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We will see you on Tuesday, March 29th!
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A Night with the Thief on the Cross
The 7th
graders
enjoying their
Seder meal!
"The Symphonic Band of Martin Luther High School, Greendale,
Wisconsin, will be performing a concert on Tuesday, April 5th, at 7:30
PM here in the St. Peter sanctuary. This award-winning instrumental
group will be making this appearance as part of a six-day concert tour
to Washington D.C. They will perform a wide variety of traditional band
repertoire and sacred music. The 47-member Symphonic Band will
perform works from such composers as John Philip Sousa, David
Holsinger, John Zdechlik, Aaron Copland, and Karl King.
Let by Instrumental Director Jessica L. Kindschi Walter, the Symphonic
Band is the top auditioned band at the high school. Since 1969, the
Symphonic Band has embarked on an annual concert tour which has
taken them to 25 states and Canada. Martin Luther High School is one
of three Missouri Synod Lutheran High Schools in the Milwaukee area.
It has a student body of nearly 460 students and is currently in its 48th
year of operation.
The public is cordially invited to attend this performance. A free-will
offering will be received to help the students defray the cost of the tour.
We hope you will join us in welcoming this talented group of students to
our school!"
ST. PETER LUTHERAN SCHOOL VARIETY SHOW IS COMING!Sponsored by St. Peter Student Council
3rd - 8th Graders...do you have a talent or skill that you would like to
share?
This is your time!Friday, May 13th at 1:30 PM
Do you play an instrument......piano, harp, etc?
Participate in gymnastics?
Participate in dance?
Participate in theatre?
Juggle?
Do magic tricks?
You can perform by yourself or yo might want to get a few friends
together to create a skit or performance of some kind.
There will be try-outs to gain a spot to share your talent on April 25 -
27.
So start practicing and deciding what you can do! It will be a lot of fun
for all!
Community Threads - Update from Elizabeth!
It was great to have Elizabeth Maring, Executive Director of
Community Threads, speak to our congregation last weekend. If
you missed it, here are a few highlights... Sales are up in our new
space! Clothing, furniture and housewares are still the big three.
St. Peter has received $260,000.00 in grants from the store so
far -to God be the glory! Thank you donors, shoppers and
volunteers. The most important thing in this endeavor is you!
How to further Maximize the Community Threads Grant Opportunity1. Continue to feed the store with gently used goods and always
take a receipt
2. Talk with others about giving to Community Threads in St.
Peter's name
3. Consider giving 3 hours per week as a volunteer
4. We really need weekday evening and Saturday cashiers
5. Find out if your company has volunteer service days or
matching grants
6. Come for a group serve
7. Sponsor other groups to serve on behalf of St. Peter.
Contact [email protected] 773-960-1151 for more info.
Community Threads is in need of donations! So as you begin
Spring cleaning please bag and box your donations and drop
them off at Community Threads. Be sure to complete a donation
form to get St. Peter the credit. On the form, please note how
many bags or boxes or items you are donation to be able to get
as much credit as possible. Thanks to all for your support.
DAILY HERALD READER’S CHOICE NOMINATIONS
Cast your vote for St. Peter Lutheran School – Arlington Heights
as the Best Private School! We would love to celebrate this
award again with all of our students, parents, staff & community!
Vote online at www.dailyherald.com/vote-readers-choice. Be sure
to put Arlington Heights since there is more than one St. Peter!
Thanks in advance for your affirmation!
Registration for 2016-2017 School YearRegistration for the 2016-2017 school year has begun! New students interested in enrolling can apply online through the school website at www.stpetermyschool.com. Current families received an email with a link to use for completing the reenrollment process. Be sure to take advantage of the early bird special and register by March 15 to receive the $100 registration rate. After March 15, the cost to register is $175. If you refer a family who enrolls in grades K-8 and lists you as their referral, you will receive a $500 credit on your tuition. Spread the word about our award winning school and help yourself too! Contact Melissa Nelson, Director of Admissions, at [email protected] or 224-387-3819 for more information.
Helpful Tax Information
As you complete your 2015 taxes, please be sure to utilize the Education Tax Credit. For 25% of your tuition in excess of $250.00 up to a total credit of $500.00 per family is available. If you are paying more than $2,250.00 in tuition, then you qualify for the full 50% dollar tax credit.
Employment Opportunity at St. Peter Lutheran School
Instructional Technology Coordinator: full time position beginning in
August 2016; emphasis on teacher training and integration; curriculum
planning; coordination of material; program design and implementation;
some middle school level teaching; and A/V and tech set ups.
Preferred: strong technology skills; skilled in Apple and PC; prior
experience in instructional technology; active in church. Please send a
resume to Bruce Rudi at [email protected].
