Testing This Week

My students are excited to begin testing this week! It's all they could talk about last week! I'm glad to give them the change of pace it will provide and allow them to demonstrate their skills in all they've learned thus far. I reminded them Friday "sleep well, eat well, do well." Please also remind your child to get plenty of sleep and eat a good breakfast each morning. I will only administer 2-3 tests per day. We will begin promptly each morning and be finished before lunch. They will still have recess, snack time, and small breaks built in between tests. There will be no memory work or spelling words this week. Students will still have their science test on Tuesday, but it will be open book. Blessings on your week!

Notes, Memory & Spelling: April 15-19

Notes:
Trivia Night:  Trivia Night is coming May 3rd!  1-4 grades are working together to create an Ice Cream Themed Basket for the Silent Auction.  If you are willing to participate, please send in an item to be included in this basket.  It could be an ice cream scoop, cups, non-perishable ice cream sundae supplies, or gift cards to local ice cream establishments. 

Mid quarter reports come home this Thursday, April 18th.  

Date to Remember:  

• Trivia Night is May 3rd.
• Awards Banquet  May 14th --Be sure to send in your reservation to Ms. Craig.
• Last Day of school:  Field Day Wednesday,  May 22  (11:00 Dismissal)  

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Memory:

Jesus’s Ascension

Acts 1:10-11

And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

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Spelling Words-3rd Grade

Smart Solutions Spelling Review

1. little
2. again
3. summer
4. alive
5. purple
6. around
7. I’m
8. able
9. wouldn’t
10. ago
11. ever
12. before
    Challenge Words:
    
    
    1. mumble
    2. let’s
    3. awhile
    4. who’s
    5. thermometer
    
    
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    Spelling Words- 4th Grade

    Heroes Spelling Review

    
    

    1. redo
    2. unsure
    3. useless
    4. kindness
    5. easier
    6. copied
    7. crazier
    8. seven
    9. become
    10. fever
    11. dislike
    12. movement
    13. displease
    14. cities
    15. families
    16. worried
    17. angriest
    18. paper
    19. parent
    20. prison
        
        

        Challenge Words:

        
        

        1. unusual
        2. resourceful
        3. breezier
        4. select
        5. radar
           
           
    
    
    
    

Memory & Spelling: April 8-12

Memory: 

John 20:21-23

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Spelling Words-3rd Grade

Voyagers Spelling Review

1. flew
2. brought
3. hello
4. tooth
5. Monday
6. pretty
7. chew
8. sudden
9. order
10. spoon
11. thought
12. happen

1. 13. brought
   
   

Challenge Words:

1. brook
2. expect
3. loose
4. stubborn
5. granddaughter

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Spelling Words- 4th Grade

Nature: Friend and Foe Spelling Review

1. favorite
2. camera
3. banana
4. remember
5. neither
6. against
7. wonder
8. climb
9. thumb
10. calf
11. animal
12. however
13. alphabet
14. health
15. guard
16. blood
17. woman
18. listen
19. honor
20. kneel
    
    
    Challenge Words:

    
    

    1. halibut
    2. photograph
    3. rhyme
    4. drought
    5. debt
       
       

TRASHformations Winners Announced!

Congratulations to all of the 3rd & 4th graders who participated in the Madison County TRASHformations Contest this year! Each student created their own piece of art out of recycled products and then the teachers of Saint Paul's voted on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Students were judged by the amount and variety of recyclables they utilized in their project and the level of originality and creativity of their design. Coming in 3rd place with her "Colonial Claire" project was Emily Milano! Second place went to "Pop's Terrific Tugboat" by Jack Kenison! And our 1st place winner who will go on to compete at the county level with all the other area school winners is "Recycobot" by Jayden Ponce! All the students will receive a ribbon of participation and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a special ribbon and prize. Make sure you stop by the school to take a look at all of the creative projects on display outside of our classroom. The students really enjoy this contest every year and it's always fun to see what they come up with each year!

Memory & Spelling Words: April 2-5

Memory Work:

“The Lamb” (All God’s People Sing, p. 229)

Verse 3 (Just those students who didn't say it last week)

The Lamb, the Lamb,

As wayward sheep their shepherd kill.

So still, His will

On our behalf the Law to fill.

Verse 4:

He sighs, He dies

He takes my sin and wretchedness.

He lives, forgives,

He gives me His own righteousness.

Verse 5:

He rose, He rose,

My heart with thanks now overflows.

His song prolong

‘Till every heart to Him belong.

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Spelling Words-3rd Grade

Voyagers Spelling Review

1. grew
2. daughter
3. until
4. cook
5. ought
6. forget
7. balloon
8. caught
9. dollar
10. boot
11. window
12. taught
    
    
    Challenge Words:
    
    1. brook
    2. expect
    
    
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    Spelling Words- 4th Grade

    Week 27: Skylark

    
    

    1. knight
    2. soften
    3. honor
    4. kneel
    5. climb
    6. wrinkle
    7. limb
    8. handsome
    9. answer
    10. calf
    11. listen
    12. calm
    13. knit
    14. often
    15. palm
    16. thumb
    17. wrist
    18. lamb
    19. knob
    20. honest
        
        

    Challenge Words:

    
    

    1. drought
    2. knoll
    3. heir
    4. debt
    5. wrestle
       
       
    
    

Art Club Finishes Strong!

Art Club recently finished up. Students had the opportunity to work with various mediums, learn about different artists, and create their own masterpieces. Their work can be found hanging throughout the school.

Our first Art Club project, the watercolor salt resist, hangs in the hallway outside the gym between the restrooms. Art Club participants used masking tape to create trees and then painted over the page adding salt along the way. The salt had an interesting snow-like effect with the paint.

Our Dale Chihully style sculpture. Check out Chihully's work at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Though he works with glass, we colored in plastic bottles with permanent marker and then cut the bottles in a spiral fashion. Our sculpture can be found in the hallway connecting the school to the church.

Art Club students also learned a bit of Japanese history of the cherry blossom. They created their own version of cherry blossom art using the bottom of a two-liter bottle and stamping their "cherry blossom" onto a branch they had painted. Gerhardt and Eden (above) check out their stamps while Brylee (below) makes careful horizontal strokes on her tree branch.

Abby (above) and Jacob and Hubey (below) hard at work!

Emma and Madeline share their ideas with one another.

Zachary (above) and Jack (below) stamp carefully.

Micah fills his branch (above) while Brayden (below) stops to admire his work.

Colleen (above) tries a splattering look while Elaine (below) goes for a tiny blossom effect.

Samantha (above, standing) steps back to check her work. Some finished pieces (below).

Madeline, Eden, and Gerhardt roll their magazine pieces into colorful spiral cylinders and glue them to their cross. The effect is a colorful, three-dimensional design.

Brayden and Elaine (above) talk while they work. Emma (below) quietly concentrates.

Cayla, Colleen, and Samantha work on their crosses (above) while Eden, Gerhardt, and Brylee (below) try to get the right amount of spiral in their rolled up magazine pieces.

Students created a more colorful version of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" by using pastels to draw a flower and then cutting it out and attaching it to the vase with all of their peers' works.

Photos from Science Center Presentation

Unfortunately, I was sick the day of the Science Center presentation, so I cannot tell you what the presenter is doing in the following photos. I can, however, tell you that your children were ever so fascinated by it and it was all they could talk about the next day. If you didn't have the chance to attend, be sure to ask your child what he/she learned!