Notes, Memory & Spelling: May 13-17

Notes:

• Tue. 5/14: Awards Banquet 6pm
• Wed. 5/15: Last Social Studies Test (Ch 11)
• Thu. 5/16: Eighth Grade graduation 6:30pm- All children sing. Please plan to attend.
• Fri. 5/17: PreK graduation 6:30pm
• Tue. 5/21: Last Chapel 9am. Last day of classes
• Wed. 5/22: FIELD DAY- 8-11:30am!!! Students should wear athletic clothing including a T-shirt with the color of their team's choosing. Running shoes and socks are recommended!

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Memory:

Psalm 25:8-10

Good and upright is the LORD;

therefore he instructs sinners in the way.

He leads the humble in what is right,

and teaches the humble his way.

All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,

for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

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Spelling Words-3rd Grade

Words Often Misspelled (p.180)

1. don’t
2. down
3. enough
4. every
5. everybody
6. family
7. favorite
8. February
9. field
10. finally
11. for
12. found

Challenge Words:

1. friend
2. from
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   Spelling Words- 4th Grade
   Words Often Misspelled (p.408)
   1. height
   2. here
   3. I’d
   4. I’ll
   5. I’m
   6. instead
   7. into
   8. its
   9. it’s
   10. January
   11. knew
   12. know
   13. let’s
   14. letter
   15. little
   16. loose
   17. lose
   18. lying
   19. might
   20. millimeter
   
   
   Challenge Words:
   1. minute
   2. morning
   3. myself
   4. ninety
   5. o’clock

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Field Trip Reminder

Just a reminder that our field trip is tomorrow at Meyer Skate Center! It's also our last Dress Down Day! Students should wear/bring socks for skating. We'll leave school about 9am and return around noon for our pizza lunch.

I will be heading up to Chicago for the State Track Meet after lunch, so my students will split their afternoon with Mrs. Dehne and Mr. Cluck.

I wish all of you moms a very Happy Mother's Day this weekend! God bless you for the wonderful children you have raised.

Memory & Spelling: May 6-10

Memory:

Psalm 25:4-5

Make me to know your ways,

O LORD;

teach me your paths.

Lead me in your truth and teach me,

for you are the God of my salvation;

for you I will wait all the day long.

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Spelling Words-3rd Grade

Words Often Misspelled (p.180)

1. been
2. before
3. brought
4. buy
5. cannot
6. can’t
7. clothes
8. coming
9. could
10. cousin
11. does
12. didn’t

Challenge Words:

1. different
2. done
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   Spelling Words- 4th Grade
   Words Often Misspelled (p.408)
   1. cousin
   2. didn’t
   3. different
   4. divide
   5. don’t
   6. eighth
   7. enough
   8. every
   9. everybody
   10. everyone
   11. excite
   12. family
   13. favorite
   14. February
   15. finally
   16. first
   17. friend
   18. getting
   19. girl
   20. goes
   
   
   Challenge Words:
   1. going
   2. guess
   3. happened
   4. haven’t
   5. heard
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Pizza Party & Student of the Month T-shirt Day TOMORROW!

Student of the Month T-shirts Tomorrow Tomorrow, all students who have won Student of the month over the past year can wear their special white t-shirts with uniform pants. Pizza Party Our class had the best average of box tops collected per student so we earned the pizza party reward. I have asked my students to bring in a healthy side(s) to eat with their pizza and soda- carrot sticks, fruit, yogurt, whatever! We'll enjoy our pizza in the classroom during the lunch hour. Thank you for sending in your box tops all year long!   Fredbird Assembly On Monday Fredbird is coming to Saint Paul's for a school wide assembly about the Cardinals and a say no to drugs campaign. Every child is encouraged to wear their Cardinal shirts or red to show their fan spirit!  We will also be decorating the school with posters and Cardinal pride.  Plan to attend if you'd like! Skating field trip Our last field trip is Friday May 10th.  Blue forms were sent home to be signed and returned with $8 to cover the transportation, skating, shoe rental, and pizza.  Please fill out the size for shoes too. If you are planning to join us please let me know.  Thanks!

