November 13,

2018

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

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PCA ACTIVITY CALENDAR

Tues, Nov 13 5:00P Boys B-ball Home Game vs. LaMoille

Thurs, Nov 15 5:00P Boys B-ball Game @ Bradford

Mon, Nov 19 5:00P Boys B-ball Home Game @ Malden

Nov 19-20 Missionary Conference for Grades 5-8

Nov 21-23 NO SCHOOL. Happy Thanksgiving!

Mon, Nov 26 6:00P Boys B-ball Game @ Neponset

Tues, Nov 27 5:00P Boys B-ball Home Game vs. DePue

Fri, Nov 30 End of Progress Report Term

Sat, Dec 1 BVEC Basketball Tournament @ Ladd

Tues, Dec 4 Basketball Tournament @ Ladd

Wed, Dec 5 Progress Reports Issued

Thurs, Dec 6 Basketball Tournament @ Ladd

Fri, Dec 7 6:30P K-5 Christmas Program & Open House

Fri, Dec 14 6:30P Jr. High Christmas Program & Open House

THINGS TO NOTE ... December lunch menus are due back tomorrow, November 14th!

Operation Christmas Child: A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated and gave items and monetary do-

nations to help fill shoeboxes! We have around 80 boxes that are being sent from our church & school families!

NO SCHOOL next Wednesday through Friday. Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with your friends and family!

Keep praying for Kirsten Wolbrecht and family. If you’d like to send a note or picture the address is: 19002 68th

St. E, Bonney Lake, WA 98391.

Our PCA Eagles Boys Basketball team took

2nd place in the Ladd 7th Grade Tournament!

Way to go!

Our K-5 Christmas program is Friday, December 7th at 6:30 p.m.

Those who have signed up to bring 2 dozen cookies are: LeAndra

Harris, Carin van den berg, Angie Wall, Elizabeth Zawistowski, Marla

Maubach, Jennifer Searl, Krystal Bickett, Tara Nickelsen, Stephanie

Swisher, Christina Eggers

Helping in the kitchen: Caitlin Cooper.

If anyone else is able to help serve in the kitchen, please contact

the office.

Mark your calendars and invite your

family!

Our 6th-8th Grade Christmas Program is Friday, December 14th at 6:30 p.m.

Those signed up to bring 2 dozen cookies are: LeAndra Harris, Charlotte Terando, Angie Wall, Sue

Partin, Joanne Imsland, Carmen Grey

Helping in the kitchen: Anna Freeman, Carmen Grey ~ Thank you all! ~

From Mr. Odell’s desk: (God’s Word given to teachers each week and we want to share with you, also!)

Psalm 119:33-40

33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. 34 Give me understand-

ing, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with all my heart. 35 Make me walk in the

path of Your commandments, for I delight in it. 36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to

covetousness. 37 Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way. 38 Establish our word to Your servant, who is devoted to fearing You. 39 Turn away my reproach

which I dread. For Your judgments are good. 40 Behold I long for Your precepts, revive me in Your

righteousness.

2 Timothy 3:16-4:2

16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correc-

tion, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped

for every good work. 4:1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge

the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season

and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching.

Everything we know about God and his will comes from God’s own revelation. We only know the

good news of Jesus Christ because God has revealed the truth about himself to us – and he has

done that in his Word, the Bible. “God words” are abundant today. May we truly be people who de-

light in His Word and give ourselves wholly to Him and His Truth, and guard it with every bit of

strength and devotion that we allow God to grow in us.

Birthdays... Happy birthday

to you!

15 - Sutter Dever Preschool

18 - Jack Heaton 4th Grade

20 - Mrs. Bickett 2nd Grade Teacher

23 - Mrs. Richey Elementary Spanish Teacher

24 - Jacey Schaill 1st Grade

24 - Pastor Justin Bullington 6-8 Bible Teacher

26 - Kellen Wall 4th Grade

It is time to order School Shirts!

Order forms will be going home soon.

Check out this year’s new design

There will also be some new shirt options available,

like tie-dye and hooded long-sleeve t-shirts!

Thank you for returning all the thankful turkey feather. Our fat turkey looks great.

Thank you, too, for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox donations. We filled our two boxes.

We had so much fun out in the snow on Friday. We brought snowballs in and watched them melt

during the afternoon. We were surprised how dirty the water was.

Please send warm and weather appropriate coats, hats, mittens, boots and snow pants as we

will continue to go outside as much as possible. An extra pair of gloves and socks could be

helpful.

In Phonics we will be adding the letters W, w blends Y, y, and P, p to our recognition, blends, sounds and new

words. The students will finish words by picking the correct ending letter/sound. We will read sentences and draw a

picture to go with the sentence. We will review all letters, sounds, blends and make many words. We will add to our

“Word Wall” because we can read so many words.

Our new letters will be practiced in Handwriting and the students will complete an evaluation paper in Handwriting.

They are doing awesome writing letters. They take their time and try their very best. I am so proud of their hard

work. We will have a Handwriting evaluation. Check the wall outside our room for our best handwriting papers.

In Numbers we are making the 40, 50 family numbers with recognition and our flash cards. The boys and girls are

doing awesome in recognizing the teen, twenty and thirty family.

