Dear Third Grade Families, Congratulations to Jacob, Jessica and Maria for completing the sacrament of First Reconciliation last Wednesday! We look forward to your upcoming First Communion. In more exciting news, our class finalists have been selected for the school Speech Contest. Representing the third grade will be: Sophia, Jessica, Diego, Aliyah and Christian. All […]
Sixth grade has been studying earthquakes. We have learned how to use seismograms of the primary and secondary seismic waves to pinpoint an earthquake’s epicenter. Last Thursday, we used what we’ve learned about building safety and designed our own buildings out of toothpicks and marshmallows on a base of jello. Then, we put them to […]
Dear Parents, April 22, 2013 Our reading strategy this week is evaluating. The comprehension skill that will help us with evaluating is story structure. Knowing the setting, the characters, the problem, and solution in the story […]
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week I have two book responses for your child and two math pages — counting coins. Understanding the value of each coin is a difficult concept for young children. In kindergarten we learn to count pennies, nickels and dimes. Please list books read or listened to on the reading/web log. If […]
The 6th grade class enjoyed a spectacular day at the Getty Villa in Malibu. With the sun shining we spent the day surrounded by antiquities ranging in age from 4,000 to 2,000 years old. A few highlights were the actual villa with marble floors and hand painted ceilings, gold jewelry, and many marble statues of […]
The 7th grade just finished reading Dragonwings by Laurence Yep. It is the story of young Chinese boy who sailed from China to join his Father in America. The two had never meet. The class learned a great deal about the discrimination the Chinese people endured in the early 1900’s. On the lighter side, the […]
This week in fourth grade: Math: time and measurement Reading: Unit 6, Stories of the Earth and Sky Spelling: Unit 32 Social Studies: List 7 TEST on Thursday, week 23 Transcontinental Railroad Science: Our focus is electricity. The chapter 8 vocabulary test will be given April 25th. Religion: This week we begin our “Family Life” […]
Dear Second Grade Parents, I hope you are all as excited about this week as I am. First Reconciliation will be on Wednesday, April 17th. Our class will walk over to church at 12:50 to begin promptly at 1:00. You will be sitting with your child so please meet us in church. We have free […]
Dear Third Grade Families, Please remember to turn in your field trip permission slips for our schoolwide visit to the Ojai Storytelling Festival on Friday, May 3rd. Each student was given a permission slip to take home last week. In more field trip related news, we have scheduled two more field trips! We will be […]
Dear Fifth Grade Families, Everyone had a wonderful time on Friday with In and Out here! It was great to see so many families here. This Wednesday will be a free dress day for a $1.00 donation. This Friday is a noon dismissal. Our field trip permission slips are due this Friday. Every night your […]