regional science fair - st. peter lutheran...
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PRINCIPAL’S ROUND TABLEDate: Wednesday, March 9th
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Life Center
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REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR
This Saturday, eleven of our seventh graders will be participating
in the Regional Science Fair that is being held at Niles North
High School in Skokie. Jessica Bergman, Ryan Brown, Allison
Drake, Gia Douvikas, Sara Frycek, Griffin Ginder, Grace Hiller,
Carson Milligan, Tori Nickens, Kayleigh Rodgers, and Josh Ryg
will be representing our school in this fair. The projects will be on
display to the public beginning at 12:30 PM with an awards
ceremony held at 2:45 PM Congratulations to each of these
students for making it to this level and we wish them God’s
blessings on their participation in the regional fair!
EVER WONDER ABOUT HEAVEN?
The Orchard Church is offering performances of
Heaven, How I Got Here – A night with the thief on the cross.
March 15, 16, 17
6:00 & 8:30 PM
$20.00
1330 N. Douglas
Arlington Heights
Actor Stephen Baldwin will be performing in all the shows. Don’t
miss a wonderful opportunity to be blessed during this Lenten
season.
For reservations and more information go to
www.theorchardefc.org/heaven.
FYI: The Middle School students will be attending a matinee
performance on March 15th at 1pm. We will be walking to The
Orchard for the show!
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Organizational skills groupOur organizational skills group for middle schoolers will begin meeting
for third quarter on Mondays during eighth period. To sign up for this
group, please fill out a consent form at the front office or return the form
that was emailed to you by your child's teacher. For more information
about this group, please contact Lexi Schmidt at
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
St. Peter Skate Night:Save the date . . March 13th from 5:00-7:00 PM for an all school skate night at Orbit Skating! PTL is sponsoring this fun roller skating party for all our students and their families.
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:
Middle School Winter Retreat Update
We had a fantastic time on our winter retreat. Click on the following link for a movie clip of the event:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi_tYpsf43U
And pictures taken by Timber-lee staff over
the weekend:
https://camptimber-lee.smugmug.com/WinterXtr
eme-2016/Week-8-Feb-27/
Up next week... * Captain
Team 2Jessica BergmanJoshua Cudia *Logan CudiaTori NickensJoe Broski
Habit 5 will be completed in lunch advisory on Monday, 3/7/16. After that, students should work to read up on Habit 6 which is due on Monday, 4/4/16!
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!
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 7th grade PowerPoint
project.
6th grade tech class: We are well underway on our Word Processing
project, “A Unique Alphabet Book”
Mrs. [email protected]
Art Students: You are doing a great job on your paintings!! It is
monster week for homework! Create at least 3 -4 monsters of
different sizes and shapes in your sketchbook. The goal is to do
some fun cartoon drawing using Monsters as the theme. Draw
them neatly and then in fine line marker and shade with colored
pencil. Lets see how creative you can be!!
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 began our Spring Fine Arts Concert music this week. Although we have limited rehearsal time (9 rehearsals!), I am confident that the students will master our pieces for this event. We also voted on a third song for our Spring Fine Arts Concert this week. The results are in, and we will be singing “Waka, Waka.” I cannot wait to see the energy that the students will bring to this piece!
Middle School Music EdWe did not have Music Ed this week because there was no school on Friday. We will continue with our GarageBand unit next week!
[email protected] www.onlinespanishclassroom.weebly.com
¡Hola!
Spanish 1: Today we continued working on our music videos. Next
week is the last week we will be working with these. I want to finish
them and watch them in class next week! You may finish filming
outside of class if you have a lot to do, or I will give you about ten
minutes next week.
Spanish 2: We worked more on grammar today. Next week we will
break down the verbs 'ser' and 'estar' so that they make some more
sense. There is no official homework due next week, but as always
please try to look for anything with Spanish on it to bring in to class.
Spanish 3: The next time we will meet is Thursday, March 10th.
