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CHATTER BOX

Welcome to the Chatterbox!
January 30, 2012

The chatterbox is the weekly newsletter for our school. All teachers have an article covering events of the classroom. Please look over the whole issue, not just your child's article. There is alot of general information about the events of our school!

Trinity News...................................................................................

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From the Principal....

From the Principal...

Thanks to those who attended the PTL meeting last Monday. We heard some important information about the Science Fair, and students took their display boards home.

We encourage all parents to attend these meetings, and to use these opportunities to keep up on the activities going on here at Trinity.

Students should be working on their science fair projects in anticipation of the Science Fair and Open House coming up on February 9th at 6:00 PM.

Judging will take place during the day, and then the displays will be set up in Mrs. Moore’s and Mr. Schotte’s classrooms. The other rooms in the school will be open as well for parents and students to visit. The awards presentation will take place at 6:30 in the sanctuary.

Have a great week!

Serving the Master,

Mr. Schotte

Prayers for Becky
We still have bracelets in the office supporting Becky Schotte and her fight against cancer. They are $2.00 and a lovely bright pink shade!

Trinity T-Shirts
We have received some red Trinity t-shirts in both student and adult sizes. Cost of the shirts is $8.00. Get yours today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

Jackson H. on February 2.

Have a Great Day Jackson!

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Upcoming Events

January 23-PTL Meeting 6pm

January 29-Happy Birthday Kansas!

February 8 - Dental Checks K-6

February 9-Trinity Open House and Science Fair @ 6:00pm

February 26-K-6 sing at church, 9am

OPEN HOUSE AND SCIENCE FAIR

Trinity will have an Open House for the entire school on Thursday, February 9 at 6:00pm All the classrooms will be open to view projects, art displays and other student works.

The Science Fair projects will be in Mrs. Moore’s and Mr. Schotte’s rooms. There will be an awards ceremony for the Science Fair at 6:30pm in the church sanctuary.

Invite your friends, grandparents and neighbors. See what is going on at Trinity and view what our young scientists are exploring and discovering!

PTL News

Next meeting is Monday, Feb. 20 at 6:00pm.

Babysitting is available.

Pizza and extras are served for a small donation.

At the last meeting, we also had a special drawing at the end and a few lucky parents walked away with FREE Gambino's pizza buffet or Sonic drinks.

We have lots of cool prizes that we are going to be giving out at future PTL meetings that Lindsay Smith has collected for our school!

State Symbols: Bison, Barred Tiger Salamander, Cottonwood Tree, Sunflower, Western Meadowlark and the Honeybee

Dillons Gift Certificates
Gift Certificates for Dillons are available for purchase in the school office. Each certificate has a value of $20.00. Trinity earns $4.00 for scholarships for each $100.00 they sell. The certificates may be used for groceries, at the gas pumps and at the pharmacy. They make great gifts too!

Boxtops, Etc.

Please continue to save your Boxtops for Education, Campbell's Labels, and ink cartridges. The next contest is

BOYS VS. GIRLS

Library News

The Chatterbox lists each week students with overdue library books. Books may be rechecked. Students must return books in order to check out.

DUE DECEMBER 7
Emma M.—Sleepy Dog

DUE DECEMBER 16
Katy—My New boy

DUE JANUARY 11
Bayne-Twizzlers; Coyotes
Kale-Arthur Christmas Elf Invasion
Noah—All By Myself; Just Me and My Puppy
Zane L.—I spy book of Christmas riddles

JANUARY 25
Alek—The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Anna—The Red Pyramid
Harper—The Miserable Mill
Luke—I Spy School Days
Joshua—I wonder why I blink; Seventh & Walnut
Rebecca—The Wide Window; The Austere Academy

Reminder!!! Banking

Don't forget that banking is downstairs on Fridays from 7:15 for 6th grade bankers and 7:30--8 am for deposits. Don't forget to bring in your passbooks so we can update them.

If you don't have an account, talk to the school office if you want one.

Anna Gentry

PK3 class can bring their deposits on Thursdays.

Kindergarten Kids

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

We are inching closer to the hundredth day of school!

The kindergarteners and I are very excited to celebrate being in school for one hundred days!

Keep looking in the Chatterbox for updates!

Jesus Time

Our story for the week is Jesus Blesses the Children.

