January 19, 2015

BOX TOP Information: Box tops need to be mailed in by February 25th. Please send all that

you have ASAP! These have expiration dates so check boxes in your cabinets for any due to expire

by June, 2016. Thank you to those donations so far!!

UPCOMING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:

Wed., Jan. 20 Report cards issued

Thurs., Jan. 21 5 p.m. Girls Volleyball begins at Holy Family, Oglesby (ABC teams)

Fri., Jan. 22 6:30 p.m. Family Reading Night

Monday, Jan. 25 ACSI Creative Writing due; In-house 2016-2017 registration begins

Girls volleyball practice 3 to 5 :00

Tues., Jn. 26 5 p.m. Girls Vball at Lostant (A team only)

Thurs., Jan. 28 5 p.m. Vball at Deer Park (AC teams)

Wed., Feb. 3rd Vision & Hearing Screening

**It’s coming quickly!!! January means registration for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year!! Registration be-

gins on Monday, January 25th to all our current students and siblings. In the following weeks, we will be supplying

more info concerning this.

PCA Eagle’s Nest Weekly News

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**Lost and found box is FULL!!!

OH MY! We have an overflow of items in the Lost and Found! If you are missing lunch bags, pants, shirts and tops,

coats, sweats, water bottles, and on and on, come on in and check to see if your missing items are there! Thank you!!!

Family Reading Night Friday, January 22 6:30 pm – PCA gym

Your whole family is invited to join us for a family-friendly night of laughter as we listen

to books, jokes, and tongue twisters.

Bring your favorite joke to share. (Anyone sharing a joke or tongue twister will receive a

small treat. )

Popcorn and lemonade will be provided.

Wear your PJ’s and bring a blanket to sit on. (optional)

Contact Yvonne Murray at 815 303-3330 with questions or to volunteer to read.

Eagles Nest

Prayer Box:

Please be in prayer for:

*the health of our stu-dents and staff

*our school board and staff

*the United States of America and our leader-ship

*to do our best in the upcoming creative writ-ing and speech contests

*Sandy Thompson (Mrs. Thompson and Grady) is taking cancer treatments

*Pray for our presiden-tial election, for God’s wisdom in our choices as we vote.

*In Haiti, Sonlight Academy & house of Hope, where Mrs. Cook was ministering

A HUGE thank you to all those who helped with making the Boy’s Basketball Tour-

ney last week a success!! Parents, Teachers, even Princeton Bible Church members—we

could not have done it without you! You make us proud for your commitment to this

school!

Kindergarten Tidbits - Mrs. Whitlock

In Phonics this week we will work short/long vowels on the board, marking the sounds. We will review

the “ck” rule and learn “ck “ follows a short vowel. The long “e” at the end of short words will be intro-

duced as these are special sounds. (be, me, we, and he)

Reading Groups will continue Book 4 and review books 2 and 3 for fluency. Everyone is do-

ing a great job with Reading Homework, just keep reading. Several students have finished

books and signed off on the back. Book 4 has lots of two vowel words. This can be difficult

at first. We will reread the sections over and over until it becomes easy for the students to

sound/read the stories. There will be a Reading Grade evaluation this week.

In Numbers the students will be asked to fill in the missing number in an addition combination. We will

continue to practice writing 0-9 and dictated numbers. As we count we will identify what number comes

after a said number and write it. The parts of a calendar will be introduced.

Students will be asked to answer addition facts they have learned and write the twin fact. The word num-

bers “one, two and three” will be learned. A review of dimes and pennies will be practiced determining

how many will be needed to purchase a certain object.

We will practice shoe tying skills and introduce tally charts.

We have lots of sight seeing to do in Italy and then have a “Taste of Italy” afternoon.

We head to Israel next but we are not sure if we will leave this week.

