Up and Coming Important Dates to Remember

Friday, March 15th:
-Park Clean-up Day
-Early Release - 11:45am
-End of 3rd Quarter Grading Period

Wednesday, March 13th:
-Chic fil A: .$92 chic fil a sandwiches

Monday, March 18th - Friday, March 22nd
-Spring Break/School Holiday

Thursday, March 28th:
-Field Trip/Bob Bullock Museum

Friday, March 29th:
-Good Friday/Holiday

Monday, April 1st:
-Easter/School Holiday

Wednesday, April 3rd:
-Resurrection Egg Hunt

Friday, April 12th:
-Grandparents' Day

Monday, April 22nd:
-Earth Day

Lent: Growing Closer to God!

Here in the Episcopal church we are getting ready for the season of Lent. Today in my class we did a little preparation so the children are prepared for Ash Wednesday. During Lent, we do things to help us to know God better and the life of God's son, Jesus. Sometimes we spend extra time in prayer or in reading the Bible. Some people make the choice to give up something like television or chocolate. Years ago, people did not eat rich foods such as butter, eggs, or sugar during the Lent season. This brought about the tradition of Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday as some call it, to eat all those things you wouldn't allow yourself to eat during this season.

The children and I also talked about the story of Jesus in the Wilderness from Matthew 4:1-11. See if your child remembers the 3 temptations of Christ.

All the children are coming home with a little pipe cleaner pretzel. If you would like to see the story and tradition they learned about, you can retell the story below to your child or have them tell it to you.

Angelo and the Pretzel

A long time ago, there was a monk in Italy named Angelo. Angelo worked in the monastery kitchen baking bread.

One morning, Angelo began to bake the day's bread. Since it was Lent, he didn't put any butter, eggs or sugar into the dough.

While the bread was in the oven, Angelo sat down to think and pray. The children in his parish didn't seem to be learning their prayers. He wished he could come up with a clever way to help them remember. As Angelo thought, he rolled a leftover piece of dough between his fingers.

In his day, the children were taught to fold their arms across their chest when they prayed. Angelo kept on thinking as he rolled that piece of leftover dough.

Suddenly, he had an idea! Angelo twisted the rolled piece of dough into the shape of praying arms.

He put the dough on a pan and baked it. Angelo got busy cleaning the kitchen and let the dough bake too long. But when he tasted it, he decided it was delicious.

"I will call this treat a 'pretiola' (preh-zi-o-la) which means 'little reward,'" he said. "My treat will be a reward for the children who learn their prayers."

That afternoon, Angelo baked an entire batch of pretiolas. When the children came to the bakery to visit him, he gave the pretiolas to those who knew their prayers.

Before long, all the children began to remember their prayers, and they ate batch after batch of pretiolas.

And that's the story of a monk named Angelo and the very first pretzel.

Books of the Bible

Every week the third graders memorize a Bible Verse.

Beginning today, they started working on memorizing Books of the Bible, Part I of the Old Testament.  Your child has this in their Take-home Folder.

Next week, we will focus on Part II of the Old Testament.  The following week, the student's will recite the Old Testament.

We will begin the New Testament the first week in March.

 

 

Field Trip

Glass Blowing

Friday, January 18, 2012

Depart CCS: 8:45
Return CCS: Noon

Cost:  $12

No Tests for this week:

Spelling:

There will be no spelling test,  no math test, and no memorized Bible Verse for Friday.

We will review lesson 13-17 on Monday.

 

Math:

Math homework due Friday morning: Monday night 51E, Tuesday night 52O, and Wednesday night 53E. Lesson 54 will be done together in class but please feel free to review further with your child at home.

No math test next week.

Bible Verse:

We will continue looking at the Jesse Tree Bible Verses, but the student’s will not memorize a Bible verse for next week.

Jesse Tree Tradition at Christ Church School

 

The Jesse Tree is a tradition that began in the Medieval Church and arose from the scripture in Isaiah 11:1 in which the coming of the Messiah is prophesied as being of the House and lineage of David, from the stump of Jesse.  There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.  The symbols from the Old Testament, which are used as ornaments on the Jesse Tree, are seen as foreshadowing the coming of Jesus.  We have simply combined the Jesse Tree traditions with our school Advent Calendar.  (Note: in order to cover all of the days of December through the 25th before school is out on Friday, 21st, the last week's schedule has extra days of reading from later in the month.)

Weekly Bible Verses for the month of December

Every week the student's memorize a Bible Verse from our Copybook Cursive Scripture and Poems Book and then recite it to me on Friday morning's. For the month of December, I will choose a weekly Bible Verse from the Jesse Tree Bible Stories. They will receive a copy of the Bible Verse every Monday morning, and will also write the Bible Verse in their Student Organizer.

For Friday, December 7, 2012

Genesis 1:3-5

3. And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

GREEK WEEK

         

Monday, November 26th - Friday, November 30th  

                                                                                           

You child has a Greek Week Packet in their take home folder.  Enclosed in the packet is a 'how-to' on creating toga attire with a sheet for your child to easily wear over his/her uniform.

Monday:  Mrs. Tollett has graciously supplied the time, along with the materials for arts and crafts.  She will guide the students on making their crowns and jewelry to wear throughout the week with their Toga attire, along with a couple of other arts and crafts that also pertain to Greek Mythology that we have learned.
Tuesday:  Third grade will have a guest speaker, Zoe's father, Mr. Barnes.  We look forward to learning additional information that Mr. Barnes will share about Greek Mythology.
Wednesday:  Greek Luncheon will start at 11am.  If you plan to attend, please contact Cindy Scott as soon as possible so that we can send a head count out for those of us that are preparing food.  Cindy has willingly donated her time to coordinate this special lunch for our children.  We plan on decorating the library for the luncheon.  If you can help in any way, or have suggestions, please speak to Cindy Scoot as soon as possible.
Directly preceding the luncheon, two skits will take place in the gymnasium.  Our production manager, Mrs. Sellers will oversee the performance of our third graders silently acting. 
Thursday:  Our class will further discuss and participate in Olympic style events on the outside CCS field.  Please make sure that your child has shoes that will not rub blisters, especially the girls that wear slip-ons. 
Friday:  We will finish Greek Week up.

I look forward to this hands-on learning experience for our third graders.

A BiG thank you to Susan Sellers, Camille Tollett, and Cindy Scott.