Mrs. Sharon Shute
Third Grade Teacher
St. Joseph Catholic School
2009 and 2017 National Blue Ribbon Recipient
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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
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: 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:
Math: Completion of Chapter 3- Subtraction
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
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
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:
Phonetic Awareness:
Religion- Session 7- Unit 2- Following Jesus
Theme- Jesus the Son call us to love God the Father and one another
Outcomes:
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
Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.
Link here for standards for this Chapter
Week at a Glance: October 16-18, 2023
Highlights of the Week:
We are taking advantage of this shortened week by utilizing enrichment activities in ELA with:
Math: Continuing with Subtraction: Chapter 3
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:
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.
Week at a Glance: October 9-13, 2023
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Non-fiction story about people living in the desert
Spelling: Focus on vowel digraphs
Writing: Using conjunctions in sentences
Math: Begin Chapter 3 Subtraction
Religion: Jesus’ Good News
Social Studies: Continue Geography and Hispanic Heritage project
Other Highlights:
Reading: Unit 1 Week 4:
Spelling Words: peaches, owner, charcoal, asleep, dream, braided, maintain, agree, shadow, display- bonus words: freedom, entertain, tomorrow
High Frequency Words: voice, south
Develop Vocabulary Words: shield, lack, exposure, nomadic, landscape
Unit Vocabulary Words: competition, solve, occasion, organization, custom
Question of the Week: What creative solutions do people come up with to survive in their environment?
Learning goals for the week:
Objectives:
Writing:
Math: Begin Chapter 3- Subtraction:
Math vocabulary: difference, subtract, estimate, inverse operations, regroup
Monday- Show what you know about subtraction page-
Monday also, Lesson 1- Subtract mentally: Use strategies to subtract mentally
Tuesday- Lesson 2- Estimate Differences- Estimate differences using rounding to the nearest ten or hundred.
Wednesday: Lesson 3- Problem Solving Investigation: Estimate or exact answer: Determine whether an estimate or an exact answer is needed to solve a problem.
Thursday- Lesson 4- Hands on: Subtract with regrouping: Model subtraction with regrouping.
Thursday- Check what you know: Half way through the chapter recheck on past lessons
*Each day, students will work on math enrichment activities in Simple Solutions and daily worksheets to reteach lessons.
Religion: Begin Unit 2 Session 6- Jesus’ Good News- Jesus the Son teaches us about the Kingdom of God the Father through parables.
Jesus tells parables through which he reveals the Kingdom of God to us. In the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast, Jesus the Son compares the kingdom to tiny things that become large manifestations of God the Father’s love. He teaches us to serve the kingdom by showing our love of God, our neighbors, and ourselves through acts of kindness.
Here is the link for
Here is the link for Session interactive questions/ Daily prayers, songs, and devotions
Social Studies:
We are taking a day this week to focus on Hispanic Heritage Month. Students will conduct research on a famous Hispanic American person and later make a Google slide about that person. We will share our research with Mrs. Leonhardt for Spanish class.
Also: Continuing our Geography chapter:
Essential question- Where in the world is our community?
Objectives:
Language Arts in SS-
Develop key vocabulary: border, capital, continent, country, equator, geography, government, ocean, prime meridian, state.
Goal this week: Make a map of the world with labels on paper-
Next week: Lesson 2- Finding Places in the United States- If time permits, we’ll begin this lesson this week.
Week at a Glance: October 2-6, 2023
Highlights of the Week:
Monday- Tornado Drill
Tuesday- 8:30 Mass
Wednesday- Completion of Autobiography presentations
Thursday- Carmel Co-Choir performs
Friday- Fire drill w/fire dept.
Spelling Words: moving, beginning, carried, easier, begged, noisier, angriest, dragging, emptied, using
Reading: Unit 1 Week 3- Goals:
Writing: Daily writing in October journal and October quick prompts in notebooks.
Students will write a personal narrative using an organizer to help organize their thoughts.
Also, daily entries in gratitude journals
Morning Work: Daily writing in Daily Oral Language packet, Simple Solutions Grammar-
Math: Continuing and Completion of Chapter 2 Addition Strategies:
Monday- Fluency Practice with addition regrouping
Tuesday- Review for test in book
Wednesday- Further Review of Chapter 2 completed independently
Thursday- Chapter 2 Assessment
Vocabulary words to know:
Associative property of addition, estimate,parenthesis, regroup, bar diagram, Identity property, pattern, unknown, Commutative Property, mental math, reasonable
Also: Daily practice with Prodigy, SeeSaw math enrichment activities,and Simple Solutions Math
Religion: Session 5- Ordinary Time:
Ordinary Time is a time to grow and be grateful that we belong to our Church community-
We celebrate Ordinary Time on the Sundays between the Christmas season and Lent and from Pentecost to the First Sunday of Advent. There may be 33 or 34 Sundays in Ordinary Time. There are the Sundays in which the Church reflects on Jesus’ life. During this time, we celebrate Jesus’ presence in our lives, receiving him in the Eucharist. We live our commitment to Christ through the community of the Church as a sign of Christ’s presence in the world. During other seasons, we anticipate and celebrate the central aspects of the Paschal Mystery- the birth, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ. During Ordinary Time, we celebrate Jesus’ life and our life in the Church. The Mass is the center and the source of that life.
*** Tuesday- All School Mass at 8:30 with buddies
Session 5 Outcomes:
Daily songs, prayers, and devotion-
Social Studies: Continuing with Geography:
Essential question- Where in the world is our community?
Objectives:
Language Arts in SS-
Develop key vocabulary: border, capital, continent, country, equator, geography, government, ocean, prime meridian, state.
Goal this week: Make a map of the world with labels on paper-