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THINGS TO NOTE ...

Teacher Appreciation Week is this week! Thank you to all the parents and friends that have

brought in food to celebrate our wonderful teachers! We appreciate our staff and we appreciate

you!

Congratulations to the DAR essay winners this year: Sianna Doran received 1st Place in 7th-8th divi-

sion & Steven Sharkey received 1st for 6thgrade division. They will receive certificates, ribbons, and

medals! They wrote their essays on the Boston Massacre. We are so proud of them!!!

Reminder that the Fourth graders will be selling tomatoes, spider plants, and aloe plants on

Thursday and Friday this week. The money will go to one of our missionaries that we pray for daily.

What a great project, Fourth Grade!!

5 Minute Glow Run, Friday, May 7th! For our students only. This Friday p.m. , get ready to

run in the gym to check your endurance and done in the dark! Sounds like a lot of laughter is

coming our way! FUN!

May 4, 2021

Full day of activities on Thursday!! Beginning with National Day of Prayer at 8:00 a.m., we

will be meeting in our gym to lift up our prayers for this beautiful nation and many more prayers!

If you would like to join us, please do so!

Please READ!

Thursday night!! 4:30P is our Open House/Science/Art Fair in the gym. At 6:00P, we will con-

gregate in the church sanctuary for the Talent Show and Jr. High Choir. Come to see what talents

our students have to share with you!

Art Info from Mrs. House! Parents, you are invited to the Art room to view the student’s pro-

jects. There you will also find their sketchbooks/portfolios. If your student does not have any-

thing hanging on the walls, please take these portfolios. Those items hanging will later be placed

into the portfolios and they will be sent home at that time. The portfolios can be saved to be used

for next year.

Miss Hoffman’s info for Chapel Choir - Kindergarten - 5th grade Chapel Choir will be singing in

the Talent Show. Please have your students in the classroom by 5:45 to line up. Thank you!

Mrs. Holmes note for students! Talent Show starts at 6:00 p.m. All 6th-8th grade students will

be singing in the choir. Jr. High Students should meet Mrs. Holmes in the church basement at

5:30 p.m. Dressy/Casual Attire.

May 4 Sasha Crew 7th grade

9 Mrs. Pollok Preschool Teacher

15 Mason Merkley 5th grade

17 Makaylee McCoy 2nd grade

May birthdays

include:

Kindergarten Graduation, Wed., May 19th at 2PM ~ There are Kindergarten graduation invi-tations are located in the office if you would like to purchase. They are 10 cents a piece. A special way to invite those grandparents and loved ones.

Friday, May 21 Fun Fair info - Needing 7-8 adults to help on this morning of activities. Lunch will be served for the students and they will be asked to volunteer items. Hot dogs, chips, some cookies, and homemade ice cream have already been donated! Thank you for those donations! Kindergarten class is welcome to come back as new 1st graders, and spend this last morning with all their friends! Report cards issued with noon dismissal.

8th grade graduation - We are asking for volunteers of non-8th grade parents to help at the party to let 8th grade parents enjoy the celebration. Those signed up for kitchen help include: Mi-cah, LeAndra & Abigail Harris and Michelle Oaks. If you would like to help, let the office know! An important time in the life of these families! Thank you!

8th grade Girls! Check the office if you are interested in Princeton High School Pom Squad 2021-2022 tryouts on May 11& 12 at 6-7:30P and also May 14 at 5P. All info is located at the office if interested.

Registration 2021-2022! New families are applying and your student must be registered to ensure a spot for them next year. Please contact the office if you have questions. High School admissions is OPEN!!!! Current and new students will all have to complete an application and then go through an interview process. The application can be started in TADS. The $17 application fee will be waived for current 8th grade students. Please contact Mr. Odell if you have questions.

PCA ACTIVITY CALENDAR Tues, May 4 4:00P Track meet @ Ladd (Hall H.S.)

