April 4, 2017

PCA Eagle’s Nest Weekly News 21890 US Hwy 34 Princeton, IL 61356 815-875-2933 princetonchristianacademy@yahoo.com

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PCA MISSION STATEMENT ~ To provide an excellent academic education with a Christian world view based on

the absolute authority of God’s Word, the Holy Bible.

You are invited! The annual Princeton Bible Church Easter Cantata is fast approaching! The PBC Choir will present

“The Promise” on Sat., April 8 at 6:30 p.m. and again on Sun., April 9th at 10:15 a.m.. Many of our PCA

staff and some students will share their talents in this presentation. Principal Odell as Grandpa, Andrea

Imsland and Cade Odell as the grandchildren, Joel Odell as boy Jesus, Pastor Justin as adult Jesus, Pastor

Curtis as Joseph, our custodian, Thomas Cook as Satan, and those in the choir include, Mrs. Odell, Mrs.

Skaggs, Mrs. Holmes, Miss Neff, Kimmie Imsland, Kaylyn Friel, Carson Bullington, Myla McCoy, and

others you may recognize! Mrs. Kiser is the director and we would love to see you there!

Kindergarten Parents! We are offering invitations for your Kindergarten student’s graduation. If you would like to

view them to purchase, please come to the office as they are on display at the window. Place your name and quantity

onto the list and we will get them to you. Cost is 50 cents each. Thank you! (offering until April 21st)

Sports students/parents! Please be sure that PCA red and white uniforms are returned to the office! Make sure they

have been washed and are ready to put away for next fall! TY!

Noon Dismissal on 4/13

Please note that on the school calendar, there is noon dismissal on Thursday, April 13th, for Easter break. We do not

have school on Friday, April 14th or Monday, April 17th. Classes resume on Tuesday, April 18th at 8:00 a.m.

Did you know: We at PCA have done the Samaritan’s Operation Christmas Child for a few years now and here are

some interesting facts: A Gospel presentation is given before the boxes are presented to the children and it is estimated

that on average this presentation reaches 9 people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His amazing grace to us! After the

shoe box is received by the child, a 12-lesson follow-up discipleship program is given and over 1.6 million boys and girls

around the world made decisions for Christ last year! Isn’t this AWESOME! The classes are taught by more than 500,00

local believers who have been trained by Samaritan’s Purse and volunteer their time to bring the hope of the Gospel to

children in need. We prepare our boxes each November. Keep in mind that you can shop and fill in boxes year round and

we will store these here at the school. Thank you so much for your faithfulness!

Talent Show information: The Jr. High Choir & all elementary students will be performing musical pieces. Please

plan to have your child attend.

There will be a rehearsal to run through our selections on the day of the performance. Please bring music and instruments to school that day.

Thursday night: Junior High Choir: Please meet in the church basement at 6:10 to warm-up.

All elementary students are to sit with their parents unless they are participating in the Talent Show. The Talent Show participants will be sitting with Mrs. Holmes.

5:30 p.m. - gym is open to the public to view the Jr. High Science

Fair and Art /class Projects. At 6:30, the Talent Show will begin in

the church sanctuary. More info is included below. See you all there!

PCA Calendar 2017

Thurs, Apr 6 5:30P Science, Art & Talent Show Open House

Fri, Apr 7 3:00-4:15 Play practice

Sat, Apr 8 ACSI Art Festival in Elgin, IL

“ “ Run/Track at Zearing Park 9-10:30 a.m.

Mon, Apr 10 4:00P Scholastic Bowl at Deer Park

Tues, Apr 11 3:00-5:00 Jr High Dress Rehearsal

Thurs, Apr 13 Noon Dismissal

“ “ Track practice @ PHS after school 12:30 - 2 p.m.

Fri-Mon, Apr 14-17 Easter Break No School

Sat, Apr 15 9 - 10 a.m. Run at Zearing Park

Tues, Apr 18 Classes resume at 8:00 a.m.

“ “ Track practice at PHS after school 3:45 - 5:00

“ “ 3:15-4:30 Scholastic Bowl practice

Thurs, Apr 20 4:00P At PCA, Scholastic Bowl vs. Dimmick

“ “ 4:30P Logan track meet rescheduled at PHS

Fri, Apr 21 End of Progress Report term & 3-5:00 Play practice Dress Rehearsal

Mon-Wed, Apr 24-26 Grades 2, 4, 6 & 8 Terra Nova Testing

April birthdays:

05 Mrs. Holmes Music teacher

27 Ella Grey 4th grade

Everyone! Please come to the Art Festival on Thursday Night! Student projects will be on display! Lots of good work for

you to view!