Our memory verse for the week is:

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me.” Mark 10:14.

We’ll say our memory verse on Wednesday during chapel so practice, practice, practice!

Don’t forget to have your kindergartener show you the memory verse in sign language. Also, coming up the kindergarteners will be leading a chapel.

Watch the Chatterbox for more updates.

Reading

Our story for the week is Hide, Clyde! Our high frequency words are they, you, and of.

Our letter of the week is S.

Please bring something that starts with the letter S on Friday. This week we’ll be talking about the main idea of a story and making sentences.

Math

We’re finishing up our chapter on number patterns.

Keep practicing counting by twos, fives, and tens at home! It’s time to take out your change, families!

We’ll be starting our chapter on money and time. The hardest part of this unit is usually learning how much each coin is worth. The kindergarteners are very excited to learn about money.

Science

Our plants have started to grow!

The kindergarteners are measuring their plants every other day and we’re amazed by how much some of them have grown.

We’re talking about how the kindergarteners have grown and changed just like the plants. We’ll continue to measure each plants growth and we’re anxiously waiting to see if our trees will grow.

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Spanish

We’re learning more ways to express how we feel in Spanish. We’re also learning the words of everyday items.

We’re learning how to say some fruit and vegetable names in Spanish.

We’re also learning the names of items we find in our classroom such as chair, table, window, etc.

Music

We’re practicing our choir songs. We’re also learning how to tune our voices to make them sound like the notes we hear on the piano.
I pray everyone has a wonderful week!

Snacks this week is Emma Moore. Next week is Bayne Newman.

God's Blessings,

Miss Richters

Preschool Chatter

Dental health is our theme this week as we learn how to take care of our teeth. Paper toothbrushes will come home with a chart to help encourage brushing at least 2 times a day.

Letter of the Week is Pp and our special book is The Pig’s Picnic.

Snack ideas: pretzels, pudding, popcorn, pineapple and popsicles.

We celebrate Jackson’s 5th birthday on Wednesday.

His big day is Feb 2nd (Thursday.)

Coming up on Monday, Feb. 13th and Tuesday, Feb. 14th are the next class parties at school-Valentine’s Day.

Roomparents for these parties are 3 year olds: Lindsay Smith (head), Mandy Cannon, Jessica Gladden (Kaylee) and Megan Wolf;

For the 4 year olds: Kalaina Seidel (head), Sara Ray, Jessica Gladden (Zane) and Pari Sopha (Nakhai.)

The parties will be 9:30-11:30. Every child should bring a valentine for each classmate.

Next week we’ll be making Valentine mailboxes at school for the party.

Please send a large box with a lid that can be transformed into a mailbox. We’ll be making the mailboxes on Wed. Feb 8th and Thursday, Feb. 9th.

Mrs. Glasgow

Home Room Grades 1,2 and 3

Wow, where is January going? We are really speeding through the year!

We are celebrating Kansas' birthday at school today. We will be making a cake in the shape of a sunflower and ice cream!

Happy Birthday Kansas!

Thanks for all of the parents that showed up at the PTL meeting last Monday. We had an excellent showing for our class. We had a special drawing at th end, and a few lucky parents walked away with a FREE Gambinos pizza buffet or a Sonic drink. We have lots of cool prizes that we are going to be giving out at PTL meetings that Lindsay Smith has collected for our school.

At the beginning of the year, each child brought in 2 containers of Clorox wipes. If each family could bring 2 more containers of Clorox wipes, we should make it through the rest of the year.

Be on the lookout for an article and photo of our amazing kids in the paper! Science fair information was sent home a few weeks ago. The boards were sent home last week.

The Science Fair this year is going to be combined with an Open House. This will be a great chance for parents to see all of the different classrooms and their projects they did.

The preschool classroom will also be open to show off their recent projects. The Open House/Science Fair will be on Thursday, February 9 at 6:00pm. The awards ceremony will be at 6:30pm in the sanctuary.

READING

First grade will be reading “Where Are My Animal Friends? ” We will be working on "er, est and dge". Please make sure your child is reading their story on Thursday. Our story test is on Friday this week.
Our story this week is a play. We will perform our play on Friday morning during our reading class at 9:30. If you would like to stop in and watch our play, please feel free to do so.

