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TRENTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
THEME: “One Mind, One Purpose”
Philippians 2:1-2: “ If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his
love, if any fellowship with the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by
being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose”
February 19, 2019
From the PrincipAl’s Desk,
“To nurture growth in our students through relationships, excellence in teaching and learning; all in
service to glory of God” An Opportunity to promote TCS......
I would like to encourage parents, friends and students to invite other interested families who maybe
considering attending Trenton Christian School to check out our website or encourage them to
attend the following:
Registration/Open House for new students and their families will be held on Wednesday,
from 6:00-8:00pm. Come visit the classroom, take a tour of the school and see what TCS can offer
your children.
Welcome Wednesdays.....Open House from 10:00am-Noon
A casual drop-in time to view the school, meet the principal, staff, and students; visit the
classrooms and just check us out.
KITCHEN VOLUNTEER NEEDED:
"TCS Kitchen Coordinator” needed. Duties include
keeping kitchen supplies in stock; regularly taking
temperatures of freezer and fridge; purchasing
necessary food or kitchen items for special occasions.
Please contact the school office if you’re able to help out in
this way or for more information.
BIRTHDAYS:
Feb. 20 Ms Wielemaker
Feb. 20 Averie S.—Gr. 8
COMING EVENTS:
Saturday, Feb 23-Thrift Store Volunteers:
Tim & Aimee Pikaart
Saturday, March 2—Thrift Store Volunteers:
Hakkesteegt Family
Tuesday, March 5—Pancake Tuesday Supper
Friday, March 8-Friday, March 15– Spring Break
(Inclusive)
GIFT CARD STANDING ORDERS:
Effective January 28, any new gift card standing orders, will
require one month to process paperwork. Please contact the
office if you have any questions.
SNOW DAY REMINDER:
Just a reminder: when it is snowy or icy in the mornings be sure
to check your email or text for bus cancellation
notices. The notices will also be listed on local radio
stations. We will also post it on Facebook and on our
answering machine at the school.
(*When ALL the busses are cancelled,
the school is closed*)
Also, if you haven’t already done so, it is necessary to
register in order to receive an email or text indicating bus can-
cellations, late busses etc. Go to https://qcs.mybusplanner.ca
and click on the parent portal. Input the username and pin
number for your child that you received earlier. If you need that
information, please contact the school office. Please let the o
ffice know if you signed up for bussing notifications but haven’t
received any notifications.
SCHOOL NEWS:
Grunch News All cast members should be working on
memorizing their lines. We have a goal to have
lines memorized by the end of March.
Memorizing your lines means you also need to
know what lines are spoken before yours so you
know when to jump in. We are on our last few scenes for read
throughs and will head to the stage next week to begin blocking.
Practices this week are at lunch recess in the Music Room.
Tuesday: the Grunch, Wednesday: Theatre Critics, and Friday:
Scenes 8, 10, 11.
PEANUT,PISTACHIO & CASHEW
ALLERGIES:
We currently have 3 students with severe allergies to
peanuts, cashews and pistachios.
TCS is a peanut, pistachio and cashew free
environment. ALL FOOD and DRINK coming into
the school MUST be peanut, pistachio and cashew
free for the safety of our students.
*This includes food from restaurants where cross
contamination can occur. (ie: Tim Hortons, etc.)
Packages with the following statement ARE NOT
acceptable: “May Contain Peanuts, Pistachios or Cashews”
Thank you for helping to keep our students safe.
FROM FINANCE:
Income tax documents for 2018 will be going home
Wednesday of this week. Be sure to check your child’s
backpack.
NEW ADDRESS
Please mark your directories. Effective March 1
Jake & Nicole deWals address will be:
1114 Harrington Rd Frankford ON K0K 2C0.
JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN [email protected]
We had a wonderful time celebrating Valentine's
Day last week! A big high light for the children
was our Post Office station. They could make
valentines for their friends and deliver them to
their very own Post Office box. This was a
great way to show love for our friends. This
week we will continue with our love theme and
our letter of the week will be “L,l” for
love. We will look at what the bible says about
love and hide those words in our hearts. In
Bible, our stories will focus on God's protection
for his people. Our memory verse for the next
few weeks is Hebrews 13:5b-6a, "God has said,
'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake
you.' So we say with confidence, 'the Lord is my
helper; I will not be afraid.'" Thank you for
sending in your family photos! Due to some
scheduling changes, I am postponing our family
unit until after March Break.
