Happy New Year!! We hope that you had a wonderful Christmas break and are now getting back into the swing of things with your “normal” routine. This is also the time of year when sickness tends to “spike” as we are returning to be around our school and work families from the break. We want your children to be at school, but need them to be healthy. Please make sure your contact information in Harmony is updated and accurate in case we need to call to have you pick up your children. On behalf of the entire St. James community, we wish you all God’s blessings for a Happy and Healthy 2017! No Hot Lunch: Tuesday, January 10—due to funeral luncheon. Milk will be provided for purchase. Lunch return to normal Wednesday, January 11. No School: Monday, January 16—Martin Luther King Jr. Day (SD#1) Report Cards, for the 2nd quarter, will be issued on Thursday, January 10. Reminder: No Hot Lunch—Wednesday, January 18—Science Fair Day St. James Lutheran School and Daycare Cancellations and Delays As we start to move into the winter season, this is a friendly reminder of our Cancellation and Delay policy. St. James normally toughs it out unless the weather or outside temperatures become dangerously severe. Daycare will be closed when school is cancelled. Two Hour Delays

School, preschool/PK, and daycare will start at 9:55 A.M.

The early morning room will open at 9:30 A.M.

Students are to report to their homerooms. o When the 10:15 bell rings, school periods will run on an alternate schedule to accommodate all

classes meeting for the day. Please tune into the following stations for delays or cancellations: TV-18, 98.7 WASK, School Text, Facebook and Twitter Feeds for St. James, Internet: www.stjameslaf.org or www.WLFI.com

Ephesians 2:8-9—It’s Still All about Jesus “For by grace you have

been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is a gift

from God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

***If you are not a member of our school wide text service and would like to join, please text SJSCHOOL to 555888.***

January Chapel Offerings

The chapel offerings for January are going to support MOST ministries. Mission Opportunities Short Term is a

group that spreads the love of Jesus through short term mission trips. For more information check out their

website. http://www.mostministries.org/

Mrs. Goodspeed Thank you all for your support of our Christmas programs. The kids did a great job and surpassed my

expectations.

Thank you also for the many many gifts of appreciation! I truly appreciate your thoughtfulness and generosity!

Band and Choir students...I expect to have Solo and Ensemble times sometime this week or early next week.

Please note the Spring music schedule below.

Mrs. Goodspeed

agoodspeed@stjameslaf.org

Spring 2017 Music Schedule

Date Choir Grades

1/28 Solo and Ensemble Contest - Band Students 5-8

2/4 Solo and Ensemble Contest - Junior High Choir / Piano 6-8

2/5 Lamb’s Choir (10:30 Only) PreK - K

2/12 Cherub Choir (10:30 Only) 1-2

2/19 Junior High Choir (Both Services) 6-8

2/24 Messenger Choir Musical - 6:00 PM 3-5

3/12 Junior High Choir (Both Services) 6-8

3/19 Cherub Choir 1-2

4/8 ISSMA Organizational Contest

Possible date for Junior High Choir 6-8

4/9 Messenger Choir (Both Services) 3-5

4/28

Fine Arts Festival

All day trip to Indianapolis Lutheran High School. Concert at 7:00 pm

Junior High Choir and Advanced Band

6-8

5/9 Spring Concert

ALL 6-8 Grade students, Beginning and Advanced Bands PreK - K

Additional May service dates will be added at a later date.

PRESCHOOL 2'S NEWS AND NOTES (MRS. BENNETT)

Theme: Numbers/Counting

Shape: Square

Color: Blue

Bible Lesson: Jesus' Teachings

Crafts: Snow globe Snowmen, Ice cube painting

Sensory: Pom-Pom counting, number cookie cutters

Science: No science

Songs: "Rocket Ship Run", "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"

Books: "Who is Counting?"

