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Week of February 6, 2012

February 16-21 – Mid Winter Break

February 22 –    Ash Wednesday

February 23 –    Pretzel Bake Sale

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK WAS A SUCCESS!

What a great week! We had several new families visit the school on Sunday, the students brought in clothes for St. Vincent DePaul, created crazy hats to show off their Faith, Academics and Service, brought misc. items and

made cards for our soldiers, celebrated Vocations Day by dressing up in what they feel God may be calling them to do, and had an all-day read-in to end the week on Friday!

Thank you so much Mrs. Dewan for the awesome apple pies, Mrs. Achatz for the delicious ice cream and cupcakes, Mrs. O’Neill for the fabulous chili and Mrs. Clinger for the superb Skyline Chili!

I would also like to thank everyone that was involved in the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon! Everything was so delicious and it was set up so beautifully! It was nice to be able to eat together as a school and church staff.

Science

We are currently in the middle of our science unit on life cycles. The students have planted pea seeds in soil and in a ziplock baggie so that we can see the root system.

We have been tracking their growth and noting changes that we have seen. We will now be looking at the life cycle of a fruit fly!

Social Studies

We have finished Unit 2 and will be starting Unit 3 on Monday. The focus of Unit 3 is on how and when Michigan becomes a state.

Math

Both classes are finishing their chapters in math on Monday. Both grades will have their test on Tuesday and new chapters will be started on Wednesday. Please continue to help you child practice their multiplication facts

nightly as we will continue to have timed tests on multiplication.

Religion

3rd graders will be learning how we are members of the church and what their role is in the church. The 4th graders will be studying The Commandments and how they help us to love God.

Language Arts

Our 3rd graders finished their book Chalkbox Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla and created their own master pieces out of chalk! They are beautiful! They will continue to read the stories in their Spotlight on Literacy.

Our 4th graders are still enjoying Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis and will be reading Sounder by William H. Armstrong after.

The students did a wonderful job on their book report and writing piece. They were able to share these pieces with the class at the end of last card marking. These reports and writing pieces will be added to their “portfolio” and

will be handed back at the end of the year.

The students will be finishing their Kindergarten Reading Buddy biographies this week and they will be sharing them with their buddies next week. They are doing a wonderful job sharing their love of reading with the kindergarteners.

Valentine’s Day

We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon on the 14th before art class. The students will be making a Valentine holder in art class prior to that and will be using it to collect their Valentine cards. 

Just a reminder ~ we have a total of 8 students in class.  Thank you to all those that volunteered to send in treats!

God Bless,

Mrs. Frederick

 

 

 

Week of January 9, 2012

Happy New Year!

We have been very busy in our 3^rd and 4^th grade classroom!  We have finished our Sound Unit in science and the children did an awesome job constructing their instruments and they thoroughly enjoyed playing “Mary had a little lamb” with their classmates!

We will begin our unit on Plant and Animal Life Cycles this week.  We will also be incorporating our science fair project into this unit, which will be presented during Catholic Schools Week.  I’m sure they will have just as much fun with this unit as they did with the unit on Sound!

Our focus in Religion is on the Liturgical Year and Ordinary time.  Our students will be learning about how the Church year celebrates Jesus and how we remember and celebrate the life and teachings of Jesus.

At this time of year I like to also include literature circles in our reading program.  Our 3^rd graders will be reading the Chalkbox Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla and our 4^th graders will be reading Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.  Each group will be completing a culminating activity when the books are finished.

Adventures are the focus in our Writing Workshop.  Our students are publishing their Adventure writing pieces as well as writing their adventure book report summaries this week.

The students will also continue to work on paragraph writing skills in Writing Workshop and will be interviewing their Kindergarten Reading Buddy so that they can write their biography.  This will be a lot of fun for them and their buddy!

Thank you for all your support and prayers for our school and students!

Have a Blessed New Year!

Mrs. Frederick

Week of December 12th

Well, the students just brought in their instruments that they made for our science unit of Sound.  They did a wonderful job designing  and constructing them.  They even played "Mary Had A Little Lamb"!  They really had a lot of fun sharing theirs and checking each other's out.