Dear Second Grade Families, Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! A reminder that we have a full day of school on Friday. We continue receiving information about different parts of our country; thanks to all the flat host families. We will soon be sending Thanksgiving cards to our hosts. Be sure to contact the […]
Dear Kindergarten Parents, What an eventful week we had! The science lab and lesson through the Discovery Center was excellent. Your children found out how meal worms react to light, odor (peppermint), rough surface, and water. Click link (Family Letter) below to read all about their program. A hard copy will come home in the […]
We have an exciting week ahead!! Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 13th, fourth grade will be exploring Rancho Olivas Adobe in Ventura. This will be an exciting day of applying what we will learn about California’s rancho period. Students will be shown what life was like on a real adobe rancho during the 1800’s in California. We […]
Dear Parents, November 13, 2012 We will be finishing up theme 3 in our reading series this week. Our reading strategy is “questioning”. Before reading a story, we look at the cover, the title and the pictures and make a prediction about what the […]
This past week in Religion, first grade learned four different types of prayer – Praise, Asking, Thanks, and Sorry. In class we did a group project to illustrate what a Praise prayer, Asking prayer, Thanks prayer and Sorry prayer look like. We took our group illustrations and added them to our Religion board in our […]
As we participate in this Year of Faith, Kindergartners are in the process of creating a book reflecting their faith in God. In addition to our book, each month we are adding a new prayer to our daily prayer routine. We learned Hail Mary in October and Our Father is our prayer in progress for […]
The middle school students discussed the reason for the much anticipated day off on Monday November 12. The purpose of the day is to honor our veterans. Each student wrote a thank you letter to a veteran. The letters are then distributed to veterans through Bank of America’s Wounded Warrior project. The letters expressed many […]
During the month of November the middle school classes celebrate the saints in several ways. The 6th grade researched a saint of their choosing and then designed a tombstone and wrote an epitaph summarizing their amazing lives. The 7th grade researched a saint as well and then wrote a eulogy celebrating the life and accomplishments […]
Dear Kindergarten Parents, This week homework is to read and practice number words (from last week’s homework). Please download and print the reading / web log and number word search page. Look for the pizza reading log to print out– noting your child must read for 80 minutes per week. Color a pizza each week […]
The sixth grade continued learning about the Agricultural revolution today during history class. Two presentations were given to the students about ancient foods that are still eaten today. The presentation focused on the importance of agriculture to all civilizations from ancient Sumeria to today in Ventura. The class heard about the farming methods used today […]