ACSI Art Festival is this weekend! Students going - do you have your permission slips and money turned in?

ART REMARKS ~ Mrs. Bullington

What a wonderful treat today!

We were blessed today by Mr. Harold Steele, who has recently retired from his farm in rural Princeton. He

presented PCA with a beautiful painting and 6 very large banners of the life of President Lincoln. Mr.

Steele served under General Patton in wartime, served 2 terms in the Agriculture Department in Washing-

ton D.C. under Presidents H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, and also served as the President of the Na-

tional Farm Bureau Association. The school has taken field trips to his farm and he so enjoyed our stu-

dents. He had stories to share today and we wished we had time to hear them all! We are honored that he

chose PCA to place these beautiful items as their new home! Thank you, Mr. Steele!

SonShine Preschool - Mrs. Pollok (Miss Elisha)

Kindergarten Tidbits- Mrs. Whitlock

Week of April 3-7

Theme: God’s Creation: Spring/Plants/Flowers Bible Topic: Adventures with God: Joshua & Caleb

Bible Verse: Psalm 56:3: “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.”

Letter - N-Z Number - Review Color - Purple Shape - Star

ABC/Snack Bag: Wednesday: Carson Friday: Ewyn Mon, April 10: Fritz

Most of the report cards have been signed and returned. If you have not done so, please do.

Look for a separate note in the B.E.E. binder regarding the Field Trip on Thursday, April 27th to Peoria Chil-

dren’s Museum and Zoo.

In Skills Development we will compete for the super listener champ; who will be the one to repeat the longest sentence.

The students will name rhyming words in a sentence. Each group will practice and recite their poems for graduation. We

will pick partners to complete a floor puzzle. Liquids will be discussed and identified. The character development is

“being thankful”.

In Science we continue “God’s Plan for Weather”. We will identify 3 kinds of clouds and experiment with evaporation.

We will graph the weather for this week.

Our Science books will be on our desks for Thursday nights Science and Talent Night.

There will be a few items to test how good your senses are and our evaporation experiment will be on display for discus-

sion with your students.

Mr. Clausen has helped us set up an incubator so we are set up to try to hatch some eggs. Spring is here!

In Numbers we will review subtraction, addition facts, counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Spelling the number words 1-10, before, after and in between numbers will be practiced along with clock review. The

students will be given coins and asked to count to see if they have enough to purchase a small item at our store. We will

start the 8 addition family.

In Phonics we will review special sounds, blends, vowels and consonants. Our new special sound is “ou”. Playing

“Around the Room in 30 Seconds” will help us with fast reading of blends, one and two vowel words. Reading groups are

going great and I have seen great improvement in smoothness and expression. Thank you for all the night reading. It does

make a difference!!!

There will be a written evaluation in Phonics this week.

Everyone needs their plastic eggs and carton to be at school this week. Most of you have sent

them. I am still looking for Joe, Lenora, Myla and Madisyn’s eggs and cartons. Thank you.

In Bible time we will read the Easter Story. We will celebrate Jesus entry into Jerusalem with

palms and shouts of Hosanna. The children will learn what the word resurrection means. Our wor-

ship will include the reminder that everyone sins. Jesus paid the price for everyone's sin and be-

cause Jesus paid the price for everyone we are no longer separated from God. Jesus died and rose

because of His great love for us. We can be part of the family of God. The children will greet each other with “He has

risen”. Our own road to Emmaus will give us a chance to express sadness of Jesus’ death and gladness, running and

shouting ,”Jesus is alive” Our memory verse is “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever be-

lieves in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

Last week we had some beautiful worship and prayers in Bible time. “the kingdom of God belongs to such” Mark 10:14b

Mrs. Whitlock

First grade – Mrs. Wolbrecht

2nd Grade - Mrs. Bickett

Bible: The next two weeks we will be studying all about Christ’s death and resurrection.

Our verse this week: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans

6:23

We have several prayer requests on our board but would love for you to say an extra prayer for our sponsor child, Alli-

son; baby Opal who has cancer; Marissa who has cancer; and Mr. Tom, our Mrs. Patty’s husband.

SPELLING:

hope hopes hoped hoping like likes liked liking

shaking making hiking coming smiled been any

SOCIAL STUDIES: We continue in our “Community Helpers” book, learning about all the special ways people serve

our community. Thank you for the photos of your pastors for our books!

