Weekly Newsletter 12/7-12/11
Monday December 07th 2009, 9:56 am
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Wednesday is an early 1pm dismissal. Wear red on Wednesday for Character Counts – Caring.
Language Arts skills for this week:
Introduce ch, wh, nk
Review compare and contrast
Introduce contractions
In math we continue with shapes and nutrition in science. We will finish our discussion of the Holy Family in religion this week but will continue with Advent and adding to our Jesse Tree.
Weekly Newsletter 11/3- 12/4
Monday November 30th 2009, 9:42 am
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Language Arts skills this week include:
*blends: dr, cl, tw, dr, pl, bl
*compare and contrast
*review possessives
We are discussing Advent and the Holy Family in religion and will begin a science unit on Nutrition. In math we begin our geometry unit. Geometry skills to be taught this week will include plane shapes, solid shapes, classifying and sorting.
The K-2 musical is Thursday evening at 7 p.m. We will be having rehersal time all week and a dress rehersal for the school will be on Thursday afternoon.
Weekly Newsletter 11/23-11/27
Monday November 23rd 2009, 1:51 pm
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Everyone is invited to the all school Mass of Giving on Tuesday, November 24th at 8:15 a.m.
First Trimester Progress Reports Go Home on Tuesday.
No School Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday – November 25, 26, & 27th - Thanksgiving Holiday
Scientist of the Week
Wednesday November 18th 2009, 2:53 pm
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Nolan’s Jet Powered Balloon
Weekly Newsletter 11/16-11/20
Monday November 16th 2009, 12:04 pm
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Language arts skills this week are:
blends: mp, nt, th, ft
diagrams
story elements (setting, characters, plot)
possessives
We finish up chapter 6 – subtraction strategies in math this week and in social studies we continue our unit on families.
Mass parts have been assigned for our mass next week. We will be practicing in the church this week during our religion time to prepare for Nov. 24th.
Friday is Mission Awareness Dress Down Day to benefit Kids Against Hunger.
Monday November 09th 2009, 12:19 pm
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Wednesday is an Early 1pm dismissal. Wear purple for Citizenship on Wednesday!
This is the last story in our current Language Arts reading book. We will be taking the book 2 assessment on Friday.
Skills for this week:
*review short vowels
*review story elements
*review main idea
*review inflectional ending -ed
*review context clues
Friday is the end of Trimester 1 so we took a review spelling test on all the spelling words we have had so far. Students are only responsible for the words they missed.
We will continue working on subtraction strategies in math, Saints in religion, and Families in Social Studies.
Scientist of the Week
Wednesday November 04th 2009, 2:50 pm
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Patrick’s Red Celery
Weekly Newsletter 11/2-11/6
Friday October 30th 2009, 7:11 am
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Language Arts skills this week:
blends
review sh, th, ck
review main idea and supporting details
review context clues
In Math we continue with chapter 3 – subtraction strategies. We are still discussing Saints in religion and begin a new unit on Families in social studies.
Thank you for attending conferences. Our class had 100% participation!
Scientist of the Week
Thursday October 29th 2009, 7:27 am
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Maddy’s Magic Balloon
Weekly Newsletter 10/26-10/30
Monday October 26th 2009, 8:37 am
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Friday is Mission Awareness Dress Down Day to benefit Shoes that Fit.
Language Arts skills this week:
short e
picture maps
review short e, o, u, i, a; th
introduce main idea
context clues
In Math we begin Chapter 3 – Subtraction. In Religion we are discussing Mary and the Saints in preparation for all Saints Day. In Science we are looking at pumpkins and apples and how they grow.
We will have our Halloween Party on Friday from 12 – 1pm. Let me know if you are interested in helping during that time.