Dear Parents and Students,
TOGETHER WE CAN FOOD DRIVE:
Once again we have the privilege to help the families of Pinedale this Holiday season! We will be collecting Canned food Nov. 12th thru Dec. 6th to distribute through the Pinedale Book Buddies program. Our High School students are already volunteering as Book Buddies and we would like to continue our support for their programs. Please take a look at the list of needed items. If you are able too, please share in this opportunity to provide canned food to families in our community.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD:
Thank you to everyone who brought an OCC box to school. We topped last year’s total! This year K-12 brought in 277 boxes that will be sent out all over the world to effect children for the gospel of Jesus Christ! Thank you for working together to make that happen. It was awesome to see students from Kindergarten to High School loading the boxes for delivery and praying together (as they surrounded the boxes) for the Lord to use these gifts to reach others!
Grades 1-6 grades will be going skating on Friday, December 13 at Cal Skate of Clovis. Travel arrangements will be by CARPOOL. A form will be coming home with more information. Please return the form that is being sent home by Friday, December 6th.
2nd Session – 10:15-11:30 AM / Classes: Ferguson, Hancox, Vander Kooi, Broersma
All skating fees for third grade students are pre-paid through our class account. Parents and siblings that skate will need to pay the $6.50 for each skating session at the door. Non-skating parents who would just like to come and watch kids skate will need to pay an entrance fee of $3.00 at the door. Parents that wish to be a spectator at one session and skate at the other session need to pay $9.50.
Roller blades may been worn but they must have flush bolts, (no sharp exposed bolts/screws). If your skates have a heel brake it must be in good condition, no screw showing. Roller blades will be inspected by Cal Skate employees, if they do not meet the standards you will need to use roller skates.
Please fill out the Skating Transportation form and return no later than Friday, December 6. Based on the information received, we will plan for the number of carpoolers needed.
FRESNO CHRISTIAN MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
“A Candlelight Christmas”
Kindergarten through Fourth Grades
Elementary Choir
Junior High Choir
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
5:30 pm
Fresno Christian Gym
WRITING:
Students will be given a school assessment this Wednesday to demonstrate skills of writing a persuasive essay.
READING and LITERATURE CIRCLES: We have completed both studies. Students are assigned a reading counts quiz. They may take the quiz from home if they have not done so in class. Failure to complete will result in a zero.
MATH: Students will utilize this week to review decimals, fractions, integers, in and out boxes, and order of operation. A final test will be given this Friday covering these concepts taught and reviewed during the 2nd quarter. A review packet will be going home
SOCIAL STUDIES: Over the next two weeks, will finish our studies on Ancient Israel.
SCIENCE: Students will taught a short unit on water. This unit will review concepts: water cycle, water crisis. Students will receive a study packet this Monday. An essay style quiz will be given on Friday covering this unit.
SPELLING: UNIT 17 SCIENCE WORDS
- ecology
- natural
- wildlife
- forestry
- survival
- resources
- species
- environment
- conservation
- energy
- solar
- nuclear
- recycle
- disposal
- purify
- antipollution
- herbicide
- pesticide
- endangered
- organic
- condensation
- evaporation
- precipitation
VOCABULARY: hemi-, semi- (half, halfway)
- hemisphere
- semiannual
- semiarid
- semicircle
- semiconscious
- semiformal
- semisweet
- semiweekly
BIBLE MEMORY VERSE:
John 1:1-12 (this week is week three; verses 6-8
WEEK 3:
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
WEEK 4:
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
CALENDAR:
- Half Day: December 11 – Dismissal at 12:00 noon
- “A Candelight Christmas” Concert: December 11
- End of 1st Semester: December 13
- Skating Party December 13 – Dismissal at 12:00 noon
- Christmas Break: December 16 – January 3
- School Resumes: January 6, 2014