Week of 12/9

Dear Parents,

Happy second week of Advent! The kids are certainly excited for Christmas and we have been talking a lot about the true meaning of Christmas and how it is not about giving or receiving "things." We talked about how we can give love and kindness as gifts to honor the baby Jesus too. The Christmas Concert will certainly get you in the Christmas spirit Wednesday night :). Here are your other reminders:

- The 2nd trimester starts today. Report Cards will be sent home on Tuesday next week.

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

- The K-4 Christmas Concert will be Wednesday night at 7:00pm in the Church. Please have your child in the Church no later than 6:40 pm. They are to dress in their "Christmas Best." Please no jeans or sneakers. You can pick your child up after the concert in their pew. Please make sure I (or Miss Panaro) see you take your child :). Half of our class will sit on the right side and half will sit on the left.

- We will go to Santa's Secret Shop on Friday at 10:30 am. 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!

- Our bowling field trip with our 8th grade buddies will be on Friday, December 20th at Sproul Lanes. Permission forms were sent home today. Please return them with the payment by next Tuesday. I will need 4 chaperones (no siblings please). Chaperones meet us at the alley at 9:30 am. We will be finished by 11:30 am. Let me know if you are interested and want to be in the drawing! You must have all clearances in and up to date. A pizza lunch will be provided when we return to school so there is no need to order hot lunch that day.


Stay warm!

Miss Tosti

Last week in Math, we learned about Fact Families and how addition and subtraction are related to each other. We loved playing "Fact Family Roll" to practice writing all four math facts!

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 168

practice Magic Words

Math: page 42

Tuesday

Reading: page 174

practice Magic Words

Math: page 43

Wednesday - No Homework - Christmas Concert

Reading: 

practice Magic Words

Math: 

Thursday
Reading: page 169
Math: complete worksheet

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will start Chapter 6 "The Church Year."

Reading
Story: "How Leopard Got His Spots"
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Phonics Skill: Long E, digraph -ch, -tch
Grammar: Statements and Commands
Magic Words: hold, been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very, good, full, friend
Spelling Words: chat, rich, much, fetch, cheer, beach, here, these, three, year

Math

We will continue to work with fact families this week and practice relating addition and subtraction. Next week there will be a short test on fact families.