Week of 11/16

Congrats to Madison, our first Peacemaker this year!

Dear Parents,

We had another great week last week and will keep going strong into the holiday season. Please be sure to have all of the upcoming days off marked on your calendar. Thank you so much for being so flexible and giving us some days to meet with each other and plan. We truly, truly appreciate your support! Here are your reminders for this week:

- Thank you so much for purchasing my Scholastic Book Wish List! It was the best surprise to get the box last week and we have been having so much fun reading our new books! You guys are the best!

- The work for today can be found below and in the email I sent out. Please have your child complete the activities today. 

- Dress Down Day on Tuesday for Jenna's Blessings Bags. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

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

- There will be a math test on fact families and mixed addition and subtraction on Thursday. We will be reviewing all week.

- There will be a reading and spelling test on Friday this week.

That is all for now! 

Miss Tosti

Work for Monday, 11/16

Reading
1. Log on to Kids A-Z and click on "Assignment". Your child should do the following for both books:
- listen to the story
- record themselves reading the story
- take the quiz

2. Optional practice: StarFall - go to the mouse and review all short vowels or play other games!

Math
1. Log on to Seesaw and complete: Fact Family Practice

2. Log on to IXL. Go to "From Your Teacher" and complete activity J.4 "Addition and Subtraction Facts- up to 10" under Math.

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will begin Chapter 5 "Jesus Teaches Us About Love".

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Sight Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take,

Spelling Words: sun, bus, but, run, fun, us

Math
This week we have a test on fact families and mixed addition and subtraction on Thursday.

Week of 11/9

 Dear Parents,

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to meet with me for conferences. Communication between the teacher and parents is crucial to the success of your child and I appreciate you giving up your time.
The kids have already grown so much since September and it is exciting to see their reading skills develop and grow. We will start learning long vowel patterns after we finish this story and start our second reading unit! Here are your reminders for the week:

- Our Virtual Monthly Mass for November will be on Tuesday at 9:00 am. All are welcome! (Virtual students may sign on at 10:35.)

- Chapter 4 Religion test will be on Wednesday. A study guide was sent home today.

- On Friday, the kids will record their Christmas Concert song! Please send them to school dressed in their Christmas/Sunday best! You do not have to send in a change of clothes. 

- Reminder there is no school on Monday, November 16th!

- Please make sure you have the apps Seesaw, IXL and Kids A-Z downloaded for your child at home! It is a good idea to start checking their Seesaw 1-2 nights a week to see what we are doing in school and to fix some mistakes on assignments that I will be sending back to them. Kids A-Z is also great for practicing reading at home! The kids know how to use both of these! This will be good practice for the two virtual days after Thanksgiving. 

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

We practiced subtraction a lot of the last two weeks!

We loved using our dice to roll and subtract!

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 4 and have a test on Wednesday.

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Sight Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take,

Spelling Words: sun, bus, but, run, fun, us

Math
This week we will learn about Fact Families and practice relating addition to subtraction! 

Week of 11/2

Dear Parents,

Even though Halloween this year was a little different, we still had an AWESOME day! The costumes were great and we loved watching the video and seeing all the costumes! Here are your reminders for the week:

- As the weather gets chillier please remember to send your child in with a coat, hat, gloves etc. We will still be trying to get outside as much as we can. Don't forget to label everything too! Thanks for you help with this!

- We will finish up the story "Dr. Seuss" but there will be no reading or spelling test this week.

- There will be a math test on subtraction on Thursday. We will do a review in school on Wednesday. The kids have been doing really well with it!

- No school on Friday due to Parent/Teacher Conferences. I look forward to meeting with you all! I will send home a conference sheet with your child tomorrow or Wednesday. Please have it with you during the conference. Again, I am happy to meet with anyone any night this week too if your scheduled changed! 

- Just a reminder that there will be no school on Monday, November 16th for a teacher in-service day. Thanks!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will start Chapter 4 "Jesus Works Among the People"

Reading

Story: "Dr. Seuss"
Target Skill: Graphic Features and Biographies
Phonics Skill: Short e sound and -s blends
Grammar: Antonyms
Sight Words: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write, 
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get

Math

We will have a test on subtraction this week on using a number line, word problems, and finding the missing part. We will do a review on Wednesday.

Week of 10/26

Dear Parents,

It was great to see you in person at the Saints Presentation on Friday! The kids did such a great job and I am so proud of them. We hope you enjoyed it! Check out the pictures of their fabulous costumes below! We will close out October this week with some Halloween fun on Friday!  Here are your reminders for the week:

- Thank you so much for the helping your kids make the sweet birthday cards and for the flowers and gift! It was so sweet and thoughtful and a great way to start off my birthday weekend!

- If your child has to be virtual, please use the "Virtual Information" tab to help them log them on! 8:40am is the start time each day! Please note you will not be able to get on the meeting until I start it!  The PDF of worksheets for the week will be posted under the virtual tab each week. The pages are marked by day so you know what to print for each day! If you would like to pick up their books please just let me know. I can also print out the PDF for you if you'd like to pick it up! I know it is a lot of ink!

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please return them on Thursday!

- We will have a Religion test on Chapter 3 on Thursday. A study guide was sent home today.

- On Friday, we will celebrate Halloween! The kids can come dressed in their costumes. We will do a small craft and watch the Halloween Parade at the end of the day. You can watch the parade on the SKS School YouTube channel!

- Just a reminder to mark your calendar for Virtual Conferences next Thursday night (11/5) and Friday (11/6). A sign up on Option C in now available. Please note that conferences are not mandatory this year. If next Thursday or Friday do not work for you, I am happy to schedule a conference with you any night this week or next, please email me and let me know!

