Week of 5/9

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great Mother's Day and weekend! The kids loved making their gifts for you! Thank you so much for making last week so special for all the teachers! I loved my gifts and truly appreciate your generosity and kindness. There is no better community than SKS!

Last week we finished our third reading unit. This week we will start our fourth reader, but will be doing things a little differently to end out the year. For this last reader, we will do one story a week. Sight words and spelling words will still be given and should be studied, but they will not be "formally" tested. We will continue to take the reading tests as practice but they will not count as a grade. We decided to do this to keep the kids engaged with new stories and words each week! 

Here are the other reminders for the week:

- Test folders will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 17 on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- Be on the look out for an email about the May Procession next week! The students usually wear their winter uniform unless the weather looks too hot. It might be a good idea to pull one out or visit the uniform closet at school.

- If you haven't filled out the permission form or paid for our bowling field trip next week please do so by Friday. You can do both at this link: https://stkatharineofsiena.factsmgtadmin.com/form/Tmtnk9KsB?i=&authToken=__token__

- The chaperones for the trip will be: Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Schuh, Mrs. DeLisi, Mrs. McGurkin and Mrs. Rogers! Thanks so much for volunteering!

- I will be taking a personal day for a wedding on Friday. Ms. Tricia Boyes will be in for me! If your child is going home a different way please send in a note for Tricia or call/email Mrs. Condello with the change.

Important May/June dates:

May 14th - Father Daughter Dance
May 17th - May Procession
May 19th - 1st and 8th grade field trip to Devon Lanes 
May 25th - School Mass
May 26th-30th - Ascension Thursday and Memorial Day Weekend break!

June 7th - Doughnuts with Dudes

June 17th - Closing Mass by the first grade! This was rescheduled from May.

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday
Reading: page 80
practice Magic Words
Math: complete worksheet

Religion: study for test

Tuesday

Reading: pages  88

practice Magic Words

Math: page 90

Religion: study for test

Wednesday

Reading: page 81

practice Magic Words
Math: complete worksheet

Religion: study for test

Thursday

Reading: page 87

Math: page 92

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will start Chapter 17 on Baptism and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "The Garden"

Target Skill: Story Structure

Phonics Skill: -ar controlled vowel, review -or

Grammar: pronouns

Magic Words: few, night, loudly, window, story, shall, world , noise

Spelling Words: far, arm, yard, art, jar, bar, barn, bark car, yarn

Math

We will continue learning about 2D shapes and start learning about 3D shapes.