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I’m Mrs. Sharon Shute and this is my 16th year here at St. Joseph School! I am thrilled to be your child’s teacher this year and so excited to be leading them on their journey of wonder and wisdom. A bit of background about myself- I have been an early childhood educator for 35 years beginning as a preschool teacher in Chicago. My love of children grew and so6 did my education! I began teaching Montessori preschool and then went to school and earned an Early Childhood Degree from Kendall College (then in Evanston)with a minor in Psychology. I have been very fortunate to teach in two Catholic schools in Chicago before coming to St. Joe's. I have brought the spirit of my Chicago experiences to this vibrant, thriving, and flourishing school and I am eternally grateful for the opportunity of working at such a wonderful school. I have been nominated for The Golden Apple Award from my work here at St. Joe's and at St. Stanislaus in Chicago.
 
Though this is my 16th year at St. Joe's, I taught first grade for 14 of those years and now love teaching third grade. Lots of new things this year: Chromebooks, Media class with Mrs. Hoglund and Spanish class with Mrs. Leonhardt, and team building activities every Friday. So excited to journey into Third Grade with such caring and kind parents and students. Thank you for letting your child be a part of our school family. 
 
Please feel free to email me through the website or at [email protected]. Also, feel free to contact me regarding any questions or concerns that arise throughout the school year. 
 
This school year, our class will consist of: Reading, Spelling, Math, Language Arts, Religion, Social Studies, and Science. I will be teaching Social Studies to both 3rd grade classes. Miss Kaitson will be teaching Science to both classes. We switch classes twice a week. 
 
I feel so blessed to have been successful at piloting flex seating (with desks also) last year in my third grade class. Looking forward to this year with half flex seating and half traditional. Thanks to a wonderful parent for donating some of our flex seating and making this new venture possible. 
 
I feel so honored and blessed to be a part of your child's journey this year! 
Most Sincerely,
Mrs. Sharon Shute
 
We are going peanut free in the classroom. Please read for snack: Thanks!

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?  

  • Your child’s classroom will remain a “peanut/nut-free zone.”  Please do not send in any food items to be consumed in the classroom that contains peanuts, nuts, peanut butter, nut butters, or peanut products. 
    • This includes almonds, filberts, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nut, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts.
    • Read labels carefully to make sure the products are nut free.  
    • This includes labels that read “May contain traces of peanuts/nuts” or “processed in a facility that processes products that contain peanuts/nuts.”  Food labels and ingredients change over time, so always read the label each time before purchasing snacks. 
    • NO HOMEMADE TREATS MAY BE BROUGHT INTO THE CLASSROOM. All treats/snacks brought to the classroom must have an ingredient label.

  • A peanut free table will be designated in the lunch room for all students with peanut/nut allergies.  
  • Peanut butter and peanut/nut products may be packed in your child’s lunch, but CANNOT be eaten in the classroom, or at the peanut/nut free lunch table.  

Thank you for your continued support with keeping our students safe.

Mrs. Wegener        

 

 




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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TIME

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

7:30 – 7:34

Homeroom

Homeroom

Homeroom

Homeroom

Homeroom

7:35 – 8:15

Spanish

Math 

Math

PE

Prayers, Devotions, Intentions, Songs

8:17 – 8:57

Music

Math

8:30 Mass

Math Groups/ ELA

Math 

Spelling, Reading Tests

8:59 – 9:39

Math

9:20- 9:50- PE

Art

Math Groups/ ELA

ELA

9:41 – 10:21

Math Groups

Math/ Begin ELA

ELA

ELA/ Lit Circles

Lit Circles

10:23 – 11:03

ELA

ELA

SS Switch Classes

SS Switch Classes

STEAM

11:05 – 11:45

Lunch Recess

Lunch Recess

Lunch -

Lunch Recess

Lunch Recess

11:47 – 12:27

ELA Lit Circles/ Workshop

11:37- Lit Circles/ Workshop

ELA Lit Circles/Workshop

Library/ Media

Religion

12:29 – 1:09

Library/ Media

12:19- ELA Lit. Circles/ Workshop

Lit Circles/ Workshop

ELA Lit Circles/ Workshop

Social Studies My Class

1:11 – 1:50

Religion-Gratitude Journal

Finish Lit Circles

Gratitude Journal/ SS My Class

Religion

Gratitude Journal

Religion

Gratitude Journal

Fun Friday Team Building Activities

Gratitude Journal

1:50 – 2:00

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Homework for Monday, November 6, 2023

