Dear Parents,

I hope you had a relaxing long weekend with your families. Now it’s time to look ahead to parent conferences. Your child will bring home a conference sheet on Tuesday, September 2, listing the day and time of your conference with me. Please contact Kerry Roberts in the office to reschedule if the time allotted to you is inconvenient. Please note I will be out for my wedding/honeymoon September 12-17.

FUNDRAISER:

Your fundraising money AND order forms must be turned in on September 11th. Packets must be given to your teacher ASAP that morning. The PST Board will be counting as soon as the packets have been collected from each class. Delivery for items will be Thursday, October 9th behind Building 5.

SPIRIT WEAR:

Fresno Christian Schools Spirit Days are here! Starting this Friday and every Friday after, wear your FCS Spirit Wear. At the end of each month, the K-6 class with the highest percentage of Spirit Wear worn will be the keeper of the FCS Eagle Trophy for a month! So wear your Fresno Christian Spirit Wear with pride. Go Eagles!!!

MOMS IN PRAYER:

Any woman desiring to pray for our children and Fresno Christian Schools is invited to join us for a powerful time of prayer!

Fridays from 8:00 – 9:00 A.M.

Peoples Church, Room 204

Contact: Janet Moore 448-0947 or rjdamoore@att.net

PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES:

 Grades K-6 will be dismissed at 12 noon, Monday-Friday, September 15 – 19, 2014.

Please note I will be out for my wedding/honeymoon September 12-17. This means I will schedule conferences for the 18th and 19th as well as the following week if necessary.

BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION:

This year we will again be participating in the Box Tops for Education fundraiser. Each Box Top collected is worth cash for our school. As an incentive, we will be having a class contest. The class bringing in the most Box Tops at the end of this promotion will receive a “prize.” We will post class totals monthly in the Elementary Office window.

Please hand in your trimmed Box Tops in a Ziploc bag or envelope, labeled with your child’s/teacher’s name and the amount of Box Tops to your teacher. Every Friday, the student bringing in the most for the week from each class will get to choose something from the Treasure Box in the Elementary Office.

You can find a list of Box Tops online at: www.boxtops4education.com.

SEPTEMBER READING: 

Students will independently read a book from a different genre each month. Class time will be given every day for silent reading and students are expected to read a minimum  of 10 pages a day. If they are unable to complete this in class, then reading becomes homework. The genre for the month of September is mystery. Students should show their selected mystery book to me for approval. Students will write a “Response to Literature” for this book, due at the end of September. Students should wait to write the “Response to Literature” until after I have finished teaching it in class. At that time, a grading rubric will be sent home and students may begin to work on the response.

WRITING:

This week students will continue to practice writing summaries and personal opinions of stories in preparation for the 1st Quarter writing assessment, Response to Literature.

MATH:

Currently we are adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals. Regrouping is sometimes necessary. Some problems have zero(s) in the regrouping process.

Social Science: 

This week we continue our study of the Olmec and Mayan Indians. Students will learn the meaning of the following words:

civilization, government, custom, tradition, hieroglyph, class, pueblo

We will have an open book test this Friday.

BIBLE:

This week we continue our study of the Pentateuch.

 

SCRIPTURE MEMORY VERSE: Next week our verse will be the same as Mrs. Vanderkooi’s class.

Students will memorize scripture weekly and take a written test each Friday.

The test will be this Friday, September 5. Students will be graded on writing the verse accurately, including correct wording, spelling, punctuation, grammar and scripture reference.

       Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son    Romans 1:1-3a

SPELLING:

Lesson 4 words will be tested this Friday, September 5. The definitions test is matching words with their definitions.

Lesson 4

  1. decorate
  2. apply
  3. delay
  4. employ
  5. study
  6. suppose
  7. exciting
  8. married
  9. envy
  10. sturdy
  11. frighten
  12. panic
  13. relay
  14. prepare
  15. reply

Challenge Words

  1. paralyzing
  2. memorizing
  3. concentrating
  4. preferred
  5. quarreled

DATES TO REMEMBER:

  • Elementary Pictures: September 9
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences: September 15-19 (DISMISSAL at 12 NOON)
  • Elementary Picture Retakes: October 7
  • NO SCHOOL Veterans’s Day: November 11