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Kindergarten Weekly Update 6/3
Looking Ahead:
Thank you to all the chaperones that joined us on our field trip to Sea World. It was a fun field trip and a great way to finish our year!
I can’t believe this year has flown by and they will be moving onto first grade. Fly up day will take place tomorrow morning, Tuesday, 6/4. They will get to spend a little time in the first grade classroom and will be able to ask some questions.
Kindergarten Promotion Information:
We will be having our end of the year Promotion Celebration on Thursday, June 6th at 9:30 AM. Please send your child to school dressed in their Sunday best at our regular start time, 8:00 AM. After the Promotion Celebration the students are dismissed and do not have school the next day. June 6th is Kindergarten’s last day of school.
There will be no homework for this last week of school. Please return any of the books that were sent home in the book bags. The sight word rings are for the students to keep and continue to practicing over the summer break. Please continue to have your child read over the summer. This is extremely important and helpful in making sure they don’t lose any of the great reading skills they have learned!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at .
Dates and Reminders:
- Tuesday, 6/4: Fly Up Day
- Wednesday, 6/5: Half Day: Dismissal at 12:00 PM
- Thursday, 6/6: Promotion Ceremony at 9:30 AM-Kindergarten’s Last Day of School
3rd Grade – June 3rd, 2019 – Mr. Fishburne
4th Grade Weekly Newsletter 5/31
Weekly Newsletter
Here’s a look at our last week of school:
On Thursday, we will have our end of the year class party. Please click here to view the sign up sheet.
Religion: Review of Units 1-4
Language Arts: Finish Wonder Novel Study
Math: Module 5 Review and Assessment
6/3 Monday: Math Module 5 Assessment
6/4 Tuesday: P.E.
6/5 Wednesday: 8am Mass (formal uniform required), 12noon Dismissal, 3pm 8th Grade Graduation Mass and Ceremony
6/6 Thursday: Please bring a bag to take home school supplies, 10:45am Class Party, 12noon Dismissal
6/7 Friday: 8am Mass, 10am Dismissal
Ms. Egan’s Newsletter 5/27
Greetings, Middle School Families,
Over this next week, students in all grades will be engaged in creative writing projects to be shared with their classes next Tuesday and Wednesday. No work at home will be required for these projects.
*7th graders will have serving practice for the 8th grade dinner this Tuesday at 2pm (during school).
*Permission slips for the 8th grade retreat are due on Wednesday. Drivers needed!
5th and 6th Grade language arts classes will doing a “Fractured Fairy Tale” storytelling project. Students will be in groups of 4 storytellers with each student assigned a separate storytelling role. The goal is to collaborate and create a “fractured” fairy tale (in the spirit of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs). Groups will share their stories with the class next week. In addition, students will finish up their spring writing in their last few writing lab classes.
7th grade language arts is doing a quick poetry project. Students have chosen a poet and will research to create a flip book about their poet. Flip books will be shared next week.
8th grade language arts is doing a storytelling jigsaw. Students will randomly pick a character, setting, and conflict and create a story from it. 8th graders will also do a few practices for graduation this week.
Looking Ahead:
Friday, May 31: Blue & Gold Dance (all middle school grades)
Monday, June 3: 8th Grade Retreat (8:30 – 12:00 at Dixon Lake) & Parent vs. 8th Grade Games/Potluck (1:00 – 2:45)
Tuesday, June 4: 8th Grade Dinner @ 5:30pm (8th grade’s last day of school)
Wednesday, June 5: 3pm Graduation Mass, 4pm Graduation; Early Dismissal
Thursday, June 6: End of the Year Parties; Early Dismissal
Friday, June 7: Last Day of School! (10am dismissal)
4th Grade Weekly Newsletter 5/24
Weekly Newsletter
A look at next week…
Religion: Unit 4 Review
Language Arts: Wonder by RJ Palacio
Math Groups A and B: Module 5 Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations
Topic F: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions by Decomposition
Students will:
- Subtract a fraction from a mixed number.
- Subtract a mixed number from a mixed number.
- Subtract mixed numbers.
Math Group C: Module 5 Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations
Topic H: Exploring a Fraction Pattern
Students will:
- Find and use a pattern to calculate the sum of all fractional parts between 0 and 1. Share and critique peer strategies.
Social Studies: Chapter 7 Joining with the Nation
Review and Assessment
Changing Land
Students will:
- Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
5/27 Monday: No School
5/28 Tuesday: P.E.
5/29 Wednesday: 8am Mass (formal uniform required), Wonder Quiz
5/30 Thursday: Team Day, Religion Unit 4 Open Book Test
5/31 Friday: P.E., Spelling Test, 2:15pm Rosary
Kindergarten Weekly Update 5/20
Looking Ahead:
Kindergarten Promotion Information:
We will be having our end of the year Promotion Celebration on Thursday, June 6th at 9:30 AM. Please send your child to school dressed in their Sunday best at our regular start time, 8:00 AM. After the Promotion Celebration the students are dismissed and do not have school the next day. June 6th is Kindergarten’s last day of school.
Reminders:
Thank you to the parent volunteers that sit with our class at Mass on Wednesday mornings. I appreciate the help. Please remember that you are there to help the children maintain appropriate Mass behavior and that all the children need to be treated equally. We need to assure this for fairness to all the students that don’t have parents present. It is not always possible for you to sit near your child as it is necessary for me to spread the parent volunteers out as necessary. The children are not instructed to hold hands during the Our Father prayer. When I get up to help with the gifts and to receive Holy Communion, please help keep the students quiet and facing the altar.
