Week of 12/4

Grandpa Todd came in to tell us a story called "Animal Land" that has been passed down through his family for many years!

Mrs. Ryan read us some books after too!

Dear Parents,

The next three weeks are busy and full of holiday fun! Please be sure to read all reminders and mark the dates on your calendars. Here are the reminders for this week:

- The second trimester begins today. Report cards will be sent home sometime next week.

- We set up our Reading Eggs accounts last week and started to play. The kids really enjoyed it! Their login and password can be found in their Home folder next to their FIM information. We will continue to use it in school and it will be assigned for homework. The kids can use it at home whenever they want!

- The permission for our bowling field trip will be sent home today. Please return the permission form and money ($20 cash/check) by Monday, December 11. I will need 5 chaperones to meet us at Sproul Lanes. If you would like to be in the drawing please email me or send me a note. Thanks!

- We will be going to Santa's Secret Shop on Tuesday at 2:00pm. Please send your child's envelope in by Tuesday marked with who they are buying for and approximately how much to spend on each person. If you would like to come in and help your child shop that is fine!

- We will have a reading and spelling test on the story "At Home in the Ocean" on Thursday this week.

- There is no school on Friday.

- Please ask your child to check their art supplies and pencil cases. Many kids are in need of new pencils, glues sticks, index cards etc. It would be a good idea to get some new supplies over the long weekend break. Thank you!

- A reminder that next Wednesday, December 13th 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. I promise it will get you in the Christmas spirit!

That is all for now!
Katie

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 154
complete Letter to Santa

practice Magic Words

Math: page 40

Tuesday

Reading: page 156
complete Letter to Santa

practice Magic Words

Math: page 41

Wednesday

Reading: Letter to Santa due
study for tests tomorrow

practice Magic Words

Math: page 42

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We 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
Magic Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me, my, who
Spelling Words: that, them, then, with, this, bath, seven, and, here, she

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will continue practicing how to check subtraction by using addition. We will also start working with Fact Families.