Summer Days Camp is Hiring! Our amazing Summer Days camp program is looking for energetic,
creative, caring, Christian leaders and assistants. Leaders must be
over 18 years of age and have at least six hours of college credit in
education or psychology. Assistants must be high school graduates. If
interested, plese contact Jill Schutz, Director of Children's Ministry, at
[email protected] and complete the application for
employment form found on our website at FullLifeinChrist.org/jobs.
March Menu
This section is for 8th grade families and will have information about transition to high school!
Please note the transition sessions being offered for your child at
St Peter:
Best Dressed: Sara FrycekJosh Mayo
Kyle Orton *
Megan Morris ** Not pictured
Up next week... * Captain
Team 4Mitchell GatesJacob Arrowood *Kayleigh RodgersJimmy PadarGia Douvikas
For 4/4/16, students should be completing Habit 6. Read up on "synergy" to prepare for our next morning advisory lesson!
Praise Blazer
Jasmine Luethy
Mrs. [email protected]
8th grade tech class: We are finishing and presenting our
PowerPoints.
7th grade tech class: Initial research on their countries should be
completed, and work will be beginning on the 7
project.
6th grade tech class: We are well underway on our Word Processing
project, “A Unique Alphabet Book”
Grade Checks:https://www.plusportals.com/StPeterLutheran
Please be checking student progress on the
Portal. Access to the site is above or by
clicking HERE!
The end of the quarter is today and report
cards will come home the Friday after spring
break!
Mrs. [email protected]
Attention: March is Youth Art Month!!! Keep your eyes opened
for some fun art work appearing around the school.
Art Students: your art assignment this week is to choose an
image and using 3 steps, transition it into a totally different
image. Read your art homework assignment sheet carefully for
details!!
PHOTOGRAPHER NEEDED
Nancy Gilles needs someone to take pictures of student art
work for our online art gallery, Artsonia. Photography may be
done at school or at home. Please contact Nancy Gilles if you
can serve our school in this way at [email protected].
Mrs. Wieting and Mr. Gorecki
[email protected]@fulllifeinchrist.org
Middle School ChoirWe are beginning to work on our Spring Concert music! The process is going well, and I love seeing how the students are attacking the music and learning it quickly. It is a blessing to hear their voices continuing to grow and develop!
Middle School Music EdWe did not half Music Ed this week because of the half day. We will continue our GarageBand Unit after Spring Break!
[email protected] www.onlinespanishclassroom.weebly.com
¡Hola!
Spanish 1: This week we went over some of our new vocabulary
words, tasted conchas (Mexican sweet bread), and watched the
movie Inside Out in Spanish without subtitles. Your homework is to
speak Spanish whenever you get the chance and try to visit a
Mexican Bakery!
My favorite Mexican Bakery is called "El Chicanto Bakery" in
Palatine on Dundee Rd. Check it out! It is packed full of
traditional Mexican food.
Spanish 2: We did not meet this week due to the play at the Orchard.
Have a great spring break!
Spanish 3: The next time we will meet is on Thursday, April 14th.
Incase you need any resources, here is a link to our classroom
website!www.onlinespanishclassroom.weebly.org
¡Hasta luego! Que tengan unas buenas vacaciones.Athletics
St. Peter Weekly Athletic Schedule
Upcoming St. Peter Athletic Schedule
LBAA National Basketball Tournament - Both of our teams
were selected to the 32 team Lutheran National Basketball
Tournament in Valparaiso, IN this weekend, March 18-20. This
is a tremendous accomplishment as a St. Peter boys team has
not qualified since 2006 and the Girls since 2011. All games
will be live streamed through the LBAA website: www.lbaa.org
Our teams play their first games on Friday: Boys @ 8:00 am vs.
Concordia, San Antonio and Girls @ 4:25 pm vs. St. Paul’s,
Fort Wayne. Congratulations to both teams on their seasons
and the opportunity to compete at Nationals!
St. Peter Track & Field Season Track & Field is just around the corner. Coach Corinne Ginder
and her staff will lead our program again this year and look to
build on the success of the 2015 season. Practices are NOW
tentatively scheduled to start the week AFTER Spring Break.
An e-mail with the schedule went out this week to the parents of all interested participants. Our parent meeting
Mr Bickel and Miss Kloess
For your reference, all of our Health assignments for the 3rd
quarter will be listed at the bottom of the PE/Health Homework
Google Doc. We have started our Volleyball Unit in PE and it
will continue after Spring Break. In Health, we are planning to
do 3 weeks of sex education after the break. Look for an
informational letter to be e-mailed to all 6-8th graders in the near
future.
Miss Mielke [email protected]
English – Grade SixText – We will hit the ground running with our study of nouns and pronouns after spring break.
Vocabulary – Vocabulary unit A13 will capture our attention the first week of fourth quarter. Composition – Wanted19: Pictures of the handsome and the beautiful to complete our memoirs.
