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: September 25-30, 2023
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Unit 1 Week 2
Writing: Preparing to write a personal narrative
Phonics: Words ending in /es/
Math: Continuing with Addition strategies
Religion: Eucharistic Adoration on Tuesday
Social Studies: Continuing Geography
Spelling: inches, pitches, dishes,glasses, spies, fries, cities, pennies, families, faxes
High frequency words: story, draw
Vocabulary words: preparations, magnificent, brooded, rejoicing, satisfied
Unit Academic Vocabulary: competition, solve, custom, occasion, organization
Reading: Goals for the week:
Students will …
Writing:
Phonics/ Grammar:
Daily work in Simple Solutions Grammar and Daily Oral Language packet
Math: Continuing with Chapter 2- Addition Strategies:
Math Vocabulary: reasonable, regroup, unknown,
Monday- Lesson 6-Students will use models to explore adding 3 digit numbers.
Tuesday-Lesson 7- Add 3 Digit Numbers- Students will add 3 digit numbers and use estimation to check for reasonableness.
Wednesday- Lesson 8- Add 4 Digit Numbers- Students will explore adding 3 digit numbers to four-digit numbers.
Thursday- Lesson 9- Problem Solving Investigation- Students will check for answers for reasonableness.
Friday- Math games to reflect lessons of the week-
--Daily writing in Simple Solutions Math packet
Religion: Unit 1- Session 4- Jesus is with Us-God the Father sends his Son, Jesus, to save us.
The salvation promised in the Old Testament is fulfilled in Jesus. Jesus means “God saves.” Christ means “the anointed one,” or the one especially chosen by God to be our Savior. Mary
Became the mother of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Joseph responded to God’s call to be the foster father of Jesus.
Outcomes of Session 4:
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.
Activity: Students will make a map to represent planet Earth and label parts of the world.
Summary of Lesson 1: Students learned how to tell where places are on Earth using maps. The names of the hemispheres, continents, 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.
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.
Connect to prior knowledge: Discuss usefulness of maps and find maps in the classroom.
Activity: Students will make a map of the classroom.
Week at a Glance: September 11-15, 2023
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Completing Third Grade Angels novel
Math: Chapter 1 Math test Tuesday; Begin Chapter 2 Wednesday
Spelling: Last week of spelling words from our novel
Religion- Rosary Launch Friday and all school Mass Tuesday
Social Studies: Continuing Geography chapter
Also….
Reading: Students will continue reading the novel Third Grade Angels. Students will be working daily on completing:
We are currently on Chapter 10- this novel continues to be enjoyable for the 3rd graders and has had some interesting surprises about the characters. We’ve had some rich discussions with character comparisons.
This can also be used for ELA test prep materials (short and extended response).
Students will take turns reading out loud and through the readings, we’ll discuss story elements, character traits, main idea, details, and context clues in a whole group setting. Novel reading will be good preparation for Lit Circles, where students begin reading different types/ genres of chapter books.
ELA continuing:
Lit Circles: Beginning this week-
Each group will have a comprehension packet to complete by the end of the book.
Mrs. D’Amore and Mrs. Broken will help guide the group when possible.
Spelling words will come from the chapters we read during the week. I will post the spelling words Monday- there are only 7 spelling words this week.
Students will practice spelling daily with September spelling menu activities
Writing:
Math:
Monday- Chapter 1 test review
Tuesday- Chapter 2 test on place value
Wednesday--Here is a video to introduce Lesson 1
Chapter 2- Addition;
Math Vocabulary: parentheses, associative property of addition, commutative property of addition, identity property of addition, mental math-
Wednesday- Lesson 1- Use the addition properties to add whole numbers- How do you use place value to help with addition of large numbers-
Thursday- Lesson 2- Students will identify patterns in the addition table.
Friday- Students will create and then use games for math centers
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.
Connect to prior knowledge: Discuss usefulness of maps and find maps in the classroom.
Activity: Students will make a map of the classroom.
Religion:
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