Homework for Monday, November 6, 2023
-- Spelling homework w/ the new spelling words. Spelling test on Thursday since no school on Friday.
-- Good news! Everyone received a knight note for finishing their Google Slides report for their Hispanic Heritage presentation. Great job school family!
Tomorrow:
--Gym and Buddy Mass
--Math h/w will go home Tuesday and Wednesday, along with spelling, to prepare for Thursday's math test.
 
Have a lovely evening,
With Much Gratitude,
Mrs. Sharon Shute

Week at a Glance: November 6-9, 2023

 Week at a Glance: November 6-9, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

  • Reading: Begin Unit 2- Interactions
  • Writing: Continuing with our November writing packets
  • Spelling: Two syllable words
  • Math: Complete Introduction to Multiplication Chapter
  • Science: Mystery Science Trapeze activity
  • Social Studies: Lesson 2- Finding Places in the US
  • Religion: Jesus Dies and Rises

No School on Friday due to Professional Development with Archdiocese-


Spelling Words:

  • total, digit, talent, human, minus, defend, finish, equal, salad, famous
  • Challenge spelling words: library, mishap, spiral
  • Vocabulary words: patterns, nature, repeat, sequence, symmetry
  • Unit 2 Vocabulary words: prefer, features, investigate, associate, avoid
  • High frequency words: certain, half
  • Practice w/ spelling words M-Th in November Spelling Menu packet

Reading: Unit 2 Week 1 - Patterns in Nature- How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?

Unit theme: Interactions/ Essential Question- How do plants and animals live together?

  • Students will learn about informational texts by identifying main ideas and details.
  • Self-selected text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
  • Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
  • Recognize characteristics of digital texts.
  • Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
  • Understand and use graphic features

Grammar:

  • Singular and plural nouns
  • Irregular nouns
  • Plural possessive nouns
  • Main verbs and helping verbs

Writing:

  • How-to-article/ compose a headline and lead
  • Compose facts and details
  • Brainstorm and set a purpose
  • Plan how-to-article
  • Continued writing in November creative writing journal and daily writing in notebook with November prompts.

Math:  Continuation of Multiplication-

Vocabulary Math Words: array, Commutative Property of Multiplication, equal groups, factors, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, product, repeated addition, combination, tree diagram, 

Mathematical Practices:

  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
  • Look for and make use of structure.
  • Attend to precision.
  • Use appropriate tools strategically.

Monday- Check My Progress- practice vocabulary math words-Lesson 5- Students will use a make a table strategy to solve problems.- Problem solving investigation-

Tuesday- - Lesson 6- Students will use multiplication to find the total number of combinations that can be made when given two groups of objects.- Use multiplication to find combinations.

Wednesday- Chapter 4 Review and Reflect; Vocabulary Check/ Problem Solving, 

Thursday- Assessment on Chapter 4 Introduction to Multiplication

Also: Daily mental math questions, Prodigy, IXL activities throughout the week- where time allows.


Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion. Continuing with Lesson 2: Last week, students demonstrated knowledge of mass affection motion by conducting experiments with a ping pong ball and rubber ball. This week, students will explore gravity and magnetism.

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism, gravity, predict, pattern, model

Copy of activity link here

  • In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

In Science book: 

  • Motion and combined forces
  • Magnetism- non contact force

Social Studies: Finding Places in the United States:

Overview: Build a compass and use it to find the direction of eight landmarks across the United States. They then learn how to use map scales to estimate distances from their community to famous U.S. landmarks.

