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Thursday, 1/11/24, Notes
Here is tonight's homework:
1. Read 20 minutes (or more)
2. Math 4.3 homework pages - 2-digit subtraction
3. No spelling practice - new packet with r-controlled vowels will go home in your child's Friday folder
Reminders:
- Please continue to practice the Act of Contrition prayer with your children. We will also practice this in class, but the more comfortable they are with the prayer for Reconciliation, the better. :)
- Please send your child with extra school shoes if s/he wears boots.
- Friday, 1/12/24 = Dress Down Day Fundraiser for St. Bede's School. Bring $1 (or more). Thank you for your generosity and support of our Catholic School community! Please wear BLUE as a sign of solidarity with St. Bede's.
- No school = Monday, 1/15/24 → Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Wednesday, 1/10/24, Notes
Here is tonight's homework:
1. Read 20 minutes (or more)
2. Math 4.2 homework pages
3. Practice words with open syllables --> Assessment (informal) = Thursday, 1/11
Reminders:
- 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting = TONIGHT at 6pm in the Koenig Center
- 1st Reconciliation = Sunday, 2/4/24
- Please continue to practice the Act of Contrition prayer with your children. We will also practice this in class, but the more comfortable they are with the prayer for Reconciliation, the better. :)
- Please send your child with extra school shoes if s/he wears boots.
- Please check your Kiddos lunch orders to ensure that your child has a lunch every day. Please also send your child with his/her water bottle daily.
- Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, 1/11/24 --> Second grade should bring in Pancake Mix
- Friday, 1/12/24 = Dress Down Day Fundraiser for St. Bede's School. Bring $1 (or more). Thank you for your generosity and support of our Catholic School community! Please wear BLUE as a sign of solidarity with St. Bede's.
- No school = Monday, 1/15/24 → Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, 1/9/24, Notes
Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes (or more)
2. Math 4.1 homework pages --> This lesson is on fact families, as we are starting the chapter on 2-digit subtraction.
3. Practice words with open syllables --> Assessment (informal) = Thursday, 1/11
Reminders:
- Please send your child with extra school shoes if s/he wears boots.
- Please keep all stuffed animals, toys, Pokemon cards, etc. at home to avoid items getting lost or being a distraction during the school day. (Thank you for your help with this.)
- Please check your Kiddos lunch orders to ensure that your child has a lunch every day. Please also send your child with his/her water bottle daily.
- No school = Monday, 1/8/24
- All School Mass = Tuesday, 1/9/24
- 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting = Wednesday, 1/10/24, at 6pm in the Koenig Center
- 1st Reconciliation = Sunday, 2/4/24
- Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, 1/11/24 --> Second grade should bring in Pancake Mix
- No school = Monday, 1/15/24 → Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Reminders:
Reminders:
- Please send your child with extra school shoes if s/he wears boots.
- Please keep all stuffed animals, toys, Pokemon cards, etc. at home to avoid items getting lost or being a distraction during the school day. (Thank you for your help with this.)
- Please check your Kiddos lunch orders to ensure that your child has a lunch every day. Please also send your child with his/her water bottle daily.
- No school = Monday, 1/8/24
- All School Mass = Tuesday, 1/9/24
- 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting = Wednesday, 1/10/24, at 6pm in the Koenig Center
- 1st Reconciliation = Sunday, 2/4/24
- Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, 1/11/24 --> Second grade should bring in Pancake Mix
- No school = Monday, 1/15/24 → Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Week at a Glance 1/8/24-1/12/24
Week at a Glance
Week of January 8-12, 2024
Math: Get ready… We are going to dive into our chapter on 2-digit subtraction. We will start with relating addition and subtraction with fact families. We will continue by using place value to subtract. Finally, we will use visuals and manipulatives to model regrouping and find differences.
Phonics (Fundations): We will finish up and review Unit 7 from our phonics curriculum, where we will review reading and writing words with open syllables. Students will also continue to decode and encode multisyllabic words. We will review trick words: city, family, every, carry, night, something.
Reading and Writing (Wit & Wisdom): We will jump back into our Module on westward expansion as we work to recount a section’s main topic and details. We will also sort points to support a topic statement. Additionally, we will work to define words using context clues and text features (glossary, captions, etc.). Finally, students will draft their responses to one of the focusing questions, which ask about how plants or animals were important to the Plains Indians’ lives.
Science: None - see Social Studies
Social Studies: As we start back to school, we will begin Unit 2 in our Social Studies texts, which focuses on Economics. More specifically, we will answer the question “How do people use their environment?” Students will identify natural resources, distinguish between things made by people and things made by nature, and explain the causes and effects of different types of pollution.
