ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH
(The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod)
Alma, Kansas
A family united by faith in Christ gathering around God's Word and Sacraments.
To reach out in Christ-like concern and Christ-borne love to each other and to those without Christ!
NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
“Let’s make a joyful noise.” Psalm 98:4
“Providing a foundation in Jesus Christ and developing the God-given talents of learning.”
EAGLE GREETINGS, ST. JOHN LUTHERAN SCHOOL!
“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and
established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Colossians 2: 6-7
School schedule:
*Oct. 5 - Women in Science (7th grade girls) @ Washburn
*Oct. 8 - (2-3) to Milford Nature Center
*Oct. 10 - WJH Dance (6th- 8th grades)
*Oct. 13 & 15 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
*Oct. 15 - (4-8) to Union Station in KC LT: 8:00
a.m.; RT: 3:00 p.m.
a.m.; RT: 3:00 p.m.*Oct. 15 - First Quarter Ends
*No School October 16th & 19th
*Oct. 16-19 - No School; Prof. Dev. @ Great PlainsLutheran Educators Conference
Lutheran Educators Conference*Oct. 29-30 No School - staff development & teacherworkday
workday*Nov. 11th - Veterans Day Chapel
*Nov. 15th - All School Musical @ 5:30 p.m.
*Nov. 23-27 No School-Thanksgiving Break
*Dec 13 - Children’s Christmas Service @ 6:00 p.m.
*Dec. 18 - End of 2nd quarter - Dismiss @ 12:55p.m.
p.m.*Dec. 21-Jan 1 - No School - Christmas Break
The seasons are changing and our students are working harder than ever. Our students are growing in their faith through daily opportunities to read the Bible and our weekly chapel. K-5th grades have been reading through the book of Genesis. We’ve learned about Noah, Joseph, and God’s promises. Sixth through eighth grades continues to read through the Bible during their daily confirmation classes led by Pastor Grimm. In our academic classes, we continue to encourage students to do their best work by studying in school and at home. We appreciate support from home to continue to develop the God given talents of learning.
The St. John Lutheran School instructional staff will travel to Seward, Nebraska to attend The Great Plains Lutheran Educators Conference, October 17th 19th. More than 500 Lutheran educators from across the United States will be joining us in learning. We are excited to attend and will share our new knowledge when we return.
Thank you for your continued support!
Blessings,
Mrs. Mindy Miller
mmillerstjohnalma@gmail.com
(785) 787-0388
SALUTATIONS FROM MRS. MILLER’S 6TH, 7TH, AND 8TH GRADE CLASSROOM!
“Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!” Psalm 47:1Math:
In this season, 6th grade students will be working to learn about integers and coordinate planes. Lessons include understanding integers, modeling with integers, understanding rational numbers, and absolute value. 7th grade students will be exploring proportional relationships; connecting ratios, rates, and unit rates, equivalent rations and constant proportionality. Linear Equations will be the topic of conversation for 8th graders. They will be solving equations with variables. Finally, all 6th-8th grade students will be participating in real-world math through canning vegetables. We will be making spaghetti sauce in mid-October to be used for our Advent meal in December.
Fourth graders will add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers and 5th graders will add and subtract decimals.
Science:
This month, 7th and 8th graders will be reviewing the states of matter and classifying matter. This learning will lead to experiments with solutions and then food chemistry. Fourth through sixth graders will be exploring simple machines. As a 4th-8th grade group, we will “put the garden to sleep” for the winter season and will prepare the green house and garden for spring planting.
In October, 4th-8th graders will be traveling to Kansas City to observe the Berlin Wall exhibit at Union Station. We pray that this exhibit helps to enhance and preserve history for our students. Chess Club will continue this month and we will add 4th-5th graders to our Friday lunchtime bunch. If you would like to play chess, please join us on Fridays from 11:45-12:15 p.m.
Physical Education:
Fourth through eighth grade physical education will be learning and perfecting our volleyball skills this month in P.E. We will learn to pass, bump, set, and serve. We will scrimmage during the last week of October. Come and cheer us on.
Thank you for your support as we share the Word of Christ with others.
Blessings,
Mrs. Mindy Miller
Principal
Math/Science/PE (4th-8th grades)
KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE
We have been busy learning and growing in Kindergarten and First Grade! It has been wonderful to see the students working hard and building their skills each day.