Incase you need any resources, here is a link to our classroom
website!www.onlinespanishclassroom.weebly.org
¡Hasta luego!
Athletics
St. Peter Weekly Athletic Schedule
Good luck to our Varsity Basketball teams competing at LSA State this weekend! Both of our teams play their first round games at Trinity, Roselle
on Friday. Girls play at 11:45 am against Trinity, Edwardsville
and the Boys play at 6:45 pm against Walther Academy.
(Individual admission prices are Adults for $5 and Students for
$2.) Full Brackets can be viewed via the LSA website:
http://www.luthsports.org/ Good luck to our coaches and players!
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
tentatively scheduled to start the week before Spring Break.
This year, we will be opening up participation to 5th graders similar to our Cross Country Jr. Running Club. More details
to come in the near future. Sign-ups will be conducted in PE
class early next week!
Summer Athletic CampsBe sure to mark your calendars and save the dates of the St. Peter Athletic
Camps. We are offering a variety of opportunities to a wide range of grade levels
under the leadership of our outstanding coaching staff!
2016 Dates & Times
Boys & Girls Jr. Saints Basketball Camp Grades 1-2 June 6-
10 3:15 - 4:45 pm
Boys & Girls Varsity Saints Basketball Camp Grades 7-8 June 6-
10 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Boys & Girls Jr. Saints Basketball Camp Grades 3-4 June 13-
17 3:15 - 4:45 pm
Boys & Girls JV Saints Basketball Camp Grades 5-6 June 13-
17 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Boys & Girls High School BB “Preview” Camp Grades 7-9 June 13-
17 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Boys & Girls Jr. Saints Volleyball Camp Grades 5-6 June 20-
24 3:00 - 4:15 pm
Boys & Girls Varsity Saints Volleyball Camp Grades 7-8 June 20-
24 4:30 – 6:00 pm
St. Peter Athletic Running Club(SPARC) Grades 4-8 & Parents
Tuesdays & Thursdays / June 21 - Aug. 11 (7:00 - 8:00 pm)
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 completed our Badminton Unit it PE
Class. Congratulations to Ken and Phil for winning the 8th
grade class tournament and Josh on winning the 7th grade
double tournament as a single player team!
Miss Mielke
English – Grade SixText – We are beyond the book! We are learning all there is to know about verb tenses, including three of them that are not even covered in the text. Since we use them in our speaking and writing, however, we are including them in our discussion and in our work. Vocabulary – Once again, we are encountering a review vocabulary unit, ARU10-12. Composition – Wanted17: Pictures of the handsome and the beautiful to complete our memoirs. We are currently reviving several in-process pieces; we are also engaging in some creative word and concept building to hone our composition skills.
English – Grade SevenText – We are focusing our laser attention on adjectives and adverbs and are feeling quite successful in the process.Vocabulary – Vocabulary unit BRU10-12 has our undivided attention. Composition – Will it be a Christmas memory? Will it be an ordered objects narrative? Which choice will each seventh grader make? It remains to be seen. . .
English – Grade EightText – Although we are ready to test our knowledge of pronouns, we are waiting until our mini March Madness has passed before we do so. We are about to immerse ourselves in adverbs, though.
Vocabulary – Next week C13 commands our attention. Composition – Only one more research paper due date to meet – the one for the final draft. With this in mind, class composition time is focusing on our personal brochures.
Mrs. [email protected]
6 th Grade Literature: Poetry
Our third nonfiction selection that deals with immigration is due on Monday, March
7th. There is an accompanying worksheet, also due 3/7, that asks students to list the
different challenges faced by the people in the article and how those challenges are
met. We will have a set of small group discussions about these articles on Tuesday
and then begin another set of nonfiction articles that we will work on throughout the
week, as we start to compare the different organizational styles and language
techniques of the writers.