Special Note to 5 Day JK & SK
Our 100th day of school is not too far away!
We look forward to celebrating this day
together with lots of Math and counting
activities. Continue to collect 100 items in a
Ziploc bag and bring it into school if you have
not already done so.
SENIOR KINDERGARTEN [email protected]
This week we are working with the letter ‘L,l’.
Our sight words for the week are ‘look’ and
‘like’.
This week we will wrap up our polar bear
investigation. We are learning many interesting
facts about this amazing creature!
Our Memory verse for the next few weeks
comes from Psalm 56:3,4 - “ When I am afraid, I
will trust in You. In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not be afraid.” This verse
fits in nicely with our Bible stories as we learn
about the lives of Saul and David - the first two
kings of Israel.
Special Note to 5 Day JK & SK
Our 100th day of school is not too far away!
We look forward to celebrating this day
together with lots of Math and counting activi-
ties. Continue to collect 100 items in a ziploc
bag and bring it into school if you have not
already done so.
GRADE 1 [email protected]
During this short week we will finish up many of
our units and activities. A review sheet and
student sky books will go home today for our
"SKY declares" test on Friday. Students are
encouraged to review the information at
home. There will be no Spelling or Memory
Work this week. Students will be evaluated on
the Ten Commandments throughout the
week. We will also finish the stories of the
Israelites in the desert to prepare for a review
and Bible test next week. Thank you for all the
fruit for our rainbow fruit kabobs last week!
French: Members of the Family (mère, père,
frère, soeur, grand-mère, grand-père)
GRADE 2
Welcome back. I hope you had a good week-
end with our family!
Spelling - Week 16 - many, tell, stop, them,
upon, warm
Word Family: -ake (make, lake, awake, flake,
Jake, shake....) There are no Challenge Words
this week.
Bible: We are focusing on the Lords Prayer.
We will have a test on it on Friday. Please let
me know if you need a new copy of the prayer
to work on.
GRADE 2 (Continued)
Math; We are creating models of 3D
geometric solids in different ways. We are
looking at their specific attributes
Creation Studies: We are starting a new unit
called "Solids, Liquids, and Gases" This week
we are looking at the three states of matter
and starting the Wonder Box experiments.
French—Lunch foods (un sandwich, une
pomme, une orange, une banane, jus de
pomme, jus d'orange, du lait)
Have a great week!
GRADE 3 [email protected]
Happy Tuesday!
This week’s Spelling words are: colour, afraid,
heard, paper, soccer, snake, neck, cover, hurt,
order, plant, scores,
(WWW) who, what, where, when, why, how,
(Bonus) imagination, discoloured.
Our Memory Work, Job 12:7-8, 10, will be
tested this week.
Please continue to practice multiplication
questions with your child at home. As little as 5
minutes a day can make a huge difference. We
are going to be starting division this week, and
next week will be our Math test.
Scholastic orders are due on tomorrow.
GRADE 4/5 [email protected]
Welcome to another week.
Week 19 Spelling Words are on Spelling City.
Grade 5 will begin work at school on our
Science Fair projects. We will research ideas
together and come up with a topic that will
hopefully interest us all.
We continue to discover farming in our social
studies unit, today we concluded that farmers
are very hard workers and we need to be
thankful for them!
French: We are continuing to work on our
menus this week.
Memory Work: Ps. 27:1-3 for Friday
Math Test—Data Management on Friday
GRADE 6 [email protected]
Welcome to another week! This week we will
begin a new Creation Studies unit on Flight.
We will be doing experiments with the
properties of air. If you have any empty pop/
water bottles please send them to the school
as we will be using them for our experiments.