That is all for now!

Miss Tosti

Saint Mary

Saint Nicholas

Saint Francis

Saint Margaret

Saint Francis

Saint Clare

Saint Francis

Saint Francis

Saint Theresa

Saint Olivia

Saint Michael the Archangel

Saint Nicholas

Saint Bede

Saint Rose

Saint Cecilia

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 3 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "Dr. Seuss"
Target Skill: Graphic Features and Biographies
Phonics Skill: Short e sound and -s blends
Grammar: Antonyms
Sight Words: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write, 
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction! This week we will focus on using a number line to count or hop back.

Week of 10/19

We learned some yoga this week!

This is our Warrior 3!

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! We had some great practices last week for our Saints Presentation. We will have 2 more this week before our big event on Friday! Please continue to practice at home too! Some more information regarding Friday can be found below with your other reminders!

- The Virtual Scholastic Book Fair is this Week. You can shop for books from October 19 - November 2. You can shop HERE.

- Math test on Tuesday on addition on a number line, sums of 10 and adding 3 addends.

- Thursday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- Reading and Spelling test on Friday on a Musical Day.

- Reminder there will be no school on Monday, October 26th!

- Saint Presentation reminders:

          - Our class' presentation will be at 10:20am on Friday! Mrs. Thornton's class is before us. Please allow them to clear out before you enter the church. Please make sure you are wearing your mask and socially distanced in the pews.  

          - The kids are to come to school dressed in their costumes over their gym uniforms (sneakers are fine).

          - Please make sure robes are not too long as we will be walking to and from the church. Also, bobby pins tend to not keep veils on so if you can attach them to a headband that would be great. 

          - All 3 presentations will be live streamed on the Parish Youtube page.

- If you could do a supply check in with your child this week that would be great! Lots of them are running low on pencils with erasers, glue sticks etc. Thank you so much!

That's all for now! Hope to see you Friday!

Miss Tosti

Our "reading fingers" turned into witches fingers last week!

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will continue Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family. We will have our Saint Presentation on Friday!

Reading
Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends 
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop

Math

We will finish up our addition unit this week and have our test on Tuesday! Then we will begin our unit on subtraction. We will learn about the minus sign, counting backwards and most importantly, that the bigger number always goes first in subtraction!

We had so much fun doing science with our pumpkins!

They did a great job!

Week of 10/12

Dear Parents,

Hope you had a great weekend. We have a busy week this week and are cruising along through October. Please continue to review sight words, math facts and read at home! There are a lot of reminders this week, so please be sure to read them all!

- Winter uniforms start today!

- Test folders will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign and return them with the tests in the folder on Wednesday.

- On Wednesday, we will be "picking" pumpkins from the convent lawn! On Thursday, we will use our pumpkins for science class! Pumpkins will be sent home Thursday or Friday!

- School pictures will be on Thursday. Please send in your forms by then. There will be no class picture this year.

- To accommodate all families the Saint Presentation will be done by each class on Friday, October 23rd. Each student will get to read a short sentence or two about their saint from their report. I will send it home this week so they can practice at home! Information regarding timing will be sent out as soon as Mrs. Thornton, Miss Rooney and I figure out the logistics with this new format. Look for an email tomorrow or Wednesday. 

- Our monthly virtual Mass will be on Friday at 9:00am. Please join us on the SKS Parish Youtube page!

A Peek at Our Week:

Religion

We will begin Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family. We will start practicing for our Saint Presentation!

Reading
Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop

Math

We will finish up our addition unit this week. We will focus on adding 3 addends and finding doubles and sums of ten to help up. We will also work with simple word problems. There will be a test on Friday on adding on a number line, adding 3 addends and word problems. We will do our Test Review in school on Thursday. You can use this to study at home that night.

Week of 10/5

 Dear Parents,

Happy October! The kids are settling in and have been doing a great job. I cannot believe we are finished with September already. October will certainly fly by as well. Here are your reminders for this week:

- Information about the first grade Saints Celebration was sent home last Friday. Each child may choose any saint they want! The report will be due this Friday, so please work on it this week. Please make sure the report and the picture are done neatly. Don't forget to have your child practice reading their report because they will be sharing it with the class for a grade. The Saints Celebration will be on Friday, October 23rd at 9:00 am in the Church. Each child is allowed to bring 2 people to the Church that morning. The rest of the school will watch virtually.

-Kindergarten has invited us to their pumpkin patch!  Farmer Bob from Sugartown Strawberries will be delivering pumpkins and setting them up on the convent lawn.  Each child will get to pick a pumpkin to bring home, followed by a pumpkin craft in the classroom.  The cost will be $5.00 per child.  Please send $5.00, cash only, by Friday, October 9th.  Thank you!

- The schedule for Star Student will be sent home this today! A folder with directions will be sent home with your child the week prior with all the information you need!

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 2 on Thursday.  A study guide will be sent home today.

- There will be a Spelling and Reading test on Friday for our story "How Animals Communicate." 

I think that is all for this week! Please let me know if you have questions about anything!

Miss Tosti

We practiced reading our story with our reading phones last week!

The kids did a great job pointing to the words as they read!

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion: Chapter 2 - "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity"

We will finish up Chapter 2 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "How Animals Communicate"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details

Phonics Skill: Short I sound and R blends

Grammar: Nouns and commas in a series

Sight Words: animal, how, make, of, some, why

Spelling Words: in, will, did, sit, six, big

Math

This week we will continue with addition and learn how to use a number line to solve problems. If you practice at home, please have your child start at the larger number!