Newsletter

Friday, December 6, 2019

Dear Parents,

The Christmas Season is here!  Our room looks so festive! The students had a fun time decorating,  The students are working really hard preparing for the Christmas program, A Christmas Gift.  Please invite family and friends. It should be a wonderful celebration of Christmas and celebrating Jesus’ birth.

Date Change for Bowling Party and Christmas Caroling

Our all School Bowling Party and Christmas caroling has been moved to Tuesday,  December 17.  We will have our Bowling party from 9:00 to 11:00;  then we will come back to school for lunch. In the afternoon, the 5th through 8th graders will go Christmas caroling at The Parkway.  This is such a fun day of celebrating Christmas with our school and then caroling to spread the wonderful message of Jesus’ birth to the elderly.  We will need drivers for that day, so let me know if you can help out. You can drive in the morning, afternoon, or both.

Important Dates Coming Up:

·         Sunday, December 15 - 6:30 - Timothy Christmas Program  in the school gym.

·         Tuesday, December 17 - All School Bowling Party at Lunar Bowl in the morning, Caroling in the afternoon. 

·         Friday, December 20 - 1:00 Dismissal - Christmas break begins!.

Here’s what’s happening in our classroom:

·         7th / 8th Grade Religion -   We are in a unit entitled - God’s People Under the Kings.    Memory for next week:  Tuesday - 1 Chronicles 16: 25-26; Friday - Psalm 43:3 & Romans 3:23-24.

·         7th Grade Math - We are working on addition and subtraction of fractions.  

·         Algebra -  We are graphing equations using slope and intercept.

·         7th/8th Grade Science - We are studying heredity and genetics.  This week we found the probability of traits occurring using Punnett squares.

News from Mrs. Otte’s class:

Hope you had an excellent Thanksgiving and got your fill of delicious food.  We are blessed!

In English this week, we reviewed direct objects as the who or what of the verb.  We are completing a writing choice board for the week. We started learning about Charles Dickens's England and how hard life was back then with diseases, child labor and debtor's prison.  We started reading a Christmas Carol.

There will be a Geography map test over all the countries in South America on Wednesday.  We have been studying the Maya, Inca, Toltec and Aztec populations in Geography - what makes them special and how they were defeated.  There will be a quiz over those 4 populations next week Friday.

In Art, we started creating an angel picture with the nativity story drawn in her dress.  This project will take us a few weeks.

We are continuing spreadsheets in computer.  This week we learned how the computer can calculate the mean, median, mode and range.

Have a great week-end!

Mrs. Barnett