February 7, 2017

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2017-2018 PCA REGISTRATION is open to current PCA students. The registration fee is $200 but for returning stu-

dents, a $50 discount is given if paid by March 15th, totaling $150 per each K-8th student. The payment of $50 will hold

the student's spot with the balance of $100 due by August 20th. Failure to pay balance by the deadline will result in a for-

feit of the $50 discount. Thank you to those who have applied!!!

In-house Speech Contest took place last week and every student did a fantastic job! Those students moving forward to participate on Friday, March 3rd at Peoria Christian are:

1st grade:

Bible memorization: Brayden Bickett, Alice Scruggs

Poetry: Lily Bullington, Izabelle Luft

2nd grade:

Bible memorization: Parker Nink, Kellen Wall

Poetry: Abby Harris, Jennifer Zurinski

Fable & Folklore: Anderson, Elyse

Class Valentine Parties for K-5 are Tuesday, February 14 at 1:00 p.m. Those helpers include:

Kindergarten - Elisha Pollok

1st - Jessica Odell and Tara Knipper

2nd - Meagan Johnson and Heather Heaton

3rd - Amethyst Towne-Peldonia and Lisa Foster

4th - Carmen Grey

5th - Laura Richey and Regina McCune-Lemons

PCA t-shirt and sweatshirt sale

Last Tuesday the spring clearance sale flyer for PCA’s t-shirts and sweatshirts at discounted prices came home with your student. If you are interested in purchasing, please fill in the order form and return to the office by next Tuesday, February 14th. There are extra flyers located at the office window if you need one. Thanks!

2017 PCA Eagle Run--WOOT WOOT!!

We are need sponsors for this year's race. Do you have a business or a personal connection with a business that would like to support PCA in the 2017 EagleRun? If you would like to donate or know someone who does, contact Beth Jones 815-830-1626 or liz.beth.jones7@gmail.com

3rd grade:

Bible memorization: Corwin Murray, Abigail Freeman

Poetry: Lydia Hardy, Dagon Towne-Peldonia

Fable & Folklore: Gus Anderson, Jeremiah Foster

4th grade:

Bible memorization: Cade Odell, Arianne Tirao

Poetry: Xavier Gyurkovics, Kaden Wall

Fable & Folklore: Ardyn Johnson, Joelle LaPlante

is due!

Please return by

Thursday, Feb. 9th.

PCA Scholastic Bowl begins!

The first meeting/practice took place yesterday for grades

6-8 for students interested in competing in this spring’s

Scholastic Bowl. We play 2 teams. Our first match will be

next Monday, February 13th, 4:00 at Malden Grade School.

A calendar of the scheduled games and practices is being

put together with March and April being the busy months.

FYI! Friday, Mrs. Susan Cater will be here to conduct vision & hearing screenings in all grades. If you feel there is a

problem with your student that needs to be brought to our attention, please contact the teacher or the office.

The IVCC Junior High Honor Band concert was wonderful! Almost 90 young musicians filled the stage, from numerous area schools, and delighted the audience with their music. Eliana, Andrea and Leah represented PCA beautifully!

We are blessed to have so many music opportunities in our area! There is a new concert list sheet for February, on the desk next to the office, for more excellent musical experiences.

Band - Mrs. Marshall

SonShine Preschool - Mrs. Pollok (Miss Elisha)

Kindergarten Tidbit - Mrs. Whitlock

PCA Calendar 2017 Tues, Feb 7 5:30P Girls Vball at home vs. Dalzell

Thurs, Feb 9 5:30P Girls Vball at Lostant

Fri, Feb 10 End of Progress Report Term

“ “ Vision & Hearing Screenings Grades 1-8

Mon, Feb 13 4:00P Scholastic Bowl at Malden

Tues, Feb 14 1:00P Valentine parties K-5

“ “ 5:30P Girls Vball at Deer Park

Wed, Feb 15 12:15P Bureau County Spelling Bee at Metro Center, Princeton

“ “ Progress Reports will be issued to students

Thurs, Feb 16 5:30P Girls Vball home game vs. Trinity Catholic

Mon, Feb 20 No School due to President’s Day (see above for time for vball practice)

Tues, Feb 21 5:30P Girls Vball at Dalzell

Mon, Feb 27 PCA Registration opens to the public

Mon-Fri, Feb 27-Mar 3 Girls Volleyball Prairie Conference Tournament at Peru Catholic Fri, March 3 No School except for those participating in the ACSI Speech Contest for grades 1-4 at Peoria Christian.

February birthdays:

8 William Marshall 5th grade

10 Roman Lemons 5th grade

17 Kaylyn Friel 1st grade

21 JT Bullington 5th grade

22 Mr. Clausen 5th grade teacher

22 Mya Shipp 1st grade

26 Parker Nink 2nd grade

February 8 & 10

Theme: Music/Nursery Rhymes Bible Topic: Growing Up/Baby Moses

Bible Verse: Job 33:11: “God keeps close watch on all my paths.”