Circle Time Games: Numbers matching game, Numbers No peeky-peeky, Dice-Roll PomPom sorting

PS 2’s Ms. Howard Bible Theme/lesson: Jesus is My Shepherd, Snow

Letters: "Q" Queeny Quail, "M" Missy Mouse, "P" Peewee Penguin, "W" Willie Weasel, "Y" Yancy Yak

Color: White

Shape: rectangle

Numbers: 1-6

Classroom Activities: Play dough, Zoo Phonics aerobics, painting, Snow sensory table

Snack week 1/9-1/13 Mrs. Ziegler

Snack week 1/23-1/27 Grayson

PreS 3 Mrs. Wollenburg

PreK Mrs. Knobloch & Mrs. Bishop

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO HOT LUNCH THIS TUESDAY DUE TO A FUNERAL DINNER IN THE

CAFETERIA. Each child must bring a cold lunch on Tuesday. Milk may be purchased but that is not

necessary as we have plenty of white milk in our room.

There is no schoool NEXT MONDAY (January 16th) in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The school

and daycare are closed.

We have added another new friend to our class! We welcome Camille Snelling. All of the children had a great

return to school. They were excited to see the new set up of our room and meet Mrs. Knobloch. We were so

proud of all of them! The new children acclimated easily and the returning students were great friends to the

new children.

As we perfect writing our names, children will now sign in each day with their regular tracing name plate AND

a blank name plate. As you work with your child at home, reinforce that letter are formed top to bottom and we

write from left to right. We reinforce left/right discrimination several times throughout our day.

A hard copy of the snack calendar was sent home last week. If it is your child's snack week, please provide

snack only on the days your child attends. For example, if your child attends Monday-Friday, you are

responsible for snack all five days. If your child attends on only Monday, Wednesday, Friday, just bring snack

for those three days. We have a full sized refrigerator and can store perishable items if needed. We have 16

friends and two teachers.

Children may bring an item for Show and Tell on Wednesday or Thursday. Items that coincide with the theme

or nursery rhyme of the week are encouraged!

Here’s a quick overview of our week:

Snack Helper: Jake

Theme: Life in Winter

Bible Lesson: Jesus Heals

Rhyme Time: Nursery Rhyme: A Tisket a Tasket. Activiities: Roll a rhyming word, Feed the Penguin a

rhyme, Rhyme picture matching,

Phonics and Literacy: Color by letter, Snowball letter toss, Shave cream snow phoncic identification, mystery

bag, phonics/letter Dot bingo

Math: Roll/graph polar bears, Counting hybernating bears, Number bingo, Snowman dot number

identification,

Science: Waxy penguin skin, what is blubber?, Exploring winter foliage, magnets in ice

Dramatic Play: Cave for hybernating

Chapel on Wednesday at 9:40

Library on Thursday at 9:00

Have a great week!

Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Knobloch

PreK Mrs. Eggold & Mrs. Caylor

Theme of the week: Healthy Eating

Religion: Jesus Feeds 500

Zoophonics: - Sammy Snake - Letter "S"

Science: Dying celery different colors and sorting which food comes from the ground vs. trees

Sensory: Different play foods in rice that the children must sort into groups of whether they like them or not

Art: Making a collage of different foods healthy/unhealthy - like/dislike out of grocery fliers

Dramatic Play: Restaurant set up

Writing: Practicing grocery lists and Journal page of their favorite fruits and vegetables

Math: Sorting

This week our class will be studying healthy eating habits. The January calendar was sent home on Friday. If

your child was not here, then they will be sent home Monday. I apologize for the delay! Please note that there

will be NO HOT LUNCH on Tuesday this week. If your child stays for lunch, please send a cold lunch. Milk

will still be available.

There will be no school next Monday January 16 for MLK Day.

Have a Blessed Week!

Kindergarten- Mrs. Trautmann

Memory: Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it! Luke 11:28

Jesus Time: The Boy Jesus Studies God's Word

Reading: Story: My Lucky Day

Phonemic Awareness: Initial and Final /l/ sound

Phonics: the /l/ sound spelled Ll

Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Sight Words: are, do, that

Math: Addition

Afternoon Activities: Worms

We are currently in short supply of Kleenex and paper towel at St James. Even-numbered grades have been

asked to send in Kleenex and odd-numbered grades have been asked to send in paper towels. Kindergartners

can bring in Kleenex, it is of the greatest need! If you could help out, it would be greatly appreciated!

