May 16, 2017

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

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May birthdays:

17 - Makaylee McCoy Preschool

22 - Kaden Wall 4th grade

24 - Elijah House

Enjoy your special day!

Located at the office window:

2017 IVCC Ed’Venture Summer Camp information. You

can also find this on FB at ivcc.edu/cec. To register by phone: 815-

224-0447. Lots of classes of learning and FUN!

Registration forms for Camp Med, Health Science Camp at Perry

Memorial Hospital. For grades 5 - 8. This 4 day camp is for anyone

student interested in the health field. Application deadline is May

12th.

Lady Eagles Basketball Camp information for girls going into 4th -

8th grades in the fall.

Kids Fishing at Baker Lake in Peru, IL and so much more!

NEEDED!

We are looking for 2-4 oz. glass/plastic jars with lids (example-chicken

bouillon cube size). If you have any, please leave at the office by Tues-

day, May 23rd. Thank you!!

NOTICE ~ Parents of students with disabilities who attend a non-public school or who are currently being homeschooled:

Tuesday, May 30 at 9 a.m. at the BMP Special Education Cooperative Offices at 400 Galena ST in Tiskilwa, IL. Topic: to develop an

agreement on how Federal Funds will be spent on students with disabilities who attend non-public schools or are homeschooled for

the 2017-2018 school year. (Flier is posted on office window for more info.)

Princeton Bible Church Vacation Bible School information

Children age preschool through 6th grade are invited to Operation Arctic being held Sunday, June 11 to

Thursday, June 15 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. No cost to participate but registration is required. VBS themed t-shirts and mu-

sic CD’s are available for the cost of $8 shirt and $2 CD. Registration forms are now available at the office or you can go

online to the link at the Princeton Bible Church site or PCA Facebook page. We would love to include you in this excit-

ing week!

PCA Awards Night will be held on

Thursday, May 18th at 6:00 p.m. (please

note date change) .

This is a special night to honor all PCA

students 4th - 8th grades who participated in

boys & girls basketball, girls volleyball,

track, 6th - 8th grades Scholastic Bowl, 5th -

8th grades Speech and Creative Writing.

We want to wish you a happy birthday to those who have summer

birthdays!! Have a great day celebrating!!

June: July: August:

01 - Leah House 02 - Mrs. Cleary 01 - Abby Harris

02 - Abigail Freeman 04 - Lenora Hopkins 03 - Corwin Murray

04 - Hailey Foster 05 - Mr. Cornman 04 - Pastor Odell

10 - Paige Twidell 05 - Myla McCune 11 - Jeremiah Foster

12 - Jadeyn Klingenberg 06 - Andrea Imsland 14 - Mrs. Wolbrecht

16 - Miguel Jones 07 - Eliana Gale 19 - Ellie Geldean

19 - Cade Odell 10 - Mrs. Twidell

20 - Ray Terando 13 - Colby Pollok

13 - Mrs. Marshall

14 - Lily Bullington

17 - Joel Odell

SonShine Preschool - Mrs. Pollok (Miss Elisha)

PCA Calendar 2017

Thurs, May 18 3rd grade to Wildlife Prairie Park, Peoria

Thurs, May 18 6:00P Awards Night PCA Awards Night

Fri, May 19 Last day of SonShine Preschool

Wed, May 24 Last day Kindergarten & Graduation @ 2P

Fri, May 26 8Am to Noon PCA Play Day. Dismiss at noon!

Kindergarten class is welcome to join with us!!

Fri, May 26 7 pm 8th Grade Graduation

June, 2017 Mon-Fri, June 5 - 9 Girls Volleyball Camp at PCA

Mon-Fri, June 19 - 23 Girls Basketball Camp at PCA Registration forms available

May 17th & 19th

Theme: Carnival Week! Wed: “Patriotic Day” ~ Wear Red, White & Blue Fri: Our last day! City/County Park

Bible Topic: Early Church Paul & Silas

Bible Verse: Psalm .”Psalm 71:23: “I will shout for joy when I sing praise to you.”

ABC/Snack Bag: Wednesday: Makaylee - Birthday Star Student! Friday: Miss Elisha / Park Day

BAND NOTES: Mrs. Marshall

PCA PLAY DAY

On Friday, May 26th, PCA will be having their annual play day to celebrate the ending of a successful school year! Stu-

dents will come at 8 a.m. to finish up a few things and play day begins at 9:00. A free lunch will be served before they

leave at noon. We are putting out the plea for parents to help with this morning. If you can help in any way with games,

kitchen, monitoring, please let Beverly Neff or the office know. Thank you so much!

Hot Lunch information

With the end of the school year upon us, the office now has the accounts figured out until May 1st, which includes credits

for all field trips and track meets for the month of May. If you have credits or charges, a copy of your account will be sent

to you shortly. If a credit is due you, you can make the choice of cash being paid to you or you may keep on your account

as credit to begin the new school year 2017-18. Please let the office know. Thank you, parents, for your help and under-

standing with this very important program for PCA!

No bus service:

Thurs, May 25 - no p.m. bus

Fri, May 26 - no a.m./p.m. bus

Registration for junior high summer band has been extended and is now due this week! Updated forms are located on the table across from the office, next to the doors. This is a wonderful opportunity and I highly recommend that your musicians participate! Please bring your completed form/check and place it in my mailbox by Thursday 5/18. I will see the directors that night and give them your forms.

If any musician needs a ride to junior high summer band or the adult community band, please contact me

(309-540-9667). I have 2 extra seats available in my car and would be glad to provide transportation!

Kindergarten Tidbits- Mrs. Whitlock

First grade – Mrs. Wolbrecht

Wow! Our first year of school is almost finished. The students are remembering all our “firsts” and we are doing many

things that we did at the first of the Kindergarten year.

