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May 16, 2017
PCA Eagle’s Nest Weekly News 21890 US Hwy 34 Princeton, IL 61356 815-875-2933 princetonchristianacademy@yahoo.com
www.princetonchristianacademy.org
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