Religion: As we continue preparing for the sacrament of First Reconciliation, we will practice the Act of Contrition prayer daily. (Please practice this at home too.) We will also work through Session 3 in our Reconciliation books, which is all about God’s forgiveness. We will define mortal and venial sins, discuss the story of Jesus and the tax collector, and explain the difference between good and bad choices.
Tests and Quizzes:
- Phonics Unit 7 Assessment = Thursday, 1/11
Additional Reminders:
- Please send your child with extra school shoes if s/he wears boots.
- Please keep all stuffed animals, toys, Pokemon cards, etc. at home to avoid items getting lost or being a distraction during the school day. (Thank you for your help with this.)
- Please check your Kiddos lunch orders to ensure that your child has a lunch every day. Please also send your child with his/her water bottle daily.
- Please try to take your child to Mass over the weekend. Mass times are as follows:
- Saturday - 5pm
- Sunday - 7am, 9am (with Children’s Liturgy of the Word), 11am, and 5pm
- No school = Monday, 1/8/24
- All School Mass = Tuesday, 1/9/24
- 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting = Wednesday, 1/10/24, at 6pm in the Koenig Center
- 1st Reconciliation = Sunday, 2/4/24
- Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, 1/11/24 --> Second grade should bring in Pancake Mix
- No school = Monday, 1/15/24 → Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Wishing you the best as 2024 begins.
Reminders:
Classes resume Tuesday, 1/9/24.
Parent 1st Reconciliation Meeting = 6pm in the Koenig Center on Wednesday, 1/10/24.
Have a safe, relaxing, and enjoyable break. See you in 2024!
Two Reminders
*Please help your child remember to bring in any library books on Wednesday so s/he can check out new books for over the break.
*No School Friday --> Please see email from Mrs. Hein for details.
Notes for the week
Happy Monday!
As we enter this final week of school before Christmas break, please note there is no written homework this week. Students should still be reading and working on spelling words with open syllables, closed syllables, and VCE syllables. (Please note I will most likely not be posting each morning. I have included a list at the bottom of this post with upcoming reminders.)
A lot of illnesses are going around the school. If your child has a fever, please keep him/her home and call the office. While it is hard for students to miss some of the activities at this time of year, it is also of the utmost important to get everyone healthy for Christmas break. Please also make sure your child is getting enough sleep and having a healthy breakfast each morning. :)
Additional Reminders:
- Tuesday = no all school Mass → Mass will be Friday, 12/22, at 8:30am
- Tuesday afternoon = monthly Social Emotional Learning class with Ms. Han and Mrs. Walsh
- Thursday morning = class party → Thank you to our volunteers!
- Friday = 11am dismissal
- Christmas break = School resumes for students on Tuesday, 1/9/24
Week at a Glance 12/18/23-12/22/23
Week at a Glance
Week of December 18-22, 2023
Math: We will continue exploring concepts about Geometry. Students will compose and decompose shapes, identify congruent shapes, and draw lines of symmetry. We will also spend some time reviewing one-digit subtraction, along with one- and two-digit addition. (After Christmas break, we will start the chapter focused on subtracting two digit numbers.)
Phonics (Fundations): As we continue into week 3 of Unit 7, we will review open syllables in multisyllabic words. Students will practice adding suffixes -y, -ty, and -ly to base words. The trick words of the week are: night, carry, and something.
Reading and Writing: We will spend some time reading different Christmas stories (some classics and some newer ones). We will also participate in a couple of winter writing activities. Please note extra time will be spent on Religion and Social Studies this week.
Science: None - see Social Studies
Social Studies: We will take some time this week to learn about how people in different countries celebrate Christmas as we collaborate with 1st and 2nd grades to participate in “Christmas Around the World” activities.
Religion: We will continue to build our classroom nativity set as we work through our booklet “What God Wants for Christmas.” We will also take time to learn some sign language for different Christmas songs. Finally, we will spend some time learning more about the sacrament of Reconciliation and specifically practicing the Act of Contrition prayer and discussing how Jesus is our Savior.
Tests and Quizzes: None
Additional Reminders:
- Please try to take your children to Mass this weekend as we celebrate the third Sunday of Advent (Joy = pink candle). The new Mass times are as follows:
- Saturday - 5pm
- Sunday - 7am, 9am (with Children’s Liturgy of the Word), 11am, and 5pm
- Please be sure to review your child’s Friday folder over the weekend. There are math quizzes, writing assignments, returned homework, and an information sheet about our current reading module for the Wit & Wisdom program. Please send back the empty folder on Monday. This will be the last Friday folder before Christmas break.
- There is no homework due this week; however, students should spend some time (~20 minutes) reading each night to continue to build that healthy habit. 🙂
- Monday = Art in a Box → Thank you to our volunteers!
