Greetings and Happy New Year. This is a wonderful time to thank God for all the things we have in our lives, especially our children. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and vacation. Thank you to all of you for the many gifts I received. I loved them all. It was very thoughtful of you and I appreciated them. Thank you to all who helped or sent food for the Christmas Party. The children had a great time.
The 2nd quarter has ended and we are now beginning the 3rd quarter beginning on Tuesday. Can you believe it? Report cards will go home on Friday. This again is a great time to remind your children to always do their best work. This quarter I will be giving effort grades randomly on written/coloring work completed in the classroom. I am hoping this will help with your child's neatness. Just a reminder: the Effort grade includes returning readers, returning homework and completing assignments.
We will have an all-school Mass on Friday at 8:15. Dismissal will be at 12:30.
In curriculum we have started the 4th Reading series. The reader is a hardback book. Please do not go ahead with your child to read more stories. When your child has read the story before I have introduced it the introduction to the story gets lost. Thank you for your cooperation. In Science we will be studying the weather. In Math we will start a new unit with math facts to 18. In Social Studies we will begin a unit on Our Changing World. In Religion we will be discussing what happened after the birth of Jesus. In Spelling we will be working on short u words and we will be starting dictation sentences instead of challenge words on the spelling tests. The students have been introduced to dictation. In P.E. we will be starting a bean bag unit. Timed tests will be combining subtraction and addition facts to 12. Some students are not showing much improvement. Please work on this daily at home. There should be progress if you are working at home on flashcards.
VOCABULARY WORDS
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I hope you have a great week. Your child did not bring home their planner. I asked them to leave them at school. If I am not at school on Tuesday it is because I have jury duty. I am hoping they do not need me. GOD LOVES YOU!