Next Tuesday, January 17th, should be our 100th Day of school. To help celebrate, each kindergartners needs

to bring in a collection of 100 items. They can bring in whatever they like and all items do not have to be the

same thing!

Reminder: There will no hot lunch on Tuesday of this week due to a funeral and no hot lunch on Wednesday of

next week due to the Science Fair.

Miss Roland

Happy New Year! Happy Epiphany! Happy 2nd semester!(the downhill road to 2nd grade)....

Because its not on my radar..I always forget to mention the science fair. The Science fair is Wednesday,

January 18. It is a requirement for the even grades and optional for the odds. Please let me know this week, if

your first grader is thinking of participating. I am sorry that I didn't think to mention this earlier.

Memory: The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. Titus 2:11

spelling: for this week: face made safe take make cake late name could old * January *snowflake NEW

THIS WEEK...choose 3 spelling words and write them in a sentence. (3 different sentences). Then write the

rest of the words. Spelling sentences will always be due on Wednesday. Please encourage neatness, sentences

that have more than 3 words, punctuation, spacing and assist with spelling other words correctly. We will do 3

words for 3 weeks, 4 words for 4 weeks and then 5 words until the end of first grade. **I just noticed, I copied

this note but didn't changed "next " to "this". The first spelling sentences are due THIS week, Wenesday,

January 11.

Math: greater than less than The math vocabulary is "greater and less", "fewer and more". I use words like

larger, bigger, smaller, but also always go back to the math vocabulary. This is tricky for some. Our magic

word is to...tens, ones..we write it under the number to help us. Ordering random numbers

Handwriting: We have reached the point where most of us are progressing at our own pace. If handwriting

needs to be corrected, the corrections take place before moving on in the book.

Language Arts:l( includes writing with a purpose, grammar, sentence skills, new vocab)

***NEW READER!!!!

Our reader is "Reading Street" with a beaver on it. If it comes home, and it will just review what we have read.

It is ok to read ahead. I am looking for practicing those reading skills.!"The Farmer and the Hat." There is a

mural that we do the skills on as well as some other tasks, then there are 3 pages(phonics, new vocab, I can

read) that we always do to start the unit. Then we read the story.

print awareness: table of contents

listening and speaking :

grammar: using common nouns, proper nouns

phonics: silent e to make the a say its name, soft c and soft g( circle, giraffe0

high frequency: be could horse of old paper

literary components:

Art:

Science: artic animals, penguins

Social Studies: leaders, customs, traditions

Religion: Mary and Joseph go to Egypt, Jesus is baptized

Library: Wednesdays

ABC learning journal. Keep working at it. **Please send to school this week or next for sharing and reflecting

on this quarter. **the orange journals need to come this week. We will not look at them on Wednesday. Thank

you for helping your first grader with this task. I missed a few the end of the quarter, before Christmas. Please

try to send it in this week.

Book-It! is sponsored by Pizza Hut. Read for free personal pizzas. Return the calendar to me at the end of

each month or beginning of the new month and I will give your first grader a coupon for a personal pizza to

Pizza Hut..

I think 100 day falls next Tuesday. Start thinking about 100 collection that the first graders can bring to school

on Tuesday.

Have a Blessing Filled, Jesus filled week!

Mrs. Arden

The STAR Student of the Week is Lizzy Bunton. Report cards will be sent home this week for 2nd Quarter.

Kleenex Supply Request: We are requesting that students in the even grades, 2, 4, 6, 8, bring in one box of

Kleenex to help with our supply shortage. Thank you.

AR Sweet Success Quiz Count: 356 Quizzes . . . Shine Your Halo!

Dates for your Calendar: Tuesday, January 10: NO HOT LUNCH due to a funeral dinner. Please send a cold lunch with your child to

school. Milk may be purchased.