Essential Question: Where in the United States is my community?

Language Arts:

  • Use information gained from illustrations and the words in text to demonstrate understanding of the text. (reading)
  • Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (reading)

Key vocabulary: canyon, cardinal directions, may key, scale, symbol


Religion: Unit 2 Session 9- Jesus Dies and Rises-

Session Theme:  Through Jesus’ Death. Resurrection and Ascension, we are offered Salvation.

**God the Father loves us so much that he sent his only Son, Jesus, to save us. Saint Paul wrote letters proclaiming the Paschal Mystery of Jesus’ Death, Resurrection, and Ascension through which we are saved. We proclaim our belief in the Paschal Mystery when we pray the Apostles’ Creed. Through the grace of the Holy Spirit, we are called to be faithful to Jesus and serve others. *Look at an online flip book for symbols for Jesus.*

Outcomes of this Session:

  • Discuss Jesus’ gift of new life.
  • Discuss Jesus’ passage from Death to Resurrection.
  • Describe what Saint Paul wrote about the Paschal Mystery in his letters.
  • Explain that we show our love for others through our actions.
  • Define Paschal Mystery

Daily songs, devotions, and prayers-

8:30 Tuesday Mass- Buddy Mass

Homework for Thursday, 11/2/23

Homework for Thursday, 11/2/23
-- Spelling- Write spelling words as fancy and colorful as you wish!
Tomorrow:
--Spelling, Reading, and Religion tests
--STEAM tomorrow
--Check out books first period- please bring back any older library books you have.
 
Have a lovely evening,
Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Wednesday, 11/1/23

Homework for Wednesday, 11/1/23
--Spelling sentences to practice for Friday's spelling test- All review words, no bonus words, 13 words total.
 
--Today student's wrote their personal narratives, some typed them. Busy day indeed, tomorrow we'll present some of the character pumpkins.
--Gym and Library tomorrow-please bring back library books.
 
Have a lovely day,
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Monday, 10/30/23

Homework for Monday, 10/23/30
-- Spelling words practice- This week is a review of the past 5 weeks of spelling words. No bonus words and there are 13 words this week instead of 10.
--October book club pumpkin character report due tomorrow
--Halloween party in the afternoon- can't wait. 
No h/w tomorrow.
 
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Shute
 

Week at a Glance: October 30-November 3, 2023

Week at a Glance: October 30-November 3, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Last week in Unit 1 of Reading

Spelling: Review of spelling words from this unit

Writing: Write personal narratives about an important event

Math:  Begin Chapter 4- Understand Multiplication

Religion: All Saints Day Mass on Wednesday

Social Studies: Present Hispanic Heritage famous person

Science: Continuing with Force, Friction, Motion


Other Highlights:

  • Presentation of October book reports beginning Wednesday- 
  • Halloween party on Tuesday from 12:30-1:30

Spelling Words (a review of past words)-

fantastic, lesson, absent, families, glasses, pennies, beginning, dragging, carried, easier, dream, shadow, maintain ---13 words this week but no bonus since this is a review week.


Reading: Unit 1 Week 6

Monday- Lesson 1- Compare across texts; Answer the inquiry question:

  • Introduce Inquiry project
  • Read “What Makes a Playground Safe?”
  • Build Background

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Explore and Plan

  • Argumentative writing
  • Read: “Getting Outside”
  • Apply characteristics of text
    • Conduct field research
    • Apply field research

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Collaborate and Discuss

  • Analyze a Student Model
  • Identify features of argumentative texts
    • Identify Primary and Secondary Sources
    • Read “Discovering Great Smoky Mountain National Park”
    • Apply primary and secondary research sources to article

Thursday- Lesson 4- Extend Research:

  • Analyze structure of a thank you note
  • Incorporate plans to write a thank you letter
    • Collaborate and Discuss
    • Revise, Edit: Adding Details
    • Peer review letters

Friday- Lesson 5- Celebrate and Reflect

  • Present your letters; Reflect on project
    • Reflect on your goals, reading, and writing

Friday- Reading Test- Unit 1


Writing:

  • Writing in October Spelling Menut
  • Writing in October Creative writing journal
  • Writing in notebook- short stories with October prompts
  • Writing in graphic organizers and writing personal narratives

Math: Begin Chapter 4 Multiplication

Objectives:

  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Use appropriate tools strategically.