Egg Drop Experiment

Last month our class earned its 50th compliment for the year. The students thought of ideas with which to be rewarded and then voted on their favorite idea. A "Science Experiment" party was the winner! I had the task of coming up with an interesting science experiment for the reward. We invited our 7th & 8th grade friends to join us in the Egg Drop Experiment. Each group of one or two 3rd or 4th graders was paired with a 7th or 8th grader. They were given only the task of protecting their fragile egg from a drop off the playground. Groups selected items from a supply of paper, balloons, pipe cleaners, felt, toothpicks, plastic cups, glue, and tape. They used these items to create some sort of shield to absorb the impact of the fall and protect the egg inside.

Abbi and Jayden (above) create a shield of felt stuffed in two plastic cups which they joined together. Emily and Sarah (below) covered plastic cup with felt and cradled their egg in a nest of pipe cleaners and felt.

Brian, Jack, and Logan put felt in a plastic cup and placed the egg inside. They then encased the cup in 3-4 layers of felt. Cayla and Elaine (below) built a design that included two plastic cups attached together and stuffed with felt with the egg nestled inside. They created a cushion of yarn at the bottom of the two cups to absorb the landing and attached two balloons at the top to help the cups land right side up. Their design made the highest successful drop at 15 feet.

Claire and Ellis (above) drop their egg first from 4' as a test run.

Rachel and Brayden (above) and Emily and Sarah (below) get brave and move up to the 11' mark for their first drop.

Jayden and Abbi (above) get ready to successfully drop their egg from 11' while Logan, Jack, and Brian (below) move up to 13'.

Claire and Ellis (above) try for 13' and are successful! The only egg they break is the one in Claire's pocket! Oops!

Elaine and Cayla (above) win the contest with a drop from 15'.

TRASHformation Pictures

 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 (left)! Second place went to "Pop's Terrific Tugboat" by Jack Kenison (middle)! And our 1st place winner who went on to compete at the county level with all the other area school winners is "Recycobot" by Jayden Ponce (right)! 

Brayden Proffitt (left) with his Robo3000, Logan DiRosa with his Ultimate Birdhouse, Claire Loemker with her creation "Claire's Clubhouse", and Cayla Wilderman with her project "The Drinking, Thinking Chair." 

All the students will receive a ribbon of participation and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a special ribbon at the Awards Banquet. First through third place also received a  special 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!

Spelling and Memory Work: April 29-May 3

Notes:

• May 1: If you still wish to contribute items to our Ice Cream Basket for the silent auction at Trivia Night, we will accept items up until Wednesday. 
• May 3: Trivia Night at Collinsville VFW. Doors open at 6pm and trivia starts at 7pm. If you haven't attended before, I strongly encourage you! It's one of the most fun events we do each year in my opinion! Your children can also attend and help out by running answers to the score table.
• May 6: Fred Bird visits! Students are allowed to wear STL Cardinal apparel!
• May 7: Chapter 10 Social Studies test, reservations due for Awards Banquet, AND LAST INTRAMURALS!
• May 9: Ascension Day Service
• May 10: DRESS DOWN DAY! Field trip to the Meyer Skating Center in Edwardsville. I have received most permission slips but still need a few. The cost is $8 ($6 if your child brings his/her own skates). All parents are invited to meet us there, but I would like to reserve bus seats for parents who have not had the opportunity to attend a field trip with us yet this year.
• May 14: Awards Banquet at 6pm. Hope all of my class can make it!
• May 16: 8th Grade graduation. I would like for all of my students to be there to show support for our 8th grade class. We will be singing during the ceremony. Refreshments will follow.
• May 21: Last chapel service at 9am and last day of regular classes.
• May 22: Field Day! Our day will conclude at 11:15am.

Memory:

Acts 5:29, 41-42

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men”...Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

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Spelling Words-3rd Grade

Words Often Misspelled (p.180)

1. about
2. again
3. almost
4. a lot
5. also
6. always
7. am
8. and
9. another
10. anyone
11. anyway
12. around

Challenge Words:

1. beautiful
2. because

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Spelling Words- 4th Grade

Words Often Misspelled (p.408)

1. again
2. all right
3. a lot
4. also
5. always
6. another
7. anyone
8. anything
9. anyway
10. around
11. beautiful
12. because
13. before
14. believe
15. brought
16. build
17. buy
18. cannot
19. can’t
20. caught

Challenge Words:

1. choose
2. chose
3. clothes
4. coming
5. could