Friday, January 13: Our last Fuzzy Friend Friday for filling our class reward marble jar. Well done, friends!

Wednesday, January 18: Science Fair for students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8. Students in second grade are required

to participate in the Science Fair. The Science Fair is an "at home" project for second graders. A Perfect

Potluck was sent through email to sign up for science fair topics to try to avoid duplication. Please sign up by

Wednesday, January 11, one week before the science fair! Students will speak with two judges about their

project on Wednesday, January 18 during the school day. The Science Fair Night and Awards Ceremony will

be Wednesday evening at 6:00 P.M. There will be NO HOT LUNCH on Wednesday, January 18 due to the

Science Fair. Please send a cold lunch with your child to school.

Monday, January 16: NO SCHOOL; Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Thursday, January 17: 100th Day of School (if all goes as planned)

January 23-27: Lutheran Schools Week . . . Exciting plans coming home soon!

Monday, January 30: Purdue Convocation: Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live! at 10:00 A.M. Please keep your eyes

peeled for more information coming home soon.

Please remember to check the home folder, ClassDojo chart, and sign the student planner nightly. Please don't

hesitate to email, call, or stop in the classroom if you have any questions.

Topics for the Week: Memory: Students will have a fill-in-the-blank memory quiz on Wednesday and Friday.

Wednesday Quiz: "Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ." Romans 10:17

Friday Quiz: "Jesus Christ . . . is the true God and eternal life." 1 John 5:20

Religion: The Boy Jesus in the Temple; The Baptism of Jesus

Reading: A Froggy Fable (story) pg. 28-41

Amazing Words: preserve, represent, valuable, tough, concentration, frown, homeland, patient

Vocabulary: clearing, crashed, perfect, pond, spilling, splashing, traveled

Spelling: The second graders will have a pre-test on Monday and a post-test on Friday. The spelling words for

this week are words with the final syllable le: ankle, title, apple, cable, purple, able, bugle, bundle, bubble,

giggle, sparkle, tickle. The challenge words are: crashed, splashing, traveled.

Grammar: Adjectives and Our Senses

Writing: Friendly Letter

Handwriting: Writing lowercase cursive letters k, t, i, u, e, j, p

Math: Chapter 6 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction

Social Studies: Chapter 3 The World Around Us; Coming Soon . . . Science Air and Weather

In His Hands,

Mrs. Arden

Mrs. Hamilton

Happy New Year!

We could use a few more boxes of Kleenex. If your family hasn't brought a box, please send one in.

Report cards are coming home this week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me.

There will be NO HOT LUNCH on Tuesday, January 10.

Please keep checking the assignment book and home folder. Students should be taking 1-2 AR tests each

week.

Sydney is the student of the week this week.

Here is a look at our week -

Religion - Jesus our Savior

Memory -

January 10 – NT Books – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts

January 13 – Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed His steadfast love from

me! Psalms 66:20

Reading - We are reading"The Man Who Invented Basketball." The skills for the week are generalize and

summarize.

Spelling - The spelling words are: wolves, knives, feet, men, children, women, sheep, heroes, scarves, mice,

geese, wives, elves, banjos, halves. The challenge words are: loaves, beliefs, tomatoes, potatoes, tornadoes.

Math - Chapter 7 - Division

Science - We begin our unit on simple machines.

Social studies - Chapter 2 - Our Environment

Have a blessed week!

from Mrs. Ripke This is a regular week of school with reading, spelling and memory tests on Friday. We will have a test on

Chapter 6 in math on Thursday. The Science Fair is next week on Wednesday. Students should be well on their

way to getting these done and working on their displays. These may be brought to school at the end of the day

on Tuesday between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m.. The Battle of the Books will be on Thursday, February 2nd. Students

have spent a lot of time reading the books for the battle. We have 4 teams of 5 students participating in the

battle. Make sure that the permission slip and t-shirt money is turned in to the teacher as soon as possible.

Grade 5--Mrs. D

Thank you to Dick and Beth Lancaster, grandparents of Fathom Moffatt for building a bench that we

will decorate for the St. James Auction!