Second grade will be reading “Frogs” We will be working on dipthongs "ou and ow". We are also going to be working on compare and contrast.
The second grade reading book starts to get harder. Please make sure you are reading with your child so you know if they are struggling or not. Please make sure your child is reading their story on Wednesday and Thursday. The story test is on Friday.

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Third grade will be reading “Rocks in His Head ” We will be working on prefixes. Please make sure your child is reading their story on Wednesday and Thursday. Our story test is on Friday this week.

We are also starting to do some practice for state assessments. We will be doing some practice tests on the computer and on paper and pencil.

My plan is to do one practice story per week. The focus in 3rd grade is narrative and expository stories.

MATH

First grade will be continuing our chapter on skip counting.

Second grade will be continuing with money. At home you can get out a group of 4-6 coins an dhave your child count them as a group.

Third grade will be working on number phrases. the boys have been doing very well. Keep up the hard work!

Mrs. Moore

Mrs. Stigge's Corner

Science Fair Judging is Wednesday, February 8. Please have your project set up in the basement before schol starts at 8am. If you cannot bring it then, you need to bring it earlier and a teacher will store it.

Projects will be brought up to the home rooms on February 9. You may view them during Open House from 6:00-6:30. Awards ceremony is at 6:30 in the sanctuary. You may take projects home after that.

5th-6th Science

Unit 5: Ecosystems

3rd-4th Science

Unit 5: Changes to earth's surface.

2nd Science

Unit 5: Environments for living things.

1st Science

Unit 5: Environments

1st-2nd Religion

Beginning in unit 6, Jesus' miracles. Jesus heals a crippled man. (John5:1-18) and Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-17)

1st-2nd Memory for Wednesday, January 30th

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. Galatians 3:26-27

We will begin learning the Niecene Creed. Students are singing this in choir, also. I will send home a separate paper on the words.

Grades 4,5,6 Homeroom News

Many students are already approaching their AR goals for the quarter!

Congratulations to these students who have diligently been reading and working hard. Those who are not yet at 25%-30% of their goal are behind schedule and will need to work extra hard to meet the goal. The Lutheran Schools AR contest starts next week.

Both religion classes will wrap up their units on prayer this week. After taking the unit tests, they will begin studying the liturgy we use in worship and the significance of beginning these services with the confession of sins and absolution.

Memory Work for This Week:

Grades 3-4

"God is faithful...With the tempation, He will also provide the way of escape." 1 Corinthians 10:13

"I was rescued from the lion's mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom." 2 Timothy 4:17-18

Grades 5-6

“For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life.” John 6:40.

“O give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!” Psalm107:1-2.

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Math

For math, the fourth graders have been working with multiplication by multiples of 10. Beginning this week, they will learn the process involved with multiplying 2- and 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers.

The fifth graders have been dividing decimals by whole numbers. They will also work with changing fractions into decimals by dividing.
Sixth graders using one-step algebraic methods to solve for a variable. Right now, they are working with addition and subtraction.

Later this week, they will move to multiplication and division. While the process seems a little cumbersome with relatively simple equations, they will find that it really helps when they get to equations that are more complicated.

Shurley English

In Shurley English, we are getting very close to finishing our study of pattern 2 sentences (sentences having direct objects). We are also learning about how to correctly combine two simple sentences into sentences with compound subject or verbs, or into compound sentences.

Thanks to Mr. Condit for filling in for me last Friday, when I was in Topeka for a meeting.

Mr. Schotte

Spelling

Spelling Lists: Spelling Tests will be on Friday this week. Workbook pages are due on Wednesday.

First Grade-Where are My Friends? p. 69-72

bigger	biggest	faster	fastest	slower
slowest	shorter	shortest	sadder	saddest
good-bye	before	were	her

Second Grade-Frogs p. 69-72

around	about	gown	sound	flower
howl	ground	pound	crown	south
mouse	downtown	mountain	boundary	drowsy

Challenge Words:

Third Grade-Rocks in His Head p. 69-72

prepaid	midnight	overflow	outdoors	outline
overgrown	prefix	Midwest	pretest	midpoint
outgoing	overtime	overdue	outside	outfield
friend	another	brother	heard

Challenge Words:

