Dear Parents, March 18, 2013 We are starting theme 8 in our reading series – Our Earth. Our reading strategy this week is “summarizing”. The comprehension skill that will help with summarizing is categorizing or classifying. Paying attention to what is the same or different in […]
This week in grade 4: Math: We begin chapter 8 “Algebra and Patterns” Spelling: Unit 29, Students have these words in their homework folders every Monday, they are also on Spelling City Science: We begin chapter 8 “Electricity” Students will be given the new vocabulary words on Monday. They are also on Spelling City Social […]
Dear Kindergarten Families, So many shamrocks arriving in class-showing lots of reading going on! Tickets are mounting up for our class. Continue to read and record on log-as well as listing title on shamrock and your child’s name. Shamrock Reading Web/Log This week have your child report on one favorite book, illustrate […]
The 6th grade is studying the Old Testament in religion and the Ancient Israelites in history. We just finished reading about the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. In history we are examining early biblical history, including the Exodus and the Passover celebration. The class viewed a Seder plate with Hebrew writing […]
Our faith focus: Becoming aware of our feelings and how others feel. We know Jesus had feelings and He forgives us when we are sorry. Reading from our Children’s Bible taught us about Zaccahaus, the tax collector and how Jesus forgave him. Discussions and illustrations followed as we told of many ways to forgive others […]
Dear Second Grade Parents, It was great to see all you enjoying the students displays at the School Fair. We were glad to see most of our Flat People at our School Fair. We had two flat students come in on Friday. We can’t wait to see our two other students soon. The boards […]
Dear Fifth Grade Families, The class is looking forward to our first field trip to Ronald Reagan Library. Students will be wearing their uniforms. Students are to bring a disposable sack lunch and a drink. We will be returning to school at 2pm. The entire class did a wonderful job with the Palmisano Writing Contest. […]
Dear Third Grade Families, It was a pleasure to see this year’s fantastic solar system projects. Bravo! Every year they seem to get better and better. Tuesday morning Mrs. Hoffman will sharing the Harvest of the Month with third grade! We will be sampling different types of beans. This week marks the closing of Trimester […]
It was good to see so many of you last week at our school fair. The students did a wonderful job on their projects! We celebrated all the hard work by digging into Raquel’s mission cake. It was delicious! During religion we are focusing on the Beatitudes. Today we discussed, “Happy are the poor in […]
Dear Kindergarten Parents, It is finally here. Our first bus field trip. Today we are going to learn outside of school — and it will be a lot of fun! Green Thumb will show us many types of plants-from fruit bearing trees and vegetable plants to landscaping vegetation. We will also look at soils and […]