Announcements – Christine R.
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Prayer Requests
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Please pray for Emily H. There are cysts in her
ears. She will be getting an MRI, followed by surgery.
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Nicole T. recently had surgery on her eye. Pray
for the vision in that eye.
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Fabiola requested prayer for her aunt who is in
the ICU at Holy Cross. Pray for opportunity to minister to her aunt who is not
a believer.
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Please pray for the Renee N.’s family. Renee’s father is not expected to live much
longer. Pray for their testimony as they
minister to their unsaved family.
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Graduate moms, please remember to turn in your
ten pictures ASAP!
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Turn in any PSP pictures for the yearbook. They
want all the PSP children represented.
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Ideas for classes and for nursery next year can
be given to Christine.
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The Pynqi G’s family had to drop out of PSP.
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Andrew Pudewa is coming October 30-November 2. If you are interested in attending, you will
need to register as soon as Christine announces it. IEW will be advertising the event.
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There is no PSP next week, March 8, because of Shepherd’s
Conference.
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If you are a committee head for advancement
night:
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There will a meeting March 15 at lunch time to
discuss progress made for your committee in room G135.
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If you are a committee head with a budget, you
need to save all your receipts and turn them in a timely manner. No
reimbursements can be made without receipts that meet the deadlines. There is a specific procedure that needs to
be followed for reimbursement. See Julie for details.
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March 15, will be Hawk Day. Everyone should have
received a flyer in her mailbox. The Grace Community School mascot is a hawk,
and the school colors are blue and gold.
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Students can wear anything blue and gold,
including jeans, hair ties, jewelry, silly socks…
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They can paint their faces and spray their hair
if they would like.
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No glitter, please.
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Apply hairspray before arriving on campus.
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If you do not want to dress up, wear your
uniform.
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For moms with students in K-4th,
there will be a fellowship and planning meeting at Kristen H’s home on March
18, at 6:30 p.m. Bring a snack to share. Her address is on the roster.
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If you have any ideas for PSP themes next year,
let Christine or Julie know.
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Anna Saunders will be the speaker next time we
meet on Nourishing Our Families! It promises to be fun.
Language Arts Curriculum share
Char M.
Char M. shared the Easy Grammar series. This is a pretty
self-guided system with lots of practice sheets. It does not necessarily have a
lot of suggestions for teaching grammar. The teacher’s guide is more of an
answer key than an instruction book for teaching.
Char also shared the Explode the
Code series. These are great phonics
workbooks. They are fairly self-guided and funny, so the students enjoy them.
The Pathway Reader series are published by the Amish. They are
inexpensive and have workbooks to go along with the readers.
Websites:
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Spelling City.com
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Starfall.com
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Quizlet.com
Susan O.
Susan shared the Shurley English program. This is a very scripted program and is easy to
teach. It does require teacher time, but it has a wonderful question and answer
flow. There are great jingles to go
along with the teaching. The textbook is fairly rigorous, and the books are
black and white. Julie Simpson mentioned that she felt the books did not give
enough practice sheets, and that tests were given too quickly. Each chapter is
five lessons. The fifth lesson is writing, so if your child is taking another
writing course you can skip the fifth lesson.
Julie S.
Julie brought the ACSI spelling series. These books are
Christian. There are four pages per lesson.
These books are well-themed. They also cover Greek and Latin roots.
Brenda S.
Brenda brought Critical Thinking Press, Word Root series. This series covers Greek
and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes. She also brought an editing book, The Great Editing Adventure series. This
provides sentences for the student to edit.
Also for spelling Evan Moore publishes Building Spelling Skills. Another offering is Better Sentence Structure Through Diagramming.
Carrie R.
Carrie shared some ideas for working
with a struggling speller. She uses shaving cream, sidewalk chalk, color coding,
spelling basketball and spelling blocks. Anything to get the student moving and
using his/her senses is helpful.
Aaron & Susan S.
They were sent out in 2002 to Cameroon. Cameroon is the size
of CA. They have been living with an unreached Muslim group called the Kotoko
in the northern part of Cameroon. The Kotoko have no Scripture in their
language, and there are no Christians in this people group. They are a
hierarchical society with a king (sultan). Most of the people are fishermen and
farmers. As boys get older, they might learn a trade from their fathers. Women
go to the market daily and to the river to wash laundry. They also have to
carry water back home.
Much of Aaron S’s work involves learning the language,
developing literacy material, and translation.
Also, they are striving and learning how to be a good neighbor in a
Muslim community. They spend a great deal of time visiting with neighbors. Visiting is very important in this culture,
and one is expected to drop in a person they want to honor. Widows harvest
their own food so if they have a bad harvest, they may run short on food. Part
of the S. Familys’ ministry involves purchasing grain and helping to distribute
it to widows in need.
When the S. Family return, they will be staying in the
capitol city Yaounde for a while. Rebecca will be attending the missionary
school there. Susan also mentioned that the missionary school needs teachers.
How to pray
1.
Pray for the salvation of the Kotoko.
2.
Pray for progress in the literacy work.
3.
Pray for the transition to life and ministry in
the capitol city Yaounde.