Our Bible story is Jonah. As he chose to disobey God, we can learn from Jonah that we need to ask forgive-

ness and tell God we are sorry along with asking God to help us change. When we disobey. This is a great

story of God’s loving concern for all people. We need to be showing God’s love and mercy to other people

even when we don’t want to or feel uncomfortable.

Our memory verse: “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To

act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8

Have a great week!

Start by doing what is necessary,

then what’s possible, and suddenly

you are doing the impossible.—

Francis of Assisi

Third Grade - Mrs. Scott

I am happy to report that the entire first grade class is finally healthy and back to school! Lord willing, all the sick-

ness is gone!

Bible: This week first grade will be learning about Jesus’ disciples and how we can obey His Word. We will have a

bible test and memory verse test on Friday.

Our memory verse this week is:

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me

you can do nothing.” John 15:5

History: We will further discuss Martin Luther King, Jr. and learn more about freedom.

Math: We continue to learn our coin values as well as graphing. Students will learn to identify ¼, ½,

and one whole of a group. We are also distinguishing between 1s, 10s and 100s places. We will have

an Arithmetic test tomorrow and speed drills on Friday.

Language/Phonics: We continue to learn about root words and suffixes as well as special sounds.

Spelling: We will test on Spelling List 15 on Friday. This week’s Spelling Words are:

All call fall ball tall

Small walk talk chalk baseball

Rainfall sidewalk cornstalk your from

Please continue to work with your child on their speech contest verse or poem. The in-house speech contest is 2

-½ weeks away!

Enjoy your week!

In third grade this week, we're studying in Bible class how God can help us do anything He wants us to do.

He gives us the strength if we let Him. We are memorizing Philippians 4:13, “I can do everything through

Him who gives me strength.” In Math, we are reviewing measurements and Roman numerals. This week,

their final grades for science came in and I'm so proud of how well they all did. We're starting our history

with Christopher Columbus. We're off to a great start in health; the kids did very well on our posture and

safety unit. Our spelling list for this week is:

1. sweatshirt 11. basketball Vocabulary

2. tighten 12. nature

3. package 13. January 20. exaggerate – to go beyond the truth

4. cocoa 14. blizzard 21. punctual – prompt; not late

5. oyster 15. mountain 22. demolish – to pull or tear down

6. wonderful 16. icicle

7. forgotten 17. igloo

8. mousetrap 18. penguin

9. except 19. purpose

10. permission

Please continue to have the children read to you at night and encourage your student to eat a good breakfast.

We're still looking for snack donations of pretzels, raisins, or fruit.

First Grade - Mrs. Wolbrecht

Fourth Grade - Mrs. Odell

8th grade, Jr High Math, Spanish 1-6 - Mrs. Anderson

Our Scripture focus this week is Isa. 53: 5-7.

We are looking forward to a great field trip Friday, January 29, to the YMCA to see the presentation on

“Raptors, Birds of Prey”. I still need drivers, so thanks in advance to the parents who will go with us!

Our “in-house” speech contest is coming right up. The children need to work on their speeches this week! They

really are doing a great job. They are amazing!

We have been reviewing fractions in math. We will be having February as our “Illinois” focus month. We have be-

gun pronouns in English. We will test on list 19 tomorrow and then move on to list 20 in spelling

Have a wonderful week! Keep looking up!

History, Language Arts, Grammar, 7/8 Spanish - Mrs. Cook

Thanks for your prayers...Please keep Sonlight Academy & House of Hope in your prayers as they minister to

those in need in Haiti.

6th grade English: 6th grade is working on a research report. 15 note cards were due today. A rough outline is

due Thursday. Students have had several trips to PCA library and the lab.

7th grade History: We will be looking at the Tudor family this week.

8th grade History: We are looking at Technology of America. Test over chapters tomorrow. We reviewed to-

day.

Math:

8th grade - continue Graphing segment

7th grade - Semester Exam tomorrow (Wed); Begin Graphing segment

6th grade - Begin Geometry segment

Spanish 1-6:

"Greetings"