After 12 heated rounds of spelling competition on Friday afternoon, this year’s Spelling Bee Champion was identified–6th grader, Gisele! Congratulations to all of the Spelling Bee participants with special attention given to this year’s winner! Her next opportunity to compete comes in the Ventura County Spelling Bee held at CSU Channel Islands in March. Good […]
Dear Parents, January 7, 2013 We are starting theme 5 (Home Sweet Home) in our reading series. Our reading strategy is questioning and the comprehension skill that will help us with that strategy is compare and contrast. We will practice this skill using a Venn diagram. Our phonics […]
Congratulations to our five students who made us very proud last Friday by participating in the school Spelling Bee. Erin, John, Siobhan, Regina, and Renee, we thank you for your hard work! You all did great!! All parents should have received a letter explaining the next book report. If you did not get this, please […]
January 7, 2013 One of the grade 4 LA Archdiocese standards for religion is for students to know and understand the Ten Commandments. This week we continue our study of the Commandments with the Fifth Commandment. God tells us in the Fifth Commandment to respect life and to protect it. God wants us to care […]
The middle school classrooms have all been upgraded with new interactive projectors. The teachers are using them for interactive lessons in math, science, language arts, history, and religion. The students complete content related worksheets with the special pens, review CAstreaming movies in various subjects, and many other uses. The middle school teachers have had some […]
Dear Kindergarten Families, Homework for this first week of January is to read nightly and list books on the reading log. Choose one favorite book and report on the story map. Other homework: word search, a print practice paper, and flash cards for adding to ten. If you are interested in the Book-it program download […]
Dear Fifth Grade Families, Happy New Year! I want to thank everyone for the wonderful cards and gifts. I feel truly blessed. I also want to thank my room parents for the Christmas party. The students had a great time. Due to this being a short week we will not have a spelling test this […]
Dear Second Grade Families, Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed your family and friends during this special season. I would like to thank all of you for the special cards and gifts. I would like to send a special thank you to our room parents who made our class celebration a success. The […]
Dear Kindergarten Parents and Families, Happy New Year! I m sure all of you made wonderful memories with family and friends during the Christmas vacation. I appreciate the thoughtfulness from all my kindergarten families – for the Christmas cards and gifts — thank you so very much! Our Christmas party was festive and crafty, a […]
Dear Parents, January 2, 2013 Happy New Year! I hope that you all enjoyed a peaceful, restful, and blessed Christmas. I want to thank everyone for the wonderful gifts and warm thoughts sent my way – I truly felt the blessings of the season. A new year – and what […]