Zion Zenith
December 10, 2015
Phone: 712-263-4766 Fax: 712-263-6010
Email: info@ziondenison.org
Website: www.ziondenison.org
Peek at the Week:
Monday, December 14th –Scrip Orders Due, Basketball
Practice 3:30 p.m.
Tuition Due Please note: your tuition payment was due
on the 10th.You can check your accounts (don't forget to
check your lunch accounts also) on Sycamore anytime. If
you have any questions or concerns, contact the Zion
Office. We appreciate your promptness.
Tuesday, December 15th - BB Game at Ft Dodge, 4:00
p.m.
Wednesday, December 16th - School Christmas Program
Thursday, December 17th - BB Game home vs Arlington
5:00 p.m.
Friday, December 18th - Prayer Party
Early Dismissal
Wednesday, December 16 at 1:20 p.m.
Christmas Break
Early Dismissal Dec. 23 at 1:20 p.m.
No School from December 24 - January 6
Basketball Tournament Fri. 11th & Sat. 12th
Friday, December 11th. schedule
8:20 School Begins
8:45-9:15 Pep Rally
9:15-10:00 Boys bball team and cheerleaders get
ready and warm up
10:00 Boys game vs Boone
11:10 Girls game vs Des Moines
12:00 Dismissal (no lunch and no bussing)
Tournament T-Shirts for sale $12.00 each at the Zion
office on Friday; and Saturday at the concession stand
The Preschool-8th Grade students will be
sharing A Piece of Christmas on
Wednesday, December 16 at 8:30 a.m.
and 6:30 p.m. Students should dress nicely
and be in their classrooms at 6:00 that
evening. Family, friends, and neighbors are
invited to join us! We are excited to share
the Christmas story with you!
For 5th - 8th Graders
Friday, Dec. 11th at the
Zion Gym
From 7:30 p.m.– 9:30 p.m.
Free pop and concessions
for sale
Zion Athletics Ministry web site:
https://sites.google.com/a/ziondenison.org/zion-athletics-ministry/
Come take a look at
the nice items Books
are Fun has inside the
Zion office! Ther’ergreat for Christmas
gifts and more.
Prayer Party
Fridays at 7:30 a.m.
Everyone is
welcome to attend!
Reminder to Visitors/Parents:
Parents are always welcome to stop by. PLEASE checkin at the office to receive a visitor pass. We need to know
who is in the building in case of an emergency.
Sycamore:
Calendar, menu, grades, accounts and much more can
be found on Sycamore!!
FRIENDLY REMINDERS:
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Please call the office before 8:30 a.m. if your child will
not be attending school that day.
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Parents if you change phone numbers or email please
notify the Zion office.
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Parents are required to sign students in and/or out in
the office if dropping off children later in the morning
or picking them up before school is dismissed.
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Students are not allowed to call during the day unless
it’s an emergency. If your child is riding with someone
else after school, please send a note with them. No
student will be allowed to ride the bus home with a
friend unless a note is sent that morning.
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All medication needs to be brought to the office by the
parent/guardian, in the original
container. A permission form will need to be filled out and
signed by the parent/guardian before any medication can be
given to your child
Next Week’s Chapel:
Wednesday,
Parents, friends and
Dec. 16th
family are welcome
School Christmas to come every Wednesday
Service
at 8:30 a.m. to the church
for chapel services
Order Scrip Gift Cards for
Christmas! Last order before
Christmas is Monday . It’s a
wonderful way to shop for your
Christmas gifts! To participate,
you just need a ShopWithScrip account, and you must be
able to login to place online orders with PrestoPay. This is
a safe and easy way to purchase Scrip. Stop by the Zion
office to find out how! Scrip profit for this week is
$301.05
Ed Notes
The Zion School Board had
their monthly meeting on
December 8th. You will find highlights from that
meeting on our website, www.ziondenison.org,
and also on Sycamore at ,
ww.sycamoreeducation.com, labeled “Ed Notes”.
