Our aim is to provide a safe learning environment for all people in our school Community. To support this, SJCS is designating your child’s classroom as “nut-free”. This policy aims to increase our community awareness in order to minimize the risk for children with documented allergies to nut products. Our school has developed and will maintain a whole-school action and implementation plan when dealing with students who have critically life-threatening allergies.
WHY? Anaphylaxis is a severe form of allergic reaction which is potentially life-threatening. It can be fatal within minutes; either through swelling that shuts off airways or through a dramatic drop in blood pressure. There are many causative agents for anaphylaxis with nuts often being the precipitative factor. Anaphylaxis is preventable. Avoidance of specific triggers is by far the best option. Management is via immediate injection of epinephrine and emergency transport to the hospital.
Allergy to peanuts appears to be on the rise in children. According to a FARE-funded study, the number of children in the U.S. with peanut allergy more than tripled between 1997 and 2008. Studies in the United Kingdom and Canada also showed a high prevalence of peanut allergy in school children.
Based on recent studies, an estimated 25-40 percent of people who have peanut allergy are also allergic to tree nuts. In addition, peanuts and tree nuts often come into contact with one another during manufacturing and serving processes. For these reasons, allergists usually tell their patients with peanut allergy to avoid tree nuts as well.
Trace amounts of peanut can cause an allergic reaction. Casual contact with peanuts, such as touching peanuts or peanut butter residue, is less likely to trigger a severe reaction. Casual contact becomes a concern if the area that comes into contact with peanuts then comes into contact with the eyes, nose or mouth (for example, a child with peanut allergy gets peanut butter on her fingers, and then rubs her eyes).
What does this mean for me?
Thank you for your continued support with keeping our students safe.
Mrs. Wegener
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Mrs. Sharon Shute
Third Grade Teacher
St. Joseph Catholic School
 2009 and 2017 National Blue Ribbon Recipient
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Week at a Glance: April 8-12, 2024
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Narrative Nonfiction genre
Spelling: Homographs
Writing: Opinion writing
Math: Completion of Chapter 10 Fractions
Science: Continue Chapter 2- Plants
Social Studies: Continuing with Settling in the US
Religion: Celebrating Reconciliation
Other Highlights:
Spirit Week- Please check email for daily dress!
Thursday- Risk Watch Presentation in our classroom
Friday- Field Trip to Feed My Starving Children in the morning and in the afternoon, we meet w/ our 7th grade buddies in the afternoon.
Spelling: transplant, consult, finance, content, minute, digest, upset, research, incline, construct- bonus words-- entrances, manifest, invalid
Vocabulary words: destroyed, opportunity, sustainability, reclaimed, constructed-
Unit vocabulary words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar
High Frequency Words: equation, among
Reading: Unit 4 Week 4- How can a leader’s experiences inspire change?
Learning Goals:
Objectives:
Writing:
Math: Completion of Chapter 10 Fractions
Objectives/ Mathematical Practices:
Vocabulary: denominator, equivalent fractions, numerator, is equal to (=), is greater than, is less than,
Monday- Lesson 8- Compare fractions- Students will use models to compare 2 fractions and record the results.
Tuesday- Lesson 9- Review fractions chapter to prepare for Thursday’s assessment
Wednesday- Chapter 10 Preparations for fraction assessment- Quiz day!
Thursday- Chapter 10 Assessment for fractions
Daily math assignments in SeeSaw, IReady Math lessons, and Simple Solutions Math Packets
Science: Chapter 3 Lesson 2- How Do Plants Make Food?
Words to Know: carbon dioxide, oxygen, photosynthesis, sugar, sun, water, variable
Lesson Objectives for Chapter 2:
Inquiry: How do plants change? Students will observe and record how plants adapt to changing conditions with pinto beans sprouting on a paper towel in a baggie. Students will choose a variable to change when the seeds grow roots. Example: Change the direction of the bag, the amount of light the bag receives, or the temperature inside the bag.
Experiment: How does sunlight affect plant survival? Cover one leaf with foil and wait one week and observe changes in the covered leaf.