Wed, May 5 3rd gr trip to Wildlife Prairie Park

Wed, May 5 4:30P Track meet at Princeton H.S.

Thurs, May 6 8:00A Nat’l Day of Prayer (gym)

Thurs, May 6 4:30P Science/Art Fair/Open House

Thurs, May 6 6:00P Talent Show/PCA Choir

Sun, May 9th Happy Mother’s Day

Mon, May 10 4:00P Track @ LaMoille

Tues, May 11 6:ooP Jr Hi Academic/Athletic Awards Night

Thurs, May 13 3:15-4:14P Track practice

Fri, May 14 4th gr Field Trip-Heaton’s Farm & Joe

Meyers Park

Fri, May 14 Last Day of Preschool

Mon, May 17 3:15-4:15P Track practice

Tues, May 18 1st & 2nd grade Field Trip

Wed, May 19 Last day of Kindergarten-graduation at 2 P

Wed. May 19 1:30P BVEC Conference Track Meet

Fri, May 21 Last day of school with Fun Fair

Noon dismissal. Report cards issued

Fri, May 21 7:00P 8th grade Graduation

Have you ever noticed?

No one is listening until

you make a mistake!

Kindergarten Tidbit ~ Mrs. Whitlock

Sonshine Preschool - Miss Elisha

Theme: Beach/Sports Week

We will play basketball, t-ball,

soccer, football.

For the “beach”, we will have a small

pool, sand toys, water pails, seashells, beach towels.

Reviewing

all letters/ numbers/

colors/shapes

ABC Bag/Snack

Mon - Miss Beverly

Wed - School

Fri - Miss Elisha

(Bday May 9)

Our field trip was a beautiful day and we had lots of fun. It started out rainy so many of us had our boots.

There were not many hikers at Starved Rock but there was lots of mud puddles. Just what kindergartners

like! It got sunny and warm and we ended our day finishing out our Jr. Ranger program by receiving our

badge and stating the State Park pledge with the Ranger. We had a picnic lunch and several games of

freeze tag. Thank you Pim Garcia for the snack and juice for our ride home.

In Science this week we should be starting “God’s Plan for Sea”. The children may bring in baggies of dif-

ferent shells.

Hopefully we will do some planting in the school garden. If you have any seeds for us, we can plant them.

Thursday, May 6, at 4:30, you are invited to the Science and Art open house and Talent Show. Their will

be a few Science activities in our room that your children want to show you. The students may pick up

their sketch books in the Art Room. The Talent Show will be in the Sanctuary. If you have any questions,

see me, please.

We will explore items that float or sink and we have a Super Listening Activity.

The children are to start picking a few stories in our Readers that they might like to read for graduation.

We are working on our poems and memory verses. Graduation is fast approaching and several moms

are busy making it a special time. I am asking all of us to contribute $10 to help with food, drink and

decorations. Also we need to know a count of how many will be guests at the Graduations. Please let

me know how many will come from your family and extended family.

This week we are using stories with addition and/or subtraction facts. We will make tally marks for num-

bers and write our number words. Subtracting all of a number will be practiced. Before and after numbers

will be reviewed. Students will write the correct addition or subtraction fact when shown a concept card.

We will review clocks and count coin combination nickel, dimes, quarters and pennies. There will be an

evaluation.

Kindergarten continued~

In Phonics we will read and write some of the color words. We will make words with blends and spell

them. There will be an evaluation. We will think of and write words which begin with our special sounds

and spell them the way they sound. Sentences will be completed with words we choose. We will review

special sounds and blends. Our new special sounds are “er”, “ir” and “ur” and “oo” as in “book”.

In Bible we will learn about Paul and Silas. They worshipped and praised God in prison. Where can we wor-

ship and praise God? Worship is our present to God. God wants us to tell him about our day, the good and

the not so good things that happen. Paul and Silas were rescued from their sins and Jesus was their Savior.