New Vocabulary: equal groups, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, factors, product, Commutative Property of Multiplication, 

Monday- Lesson 1- What does multiplication mean? Students use models to explore the meaning of multiplication- 

Tuesday-Lesson 2-  Multiplication as repeated addition- Students will relate multiplication and addition.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Students will use arrays to explore and model multiplication.- Multiplication with arrays-

Thursday- Lesson 4- Arrays and Multiplication: Students will use arrays to multiply-

  •  Reflect on learned lessons with multiplication and extra practice with SeeSaw activities and Prodigy


Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion. Continuing with Lesson 2: Students participated in an experiment in what makes bridges so strong.

Words to know: force, friction, magnetism

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Lesson 2- How does force affect motion link here

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism

Copy of activity link here

  • In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

In Science book: 

  • Motion and combined forces
  • We’ll play tug o war on Friday to demonstrate unbalance forces
  • Magnetism- non contact force
  • How does mass affect motion?  Experiment with a book, ruler, rubber ball, table tennis ball

Social Studies: How can you use geography skills to solve problems?

  • Students will complete their Google slide report,on their chosen famous person, for Hispanic Heritage month on Monday in Media.
  • Students will present their Google slides to class on Wednesday with Mrs. Leonhardt present. Students either reported on: Sonia Sotomayor, Ellen Ochoa, Ronaldo, Frida Kohler,  or Messi.
  • In book: Label continents, poles, oceans and other countries on map in book.
  • Create a flat map of the world with pictures from the book. Label continents and oceans.
  • Essential question for Lesson 1: Where in the world is our community?
  • This lesson teaches students where places are on Earth using maps. The names of hemispheres, continents, oceans, countries, and states all help us to say where a place is located. Maps show borders of places. Some borders are made by mountains and rivers, but others are decided on by people.

Religion: Session 8 Unit 2- Jesus Gathers Disciples-

Session Theme- Jesus invites his followers to enter the Kingdom of God.

Jesus the Son invites his followers to work together to spread the Good News of the kingdom. The Twelve Apostles accepted the mission that Jesus gave them: to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We too are called to work together as disciples of Jesus and proclaim the Kingdom of God.

  • Discuss how Jesus gathered the disciples.
  • Tell the story of how Jesus chose Peter to follow him.
  • Explore why Jeus needed apostles and disciples to help him. 
  • Discuss reasons why we need to work together to serve the kingdom.
  • Define Gospel and mission.

All School Mass on Wednesday for All Saint’s Day (non buddy Mass)

Daily prayers, songs, and devotions to God.

Secret Agents of Kindness prayers

Homework for Thursday, October 26, 2023

Homework for Thursday, October 26, 2023
--Spelling words story
Tomorrow:
--Spelling and Reading test
--Science and Social Studies
--Buddy time- writing Halloween stories with buddies- this is our fun Friday activity
 
Have a dry and lovely evening,
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Homework for Wednesday, 10/25/23:
--Spelling Sentences to prepare for Friday's spelling test
--Math fluency sheet to practice for our math test tomorrow
 
Tomorrow:
--Library day- please bring back library books
--Gym first period
--Haunted House presentations on SeeSaw; Class will watch and vote for which Haunted House they want to buy.
--New Lit circle book for group 3! Group 1 will begin a new book soon, too-
 
