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Colossians 1:9,10, and 12 says, For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you A: We will be leaving shortly before 9:00 a.m. may be filled with the knowledge of His will in on Monday from school to head to the Civic all spiritual wisdom and understanding.... so Center. Miss Brenner and I appreciate all who that you may walk in a a manner worthy of the have volunteered and are able to join us for Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit the trip, and it looks like we have enough drivin every good work and increasing in the knowl- ers for the event! The show entitled edge of God. The Lord brought this passage Treasured Stories by Eric Carle will begin at to my attention while preparing for conferences, 10:00 a.m., and should last one hour! We are and I hope conferences were just as much an asking that students bring cold lunch from encouragement to you as they were to me as we home for the day to enjoy when we return to shared about the fruit God is producing in your school after the hour-long performance ends! childs life! We will be eating lunch a little later in the day, As we wrapped up the last week before but we will try to have a snack for the kids to break, we focused on the seven addition family, enjoy! If your child needs a booster seat, and we also spent extra time practicing identify- please make sure to send it to school on Moning and grouping pennies, nickels, and dimes. day. You will find a label and marker outside We also learned the sign language for these of our classroom along the mural wall so you three coins, and we are learning how to add can mark your childs seat and leave if for the nickels and pennies together to purchase items! day! We will make sure it gets back to you in We continue to plow on in phonics, and I will the afternoon! look forward to seeing the progress each child makes over break! Please consider spending time reading to your child each day, listening to them read from their reading books, or just talk- No, kindergarten students will have a very ing about the print in the environment all short week following spring break! We will around them! You might consider allowing your have school from Monday through Wednesday child to chose a special Post-it! note shape, and as usual, but on Thursday and Friday the 29th then help him or her label furniture and items and 30th, we will have kindergarten round-up. around the house (i.e. bed, door, dresser, etc.) Kindergarten students will not have school Kids love this kind of reading! those days, but childcare is available. Please Have a wonderful spring break! contact Teri Strong at Miss Hult teri.strong@ankenychristianacademy.com if you would like to sign-up for childcare!

Upcoming Lessons and Skills Life of Jesus; one anothers of Scripture - Special sounds spr (spring), spl (splash), sc (scat), scr (screen) - Country review - Transportation conclusion

- Feeding the Five Thousand (Mt. 14:1321; Mk. 6:31-44) - Jesus does yet another miracle, this time turning a few loaves and fish into food for over five thousand people! Then, He commands His disciples to pick up the leftovers. He proves Himself to be the God of change! Tuesday - Review - Lesson from the book of Proverbs on the fool (an interesting April Fools Day adventure!). The past month we have been studying a little bit about the differences between fools and wise men each day, but we are going to take the opportunity to focus an entire lesson on what Gods Word has to say about the fool and the wise man. We look forward to showing you more about what we learned on Wednesday!

Malachi 3:16-17 Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, And the LORD listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the LORD And who meditate on His name. "They shall be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him."

Quick Glimpse Calendar

Monday, March 19 - Friday, March 23 - No school; spring break! Monday, March 26 - Field Trip to the Civic Center Wednesday, March 28 - Chapel; show and tell Thursday, March 29 - No school for kindergarten students due to Kindergarten Round-up Friday, March 30 - No school for kindergarten students due to Kindergarten Round-up