Week of January 29, 2018

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 10 on Friday. A study guide will be sent home.

- For Valentine's Day we will decorate bags in school to put valentines in. Please do not
send in any boxes. Also, please remember that no candy is to be attached to valentines.

Catholic Schools Week Schedule

Monday - "Learn"

- Spelling Bee for grades K-4 from 1:15-2:15 in the gym. We will be cheering on Alex!!!

Tuesday - "Serve"

- We have assemblies from the Radnor police and fire fighters, Jenna's Blessings Bags,
Cradles to Crayons, St. Edmond's Home and make cards for them.

Wednesday - "Lead"

- In the afternoon we will do STEM activities with our buddies!

- We will also say a decade of the rosary with our buddies in Church.

Thursday - Crazy 8s Day!

- Students can accessorize their gym uniform with 8 crazy items! Socks, hats, etc.

- We will also play Minute to Win it Games

Friday - Spirit Day!

- Students can wear blue and white to school or EAGLES gear!

- Student vs Teacher basketball game

- 12:00 pm dismissal

* All week we will be collecting cans for the Souper Bowl of Caring Collection. *

Homework

Monday

Religion: study guide

Reading: page 196

Practice Sight Words

Math: 61

Tuesday

Religion: study guide

Reading: Copy spelling words one time

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: 62

Wednesday

Religion: pages 128 and 129, study guide

Reading: page 198

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: 63

Thursday

Religion: page 130, study guide for test tomorrow

Reading: page 204

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: 64

Our Week

Religion

We will continue with Chapter 10 - "Jesus Sends the Holy Spirit" and have a test on Friday

Reading

Story: "The Big Race"

Target Skill: Cause and effect

Phonics Skill: Long O and review Long A, soft c, g, dge

Grammar: Verbs and time

Sight Words: four, five, into, over, starts, three, two, watch, where, those, saw, round

Spelling Words: came, late, make, gave, page, brave, shape, faced

Math

We will continue our unit on place value this week:  identifying tens and ones, expanded form
and finding the value of digits.

Week of January 22, 2018

Please Note

- There will be a Reading and Spelling test on Friday.

- Catholic Schools Week opens with Mass on Sunday at 9:30. All are welcome!

There will be a lot going on next week so I will send home a schedule this week

so you can plan accordingly.

Monday

Reading: worksheet

Practice Words

Get tests signed.

Tuesday

Reading: page 189

Practice Words

Math: page 58

Wednesday

Reading: page 186

Practice Words

Math: page 59

Thursday

Reading: review story and study sight and spelling words for test tomorrow

Math: page 60

Our Week

Religion

We will start Chapter 10 "Jesus Sends the Holy Spirit".

Reading

Story: "Seasons"

Target Skill: Cause and effect

Phonics Skill: Long I, digraph -sh, -wh, -ph and contractions 's and n't

Grammar: Subjects and verbs

Sight Words: down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow, many, pull, because, want

Spelling Words: ship, shop, which, when, whip, fish, this, trash

Math

We will start our unit on place value this week. We will learn about the tens and ones

place and practice identifying tens and ones in numbers.

Week of January 16, 2018

Please Note

- Sorry there was not a blog last week with reminders.  As a result, we had 5 students dressed down
on a mass day.  In the future, please keep in kind that the children are not permitted, as policy from
the front office, to dress down on mass days.  Thanks!

- SKS will be participating in Jump Rope for Heart with the American Heart Association. Information
about the program will be sent home today.

- Test folders will be sent home Thursday.  Please sign and return on Friday

-Wednesday is a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 on Wednesday so I can send the collection
to the office.  The children should wear their gym uniform on Wednesday as usual and can then
dress down on Thursday instead.

- There will be a Chapter 9 Religion test on Friday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- SKS Trivia night will be Saturday in the Parish Center!

Homework

Tuesday

Math - 46

Reading - 183

Religion - study guide

Practice words

Wednesday

Religion - 116 and 117, study guide for test Friday

Math - worksheet to review for test Friday

Reading - Practice words

Thursday

Religion - 118, study guide for test tomorrow

Math - worksheet to review for test tomorrow

Reading - Practice words

Our Week

Religion

We will finish Chapter 9 "Jesus Died and Rose to New Life" and have a test on Friday.

Reading

Story: "Seasons"

Target Skill: Cause and effect

Phonics Skill: Long I, digraph -sh, -wh, -ph and contractions 's and n't

Grammar: Subjects and verbs

Sight Words: down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow, many, pull, because, want

Spelling Words: ship, shop, which, when, whip, fish, this, trash

Math

We will finish our unit on subtraction this week. We will review subtraction on a number line
and with ten frames. We will finish working with fact families. The test will be Friday.

Week of January 3, 2018

-  I just wanted to take a minute to thank you all very much for your generosity over the Christmas season.  Your thoughtfulness is appreciated!  I hope you had a fun and relaxing break with your families.

-  In picking up where we left off before break, we will have our reading test for How Leopard Got His Spots this Friday.  We will review in class but if you have a minute please review at home AGAIN.  So sorry we never got to this before break!

Homework

Wednesday
Reread How Leopard Got His Spots.
Practice Words
Math - 42

Thursday
Practice Words
Math - 43

Our Week

Religion

We will start Chapter 9 "Jesus Died and Rose to New Life".

Reading
Story: "How Leopard Got His Spots"
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Phonics Skill: review short vowels, digraph -ch, -tch
Grammar: Statements and Commands
Sight Words: hold, been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very, good, full, friend
Spelling Words: chin, chop, much, chip, rich, chick, catch, watch


Math
We will continue our unit on subtraction this week and working with fact families.  We will have a subtraction test later next week.