Week of December 16, 2019

I hope you enjoyed the Christmas Concert last week. The kids sounded and looked great! Before we get to the happenings of this week I would like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year! Please know that all of us here at SKS are so thankful for you and for your support.

The last week before Christmas break will be FULL of Christmas fun! Here is what we will be doing:

- No homework this week except to study for tests. Merry Christmas!

- There will be a short test on Fact Families on Tuesday. The test will be exactly like the review sheet that we did in class today.  It should be in their homework folder. 

- There will be a spelling and reading test on Thursday for 'How Leopard Got His Spots'.

- Field trip permission forms and money are due tomorrow. Special thanks to Mrs. Pachioli, Mrs. E. Buckley, and Mrs. O'Donovan who will be our chaperones on the trip.  There's still one more chaperone slot if anyone is available.

- Report cards will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign the envelope and return it. You may keep the report card. Thanks!

- We will be doing different Christmas activities this week, including decorating our classroom door for the door decorating contest.  We will definitely be putting our imaginations to good use! Today's lesson for some was on how to blow up a balloon.

- Friday is our bowling trip with our 8th grade buddies.  Please make sure your child has a morning snack or money for a pretzel that they can take to eat at the alley. Pizza and dessert will be provided for lunch when we get back from bowling. Please refrain form sending in gifts for buddies. We made them Christmas cards :)

- Friday is a dress down day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down. If your child doesn't dress down they can wear their gym uniform to school since we will be going on our field trip. Pajamas are also allowed on this day :).

- School resumes on Thursday, January 2nd!

Have wonderful Christmas and New Year!

Our Week

Religion
We will continue Advent and Christmas activities.

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 finish our unit on subtraction this week. There will be a test on fact families.

Week of December 9, 2019

Please Note

- Test folders will come home on Tuesday.  Please sign and return tests.  The 2nd trimester starts today. Report Cards will be sent home next week.

- We will celebrate our Monthly Mass tomorrow at 9:00. All are welcome!

- The K-4 Christmas Concert is this Wednesday night at 7:00 in the Church. Please have your child in the church no later than 6:45. They should dress in their "Christmas Best." You can pick your child up after the concert in their pew.

- We will go to Santa's Secret Shop on Thursday at 1:30. Information and envelopes were sent home today. It is helpful if you fill out the envelope with your child and write how much to spend on each person. You can return the envelope any day this week. You are welcome to come help your child shop!

- Permission forms for our bowling with buddies field trip will be sent home today. The trip is next Friday, December 20th at Sproul Lanes from 9:30-11:30 am and a pizza lunch will be provided.  Last call for chaperones...please email me if interested.  Thanks!


Homework

Monday
Religion: complete Advent paper
Reading: pages 167 and 168
Practice words and read
Math: page 40

Tuesday
Read and discuss How Leopard Got His Spots (Pages 42-66)
Reading:  page 173
Practice words and read
Math: page 41

Wednesday
No Written Homework - Christmas Concert
Practice words and read

Thursday
Reading: pages 174 and 177
Math - page 43


Our Week

Religion
We will continue Advent and Christmas activities.

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. We will review subtraction on a number line and with ten frames. We will work with fact families. There will be a test next week on fact families.

Week of December 2, 2019

Thank you so much for all of the purchases made for our classroom wish list items.  Check out these new auditory feedback reading phones I was able to get through Amazon.  We are looking forward to starting our Tower Garden after Christmas so I will be purchasing supplies for that soon, too.  The new whiteboards have arrived and are waiting to be installed.  I really appreciate all of your generosity and classroom support!

Please Note

The next three weeks are busy and full of holiday fun!  Here are the reminders for this week:

- Please help your child fill out the letter that we will be sending to Santa at the end of the week. Please make sure their handwriting is neat. This is due on Thursday. Thanks for your help.

- We will have a reading and spelling test on the story At Home in the Ocean on Wednesday.

- We will have a subtraction test on Friday this week.  It will only be basic subtraction, subtraction with a number line, and subtraction patterns.  The rest of the subtraction skills will be assessed the week of the 19th.

- We will be going on our bowling field trip with our 8th grade buddies at Sproul Lanes on Friday, December 20th. We will need 4 chaperones (no siblings please). Chaperones will meet us at the bowling alley at 9:30.  We will be finished by 11:30.  If you would like to be in the drawing please email me and let me know. You must have all of your clearances up to date. A pizza lunch will be provided back at school that day so you do not have to order hot lunch for your child on the 21st.

- Next Wednesday, December 11th is the K-4 Christmas Concert. It begins at 7:00pm in the Church. Students are to wear their "Christmas" best and you are asked to drop them off at the Parish Center at 6:30pm.

- We will be going to Santa's Secret Shop NEXT Thursday at 1:30. Information will be sent home this week.  You are welcome to meet us there and help your child shop.

- Please ask your child to check their art supplies and pencil cases. Many kids are in need of new regular pencils, markers, crayons, and colored pencils.  These make great stocking stuffers!

- The first trimester ends this Friday. Report cards will be sent home on the 17th.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Homework

Monday
Reading: page 160
Begin Letter to Santa
Practice words and read
Math: page 37

Tuesday
Read At Home in the Ocean.
Practice words for test
Math: 39

Wednesday
Reading: page 166
Practice words and read
Math: worksheet
Letter to Santa due tomorrow

Thursday
Reading - 165
Copy new spelling words one time
Practice words and read
Math: worksheet

Our Week

Religion
We will discuss the season of Advent.
We will start Chapter 8 - "Jesus Had Many Followers."

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose (Persuade, inform, entertain)
Phonics Skill: Long A, digraph -th, endings (ed, ing, s, es)
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me, my, who
Spelling Words: that, them, then, this, thick, think, bath, with

Math
We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will learn how to check subtraction by using addition. We will also start working with Fact Families. There will be a short quiz on Friday on basic subtraction, subtraction with a number line, and subtraction patterns.