Social Studies: Continuing Lesson 5- Settling in the USA
Questions to answer in this lesson:
Video: How do history and culture shape your community?
Essential Question--How do people become part of our country?Overview: Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.
Objectives:Social Studies
Language Arts
Preview-Think about how it feels to move to a new place and then listen to audio clips from immigrants about their experiences.
Hands-On Activity: Analyzing Primary Sources-Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.
Show What You Know- Compare opportunities and challenges of immigration.
Also: Students will present March Book Reports: Study of Ireland
Religion: Celebrating Reconciliation Session 17 Unit 4 (Sacraments)
When we turn away from God the Father through personal sin, Jesus the Son calls us to forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. God always forgives us and gives us the grace to be truly sorry for our sins. In this sacrament, we confess our sins to a priest, who shares with us Jesus’ gifts of forgiveness and peace.
Session Theme: When we sin and fail to love God the Father and others, Jesus the Son calls us to forgiveness through the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
Week at a Glance: April 2-5, 2024
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: How do big ideas change communities?
Spelling: Words with suffixes
Writing: April journals
Math: Continuing Chapter 10 on Fractions
Social Studies: Back to the book for Settling in the USA
Religion: Sacraments of Initiation
Science: Chapter 3 Plants
Spelling: Unit 4 Week 3 Words to know:
Anticipation, civilization, convertible, dependable, flexible, likable, movable, terrible, usable, visible. Bonus words: traceable, invincible, inspiration
High Frequency words: language, clear-
Unit Academic Words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar
This week’s vocabulary words: succeed, determined, impressed, eventually, imagined-
Reading: Unit 4 Week 3- How do big ideas change communities?
Learning goals:
Objectives:
Word Study-
Writing:
Math: Continue Chapter 10- Fractions: How can fractions be used to represent numbers and their parts?
New vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, denominator, numerator, equivalent fractions
Mathematical practices:
Tuesday: Lesson 5- Hands on- Fractions on a number line- Students will represent fractions on a number line. Also, Check My Progress page to see how things are going thus far in the chapter. Also: Check my progress- refresher pages for the first set of chapters.
Wednesday- Lesson 6: Equivalent fractions- Students will use models to find equivalent fractions. Additional practice in SeeSaw and IReady lessons
Thursday- Lesson 7: Vocabulary: denominator, equivalent fractions, numerator, is equal to (=), is greater than, is less than- Fractions as one whole- Students will express whole numbers as fractions and recognize fractions equivalent to whole numbers.
Religion: Unit 4 Session 16- Sacraments of Initiation
Session Theme: Through the Sacraments of Initiation, we receive the fullness of the holy Spirit and become members of the Church.
We become members of the Church through the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eurcharist. At our Baptism, we receive the Holy Spirit and become one of the People of God. We begin a new life in Jesus. Confirmation seals the Holy Spirit’s presence in us, and through the Holy Spirit, we receive Jesus in his Body and Blood in the Eurcharist.
Outcomes of this chapter:
*Daily devotions and prayers, and songs
*Tuesday- 8:30 buddy all school Mass
Social Studies: Back to the Book-
Students will be presenting Ireland Reports slowly but surely throughout the next few weeks-
Essential Question
How do people become part of our country?
Overview of the chapter: Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.
Objectives
Social Studies
Language Arts
Preview chapter with: Think about how it feels to move to a new place and then listen to audio clips from immigrants about their experiences.
Hands on activity: Analyzing primary sources:
Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.
Show what you know: Compare opportunities and challenges of immigration.
Complete the Unit Inquiry supporting question that corresponds to the lesson, play the lesson game, and create an assessment using TCI questions or your own in the test builder.
Science: Chapter 3- Plants
Lesson 1- How do plants change?
How can you classify plants?
Week at a Glance: March 18-22, 2024
Highlights of the Week:
Reading- Week 2 Unit 4- Learn more about Fredrick Douglass
Spelling-- 2 syllable words with VCCCV pattern
Grammar- VCCCV Pattern
Math- Fractions begin!