Letter - U u Number - 20 Twenty Color - Pink Shape - Heart

ABC/Snack Bag: Wed. - Miss Pam Fri. - Miss Elisha Mon., Feb 13 - Braxton (Valentine Party)

Girls Volleyball Practice:

Mon., Feb. 13 3-5 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 20 B team 9 -11 a.m.

A team 10 - noon

Thurs., Feb. 23 3-5 p.m.

Valentine’s Day party is Tuesday Feb. 14th from 1:30-3:00. Please bring in a decorated box to hold valentines and valen-

tines for each student. I hope you found the letter sent home with the students names listed for the valentines.

No school on Monday Feb. 20.

Reading groups are going great! Keep reading all levels of Reading books. You only need to send back books that are not

completely signed off on the back and are not one of the current three books. Please keep reading all the levels. Save the

Readers as each child will choose a story from the Readers to read at graduation. Any questions,

please see me.

In Social Studies we will be going to Kenya, Africa this week. We will learn about some animals of

Africa and our tasting will consist of pineapple, bananas and corn bread.

In Handwriting we include practice writing letters, words and sentences.

Language Enrichment we will categorize items and deciding where we will find them. We will name grocery items that

begin with letters of the alphabet. Types of lines will be introduced. (ex. Straight, perpendicular, curved and zig zag)

In Phonics we will finish sentences by choosing an ending word. The students will be introduced to special sounds “fr, tr,

th” and “sh”. We will review all blends, special sounds, letter sounds and vowel rules.

In Numbers we will count by 5’s, write numbers 5-100 by fives and introduce nickels.

DON”T FORGET! We are continuing to save Box Top for Education and Campbell Soup Prod-

ucts labels! Remove them from the boxes, cans, etc. and bring them in. Containers are located

by the office door! They add up quickly and help the school monetarily! Thank you for your sup-

port in this!

LOST & FOUND tub has reached its capacity again! Stop by and check it out!

Lunchboxes, water bottles, sweatshirts...OH MY!

First grade – Mrs. Wolbrecht

Kindergarten continued ~

The children are establishing the consistency of naming and writing the number after a certain number. We are writing

the number words one–six and introduce “seven and eight”. We will spell, recognize and match number words with the

correct number. This week we will write numbers 80-100. One half will be reviewed and then we will instruct minutes

on a clock and 1/2 past or 30 minutes after the hour.

Our Bible story is about Jesus picking his disciples. Jesus’ love was not only for the disciples, it is for everyone who decides to follow Jesus. We will decide what we can do to follow Jesus, who will we tell about Jesus’ love, how will people know that we love Jesus and follow Jesus.

We will review the ABC’s of being a part of God’s family. Admit we sin and are in need of help to live God’s way, be-lieve Jesus is God’s son, died for our sins and rose again and Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives.

Our memory verse is John 13:35;

“By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Bible: This week we will be learning about how Jesus miraculously fed a crowd of people all because a boy was willing

to share.

And do not forget to do good, and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. Hebrews 13:16

Spelling List #18

boat like pray try cloud clown snow serve

first girl book moon horse mother because

Phonics:

qui, qua, quo

dge in fudge, badge, pledge

identifying/defining root words and prefixes

applying suffix rules

Math:

Identifying fractional parts of a whole

Identifying 1/3 of a group

Adding three-number combinations

Sums and differences for 8-10 families

Demonstrating ability to measure/draw lines

History

We continue our study of black history since February is “Black

History” month.

Students are excited to celebrate Valentine’s Day next Tuesday.

Thank you Mrs. Knipper and Mrs. Odell for hosting our classroom

party. Students are encouraged to make a box to collect treats and

cards from friends.

In His Hands, Mrs. Wolbrecht

Happy Birthday to our 16th President of this GRAND United States,

Abraham Lincoln. He was born on February 12th, 1809.

Sunday will be his 208th birthday!!

Poetry

The Wonderful World

By William B. Rands

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,

With the wonderful water around you curled,

And the wonderful grass upon your breast,—

World you are wonderfully dressed.

The wonderful air is over me,

And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,—

It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,

And talks to itself on top of the hills.

You friendly Earth! How far do you go

With the wheat fields that nod and the rivers that flow,

With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles,

And people upon you for thousands of miles?

4th Grade - Mrs. Odell

2nd Grade - Mrs. Bickett

3rd grade - Mrs. Cleary

Second graders did a wonderful job doing their speeches for the in house speech contest! Parker Nink and Kellen Wall

will be doing their Bible memorization in the ACSI contest in Peoria. Abby Harris, Jennifer Zurinski, and Elyse Ander-

son will be also be going to Peoria to do their poems and fable.