Please continue to send back the “Book Bags” every Friday. I will send new books home every Monday if they are returned. Please continue to have your child read to you. These books should be practiced many times throughout the week, before they are returned on Friday. This will count as time for their reading log each night. There will also be a key ring with sight word flash cards attached in the “Book Bags.” These should be practiced nightly as well. I will add words to the rings as necessary.
Please have the students read a sheet of the sight word sentence homework nightly. They may color in 1 star after reading the page in entirety. Please have your child write at least 1-2 sentences on the lined writing paper each night using their sight word sentences and inventive spelling. They may rewrite one of the sentences provided or create their own new sentence. This is a part of their homework, this is not optional. They must write a minimum of 4 sentences for the week.
We continue practicing reading sentences with the use of pictures and our high frequency words. This week we will review all the sight words we have covered. It would be helpful to keep the small books that come home each week and have them practice as review of all the words we have learned. It is great practice for them.
Please continue to read at least 15 minutes every night with your child and fill out the reading log. Please keep the reading log in their home folder on the “return to school” side. I will be checking for completion each morning, and stamping the log to track whether or not the assignment was done each night. This way, I can assign an accurate grade for the reading log. I will collect the reading logs each week on Friday. A new log will be sent home every Monday.
Share Schedule:
Monday: Abigail, Andrew, Christian, Elise
Tuesday: Matthew, John C., Kyle, Liam
Wednesday: Moises, Agnes, Anthony, Cassy
Thursday: Dayvin, Emmett, Frank, Jayln, John M.
Friday: Lia, Lorenzo, Mia and Zach
**I will have a bin outside the classroom for the share items in the morning. Please only have your child bring an item to share on their scheduled day. If they forget, they do not bring something the next day, but instead they will wait until their next scheduled share day. Thank you for your help with this. The children may share books, gifts, and stories. Weapons and other such items may not be brought to school. Likewise, fragile items should not be sent to school.
All of our students have had the chance to be our Super Star Student! Thank you for putting their books together to share with the class. I am picking a random daily Super Star Student each day in the morning who will be the line leader, prayer leader and calendar helper for the day.
What we will be covering this week:
- Religion: We Pray as Jesus Did
- Math: Adding and Subtracting Numbers (Garfield Math), Number Sentences, Count the Ten-Way
- Reading: Panda Kindergarten, Help Clean Up, Let’s Save Earth, Who Can Help?, Save Big Blue!, Protect the Environment
- Language Arts: Essential Question- What ideas can you suggest to protect the environment?
- Grammar: Blend Words with long vowels, and , Pronouns, Question Words (who,what,where,when,why and how) and Opposites
- Phonics: Review Long Vowel Sounds (A, E, I, O and U) High Frequency Words: come, does, good, who, where, look ,play, has, help, too, this, what, here, me, said, want, they, of, for ,she, was, little, with, he ,are, my, to, do, you, is, go, and, like, you, a, we, the, I, can, see, at, am
- Social Studies: California Symbols
- Science: Animal Habitats and Arctic Animals
Dates and Reminder:
- Friday, 5/24: Rosary at 2:15 PM
- Monday, 5/27: No School: Memorial Day
- Thursday, 5/30: Team Day: Students may wear jeans and their St. Mary Spirit Shirt
- Friday, 5/31: Rosary at 2:15 PM
- Tuesday, 6/4: Fly-up to 1st Grade- The students will go “fly up” to the next grade in the morning to get a glimpse of what the next grade brings!
- Wednesday, 6/5: Half Day: Dismissal at 12:00 PM
- Thursday, 6/6: Kindergarten Promotion Celebration 9:30 AM (Dismissed after Promotion Celebration)
- Thursday, 6/6: Last Day of School for Kindergarten/Half Day for Grades 1-8 Dismissal at 12 PM
2nd Grade Newsletter
4th Grade Weekly Newsletter 5/17
Weekly Newsletter
A look at next week…
Field Trip: Thursday is our field trip to Riley’s Farm! We will be leaving school promptly at 8am. Please have your child to school on time. Students should wear their P.E. uniform with the gold shirt and P.E. shoes. They need to bring a disposable lunch as well. We are planning to be back by 3pm, however, that depends on traffic. Once we leave, I will map the route and post our ETA on Class Dojo. Thank you!
Religion: Chapter 26 We are Called to Discipleship
In Chapter 25, the students learned what it means to be a member of the worldwide Catholic Church. In this chapter, they will learn about the theological and Cardinal Virtues and come to see that everyone is called to be a disciple.
Language Arts: Wonder by RJ Palacio
Math Groups A and B: Module 5 Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations
Topic F: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions by Decomposition
Students will:
- Estimate sums and differences using benchmark numbers.
- Add a mixed number and a fraction.
- Add mixed numbers.
Math Group C: Module 5 Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations
Topic G: Repeated Addition of Fractions as Multiplication
Students will:
- Represent the multiplication of n times a/b as (n × a)/b using the associative property and visual models.
- Find the product of a whole number and a mixed number using the distributive property.
- Find the product of a whole number and a mixed number using the distributive property.
- Solve multiplicative comparison word problems involving fractions.
Social Studies: Chapter 7 Joining with the Nation
Students will:
- Explain changes to transportation and communication between California and the East.
- Describe the role of the Pony Express, Overland Mail, and Western Union.
- Describe the building of the transcontinental railroad.
- Identify changes brought by the first transcontinental railroad.
Changing Land
Students will:
- Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
5/21 Tuesday: P.E.
5/22 Wednesday: 8am Mass (formal uniform required)
5/23 Thursday: Riley’s Farm Field Trip
5/24 Friday: P.E., Spelling Test, Religion Ch. 26 Test, 2:15pm Rosary