Social Studies- Continuing Ireland unit
Science- Complete Chapter 2 on Energy
Religion- Celebrate St. Joseph Day wear red on Tuesday
Spelling:
Surprise, pilgrim, subtract, control, sample, insect, contrast, employ, exclaim, athlete bonus words*** contraction, embrace, completion
Vocabulary Words: slavery, abolitionist, violence, equality, influential
Unit vocab words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar
High frequency words: common, though
Reading: Unit 4 Week 2- How can personal stories change society?
Learning Goals:
Objectives:
Students will be learning about Fredrick Douglass and Sojourner Truth through reading biographies.
Grammar:
Writing:
Math: Begin Chapter 10- Fractions: How can fractions be used to represent numbers and their parts?
New vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, denominator, numerator
Mathematical practices:
Monday- Lesson 1- Students will explore and model with unit fractions- Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
Tuesday- Lesson 2- Parts of a whole- Students will read and write fractions that name part of a whole.
Wednesday-Lesson 3- Parts of a set- Students will use models to represent fractions that name part of a set.-
Thursday- Multiplication and Division games
Religion:
Celebration the life of Saint Joseph with small group research to find:
Social Studies:
Continuation of our Ireland Unit- through videos, songs, stories students will explore their chosen county through Google Images and books on Ireland in the classroom. Students will also learn about the culture of Ireland and famous landmarks of Ireland, specifically their county.
--SeeSaw assignment to make a slideshow of their chosen country- listing some facts and images.
Science:
Standards:
By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to investigate how electricity moves through circuits and will identify some materials that conduct electricity.
Week at a Glance: March 11-15, 2024
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Begin Unit 4 in reading- Theme: Events
Writing: Students will present their historical fiction stories
Phonics: R controlled vowels
Math: Continuing Chapter 9 Properties and Equations
Social Studies: Focus on Ireland
Science:
Religion: Lent/ Stations of the Cross
Other Highlights:
-Tuesday: 8:30 Mass and Carmel Spanish student visit classrooms and read a story to them (PreK-3)
-Thursday- Stations of the Cross 12:30 Service
Spelling Words: certainly, earn, return, search, swerve, termite, third, thirsty, thirteen, thirty bonus words: determine, virtual, personable-
High Frequency Words: system, brought
Develop Vocabulary: community, donate, convince, generous, transformed-
Unit Vocabulary Words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar
Language and Conventions- possessive nouns
Reading Goals for this Unit:
Weekly question: How can one person improve a community?
Focus on Daniel Burham and Jane Addams
Week 1- Learn more about biography and analyze text structure in a biography
Reading Workshop Minilesson bank:
Reading-Writing Workshop Bridge:
Writing Workshop: Weekly Focus: Introduce and immerse-
Mini-lesson bank:
Reading/ Writing continued:
Math:
Math: Continuing Chapter 9- Properties and Equations-
Math Vocabulary words: evaluate, variable, expressions, operations, equation, estimate,
Mathematical Practices:
Monday- Lesson 7- Write Expressions- Students will represent one- and two step word problems using equations and a variable.
Tuesday: Lesson 8- Solve Using Two-Stop Word Problems- Students will represent and solve two-step word problems using equations and a variable.
Wednesday:- Lesson 9- Problem Solving Investigation: Use logical reasoning- Students will use logical reasoning to solve problems. Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Social Studies: Continuing Ireland Unit-
Students in both classes will engage in a month-long look at Ireland through images, videos, and story books. Each student has received a county in Ireland and that will be the county the students researches for their March book report . This week, students will continue to discuss Ireland’s culture, landscape, and landmarks. Students will learn about the four provinces of Ireland and learn about St. Patrick- Ireland’s patron saint. Students will also learn some songs interconnected with Ireland.
**We’ll celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the classroom on Monday, Mar 18, 2024
Science: Lesson 6 What is Electrical Energy?
Lesson Objectives: (Students will practiced with circuits in STEAM class on Friday)
Religion:
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