During this Holy Week, we have been focusing on the great love that God has for us that He was willing to send His only Son to suffer and die to pay for our sin. On Easter, we celebrate that He has risen, and through Him, we are also given new life!
I hope that your family can share in this wonderful Gospel message with the symbols on the Easter egg trees that we made in class this week! As always, your family is welcome to join us in worship at Hope as we have a number of special services this week.
April 17 – Maundy Thursday Services @ 4 pm or 7 pm
April 18 – Good Friday Tenebrae Services @ 5:30 or 7:15pm
April 20 – EASTER DAY SERVICES @ 8 am or 10:30am
Hope Lutheran Youth are sponsoring an Easter Fair with crafts and an Easter egg hunt for kids through 3rd grade on Saturday morning from 9:00-10:00.
Remember that we do not have school on Good Friday or Easter Monday.
MAP Testing
We will begin our spring MAP testing next week. Please make sure your student arrives on time to school, has a good breakfast, and gets plenty of sleep while we are testing.
- Wednesday, April 23rd at 9:30 – Math
- Thursday, April 24th at 8:45 – Language
- Monday, April 28th at 8:45 – Reading
- Wednesday, May 7th at 9:30 – Science
Talent Show
We are having a talent show on the afternoon of April 25th. We look forward to students sharing some of the talents that God has given them.
Chicks
The anticipation in our classroom grows as we wait for the chicks to hatch! We will review life science as we look at the chicken’s life cycle and hopefully get to see God’s handiwork firsthand through the miracle of the development and hatching of chicks in our classroom!
International Fair
The International Fair is on May 1st, which is quickly approaching! The students have been working to prepare so that they will be ready to share their projects. We are working to learn our traditional dance. The girls will need a white top and light colored shorts to wear under their skirt (made with Jamaican plaid). The skirts are at school. Boys need to wear blue slacks (uniform pants are good) and a white shirt with a collar. (They will wear Jamaican plaid bow ties.) Also, if there are any families that would be willing to help with Jamaican food prep for that night, please let me know. It needs to be prepared the week of the International Fair.
Oxford Schoolhouse
We are looking forward to our field trip to the historic Oxford schoolhouse on May 3rd, where we will get the chance to experience a living history day in a rural one-room schoolhouse as students in 1909! This has been a favorite field trip in the past as we dress in period clothing for this day. (The standard outfit of the day for boys was bib overalls, blue jeans or dungarees made of sturdy fabric with cotton, or flannel shirts. Any color shirt was appropriate other than white as it was impossible to keep white clean on an active farm boy. Girls wore dresses that fell anywhere below the knee but above the ankle. She might wear a pinafore or apron to keep her dress clean. Large hair bows were popular at the time. She usually wore black tights or stockings. Both girls and boys wore leather shoes or ankle boots.) We will also need to bring sack lunches for this day. Again, we are encouraged to stay with the period in history so sandwiches and fruit or cheese would be appropriate.
Spelling words for April 25: (words with the suffix -en)
| awaken | given | widen | soften | sharpen |
| lighten | loosen | brighten | gladden | lengthen |
Sentence: May I sharpen my pencil?
Memory for April 16:
Hymn – I Know That My Redeemer Lives
verse 3
He lives to bless me with His love;
He lives to plead for me above;
He lives my hungry soul to feed;
He lives to help in time of need.
Our Next week:
- Friday, 4/18
- Good Friday – NO SCHOOL
- Good Friday services @ 5:30 and 7:15 pm
- Saturday, 4/19
- Hope Youth Group is sponsoring an Easter Fair, 9:00 am
- Sunday, 4/20
- Easter Sunday!
- Easter Services @ 8:00 and 10:30 with Easter breakfast served between services
- Monday, 4/21
- Easter Monday – NO SCHOOL
- Wednesday, 4/23
- Memory and Chapel
- MAP testing – Math
- Thursday, 4/24
- MAP testing – Language
- Friday, 4/25
- Spelling test
- Upcoming Dates:
4/23-5/7 – MAP testing window
4/25 – Snow Make-Up Day – School is in session
– Talent Show
5/1 – International Fair
5/5 – Oxford Historic Schoolhouse trip
5/10 – Hope Relays
5/15 – Fine Arts Night
5/16 – No School, Teacher Inservice
5/16 and 5/19 – Spring Play performances
5/21 – Last Day of School
Our Next week:
- Friday, 4/19
- Spelling Test
- KITE testing in the morning
- Tuesday, 4/23
- KITE testing in the morning
- School Talent Show
- Wednesday, 4/24
- Memory
- Chapel
- Thursday, 4/25
- KITE testing in the morning
- Friday, 4/26
- Completed Science Fair project due
- Spelling Test
Upcoming Dates:
- 5/1 – Science Fair
- 5/2 – Class Pictures
- 5/3 – Oxford Schoolhouse
- 5/9 – Fine Arts Night
- 5/12 – 3rd and 4th Choir at Church
- 5/17 – No School (Teacher Inservice)
- 5/21 – Field Day
- 5/23 – Last Day of School!
