Jan. 12th-Jan. 16th

Memory: Due Friday

The First Commandment

You shall have no other gods.

In God I trust; I will not afraid.     Psalm 56:11

Spelling: Test Friday

Lesson 16

ear/ath:

hear, near, fear, dear, smear, math, path, bath, aftermath, Sabbath

Grammar/Phonics:

Recognizing consonants with 2 sounds: c, g, and th

Forming comparisons: -er and -est

Math:
Fact/Written Test on Friday

Science:

Chapter 7 test is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 15th. I will send the Science books home every night this week for students to study. A study guide will come home on Wednesday.

Important Information/Dates:

2nd Quarter Report Cards are coming home in Friday folders today (1/9/15).

Re-enrollment envelopes are also coming home in Friday folders today (1/9/15).

Next week Friday, January 16th Zion will host its annual Pack the Gym Night!  Pack the Gym Night is an event we host to kick off our girls and boys first game of our annual basketball tournament, The Big Cat Classic.  This is a 16 team tournament featuring teams from all over Missouri and even Memphis, TN.  Our 11-0 girls will play Friday, January 16th at 645pm here at Zion and the 7-5 boys at 745pm.  The games will also feature Zion`s band and amazing cheer squad.  Our goal is to fill the gym with Bobcat Nation decked out in red and white!  Admission for any member of Bobcat Nation will be $1 each (admission for other schools is $3).  

Friday, January 16th (@ Zion) 

Girls game @ 645pm

Boys game @ 745pm

Band and Cheerleaders performing!

Reminders:

LOVE AND LOGIC CLASS- Amy Bernhardt will be teaching a Love and Logic Parenting class on Sunday mornings at 9:30 the class will run 8 weeks beginning on January 11, 2015.  The class will meet in the Discipleship room in the lower level of church.

Donuts for Dads-Wednesday, January 14^th.  Same deal as Moms event earlier.  7 AM in church basement, Dads invited to stay for chapel.

Reflecting on our week: Our week was very busy! We focused on Non-fiction texts and learned a new strategy for comprehension. Each student used 2 different colored highlighters. One was used to highlight words they knew and one was used to highlight words they didn't know. As a class, we went through the unknown words. Some students were surprised because they thought they knew what a word meant but after discussion they realized they had to adjust their thinking. 

Fiction is by far everyones favorite genre to read but students should also spend time with non-fiction texts and learn how to read them. For the remainder of the school year we will learn different strategies for approaching non-fiction texts and how to gain a better understanding of the things we read. This will help us to become individually responsible for our reading comprehension.

We also worked on writing and AR goals based on our work first semester. We will be taking a closer look at our writing to help us meet our goals.