Dear Parents,


I wanted to let you know that the 6th graders have an awesome opportunity to attend the lock-in for grades 6, 7, and 8 at St. Paul Lutheran High School in Concordia on February 20th. I am sending home the information today, so check with your child.

We will be participating this week in the Lutheran Hour Ministries Online Misson Trip to Latvia. Your child received a bank and a travel tag last week at chapel. They are to put any extra change etc. into the bank and bring it back next week at chapel. We will meet in the gym each day this week at 1:00 for a real/time visit with missionaries to Latvia. Throughout the week we will learn about their work there and will learn about the country and the people.

A committe of teachers is beginning to plan activities for Lutheran Schools Week-first full week in March. One thing we will be doing is going to chapel at St. Paul's Concordia and then attending a concert by the group, Lost and Found. Teachers got to hear this duo at a conference one year and they were very good. We belive students will eat lunch there, but I'll let you know.

We have been learning about animal classification. I"m sure you heard about the snails and saw your child's habitat. We will be working on seashell collections this week and are raising meal worms. I promise not to send meal worms home. :)  We did an experiment with meal worms last week to see if they would go toward black paper or white paper. It has been interesting to see them molt. Students wrote reports about insects last week and learned how to use an outline. It was a good combination of English and science. They will be writing reports about either a reptile or amphibian this week.

We just began a chapter on ancient India in history class. Mr. Rehmer is planning a missionary trip to India and we can hopefully have him tell us about it when he returns.

Book reports for January will culminate in a book chat project. Your child will be given guidelines for the book chat. February's book report project will be based on a Heros of the Faith biography. We will then have a living wax museum project where they will become their character and tell younger students about their lives.

In English class students have been learning about helping verbs and continuing with sentence patterns and diagraming. They are getting better at finding subject/verb, direct/indirect objects.

We've been trying different techniques to study spelling words. This week students are making board games that will require them to practice spelling their words.

Math is going well. The students in the 7/6 book learned to graph coordinates and how to change fractions to decimals last week. The 6/5 students are learning to read and write decimals and how to read a scale with decimals.

God's blessings!

Rhonda Tull