SCIENCE: We’ve been studying the life –cycle of a chicken! We have four chicks! We definitely had to learn about life

and death during our hatching process, as we lost a few of our babies. We will be hatching one more bunch of eggs.

They will go in the incubator Friday. We had hoped to do a second incubator with duck eggs but I haven’t been able to

purchase any eggs as of yet. We will continue our plant study over the next two weeks. We’ve planted beans and peas in

the classroom. We will be starting other vegetables, herbs and flowers next week in our Eagle’s Nest Garden.

PHONICS:

Review contractions, ie. You Will = You’ll; We Are = We’re

Apply the y to I suffix rule (pretty… prettier)

Recognizing special sounds ough in tough, ire in tire, are in care, ould in should, wa in warm

MATH:

Recalling sums and differences for the 9-12 families

Lesser than, greater than and equal to: <, >, =

Reviewing long combinations: 3+3-2+8=

Introducing story problems with extra facts that may not be needed: Tina picked 3 red roses, 4 red marigolds and 2 yel-

low daisies. How many red flowers did Tina pick? Which fact was not needed?

SCIENCE, ART, & TALENT SHOW – THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 6 at 5:30pm

Your first graders are very excited to sing a special song for you! You don’t want to miss it!

The Science, Art and Talent Show is this Thursday night. The second graders will be singing with K-5.

Bible: Easter

Verse: Matthew 28:6 “ He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where they he lay.”

We will recite this verse Friday.

Math: dividing by four, carrying to the thousands place, multiplying by 5

English: double negatives, chapter review and test over linking verbs and contractions, adjectives describing sight,

sound and smell

Phonics: review charts

Spelling: list 27 test will be Friday

History: Tomorrow’s America

Science: Plants

Handwriting: cursive Tt, Vv, Ww, Xx

4th Grade - Mrs. Odell

3rd grade - Mrs. Cleary

6th - 8th Grade Science - Mr. Cornman

5th grade: Mr. Clausen

Please bring your Nation posters and notebooks so that we can set these up for Thursday night. We want parents and

friends to enjoy seeing the great job you did on them!

The children have been reading all about the miracles of Jesus, the Son of God! It has been a wonderful journey through

the gospels and now we are reading about the Transfiguration and how Jesus’ face changed and He had robes of lightening

and met with Moses and Elijah on the mountain.

Luke 9:35 our Bible memory verse says, “A voice came from the cloud saying: “This is my Son whom I have chosen lis-

ten to Him.” Transfiguration means a significant change. It is such a powerful affirmation about Christ the son of God, and

what He meant to the Jewish nation but also for us today! Listen to Him!!

Sad news, we have postponed our Bile Theater skit and hope to find another time during school to perform our Gospel

message.

Studies to finish our Science will be ramping up in April and May. We plan to go on a field trip to Wildlife Prairie Park in

Peoria in May. Dates will be set very soon. I will send notes home so be watching.

Spelling is list 28. Health we will be finishing the section on disease and starting chapter 7 on First Aid. His-

tory we are studying about Robert E. Lee. Math we are working on review of division, equations and meas-

urements. Language is the study of verbs and uses in a sentence.

We are in a rhythm of learning that shows the best in these children for they are indeed all very bright and

loving children. It is indeed a joy to teach them and see them grow in Our Lord and in their learning!

We will be focusing on the Lord’s Prayer this week.

We will test on spelling list 28 Wednesday. We are studying the New Frontiers in history, continuing Astronomy

in science and learning about adjectives and adverbs in language by next week. We will begin working with decimals in

math.

We want to have a kite-flying day soon. If your child has a kite, they may bring it any day now. We will

evaluate weather on a day to day basis for “windiness”

Our Springfield trip is Friday, April 21. We will leave school at 7:45 a.m. and be home about 12 hours later!

We plan to visit the state capitol building/s, the Abraham Lincoln Museum, Lincoln’s tomb. Please call me if you have any

questions.

Have a very precious week walking with the Lord and thinking on His boundless love for you.

It is almost here! Science Fair!

6-8 grade classes are finishing up their science fair

projects!

Are you excited to see them? Great job everyone!

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

8th grade: continue Business Math- Stocks, Bonds, & Insurance. Quiz Fri 4/7

7th grade: Begin Geometry Unit- shape definitions, Perimeters & Areas. Quiz Tues 4/11

6th grade: Complete Geometry unit- Triangles & Review.

Begin Algebra unit- Order of operations & Algebra Multiplication. Quiz Tues 4/11

Rain? Snow?

Sun?

We need some sunshine, please, to get everyone well!!!!!

A little vitamin C!

(And helps our attitude!?!)