Parent/Teacher Conferences – I am looking forward to meeting with you at conferences this week. We are meeting so that we can work as a team to see how we can best help your student succeed this year. Conference time slots are scheduled every 30 minutes but will be about 15-20 minutes long. If you have back-to-back conferences in another classroom beforehand, we may be able to begin early rather than having you wait. If my door is open, I am available. Also, we are asking that you take a quick survey while you are here before or after your conference. We will have a QR code for your phone or a Chromebook available for the survey. We need these surveys for our accreditation and we use them to help improve our school. Thank you for taking the time to fill it out!
Early Dismissal – Due to our conferences, we have an early dismissal at 11:40 today and no classes tomorrow.
Funeral services for Mrs. Maresko will be this Friday at Hope at 11:00. Mrs. Maresko has been a blessing to our school, serving as our school counselor for the last 5 years.
Field Trip – Please take note of the permission slip for Science City in today’s envelope to sign and return!
Math – We take our Chapter 2 test on Monday. It covers “Addition within 1000”. Next, we will begin working on Chapter 3 which is “Subtraction within 1000”.
Reading – We are finishing the last story in our first unit next week. The theme was “Environments”. We have been working with traditional tales (including folk tales and legends), realistic fiction, informational text, and poetry. Our next unit theme is “Interactions”. We will be focusing mainly on informational text, but will also look at persuasive text and realistic fiction.
Chapel The third grade presented chapel to K – 2 grades this week. It focussed on forgiveness.
Part of Hope Lutheran School’s values is teaching children God’s command to help others, and we should always return with gladness the blessings God has given us.
One of the many ways we follow this command is through our chapel offerings. Each week we collect an offering at our chapel service. A mission is selected quarterly, and a goal is set. For our first quarter chapel offerings will be going towards LEADaChild; LeadaChild is an independent Lutheran Mission Agency, dedicated to sharing the Good News of Jesus’ love to children through Christian education in third-world countries.
Our new playground is ready to be installed, but we need help moving the pieces. Can you help? Here are the dates and times we need HELP!
- Saturday, September 23rd at 9:00 am
- Tuesday, September 26th at 6:30 pm * This is the most critical date. Plan to lift heavy platforms onto the primary center posts of the playground.
Please consider helping out.
School Picture Day is Thursday, October 5th. Students may wear their favorite clean polo shirt, blouse, short/long sleeve shirt, or dress as long as they are dressed in a proper, modest, and discreet way. Students must wear uniform bottoms. If you have doubts about whether an outfit is acceptable, please ask Mrs. Jankowski. The students do not have to change into uniforms.
Order pictures online at http://inter-state.com/order and use Event Code 78546FF.
PAHS Auction Donations – Our Annual Hope Lutheran PAHS auction is on November 4th. Money raised in our auction goes toward Art, Music, Spanish, and technology. If you are able to donate something to the auction this year bring it by and drop it off in the school office. Please note items must be new. Help us make this year’s auction a huge success! If you have any questions about a donation please contact Debra Heimsoth at auction@hopelutheran.org.
SCREENING DATES
HEARING: October 3, will start at 9 am
Hearing screenings will include Kindergarten, 3rd, 6th, and all NEW students to the school.
DENTAL: October 26, will start around 1:00 p.m. Dr. Bohaty will screen K-8. Toothbrushes will be provided.
VISION: November 2, starting around 12:00 p.m. The Lions Club will bring their vision machine. This screening will include Kindergarten through 3rd, 5th, 7th, and all NEW students to the school.
If you do not wish to have your child screened, please email Nurse Buckmaster.
Spelling for next week: vowel diphthongs ou, ow, oi oy
| shower | power | enjoy | avoid | thousand |
| annoy | proud | appoint | bounce | fountain |
Sentence: I was proud when I did well on my test.
Memory for September 28
The Third Commandment: Remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it holy.
What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it.
Next Week:
- Today, Thursday, 9/21
– Parent/Teacher Conferences - Friday, 9/22
– Parent/Teacher Conferences - Monday, 9/25
– Math Test – (Chapter 2) - Wednesday, 9/27
– Memory - Friday, 9/29
– Spelling Test
Important Upcoming Dates:
- 10/5 – School Pictures
- 10/9-10/10 – No School – Lutheran Teacher Conference
- 10/15 – Singing at 10:30 church service
- 10/19– Science City field trip
- 10/20 – Early Dismissal – end of 1st Quarter