We will also spend some time researching our
Science Fair projects.
In Math, we will continue to study
measurement. On Thursday, we plan to go to Crown Ridge
to visit with our friends who live there. We
will need a few parents. If you are willing and
able to drive, please send me an email at
We will leave the school at 1:10 p.m. and plan
to be back for the buses.
Friday--Spelling Test on Lesson 20
Friday--Memory Work--Psalm 105:1-7
Friday--Current Events--Nathan V, VictoriaV.
French: We will be going over our new unit's
vocabulary, and looking at winter relays.
CLASSROOM NEWS: GRADE 7/8
This week the grade 7/8 class will be focusing on
the following Learning Targets in subject specific
areas. Also, here are some important announce-
ments:
Bible:
"We can define what faith is by looking at Biblical
examples".
"We can reflect on the attributes of faith".
Announcement: - Memory Verse for this week is
Luke 6:38.
Math (Grade 8):
"I can use the area of a square to find the length
of a line segment".
"I can develop strategies for estimating a square
root".
Language Arts:
"I can understand how an author develops ten-
sion in a short story".
"I can understand editing and re-writing through
working on "This Is My Story"
project".
Announcement: - Lesson 20 Spelling Lesson and
Test this Friday.
History:
"I can identify causes for immigration to
Canada in the early 1800s".
Announcement:
1) Our grade 7/8 class has booked a time to go
skiing at Brimacombe Ski Hill on Tuesday, February 26. If you are
available to help with transportation and/or
chaperoning, please let Mr. McLeod know. Costs
for the Ski Day is as follows and online registra-
tion and payments are to be
handed in by TOMORROW:
Lift Ticket: $12
Lesson Rate: $15
Ski Rental: $15
Snowboard Rental: $15
Helmet Rental: $15
2) "Grade 8 Pancake Supper" Fund-raiser:
Tuesday, March 5, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. I
will be sending a volunteer sheet home for jobs
we need help with. We need every family to help
out and raise money for our Ottawa trip
Gr. 7 & 8 French—We will begin our new unit
next week - Portraits Canadiens
Gr. 7 Math: Unit Test: Wednesday, on Area
and Perimeter
Gr. 6 playing test will be Wed., March 6th.
Test Number TBD in class this Wednesday.
TCS Flames Sports: 1. Ball Hockey Tournament: TCS has been invited to enter a Junior Team (Gr. 4-6) in the local indoor
ball hockey tournament at L’Envol School in Trenton on Thursday.
2. Basketball: Our Senior and Junior teams will continue to practice over the next few weeks as they prepare for upcoming tournaments. 3. Chess Club—We have begun our chess club practices and they are going well! A big thank you to Sarah
deVries and Matt Kay who have volunteered to help coach, teach and play along with our 35 members ranging from grade 3-8! We practice every Tuesday from 12:12-45.
SCIENCE FAIR: Students in Grade 5-8 will
have the opportunity to participate in a Science
Fair at TCS this year. This is a wonderful oppor-
tunity for students to explore, investigate, and
discover some amazing “stuff” that God has
shared in the world around us. Each student will
receive an information package which contains a
timeline and suggestions for topics. Top
presenters at our TCS Science Fair on
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 will have an opportunity
to go onto the Quinte Regional Science Fair at
Loyalist College on Saturday, April 13, 2019
MUSIC: Practice logs are due Monday Febr. 25th
Playing Tests for Wednesday, Feb. 27th
Grade 4: #45
Grade 5: #103
Grade 7/8: Star Wars Bars 4-12; Oye
Como Va Bars 1-9
COMMUNITY NEWS:
HELP—Treasure Chest store is seeking a volunteer to serve on the following date. If you are able and
willing to serve in this capacity please let Henrietta Indewey know by contacting her at 613-475-3436 or [email protected]. Sorter on Friday, March 29 from 1 pm - 4 pm We are also in need of a cashier for Thursdays on a regular basis. If you are willing and able to help on any of these days please let Henrietta Indewey know at [email protected] as soon as possible. Your support is greatly appreciated!