Fourth Grade-The King in the Kitchen p. 69-72

brother	together	dinner	popular	center
calendar	similar	regular	summer	clever
supper	pitcher	filter	hangar	never
shelter	cellar	caterpillar	theater	deliver

Challenge Words: character,binocular, singular

Fifth Grade-Exploding Ants p.69-72

cent	sent	scent	threw	through
weather	whether	their	there	they're
chili	chilly	tide	tied	pale
pail	aloud	allowed	course	coarse
bizarre	bazaar	patients	patience

Challenge Words:

Sixth Grade-Black Frontiers p. 69-72

precious	commercial	especially	ancient	gracious
position	question	suggestion	friction	lotion
potion	digestion	artificial	glacier	cautious
efficient	sensational	vicious	official	ration

Challenge Words: fictitious, vaccination, beneficial

Accellerated Reading, Art, Computers & Handwriting

ACCELERATED READING PROGRAM

Beginning today we will compete in an AR contest with other Lutheran Schools in the United States.

This contest is sponsored by St. Paul’s Lutheran in Janesville, Wisconsin.

There are usually between 70 and 90 schools that participate.

Each grade competes against that same grade in the other schools. The total AR points in each grade are divided by the number of students in that grade.

Last year, the first graders did the best by finishing 23rd out of 80 schools…not bad, but room for improvement!

The class that finishes in the highest place gets a giant cookie! The contest runs through March 9th.

Mrs. Waldorf

Computer Lab

Mrs. Waldorf

ART

ARTSONIA
Be looking on line at www.artsonia.com for our art website. We are adding the art projects every week. This is a great way for family members to see your child art if they live far away. . A percentage of the price comes back to the school for art supplies.

Mrs. Waldorf

Trivia Question.............

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We had 3 students with the correct answer to last week’s question.

The ornate box turtle became the state reptile through the efforts of the Caldwell Elementary 6th grade.

The students who answered correctly:
Marley Hoskins
Nolan Foust
Rebecca Grimm
Good work, Marley, Nolan and Rebecca!

This week’s question:

How many counties does Kansas have?
What are the largest and smallest (by area) counties?

PTL News

The board meets the second Monday of each month at 6 p.m. There is a parent forum at each meeting.

Items discussed at the November meeting were:

Fall Festival--Approx. 100 children attended. Timing--was good--but possibly change to the same night that other trunk or treat events are going on to attract a community event. Provide a map as a community service--brochure in our bags.
Next year maybe not try to have the games-not enough parent volunteers. The face painting-balloon animals were a positive to try for next year along with bale maze/bouncy house if available. Trunks, youth concessions and police and fire trucks were also a positive.

Grandparents Day--Positive response to the ice cream social. More grandparents attended this year. Basket sale made approx. $755.00

Nut Sales--Sales were up. Product is good--more nuts are available. Catalog and numbered items a little difficult to determine. Thanks to Suzanne and Brian Gentry for their hard work.

Thanksgiving Dinner--Sign up sheet was sent around for food donations and volunteers.

Christmas Parade--Conflict of activities and timing didn't make this possible.

Playground committee needs to be formed with the church buildings and grounds. The merry go round is in need of repair, along with sprucing up other items. Possibly in the winter or once a quarter, we could possibly schedule a workday and also do some painting.

Marketing--New signs for the church and school outside of town is one project moving forward.

Scholastic Book Sale--Stacie VanDeGrift handed out a sign up sheet for parents to work the book fair sale during the week. She also noted an online link for parents/grandparents to buy books online. Set up for the book fair is on Sunday, November 20th. Book fair lasts until December 4th.

Christmas Ornaments--Children's Christmas Service is on Sunday December 18th. Ornaments are purchased and given to students at the end of the service.

Activities for the year:

Science Fair/Open House—February 9

School Carnival—April

School Musical—May 10 & 11

Banking—Brian Gentry with Citizen’s Bank of Kansas is hosting this year. 6th grade class will help work and complete deposit slips.

PTL Meeting Dates

At our last PTL meeting, we elected our officers for this school year.
The president this year is Kami Moore.
The treasurer is Sara Ray.
The secretary is Robin Headrick.
Thanks to these ladies for stepping up and leading PTL.

Here is a list of the next PTL meetings. Mark your Calendars for 6:00 on all these dates.

Monday, February 20
Monday, March 12
Monday, April 16
Monday, May 7