7 th Grade Literature: The Magician’s Nephew
We are in the second half of The Magician’s Nephew, with the next writing piece due
on 3/8. In this part of the book, we are looking at the ways that the novel is a
Christian allegory, and how that can apply to our lives. We continue to have regular
reading quizzes on each chapter. Check the Google homework document for
specific assignments. The Magician’s Nephew reading and assignment schedule is
at the bottom of that Google doc. Left the book at school? No worries! Most older
texts have been transcribed and can be found in their entirety, for free, online
through Project Gutenberg. Google “Magician’s Nephew Full Text” and you will find
it.
8 th Grade Literature: Romeo and Juliet
We have an Act 3 writing assignment due on Tuesday, 3/8, asking students to find
examples of different literary devices in the text. This week we will work on reading
through Act 4 in class. There will be a quiz on Act 4 when we have finished the
reading. Check the Google homework document for specific dates.
Miss Schmidt:[email protected] Grade ReligionWe had an awesome week of finishing up our Kings, Queens, and Judges unit. We will have a test on MONDAY, March 7th. Please refer to study guide for additional support. Memory for next week #132 and #133. Newsweek projects were fantastic! Grades will be posted this weekend.
7 th Grade Religion We continued our study of Old Testament History by learning more about the story of the bronze serpent and how it was a foreshadowing of Christ’s redemptive work on the cross. We also reviewed the moral, ceremonial, and political laws that God gave to the Israelites by looking at the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. Memory work for next week will be Wednesday and Friday.
Mrs. Urlaub:[email protected]
8th Grade ReligionWe are continuing to study the Lord’s prayer. We are currently on the 3rd petition. Students are choosing their verse for confirmation, which is due on the 31st.
Here is the scoop for the upcoming week:
6th grade – period 1 - We will start working in chapter 12. In chapter 12 we will be working on measurements in the customary system and the metric system. We will also be converting measurements from system to system and within each system.
6th grade – period 2 - We will be working through chapter 11 next week. In chapter 11 we will be starting a geometry unit. Mainly looking at using algebra to solve the area of complex figures. We will be reviewing surface area and volume also.
7th grade - We will start working in chapter 9. In chapter 9 we will studying geometry. Specifically we will be working on histograms, circle graphs, and
Mrs. [email protected]
7th Grade
We are almost done with Chapter 6, so expect a test by the end of the week! Students are doing a great job listening as this is all new stuff now and they need to invest to assure that they understand.
8th Grade
We are continuing our work in Chapter 12 and will have a test over the entire chapter by the end of the week! We will have a project to go with this chapter, looking for parabolas in the real world and finding out how those lines connect to what we have learned in algebra.
ACCESS MRS. SMITH'S HOMEWORK PAGE HERE !
Mrs. [email protected]
In 6th grade we are learning about Feudalism and the manor system as well as the growing power of the Catholic Church in Europe.
In 7th grade we are learning about Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, we will be working on our mapping skills and learning about current events in the area. Students will be finishing up their Russia passport.
In 8th grade we are learning about westward expansion, the Transcontinental Rail Road (for which we will be making a 3D map), and the plight of Native Americans.
Science in the News… Did you know… that American Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Tuesday, March 2 after spending an American record of 340 days in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? He landed in the barren steppes of Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz space capsule with fellow Russian astronaut Mikhail Kornienko.
6th Grade We began our unit on climate and climate regions of the world with lessons on the difference between weather and climate; the factors that affect climate; and the major types of world climates. 7th Grade We started our unit on genetic disorders learning about the types of traits and the genes that control these. We have learned about blood types and have learned about pedigrees and how they are used in determining genetic traits/disorders in families.
8th Grade After reviewing physical and chemical characteristics and changes, we started learning how to write and balance chemical equations which builds on the concepts and materials learned in the last unit. We also conducted a mini-lab on the differences between exothermic and endothermic reactions.
A reminder: You can monitor the energy output of our solar panels through an online connection at the following website: enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/pv/public_systems/2McX428596/grid/days
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