15
• Still collecting dental floss, toothpaste samples, and small toys for our mission (more items listed in previous blog post if you desire to contribute more

Hark - The Students Lead Advent Worship!
Student led worship is back! Grades 5 and 6 will lead Zion church in worship

 on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 10:00 a.m and 7:00 p.m. This is a wonderful opportunity

 for our students as they help our congregation prepare for the Lord's coming.

  Attendance is expected at both services, so please mark your calendars now and

 keep the date open.  Let me know of any conflicts right away as parts will be 

assigned soon. We are eager to begin preparations for leading worship as December 

will be here before we know it.

During the coming weeks, all students will learn songs selected to reinforce their

 message.  Students will also have opportunities to try various roles in the service,

 such as special drama, readings, or “behind the scenes” parts.  Part of our Memory 

Work assignments will shift focus to learning songs and lines.  Students will also 

have an opportunity to share their special musical talents.  Any student who has 

had at least 2 years of music lessons may audition.  Selections must be:

 
     1)  sacred music related to the Advent or Christmas seasons of the church year
     2)  practiced and ready to audition the by the second week of November.

 

 Some Current Units:

Religion:   Students explored the LCMS website with a focus on learning about mission work.  This stemmed from our look at what messages were in the Epistles, letters written by the apostles to the early Christian churches scattered around the world at that time.  We wrap up our study of What is in the Bible this week with Revelation.

Literature:  We completed our unit on Fiction/Nonfiction with a look at author's perspective, tone, inferences and symbolism.  We read a character sketch of Mark Twain written by his 13-year-old daughter, Susy.  This week we watched the 1937 classic  The Prince and the Pauper.  The kids loved this old black and white film! You should have heard them cheer at the climax!  Now they are writing their own character sketches from the film.

S.S.   We explored thematic maps and using global information systems which involve layering maps to find information about physical features, climate, vegetation and how they affect population and economic activity.  We used ARC -GIS software to draw conclusions about settlement and surface water.  Focus: US and CANADA world region.

Math -  Both classes are applying addition and multiplication of decimals in the concept of surface area.  G Math tested last week and learned the order of operations to be ready to use in creating and solving algebraic expressions.  T Math will be testing over area Monday and then continue with the same concepts.  We nickname the rules for solving math expressions in order: PEMDAS  

   P - Parentheses first

   E - Exponents next

  Mulptiply and Divide  IN ORDER from left to right

  Add and Subtract  IN ORDER from left to right      (Can you guess the "in order" part confuses most?)

Memory this week

Help your child by sharing this resource:

We will begin our Reformation study next week looking at the history of the Lutheran church, but memory of one of Martin Luther's great hymns starts now.  It is based on Psalm 46. 

Sending our track team off to STATE!

 

Discussing different strategies in math

LCMS missionary webquest