If you have any questions, please contact the
school office or a school board member.
As we prepare for Christmas, we prepare to celebrate the birth of God’s greatest gift to us - OUR SAVIOR JESUS, born to
us. Because we are thankful for the gift of Jesus, we at Zion feel called to give back. Our school will be collecting items
to give to Denison’s Temporary Aid Program (TAP). Each class is collecting certain items. The items chosen are those that
TAP says there is a great need for. Please supply as much as God calls you to give during the month of December. May
God bless your hearts for giving!
Preschool: non-perishable food items
Kindergarten: non-perishable food items
1st: non-perishable food items
2nd: razors and shaving cream
3rd: body wash
4th: toilet paper
5th: dishwashing soap
6th: laundry detergent
7th/8th: shampoo and conditioner
TEACHER OF THE
Mrs. Tanney
As we get into December, the third grade class has had the opportunity to begin learning both multiplication and division. It has been very exciting working on harder math problems and we are trying to memorize our times tables so
that we can go faster! We really like multiplying 2's and 5's, because we already knew how to skip count with those
numbers.
We are studying the Norwegian culture this month. We were shocked to discover that this time of year, they get only a
few hours of sunlight a day, if any at all! The people there find lots of fun things to do in the long, cold winter, though.
We think that sleigh rides, skating, sledding, and ice fishing sound like a great idea! We also think it is neat that the
students there often learn two languages and get to have a Home Economics class.
In third grade, we have our own Bibles. We have been learning how to look up verses this whole year, and are thrilled
to know that most of us can find any verse in less than a minute! Every Monday, we challenge ourselves to find several verses and keep time. Our fastest time to find four verses is 1 minute and 33 seconds! After each challenge, we
make a line plot of all our times. Most of the time, we make a perfect bell curve!
Parenting Tip
Taking Those You Love For Granted
We tend to take for granted those we are closest to. It was Jesus who said "Only in his
hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor." If we're not careful, the family can be a place where people take each other for granted. The phrase, "Familiarity
breeds contempt" says the same thing.
We believe that the solution to this dilemma is to continually grow in honor. Honor treats
people as special and looks for ways to value others.
One day a man came home and found his house a disaster. The kids were still in their pajamas outside playing in the mud. Empty food boxes and wrappers littered the house.
Dishes were on the counter, dog food was all over the floor and a broken glass lay under
the table. Toys and clothes cluttered the playroom and a lamp was lying on its side. He
headed up the stairs, stepping over toys, looking for his wife. He was worried that she was
sick, or that something worse might have happened. He found her in the bedroom, still in
bed with her pajamas on, reading a book. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked, "How
was your day?"
"What in the world happened here today?"
She again smiled and answered, "You know everyday when you come home from work and
ask me what I did today?"
"Yes. . . ?"
"Well, today I didn't do it!"
Take a moment and consider who in your family you've been taking for granted. Give a
little time to show honor.
This tip about honor comes from the book, Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad
Attitudes, In You and Your Kids by Dr Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller RN, BSN.
Taken from: parent@biblicalparenting.org
Volunteers Needed
Please consider volunteering for one or more times!
Set Up: Thursday, December 10th
3:00 pm-7:00 pm
Erika Bygness, Sherean Hansen, Tammy Brodersen
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Concessions: Friday, December 11th
Concessions: Saturday, December 12th
8:30 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
7:30 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Cat Luetje, Erika Bygness
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Erika Bygness, Jill Miller
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11:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cat Luetje
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2:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
Cat, Luetje
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12:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.
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2:30 p.m.– End.
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Hall Monitoring: Friday, December 11th
1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Colene Kaiser
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3:00 p.m.– End
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Clean Up: Friday, December 11th
Shari Bruck
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Hall Monitoring: Saturday, December 12th
7:30 am-9:30 am
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9:30 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
Sheri Bruck up stairs
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11:30 a.m. to End
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Clean Up: Saturday, December 12th
Shari Bruck
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