Kari Janetzke
week 31 Sentinel

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Week 7 pictures

Pictures from this week include:

  • Math name pattern coloring. Can you name each person’s pattern? (For example, Jesus would be an ABCDC pattern.)

  • Music class field trip where Mr. Zorena gave us an introduction to the pipe organ.

  • Some finished Mars posters

  • Using Attribute shapes in Math. We sorted them, learned that each shape has 3 attributes: color, size, and shape. We then had to figure out which one Mrs. Janetzke secretly removed from our set!

  • Royal 26.2 kick-off

  • Switch It-Change It-A Rearrange It Spelling activity. Using simple short vowel words, we created word ladders using clues involving meanings and phonics review concepts.

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Week 6 pictures

I meant to take more pictures this week…but only snapped these few during the Subject and Predicate activity!

4/27 Lesson plans

Hello families!

I hope everyone took advantage of today's sunshine and warmth after all the cold and rain we've had the last few days!

THANK YOU so much for all the hard work the students put in for our Solar System projects last week!  It was so fun to hear what the students found unique about each planet, see how clever everyone was with making their projects, and hopefully everyone learned a few new facts too.  :)  If you haven't already, please make sure to send your child's project to me in Seesaw (picture for most) and I'll post all of them to the Seesaw blog for families to enjoy.  That is the last of our major projects for the year.  While we would have done something similar in the classroom, there would have also been an in-class curriculum fair project, which is why I still wanted to have them do something similar at home, to combine the research and writing component and the creative project based components of the Curriculum Fair.  

There will still be small weekly projects as part of our remote learning, but they're quite different than the Solar System one!  Since next week's may require a little advance planning, I'll give you a heads up now: the children will need to make a recipe that uses a MIXED NUMBER as part of the ingredients (we're covering that this week).  

Otherwise, here are this week's plans!  With packet pick-up on Tuesday, there are fewer assignments on that day.  Videos will be posted by the day they're needed, and Seesaw activities will be released to the students on the day they're assigned,  For the rest of the year I'll plan to Zoom on Wednesdays and Fridays at 2:30.  

Moms, I'd like to invite you to Bethany's newest Bible study, Shelter Sisters!  You can find more information at https://bethanylcs.org/sheltersisters.

Finally, I'm attaching a little note from our teachers- we miss you! You can also check out the video version here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12KbpKctNFsXK2GpNx8m1zaVL11K0buX4/view?fbclid=IwAR1GirLAnI9jLB_IqasNVSkTniG1HsZpW5I7fDlPPhheGLaiKivnGipKgSE

Let's have a blessed week in Christ as we explore life cycles!  

4/20 lesson plans

Well, I know I certainly have had an emotional last few days as the news became official that remote learning will continue for the remainder of the year.  We actually have a Seesaw journal activity for tomorrow that gives the students an opportunity to express some of their feelings.  I will continue to provide remote learning as I have been, but as always, please let me know how things are going.

With that news, it's all the more timely that Mrs. Fox put together a "Fruits of the Spirit" Spirit week for Bethany that starts tomorrow!  The flyer outlining the activities is attached, as well as linked to in the lesson plans.  

Because I was so moved, impressed, and entertained by the favorite Bible story project from Friday, I enabled our Seesaw blog!  Some of you may already have found this.  In your child's Seesaw account dashboard, there is now a button on the far right called "Blog".  This will be a place where I'll share certain projects with everyone, just like we would in the classroom.  As always, all comments and posts must be approved by me first.  The blog does have a web address, so can be shared with other family members, but it IS password protected.  The password is the same as our Bethany blog, MartinLuther1, so hopefully that helps make it easy to remember!  That address is https://blog.seesaw.me/mrsjanetzkebls2. 

This week's lesson plans are found here.  There are again 3 tabs at the bottom, for the different subject areas.  We'll Zoom at 2:30 on Wednesday AND Friday this week.  I'll be using these sessions for students to share their solar system project based on the schedule outlined in the plans.  I'll send more details about how this will work in a separate email.  

April is also our assigned month to take the firefighters at Station 8 (the one on the corner of Modaff and 75th) treats.  I'm still researching/putting together the assignment for how to do this remotely, but if you have any ideas, let me know!

Finally, I feel awful about the email troubles I've been experiencing!  I do respond to all of you, but unfortunately, not many actually reached you this week.  I've been getting hundreds of failure notices over the last few days!  Mr. Johnson is aware of and working on the problem, but it's not a "quick" fix.  I will continue to send a copy of many things in Seesaw until I'm confident things are working properly.  Thanks for your patience!

Let's have a blessed week in Christ as we celebrate the fruits of the Spirit!

Mrs. Janetzke

THE MISSION OF BETHANY LUTHERAN SCHOOL IS TO PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND TO INSPIRE CONFIDENT LEARNERS WHO ARE ABLE TO DISCERN BIBLICAL TRUTH, THINK CRITICALLY, AND LIVE A LIFE OF SERVICE TO GOD AND NEIGHBOR.