Week Four of the 2017-2018 School Year
We welcome you back to EPCS after a restful and relaxed (I hope) weekend. Please mark your calendar for Wednesday morning, October 4, for our annual Grandparents Day. More information in this School Door.
Calendar
Monday, September 25, 2017
God-filled, Regular School Day
MAPS Testing This Week
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
A Blessed School Day
MAPS Testing
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Assembly—8:15 am
MAPS Testing
Hot Lunch (Yahoo)
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Wonderful, Regular School Day
MAPS Testing
Friday, September 29, 2017
Amazing, Regular School Day
MAPS Testing
Pizza Lunch
Monday, October 2, 2017
And Beyond
Wednesday, October 4 EPCS Grandparents Day/PD Day Noon Dismissal
Friday, October 6 8th – 12th Graders Field Trip—Compassion Experience
Monday, October 9 Columbus Day/Canadian Thanksgiving
The EPCS Website can be found at eastpal.staging.wpengine.com Please feel free to log on for up-to-the-minute information, pictures, and schedules as well as EPCS Forms, News, School Door, Videos, and Auction information. See you on-line.
Grandparents Day (Morning)
Please mark your calendar for our annual Grandparent Day morning to be held on Wednesday morning, October 4, beginning with an assembly at 10 am. After the assembly, we invite you to visit your grandchild(ren)’s classroom for classroom activities. We look forward to seeing you!
Picture Day
School picture day this year will be Friday, October 6th in the morning. Please have your student come to school on time and prepared for their photo shoot. Photo package flyers will be distributed this week. Please adhere to the ordering deadline which will be marked on the flyers.
New EPCS Sign
Please check out our front yard and say a special THANK YOU to the East Palmyra Christian Reformed Church for purchasing a new roadside sign for our school! It is so beautiful!
Library News
Library will be on Tuesday and FRIDAY afternoons, this week only.
Harvest Festival Food Tent Needs…
EPCS Families – Here is a list of items you can donate to our Harvest Festival & Action Food Tent before October 7th. Call or text Patty Teed (315.521.3044) if you are interested in donating one or more of the following: Please contact Patty for an updated list – a few items have been donated.
5 Boxes Chip Packs 30 count mix
8 Ketchup
3 Mustard
5 Relish
1 Can Decaf Coffee (big can)
2 Cans Regular Coffee (big can)
1 Box Tea Bags (100 ct.)
10 # Sugar
1 Box Sugar Substitute
The following soda in 12 packs
20 Cola 10 Diet Cola
15 Lemon Lime 10 Orange
8 Cases of 16 oz bottle Water (Wegmans 32 count is cheapest)
AFTER OCTOBER 7TH…Patty will be ordering the items that have not been donated for the school to purchase out of Auction funds.
Cleaning the School
Today, the Andrew family will be cleaning our school, the Wiley family on Tuesday & Wednesday, the D & E Caraballo family on Thursday and the Teed family on Friday.
The Edmunds family will be cleaning next Monday.
PTA News
The next PTA meeting will be on October 6, 2017 at 10:30 am. The meeting will be in the school library at EPCS. PTA tasks are 1/ service and support, 2/ fund raising. All welcome!!
Hot Lunch!
This week’s Hot Lunch menu features…. spaghetti, bread, salad, and dessert. Our volunteer hot lunch workers will be Maggie Cosh, Terry DeVries and Deborah McCrossen.
Pizza Fridays
Pizza will be available on most Fridays. Orders for pizza slices ($1.25), cups of milk (.25 cents) and ranch dip cups (.25 cents) will be taken in the classrooms on Wednesdays. All money towards a student’s pizza account needs to be turned into Mrs. Wise (8th, 9th, and 10th grade homeroom teacher). Any questions? Contact Mrs. Wise at kwise@www.eastpalmyrachristianschool.com.
***Please note: Students who have not turned in money yet this year will no longer be allowed to order until they bring in money for their account. Thank you!
Auction News
There are very important flyers with additional information attached to this School Door with all the latest Auction News. Chicken BBQ ticket information is included. Please read! Tickets will be sent home this week for each family to sell.
Website Development
EPCS could benefit from a current and enhanced user friendly website. If you have a knack or passion for website development, planning, and design, or simply want to add “your two centsâ€, your volunteer time is needed!
Please contact Shelley Morgan at mmorgan11@rochesterr.rr.com or 585-752-9773 (text or phone) to express interest.
Pre-K News
We will be reading common nursery rhymes and fairy tales for the next few weeks. We continue learning about the letters in our names, colors and shapes. We also work on getting ready for Grandparent’s Day. We will be doing a project for Grandparent’s Day that we will need pictures for. Please look for a letter early this week with more information.
Kindergarten News
Reading
We continue learning about parts of a book, where to start reading, direction of text, spacing and finding familiar words and letters. We will begin our nursery rhyme and fairy tale units that will take us into October.
High-Frequency Words
Each student will be working on their own list of high-frequency words during centers.
Math
We continue exploring numerals 0 to 5. We will be identifying quantities, and using objects and illustrations to count, read and write these numerals. We also learn the word-number correspondence.
Bible
We look at the stories of Adam and Eve of Noah and the Ark.
Social Studies/Science
Our unit is all about families. We will be discussing and developing an understanding of family life and the relationships of families, both earthly and heavenly. We will be doing a project for Grandparent’s Day that we will need pictures for. Please look for a letter early this week with more information.