We will begin to “add on 1” with addition . “Plus” and “equal” are new words in addition. The students will make

“o’clock” recognition and demonstrations.. We are learning the song: “O’Clock”.

Counting to 69 and filling in the missing numbers will be part of the evaluation this week.

In Skill Development we will practice tying the shoes laces, experiment with magnets and securing the left and right

directions. The opposites “hot/cold” and “open/closed” will be reviewed.

Social Studies

We will learn about the Pilgrims, Indians and the First Thanksgiving.

The Bible Time story is David and Jonathon’s friendship. We will talk about what is a good friend and how we can be

one. Friends help each other, appreciate each other and are a blessing from God.

Our memory verse is: “ A friend loves at all times.” Proverbs 17:17

TEACHER’S NOTES FOR YOU!

Sonshine Preschool Note ~ Miss Elisha November 12 - 16, 2018

Theme: “The First Thanksgiving”

Bible Topic: Adventures with God: Joshua & the Battle of Jericho

Monday: Rahab & the Spies and The Walls Fall Down

Wednesday: God’s Power and Joshua’s Obedience

Friday: Review

Bible Verse: Joshua 24:24 - “The people said to Joshua, ‘The Lord our

God we will serve and His voice we will obey.’”

Bible Song: “Joshua”

ABC

Bag/Snack

Wed, Nov 14 - Sutter

(Bday Star)

Fri, Nov 16 - Callie

Mon, Nov 19 - “Our Thanksgiving” -

Everyone bring in your assigned item!

Letter: K k

Number: Review 1-10

Color: Yellow

Shape: Triangle

Kindergarten Tidbit ~ Mrs. Whitlock

1st grade ~ Mrs. Wilson

2nd grade ~ Mrs. Bickett

Bible - This week we will learn about Solomon and giving thanks. We will talk about how we can thank God for the

many blessings He has given us. Our memory verse is “Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His

love endures forever.” Psalm 106:1

Phonics – This week we will review our 3 syllable rules:

1) a long word may be divided between double consonants – ex. mid/dle

2) a long word may be divided between a root word and a suffix – ex. walk/ing

3) a long word may be divided between a vowel and a consonant – ex. se/cret

This week’s special sounds are -wa in wash, -a in adopt, -y in baby, -le in little, and -ed in wanted.

Math – This week we will learn about the 8 subtraction family facts, that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and iden-

tify the value of money by combining coins (dimes, nickels, and pennies). We will review the 8 addition family facts,

hundreds place, before and after numbers by twos, identify ½ of a whole and ½ of a group, and A.M. and P.M. We

will add the 8 subtraction family facts to our flashcards. Please keep practicing at home!

Spelling – please practice week #12 words at home.

Good job to all the students! We got 20 tallies for our homework sheets! And we had our popcorn and cheese puff

party last Friday! Yummy!

Wow! Thank you for your generous giving! We filled 3 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child in class last week! Each student wrote a note to include in the boxes and we prayed for our boxes in class. And some families brought in additional shoeboxes this week. Thank you for sharing God’s love with children around the world! Please continue to log the number of minutes your child reads on the November Reading Calendar.

We will be choosing our speeches for the speech contest sometime this week. Students will be memorizing

either a Bible passage, a poem, or a fable.

We were able to complete two shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. We did a box for a boy and one

for a girl! Thank you to all who helped fill our boxes!

In Bible class this week we are learning about David. This week we will see how David faces the gi

ant. Our Bible verse is Psalm 105:1: “Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among

the nations what he has done.” We will recite this verse on Friday. We will also have spelling test

12 on Friday. Bonus spelling words for the week are: America, gratitude, wrangler, Pilgrims,

cranberries.

In math classes this week we will work on the 14 subtraction family, elapsed time, time to the nearest 5

minutes, and mixed numbers.

In Phonics and Language class we will be working on chart 12 and 13 special sounds. We will continue to

identify all four types of sentences. We will also work on adding prefixes to root words and dividing words into syl-

lables using the rules we have learned. We are now identifying nouns in sentences as well.

In history class we are learning about America’s cowboys and immigrants.

5th grade ~ Mr. Clausen

English - Diamonte due Thursday. Sense Poem due next Tuesday. Test next Tuesday.

Missionary Projects are due this Friday!

Science ~ Mr. Cornman

6th - Fiery Rocks: Igneous (Intrusive & Extrusive), Layered and Changed Rocks: Sedimentary, Conglomerate and Metamorphic, then onto to Hidden Treasures of the Earth: Gems and Minerals.

7th - Muscle Injuries, Fractures, Dislocations, Health Issues as well as Emotional and Spiritual Health then Creation and Science.

8th - Expansion and Heat Transfer, we will be getting into calculating degree days with BTU (natural gas or LP) us-

age, then heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation).

Did you know that an average sized pumpkin takes between 90 and 120

days to grow and has about 500 seeds?

Did you know that the yellow and orange colors you see in leaves always

exist, but they are overpowered by the abundance of

green from chlorophyll?

The amount of chlorophyll starts to decrease as the sun weakens

and the days grow shorter.

Red and purple leaves are only that color because

of the presence of sugars and sap that are

trapped within the leaves.

These sugars provide plants with the energy they need to survive.

What an awesome Creator-Designer God is!

PCA MISSION STATEMENT ~ To provide an excellent academic education with a Christian

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