Several moms are busy planning our closing celebration. I am so grateful for them. If you have not turned in your dona-

tion to help out, please do so right away. We also need a number of how many will be coming from your family for

graduation.

This week we are finishing by reviewing before and after numbers. We will play “Take a Chair” to check how fast we can

do our addition facts. Story problems will be reviewed with identifying combinations and answers. Clocks will be re-

viewed but we will add the written words “fifteen” and “thirty”. We will count by 1,2,5, and 10’s and spell our number

words matching them with the correct number. A calendar will be reviewed adding days, numbers and months. All of our

coins will be reviewed for identification, value and counting. We will introduce the dollar bill.

Phonics will be all review of blends, special sounds, marking and reading words and sentences. We will rearrange a story

that is out of order and identify what is first, second and last.

Handwriting will be reviewed and practiced.

We will finish up our Science Units.

Any free time we will be practicing for Graduation.

Our last Bible story unit is about Paul and the shipwreck. We will talk about how we have grown in our faith in God this

year. God is involved in everyone’s life whether they realize it or not. When we obey God and listen to Him, He will help

us through any and every part of our life. We can Panic or pray; worry or worship. “ We know in all things God works

for the good of those who love Him. . ” Romans 8:28

Our memory verse is Psalms 91:15 “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will de-

liver him and honor him.”

In Bible Time we will review and recite all of our verses memorized this year and have daily devotions looking at a quiet

time with God each day. If you have a Bible that your child could bring to school please send it. The children love look-

ing through the words in the Bible. We have talked about how much our faith in God has grown this year. The children

know they love God and that God loves them!

Thank you parents, for a wonderful year! I am truly humbled by all the support from everyone of you. “May God bless

you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and

give you peace.” Num-

bers 6:24-26

Mrs. Whitlock

Thank you to everyone who joined us on our adventure to Blackberry Farms last week! It was so much fun!

Next Tuesday*, May 23, we will be taking a trip to Ottawa! We plan to leave the school at 10:00 and drive to Washington

Park which is the site of the first Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. We will have lunch at the park and review some of

what we learned about President Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and more!

After lunch we will travel up the road to Illinois Canyon which is part of the Starved Rock State Park. We will check out

plant life, insects and bugs, hunt for spear and arrowheads, skip rocks, probably get a little wet and muddy and just have

fun! We plan to be back to school before 3:00 dismissal. I do have 3 chaperones and am able to transport all the students,

however, any parents are welcome to come along.

3rd grade - Mrs. Cleary

2nd Grade - Mrs. Bickett

1st grade continued~

PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD WITH A PACK LUNCH (I will have a cooler), WATER BOTTLE, SUN BLOCK AND BOOTS OR WATER SHOES. *Rain date will be Thursday, May 25. On Wednesday, May 24, at 1:00 we will tour the Princeton Fire Department and then have a treat at Dairy Queen before heading back to school. We will return no later than 2:30. Bible: We are reviewing the life of Christ this week and being reminded that we have an escape plan from our sinful lives if we trust in the one true God! For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but

have everlasting life. John 3:16 Please keep reading and counting your coins and dollars! In His Hands, Mrs. Wolbrecht

A BIG THANK YOU to all parents and grandparents who drove and chaperoned our field trip to Blackberry Farm! It

was a wonderful day!! Thanks for making it possible!

We are winding down the school year. This week we have our last spelling list. We will test over list 32 on Friday.

Our verse this week is Acts 16:31 “They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved- you and your

household.” We will recite this verse on Friday. In Bible class we will be looking at how Paul and Silas were wit-

nesses for the Lord and how we can share Jesus with others.

This is our last week of homework!

The last two weeks are going by so quickly! How bittersweet it is! We are excited to be going on the Field Trip

Thursday to Wildlife Prairie Park ad it is hard to stay focused but we push on.

Math - The children are learning about fractions in Math. Soon I will introduce double digit multiplication and

division before the last day.

Spelling - List 34 is the last one for the year. We will test on Monday the 22nd.

Language - We are still working on sentence structure and I will be introducing diagramming.

History - From Laura Ingalls Wilder to finish the year discussing Billy Sunday and Martin Luther King.

Science - The last week we will study weather. Right now we are doing soil studies and preparing for our field

trip where we will learn a little about prairie life and trees.

Bible - has been an amazing journey through the early part of the church in the book of Acts. Our Bible verse is

Acts 9:17b. The conversion of Saul to the great man of God, Paul.

Reading - Pilgrims Progress. I am reading this book to the children and it is a wonderful book written about a

Christian journey to heaven.

This Thursday please have your child ready for a great day. Good walking shoes, sunscreen, mosquito repellant are good preps for our field trip. We plan to return to school by 2:30 or shortly thereafter. It will be a whirlwind tour of a very special place. We are sure to have a great time.

In Christ,

Mrs. Cleary

4th Grade - Mrs. Odell

8th grade homeroom and Jr. High Math - Mrs. Anderson

We are reviewing Acts 1:8 and Romans 10:14-15.

We’re going to test on spelling list 34 tomorrow and then we will have finished spelling for this year. We

are testing on vocabulary words that are in our reading. We are going through the World Wars in history. The children

should be drilling on the states and capitals and the presidents, too. We will end the year with tests on these things.

Enjoy your week!!

8th grade: Cumulative Review. Final Tues May 23.

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7th grade: Cumulative Review. Final Wed May 24.

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6th grade: Cumulative Review. Final Wed May 24

And whatever you do,

whether in word or deed,

do it all in the name of

the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks to God

the Father through him.

~ Colossians 3:17 NIV