Field Trip
We will be taking our first field trip to the Morgan’s Apple Farm the morning of Monday, October 16th. We will be learning about apples/farms, take a hayride, and even do some apple picking! If you are available to chaperon/drive, please let me know. There is no cost for this trip.
First Grade News
Calling All Grandparents!! On Grandparents Day, please bring an antique or vintage item that these youngsters may not know! We have a lot of fun sharing the past with each other!
MAP testing this week for 1st grade! On Tuesday and Wednesday morning, students will be taking the Math and ELA MAP tests. Please feed them a good breakfast so their brains are ready!
Reminder that Scholastic book orders are due on September 27th. Placing an order helps our classroom get free books!
Bible
Stories about Isaac
Reading
This week is MAP testing, next week we will add Spelling to their Reading/ELA program. But they will not be testing on words for a few weeks.
Math
Addition. I encourage parents to get addition flash cards. Students can use their fingers, objects, the calendar, etc. to learn their addition. But starting to memorize some easy facts are important.
Social Studies
Comparing schools and families past and present!
Science
Senses
Second and Third Grade News
We will be trying to do MAPS testing again this week. Last week we had a glitch and were only able to do the Math portion so we will be trying to do the Reading portion this week. Please remember to send your child with sneakers on PE days (Wednesday and Friday) so that they can participate.
Bible
We will be reviewing Ephesians this week. Our memory verse is Ephesians 4:32
ELA
Both grades will be working on an ELA packet and will be working on Raz Kids. We will also be reading a short story in our reading groups.
Spelling
Unit 3
There will be a copy of this week’s spelling words in your child’s take home folder. Your child only has to work on the highlighted words. If you want the spelling list in another format please let me know.
Science
We will be looking at living vs. nonliving things.
Social Studies
We will be continuing to learn about other communities in the United States.
Math 2
We will be learning about missing addends, fact families, and two step word problems.
Math 3
We will be relating division and subtraction along with division and multiplication. We will be learning about inverse operations.
Fourth and Fifth Grade News
Class Auction Basket
Mrs. Bell will be helping us paint coffee mugs to put together with some Dunkin Donuts coffee for our class’s auction basket. Each student is asked to donate $5.00 to pay for the coffee and the art supplies. Thanks.
Bible
Our verse test over Philippians 4:4-7 will be on Thursday.
Math
Fourth graders will have a test over our number system on Wednesday.
Fifth graders will have their test on Friday.
Reading
We will continue a unit about risks and consequences. Our new stories this week will be “an article about Mae Jamison and “Two Tickets to Freedom†an except from a book of the same name about fugitive slaves.
Social Studies
This year, we will be learning about New York. This week, we continue learning about the basic geography of New York.
Science
We will start a unit about our organ systems. This week, we’ll look at our cardiovascular, nervous, and respiratory systems.
Writing
We’ll continue a presentation (like a PowerPoint) about our grandparents. If parents could send me a few pictures of the students’ grandparents, we’ll include them in our presentation. Digital pictures would be easiest, but I can also scan pictures using our copier..
Spelling
All students will be reviewing number words this week.
Middle School and High School News
Bible 6/7
Students will be turning in their Creation Story project on Wednesday, September 27th and spending classroom time this week on Lesson Two workbook material.
English 6/7
Spelling/Vocabulary -Students are learning to spell the state names.
Writing-Students are writing every day in their reading log.
Reading-Students are working on reading strategies to become better readers.
Science 7 Life Science
Students are learning about the characteristics of life on Earth.
Labs will start this week.
History
Students are learning about the lands and climates of the United States.
English 10 & 11
This week we continue reading the novel A Separate Peace. There will be daily reading assignments for this. We also have time set aside to finish our first round of the MAPS testing.
English 12
We continue reading Hamlet and working in the study guide. MAPS testing will be on Monday and Friday.
Music News
Lesson schedule
Tues.: 9:15 Will, 9:45 Hunter, 11:15 Anthony, 2:00 Andrew.
Wed.: 7:45 Anna 9:45 Ella,
Thurs.: 7:45 Alex, 9:00 Andrea,
Fri.:11:15 Brooke, 12:35 Nick & Jonathan, 2:00 Gage
Next Monday, Oct.2: 9:00 Genevieve, 9:45 Eleanor,10:45 Elizabeth.
Concert Band, Jazz Band, Concert Choir and Children’s choir
These groups will all be performing at the 10:00 am assembly on Grandparents’ Day, Wednesday, October 4th. Parents and grandparents are invited to join us, as well as friends, neighbors and pastors. It will be a special morning. Please get the word out!
Music Donations
If you would like to honor or memorialize a loved one, consider donating a piece of music to one of our performing groups. Your dedication will be printed in the program, now and any time the piece is played in the future. If you would like to donate one of these pieces, please let the office know:
Concert Band
Christmas concert
Star of Wonder $50
Christmas Classique $60
Twelve Carols for Christmas $65
Spring concert
Evermore $50
Wondrous Love $70
Jazz Band
Christmas concert
Go Tell it on the Mountain $50
Still, still, still $50
Spring concert
Bossa de Java $50
Junior Band
Blessings $45
Fire’s Edge $45
Jurassic Park $40
Concert Choir
Christmas concert
Mary Did you know?Treble choir $30
Prelude to Bethlehem $45
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen $50
Brazilian Carol $50
Spring concert
My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness $60
Girls’ Choir
Feed the Birds $30
Children’s Choir
Never Smile at a Crocodile $25