Have a lovely day,
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Homework for Tuesday, 10/24/23
-- Spelling text messages to prepare for Friday's spelling test.
--Math fluency worksheet to prepare for Thursday's math test.
Thanks to all family members who attended Grandparent's Day festivities today! So nice to see all the smiling faces and joyous hugs!
Tomorrow:
--Art Class
-- Back to work on our haunted house projects
--Reread The Golden Flower story
--Jeopardy online game for math practice
 
Have a lovely evening,
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Sharon Shute
 

Homework for Monday, October 23, 2023

Monday, 10/23/23
Homework:
--Spelling homework
Tomorrow:
--Gym
--Grandparent's Day Mass- students are allowed to sit with Grandparents at the Mass and stay for the reception.
--We read our myth story in ELA-Goldenflower
 
Have a lovely evening,
Mrs. Shute

Week at a Glance: October 23-27, 2023

Week at a Glance: October 23-27, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Math: Continuing Subtraction Chapter 3

Reading: Week 5 highlights The World Around Us

Spelling: Words with vowel digraphs

Writing: Prepping for writing a personal narrative

Religion: Grandparent’s Day Mass and Following Jesus

Social Studies: Continuing work on project in Media

Science: Force

Other Highlights:

  • Grandparent’s Day on Tuesday- Hope to see lots of grandparents at the 8:30 Mass. Mrs. Lombardo has provided us with a list of students who will be participating. 
  • Friday we meet with our buddies and create a spooktacular story

Math: Completion of Chapter 3- Subtraction

  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Attend to precision.
  • Look for and make use of structure.

Math Vocabulary Words: digit, hundreds, tens, thousands, regroup, 

Monday- Lesson 7- Subtract across zeros- Students will subtract across zeros

Tuesday- Lesson 8- Fluency practice and Review of chapter-

Wednesday- Practice test for Chapter 

Thursday- Assessment for Chapter 3 Subtraction- Subtraction

Friday- Math practice reteach lessons reviewing subtraction concepts

  • Daily mental math
  • Daily Simple Solutions Math Lesson
  • Daily IXL math, Prodigy, and IReady lessons-

Spelling Words: 

Thousand, shower, power, enjoy, bounce, avoid, appoint, annoy, proud, fountain

Bonus words: pronounce, surroundings, turmoil

High Frequency Words: unit, figure

Develop Vocabulary: pouch, globe, murmuring, mountainside, footpath

Unit Academic Vocabulary Words: competition, solve, occasion, organization

Also: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

  • Daily practice with October Spelling Menu- activities to promote correct spelling of words.

Reading: Unit 1 Week 5- Question of the week: Why should we appreciate our environment?

Goals: I can learn more about traditional tales and analyze descriptive language in a myth.

I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.

I can use elements of a narrative to write a personal narrative.

Objectives:

-Develop oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

-Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.

-Interact with sources in a meaningful way such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

-Recognize characteristics of digital texts.

-Apply critical thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

Writing:

  • Daily entries in October journal
  • Daily entries in October prompts
  • Personal narratives- We will begin filling out a graphic organizer to prepare for next week’s writing assignment.
  • Daily writing in DOL packet (daily oral language)

Phonetic Awareness:

  • Vowel diphthongs: ou, ow, oi Review of; ee, ea, ai, ay, ow, oa

Religion- Session 7- Unit 2- Following Jesus

Theme- Jesus the Son call us to love God the Father and one another

Outcomes:

  • Explain what Jesus wants us to do in order to follow him.
  • Discuss how God calls us to follow the Ten Commandments.
  • Explain how being generous helps us follow Jesus.
  • Define conversation

Daily prayers, songs, devotions, opportunities to grow closer to Jesus and God.

Also, focus on our Secret Agents of Kindness prayer list-


Social Studies:

For the past few weeks, our focus was on researching famous Hispanic Americans in celebration of`Hispanic Heritage Month- Monday our students will continue creating Google Slides for their Hispanic Heritage famous person  Students had a very productive Media session last week so hopefully they will complete the six slides on Monday and be ready to present in class. Mrs. Leonhardt will be in our class for the presentations- thrilled about this!