The ABC’s of faith will be reviewed. We will read in Revelation 7: 9-12 of the description of heaven. We will

discuss what that will be like. Our memory verse is “Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our

God, how pleasant and fitting to praise Him!” Psalm 147:1

Mrs. Whitlock

1st grade ~ Mrs. Wilson

Bible - This week, we will learn about Saul’s Conversion. Our memory verse is “And we pray that in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way; bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.” Colossians 1:10 Phonics - This week’s special sounds are -y in crystal, and -err in cherry. Math - This week we will learn the 13 addition family facts. Spelling - Please practice List #27 words at home. Last week we had fun with games, hats, ice cream, jokes and sprinkling kindness. Our schedule for this week is: Monday – L – Lego Day - We will have lots of fun Lego activities! Tuesday – M – Music Day – We will make musical instruments! Wednesday – N – Nature Day – We learn all about nature and plant some vegetables in the school gar-den. Thursday – O – Oreo Day – We will have lots of fun Oreo activities! Friday – P – Pajama Day – Wear your pajamas to school!

We will be joining 2nd Grade on a field trip to the Pin Splitter Lanes on Tuesday, May 18th. We will leave in the morning to play at Zearing Park (weather permitting) and have lunch at Zearing Park. Then we will go bowling at Pin Splitter Lanes and return to school before 3pm. Students will need to bring a sack lunch and drink. The Hansen’s are providing transportation with one of their charter buses! Thank you! We need one family to donate 1 package of hot dog buns and one family to donate 1 package of chips from our class to help with the lunch on the last day of school after the fun festival. Please let me know if you would like to donate.

5th grade ~ Mr. Clausen

As our school year draws to a close, I’d like you to know how much I’ve enjoyed having your chil-

dren in my class this year. They have been a delight to teach! Thank you for lending them to me this

year!

This week we are learning about Paul and Barnabas in Bible class. We will focus on encouraging

one another in the Lord. Our verse is 1Thessalonians 5:11: “Therefore encourage one another and

build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” We will recite this verse on Friday. Spelling test

31 will be on Friday as well.

In Phonics and Language class we are learning about dictionaries and alphabetical order. We are

reviewing types of sentences, adjectives and adverbs. In Math class we are continuing to estimate

sums and round numbers to the nearest ten. We are learning to round to the nearest dollar and

how to find one third of a group or number. In health class we are learning about all types of safety.

2nd grade ~ Mrs. Bickett

4th grade ~ Mrs. Odell

We had a great day at our field trip yesterday. Thank you all who donated for the cook-out and who drove. Thank you for making this possible.

Health test on Thursday. We have begun working in the garden. The fifth grade has already spent some time on a couple o f afternoons. Other classes have made plans to begin as well. We would welcome donation of plants or seed from students. Please talk with your student's teacher regarding class plant. Some ideas of things we could use are : cabbage plants tomato plants (4) various flowers broccoli plants 3 bales of straw for mulch 2 bags peat moss, etc.

We are learning I Corinthians 2:9 “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him”.

We will test on Spelling list 31 tomorrow then move on to 32. We will begin a section on geometry in math. History is taking us to the World Wars. We’ve been studying our respiratory system in health.

We have been learning the Gettysburg Address and we plan to present it Thursday night at the talent program. Ask your child to quote their part, but I think they know way more than just their lines.

The Fourth Graders have been growing some plants and we will have a few to sell May 6 and 7. We have about 30 tomatoes, 8 spider plants and a few aloe vera. The money will go to one of our missionaries that we pray for daily. We hope to help you in your garden planting, too!

Have a great week!

PCA MISSION STATEMENT ~ To provide an excellent academic education with a Christian

worldview based on the absolute authority of God’s Word, the Holy Bible.

8th grade Language Arts ~ Mrs. Kiser

We are finishing Hamlet this week. We will be testing on Friday!

Thank you Moms for being there and for

loving with all your heart!