Our Valentine’s Day party will be on Tuesday, February 14th starting at 1:15 until 2:45. Students need to decorate a con-

tainer to hold their Valentines. They may bring their containers on the day of the party.

Bible: Daniel is Faithful

Verse: Psalm 138:3: “When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted.”

Math: Two as a factor, Roman numerals 50 and 100, Subtraction with a 0 in the ones place, Roman Numerals 500 and 1000.

English: More about the dictionary, the library, telephone directory, tips for taking a message

Phonics: reviewing charts

Spelling: list 20

History: the separatists

Handwriting: cursive “Bb” “Cc” “Dd”

We are working hard on all of our subjects!

3rd grade Valentines Party is next Tuesday from 1:00-3:00. Students can decorate a box/container to hold their valentine

cards at home. Please bring this with you on Tuesday and don’t forget your classmates valentine cards! It will be a fun

afternoon!

Have a blessed week!

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack

God’s supplies!

We are continuing a major “love” portion of Scripture. It is I Cor. 13.

We are still working with fractions in math, studying list 22 in spelling, learning of our state’s growth in

history and moving on to Geology in science. We are beginning to work on our Illinois state notebook. We will be writ-

ing a research report on a famous Illinoisan as we work through our next English chapter. They are to begin to fill in the

pages that need to be completed independently. Pictures may come from magazines, brochures, your own camera, inter-

net, or most any other source. Please let me know if you need assistance with this.

We would like to go to Springfield sometime this spring late in April or early May on a Friday, and I

do not have any date secured yet. If you would enjoy the trip and would like to be a driver, please let me know.

We hope to tour the current state capitol and the old one, too, in the morning. We will be arriving at The Lincoln

Museum by 1:00 and hopefully we’ll be able to stop and visit Lincoln’s tomb on the way home. We should leave

by 7:45 a.m. and we will hopefully be back by 7:00 p.m. I am figuring 2 ½ hours for the trip each way. The chil-

dren will need to bring a disposable packaged lunch. We will stop for supper. I do not have my drivers secured,

but I will probably need at least two.

Our Valentine party is from 1:15 - 3:00 on Tuesday. There are 10 children in our class and we will have

opportunity to trade Valentines. I am asking the children to make a lovely/interesting container at home for their Valen-

tines. It could be a shoe box, a bag, a decorated large envelope. Enjoy! We are also in need of old CDs or DVDs (to be

used for a craft), marbles, bouncy balls, and lids of glue sticks or that size item.

6-8 History, Language Arts, 7/8 Spanish - Mrs. Cook

8th grade homeroom and Jr. High Math - Mrs. Anderson

History:

6th graders are learning about W.W. I and the Roaring Twenties. We will finish this unit tomorrow and

test over chapter 12 on Friday. Students will have an upcoming research paper in English and History

the next two weeks. We will walk through the plan in English next week. They will have some research

time in class. Each student should begin selecting a person or group from W.W. II to report on. These

will be due Feb. 27th.

7th graders are studying an overview of American colonization and independence. Their note packet will be their daily

grade for the rest of the week. All of the answers are found in the book. We are also giving interesting group presenta-

tions. Our first one was today. Elli Gale and Drew Knipper did a great job with their model, drawing, and report on the

Spanish Armada!

8th graders are looking at the Lyceum and educational movement in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Test over this chap-

ter is Friday. It also contains review maps of the United States.

English/Literature:

6th graders should finish up Island of the Blue Dolphins. This story is based on the account of a true story. Students will

have until next Monday to create a pop-up book report. The instructions for it were given in class for it. It should be 5-7

pages, created pop-ups, and summarize the plot of the book in complete paragraphs. We are all excited about this me-

dium, mixing creativity with this story we have loved so much! Next week we begin studying how to compose a research

paper.

Also, spelling test will be a review of the last 3 units. It will be on Friday.

7th Grade: We are in Act II of Romeo and Juliet this week. Students should study terms and vocabulary. We are looking

forward to next month’s Navy Pier trip with the eighth graders. Start saving up for some food and spending money! Mrs.

Kiser is arranging this great yearly adventure. Details will be forthcoming soon.

All grades: Math Olympics March 21. Practice every Tues & Thurs during recess until March 21.

8th grade- Continue Unit on Equations of a Line. Test Fri 2/10.

7th grade- Complete unit on Graphs, Begin unit on Scale Drawings. Quiz Tues 2/14.

6th grade- Continue Geometry Unit - Areas of Squares, Parallelogram, & Triangles; Quiz Tues 2/14.

Dear God: make the bad people good and all the good people nice.

-prayer of a small girl

God bless mother and daddy, my brother and sister. And, oh God, take

care of yourself, because if anything happens to you, we’re all sunk!

-Adlai Stevenson

What a comfort to know that our God, the Creator of you and me, is in control and has a plan!