- Tuesday = no all school Mass → Mass will be Friday, 12/22, at 8:30am
- Thursday morning = class party → Thank you to our volunteers!
- Friday = 11am dismissal
Food Pantry Reminder
Please consider sending in items for the Food Pantry on Thursday, 12/14. Second graders should bring in cereal, although they can certainly bring in additional/different items.
Thank you for your generosity! Please pray for the people who visit our Food Pantry too. :)
12/11/23 Week Reminders
Dear Families,
There will be no official homework this week, however, students should still try to read 20 minutes (or more) each night (aside from Thursday because of the Christmas program) and they should practice their open syllable words from Unit 7 in Fundations.
Upcoming Quiz = Math Chapter 12 Geometry Quiz --> Tuesday, 12/12
Additional Reminders:
- Monday = Santa's Secret Shop
- Tuesday = Mass - 8:30am in the church
- Wednesday = Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal - 12:30pm in the church
- Thursday = Food Pantry Collection --> Bring cereal (and/or additional items) - Thank you in advance for your generosity in our last collection of 2023!
As there won't be daily homework updates this week, please note that I will most likely not post again until Friday with the next "Week at a Glance" post.
Week at a Glance 12/11/23-12/15/23
Week at a Glance
December 11-15, 2023
Math: We will continue to review names, sides, and angles of 2D shapes, along with the names, faces, edges, and vertices of 3D shapes. The students will take a quiz on Tuesday. Later in the week, we will go into more depth about shapes as we learn how to compose shapes from smaller shapes (e.g., make a trapezoid from triangles) and decompose bigger shapes into smaller shapes.
Phonics (Fundations): We have been learning about open syllable words and long vowel sounds, and we will continue that learning of study next week. We will work on reading and spelling multisyllabic words ending in the letter y. Students will be able to explain when the letter y spells the long /i/ sound and when it spells the long /e/ sound. Finally, we will explore how prefixes can be added to base words and how those change the meaning of the base words. Trick words for the week include city, every, and family.
Reading and Writing (Wit & Wisdom): We will continue our deep dive into exploration and expansion of the American West. Students have been learning about buffalo and the Plains Indians. They will continue to discuss what life was like for different tribes of Plains Indians in the American West. They will identify main ideas and details from sections of nonfiction texts, and they will be able to use irregular plural nouns correctly.
Science/Social Studies: With all of the special schedules and extra Christmas events, we are skipping Science and Social Studies this week.
Religion: We will take a break from our Finding God textbooks and move into our special purple books to prepare for First Reconciliation. The first session in the book is titled “God Calls Us Friends.” We will read about the gift of grace we receive from God, what sins are (versus mistakes or accidents), and how we can work to better our relationship with God and others. We will also start praying the Act of Contrition daily. Students will bring home a copy of this prayer too. Please help them to practice this prayer so that they continue to feel more comfortable and confident with it. 🙂
Tests and Quizzes:
- Math - Chapter 12 Quiz = Tuesday, 12/12
Additional Reminders:
- Please try to take your children to Mass over the weekend as we start the second week of Advent.
- Santa Shop = Monday, 12/11 → Thank you to the parents who are helping out! 🙂
- Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal = Wednesday, 12/13, at 12:30pm in the church
- Christmas Show Program = Thursday, 12/14, at 6:30pm in the church → Please see the email from Mr. Showstead about what time to arrive, what time doors open, what your children should wear, etc. Thank you!
- Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, December 14th → 2nd grade should bring cereal. Please be generous as we approach the Christmas holidays, and please keep those who visit the Food Pantry in your prayers. (Thank you!)
- Please check your child's Kiddos hot lunch orders to make sure your child has a lunch each day.
- Please send your child with a coat and proper outerwear for outdoor recess in the colder temperatures.
- If you send your child to school in boots, please send additional shoes for your child to wear during the day.
Thursday, 12/7/23, Notes
Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes (or more)
2. Practice words with open syllables -->
- Note: There will not be an official assessment on this unit until after Christmas break, as it is a 3-week unit.
3. No Math Homework
- Chapter 12 Quiz = Tuesday, 12/12
Additional Reminders:
- All School Mass → Please join us Friday, 12/8, at 8:30 am to celebrate the Immaculate Conception (a holy day of obligation)
- Please send your child with a coat and proper outerwear for outdoor recess in the colder temperatures.
- If you send your child to school in boots, please send additional shoes for your child to wear during the day.
- Santa Secret Shop = Monday, 12/11
- Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, December 14th → 2nd grade should bring cereal. Please be generous as we approach the Christmas holidays, and please keep those who visit the Food Pantry in your prayers.