We are having a great time composing our creative narratives.
English – Grade SevenText – Our concentration is on the cusp of moving from adjectives and adverbs into prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Vocabulary – Vocabulary unit B13 will command our attention the week following spring break. Composition –We are turning our efforts to a piece of persuasive writing that will incorporate the best of our composition skills.
English – Grade EightText – Our parts of speech plate is overflowing! Pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs, as well as prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections are all part of our universe.
Vocabulary – We will focus our eyes and minds on vocabulary unit C14 after spring break. Composition – While we have begun working in earnest on our personal brochures, we are ecstatic that the research paper is a fond memory!
Mrs. [email protected]
6 th Grade Literature: Nonfiction
After Spring Break, we will begin our Book Club unit (otherwise known as Literature
Circles). I will be providing students with a selection of books and they will choose
one and use it as the basis for having small group discussions. There will be one
quiz and one written assignment due each week with this unit. A list of choices and
a schedule of reading and assignments will be provided the week after break.
7 th Grade Literature: The Magician’s Nephew
During the weeks after Spring Break we will compare and contrast the genres of
Fable, Folk Tale and Fairy Tale, and look at the influence each has had on
Literature. There will be reading assignments from the Literature book as well as
some research of the different story types.
8 th Grade Literature: Romeo and Juliet
We finished reading the play before break, but rather than pushing through to finish
the unit before break, we will review and have our final assessment after break.
final writing assignment will be handed out on the Tuesday after we return from
break which will be due on Monday, April 4th.
Miss Schmidt:[email protected] Grade ReligionThe sixth graders did a fantastic job on their Kings, Queens, and Prophets unit. This week we began our "Mythbusters" mini-series and took a look at the period of 400 years between the Old and New Testament. Memory for next week is #134.
7 th Grade Religion
The class did a great job leading chapel this week! We also celebrated a Seder Meal with Mr. Rudi on Thursday after learning about the symbolism of each of the different aspects of the meal. When we return from break, we will resume memory work on that Friday. We will be finishing the story of Balaam and his talking donkey before moving on to the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
Mrs. Urlaub:[email protected]
8th Grade ReligionStudents are finishing up learning about the Lord’s Prayer. They will start working on their review sheets as well as finishing the petition memory quizzes.
Here is the scoop for the upcoming week:
6th grade – period 1 - We will be starting chapter 13. In chapter 13 we will be studying geometry. Students will be working on identifying shapes, finding missing angles, and solving for area of figures. We will also reviewing for the standardize tests the following week.
6th grade – period 2 -We be starting chapter 12. In chapter 12 we will be continuing in our geometry unit. We will be reviewing surface area and volume or 3 dimensional figures. We will also reviewing for the standardize tests the following week.
7th grade - We are starting Algebra! Students will be switching their books out and we will be
Mrs. [email protected]
7th Grade
When we return from break, we will see where students stand with a cumulative test over the beginning of the algebra book. Students did a review in class and will take this test on Thursday!
8th Grade
Ready to experience what a final exam is like in high school? The next quarter is all about preparation for what math will look like in 9th grade! I will start with a cumulative test over the entire algebra book! Wheew! Then we will move on to Geometry and some Algebra 2. I will encourage students to start a new notebook with all of this new information in it, to use as reference next year! If you want to get them a new single subject notebook over break, they will be ready to go!
ACCESS MRS. SMITH'S HOMEWORK
Mrs. [email protected]
In 6th grade we are still on our Medieval unit. We will be learning about the plague, the power of the church, as well as warfare.
In 7th grade we are starting our unit on Africa. We are learning about North, West, and Central Africa first. Students will be learning about life in Africa, working on their map skills as well as adding to our passports.
In 8th grade students are presenting their presidential posters and then we are moving on to the Progressive Era, women’s suffrage, as well as the immigrant experience.
Science in the News… Did you know…there is a movement in a number of states to pass mandatory GMO labeling laws that would tell consumers if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients? GMO, or genetically modified organisms, have been used in various food products for almost twenty years. Most of these are grains that have been genetically altered and are used in a variety of food products.
6th Grade We ended our unit on the study of climates and climate regions this week with an open note review on this chapter. We will be doing a lab related to the concepts we learned the week we return from break. 7th Grade We began our study of genetic engineering this week and how this process occurs. We will be learning about the benefits of this technology in the medical and agricultural areas as well as the controversies surrounding it.
8th Grade We spent most of this week balancing chemical equations and learning about the different classifications of chemical equations. We ended the week studying the different factors that affect the rates of chemical reactions and will finish the unit when we return from break. Website for solar panel monitoring:enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/pv/public_systems/2McX428596/grid/days
Middle School Madness
Homework Link (click link above)
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