Religion-We are in Unit 4, which focuses on Jesus.

Lang Arts-This week we are reading Westlandia. Spelling test Friday. This month for Accelerated Reader

students need to read a Young Hoosier, a non-fiction, a Battle of the Books book, and a book by the author Avi.

Social Studies- We are currently in Chapter 5.

6th grade Social Studies-We are currently in Chapter 13.

7th grade Social Studies-We are currently in Chapter 13.

8th grade Social Studies-We are covering the beginnings of the United States.

Mrs. Rider

Religion - Memory p 101 & 103 We are talking about Jesus's early ministry.

5th Grade Science - We will continue a new chapter on Physical and Chemical Changes.

6th Grade Science - We are putting together science fair projects.

7th Grade Science - Test Wednesday on the electromagnetic spectrum.

8th Grade Science - We are putting together science fair projects.

HAVE A BLESSED WEEK.

Mrs. Keiser Onward! This is time to kick into full speed! All classes will be finishing their Optimist Club essays and we will enter some from each grade for the contest. Good luck! Grammar and poetry is up for study. Independent Reading with a Young Hoosier book is underway. Keep warm ...stay inside and cuddle up with your LA homework!:):)

Mr. Strakis

Upcoming Events Math Contest -Area Christian Schools - January 17

2017 Math Competition Teams 3rd Grade Andrew Plassard, Ben Werth, Katie Kult, alt. Evan Knotts

4th Grade Giovanni Amato, Morgan Strauch, Samantha Ford, alt. Zach Knotts

5th Grade Ben Bunton, Kuentin Schultz, Harrison Shaffer, alt. Sarah Werth

6th Grade Kelby Tarter, William Crum, Hope Plassard, alt. Parker Rosi

7th Grade Brandon Lutes, Dax Dombkowski, Jonathan Gutierrez, alt. Andrew Rogers

8th Grade Dylan Baumgartner, Libby Plassard, Jacob Bunton, alt. Tanner Sterrett

Science Fair January 18

Lutheran Schools Week January 22-27

School Spelling Bee - January 26

3-8 Physical Education - Various games of tag and fitness

78 Art- Monday Origami (Birds)

78 Health/Life Skills - Choices Health Magazine - Articles on Teen Driving, Fitness, and Shaping the Future

5 Math - p. 391-412 We will rename mixed numbers in order to perform subtraction functions. We will complete sequences

adding or subtracting by the same fraction. We will solve word problems by working backwards. Students will use

math operations to simplify adding and subtracting fractions. Ch. 6 Test will be given on Wednesday, January

18.

6 Math - p. 347-356 We will work on problem strategies using percents. We will find percents mentally. We will interpret

percents less than 1% and more than 100%.

7 Math - p. 338-357 We will classify and find the measures of angles inside triangles. We will classify polygons and special

quadrilaterals. We will identify congruent figures and use them to find missing measures. We will identify the different parts of

a circle. We will analyze and construct circle graphs.

Algebra 1 p. 429-446 We will multiply powers with the same base, raise a power, and raise a product to a power. We will

divide powers with the same base and raise quotients to a power.

8 Math - Mrs. Schoon- Continue with chapter 4 identifying and graphing various functions.

Mr. Johnson, A.D.

Week of January 2 (Please check athletic calendar for practice times)

Thursday: JV 5/6th & Varsity Boys vs. Faith

Friday: JV Girls @ Zion Tourney

Saturday: JV Girls @ Zion Tourney

4th & 5/6th JV Boys Tourney @ Lafayette Christian

Basketball

8th Grade Athletics Recognition Night Monday, January 30. Parents are asked to be at the gym by 7:15pm.

JV Girls

JV Girls tourney @ Zion, Friday-Saturday, January 6-7.

JV Boys

JV 4/5/6 Boys Tourney @ Lafayette Christian, Saturday, January 7.

Varsity Girls

Varsity Boys

Our Savior Boys Basketball Tourney Saturday-Sunday, January 14-15.

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