Blessings,
Mrs. Christa Kraus
Kindergarten/First Grade Teacher
HAPPY FALL!
The 2nd and 3rd graders are working hard this fall and making some amazing progress. In Religion, the Israelites have reached the desert and are working their way to the Promised Land, and we will begin learning about King David. Students will also prepare chapel this month and are excited to share their Bible story with the school.
In reading, we are focusing on finding the problems and solutions in our story as well as writing complete sentences with complex subjects or predicates. We continue to work on appropriate uses of end marks as well as commas and apostrophes. The students had fun writing Acrostic Poems last month.
In math, 3rd grade has learned what multiplication and division are and is focusing on multiplication facts this month. 2nd grade has finished their review of addition and subtraction and is moving on to skip counting and making tens to prepare for double-digit addition and subtraction.
We finished our study of the founding of America in social studies and have moved on to animals in science. We are working on classifying animals and learning about food webs in preparation for our first field trip of the year to Milford Nature Center.
We will continue to prepare for our Veterans Day Musical on Sunday, November 15th!
In Christ,
Mrs. Howard
GREETINGS FROM MRS. GREENE'S CLASSROOM
Fall weather will be upon us in no time, and I am excited to embrace the changing colors and cooler temperatures.
In language arts, the students are working on identifying clauses and proper usage of commas and quotation marks. The upper grades are concentrating on the different types of pronouns, predicate nominatives, and predicate adjectives.
In reading, the 4th and 5th grade students are working on identifying the main idea and details in a story, using venn diagrams in making comparisons and contrasts in stories and identifying different genre types in reading. The 6th-8th grades are working on inferences, foreshadowing, and identifying the plot and sub-plots in a story.
In writing classes, the 4th and 5th grade students are actively working on a research project over the many “Rivers in the United States.” The 6th-8th grade students are working in teams to learn about persuasive arguments and participating in a class debate.
In social studies, the 4th -5th grade students are learning about the different landforms in the United States and creating a map of rivers in the United States. The 6th-8th grades are learning about the different ancient civilizations and creating a globe to display the countries that they are learning about.
The 4th-5th grade classes enjoyed their first field trip to the Eisenhower Museum to learn more about the United States Constitution and witness a naturalization ceremony, which consisted of 39 immigrants from 14 countries receiving their U.S. Citizenship. The 4th-8th grade classes are preparing to learn about the Berlin Wall before embarking on a field trip to Kansas City to visit the Berlin Wall Exhibit on October 15th . The 4th-5th grade art classes are building replicas of “cattle towns” to wrap-up our study of westward movement.
The 4th and 5th grade students have been so excited to learn how to play ukuleles and guitars during music class the last few weeks. I am excited to report that school is off to a great start with fun learning experiences for everyone.
In all things, trust the Lord,
Mrs. Greene
THRIVENT CHOICE DOLLARS: Thank you to the following people for their support of St. John Lutheran School through their designation of their Thrivent Choice Dollars. The financial support you provide allows us to secure a foundation in Jesus Christ for our students now and in the future. Thank you to: Shawn Becker, Krista Hahn, and Diana Herbic.
Thank you,
Mindy
ST. JOHN LPTL
CTOBER NEWS
Thank you, everyone for your contributions to our Alma and Wamego Match Days! Looking to the future, our Pork Chop Supper this year will take place December 5th. As always, we appreciate your dedication and support.
Sincerely, The LPTL
DILLON’S COMMUNITY REWARDS: We encourage anyone who is a Dillon’s PLUS card shopper to please take a couple of minutes to sign up for the rewards program. This is a program offered by Dillon’s to give back to local schools. Each time you make a purchase using your PLUS card, a percentage of your sales is donated back to SJLS in the form of cash. There is no extra charge to you, it is simply a donation by the Dillon’s company. Please use the following link to add your PLUS card to the rewards program: www.dillons.com/communityrewards and use the code AU093 to support SJLS.
STOP TO SHOP: St. John Lutheran School now has a Kickback Card at Stop 2 Shop! When you check out, just tell them you would like to use the SJLS Kickback card and then key in 7-8-5-7-6-5-3-9-1-4 (the school’s phone number). It’s so easy…be sure to participate all year long!
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St. John Witness
OCTOBER WITNESS
The Eagle Cry