Also, we’ll return to our book this week with continued study of maps and geography. Students will be creating their own map of the world and identifying continents, oceans, and equator.


Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion.

Words to know: force, friction, magnetism

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Lesson 2- How does force affect motion link here

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism

Copy of activity link here

  • In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

Just a few notes....

Hello Everyone!
Great day today! Lots of good things accomplished in Room 13!
-Wonderful art in the box with Mrs. Kujundzic ad Mrs. Kennedy- see note in your child's folder.
-Almost completed our haunted house project- 
-Created cards for people on our prayer list- the delivery was an exciting experience for some of the kids.
-- No homework
Next week we go back to regular schedule w/ academics.
 
Have a lovely evening!
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Shute

Homework for Tuesday, 10/17/23

Homework for Tuesday, 10/17/23
-- More math IXL homework- 
 
Tomorrow:
-- Art class
--Our first Art in the Box!
--Secret Agents of Kindness work
-- Round 2 of June's Halloween Bingo (with Karlee assisting)
-- Hopefully, completion of the Haunted House project... so much fun. The class is really enjoying creating these houses to sell. We'll soon see if they have any buyers.
--No homework tomorrow
 
Have a lovely evening,
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Shute

Homework for Monday, 10/16/23

Homework for Monday, 10/16/23
-- Place Value homework 
No spelling h/w
Tomorrow:
--Gym
--All School Mass at 8:30
--Group project work on haunted houses- so much fun!
 
Have a lovely day!
With Gratitude,
Mrs. Shute

Week at a Glance: October 16-18, 2023

Week at a Glance: October 16-18, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

    • No spelling or reading tests this week-
    • Tuesday- All School Mass with buddies
  • Wear pink on Wednesday for $1.00 dress down in support of Breast Cancer Awareness
  • Wednesday- Pick a pumpkin in the St. Joe’s pumpkin patch.

We are taking advantage of this shortened week by utilizing enrichment activities in ELA with:

  • Phonics packets to review sounds, consonant blends, vowel digraphs, and parts of speech.
  • Continued work with writing in October creative writing journal and October prompts
  • Continued Lit Circles with comprehension packets
  • Haunted House Project (below)

Math: Continuing with Subtraction: Chapter 3

  • Lesson 5- Subtract 3 digit numbers; Students will subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping. Also- reteach worksheet on same skills-
  • Lesson 6- Subtract 4 digit numbers; Students will subtract 4 digit numbers with regrouping + enrichment worksheet.
  • Math activities designed to enrich subtraction knowledge
  • Haunted House project (below)
  • IXL and Prodigy math lessons

Haunted House project:A special project based learning based project to combine reading, math, and writing skills. Students will work in a small group to design a haunted house. They will have a budget to buy equipment to build the house, design the floorplan, and buy spooky things to decorate the house. Then, they will sell the house and create a newspaper ad to sell the house. My goal is to have each group be able to present their haunted house to the class.






For Religion: We focus this week on the parables of Jesus, including:

  • What is a parable? here
  • The parable of the Good Samaritan here
  • The parable of the mustard seed here
  • The parable of the lost sheep here
  • The parable of of the seed and the farmer here and the parable of the wedding banquet here

Daily prayers, devotions, intentions with a focus this week on the Secret Agents of Kindness. Our SAK will create cards for some of the people on our prayer list. Our current list has 45 people/ pets occupying our hearts and minds, so we’ll get to put our prayers into action by making cards/ letters for some of those people. 

All School Mass on Tuesday at 8:30- buddy Mass


Social Studies:

Last week, our focus was on researching famous Hispanic Americans in celebration of`Hispanic Heritage Month- tomorrow our students will take their research to Media class and Mrs. Hoglund will teach the students how to make a Google Slides presentation. Students did a fabulous job on this project! If time permits, we’ll look at the presentations in class.


Also, we’ll return to our book this week with continued study of maps and geography. Students will be creating their own map of the world and identifying continents, oceans, and equator.