Week of 11/22

Dear Parents,

There are only 16 school days until Christmas break! I cannot believe how fast this year is flying by. This week we will start our new reading unit, learn the long a sound and do Thanksgiving themed activities. We will also have our class party on Tuesday! Thanks to everyone who donated treats and activities! 

I hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving! Please know that the entire SKS faculty and staff are so grateful and thankful for your support!

A few reminders:

- No school on Monday, November 29th!

- No homework this week!

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Miss Tosti

We bundled up for the JDRF Walk with the Principal last Friday! Thanks for all of your donations!

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion
We will continue Chapter 5 this week.

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target SkillT: Fact and Opinion
Phonics Skill: Long A, (a_e and ay) digraph th
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, my, who, me
Spelling Words: that, then, with, cape, name, make, say, pray

Math
We will begin our unit of Place Value. We will focus on learning tens and ones and where they go in the place value "house". We will also practice making tens, teen numbers and numbers up to 40.

Week of 11/15

Congrats to our first Peacemaker of the year, Mikaela Sullivan!

Dear Parents,

We had another great week last week and will keep going strong into the holiday season. Please be sure to have Monday, November 29th marked as a day off on your calendar! This week we will have our last reading and spelling test for our first unit and also will have a math test on fact families. Here are the rest of the reminders for the week:

- We will having a canned food drive all week! Please send in all donations by Friday! Thanks!

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

- 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.

- Friday will be the rescheduled Walk with the Principal to support JDRF! Please send in $1.00 to dress down! We will be outside for quite a bit so please make sure your child is dressed warmly since it is supposed to be cold!

That is all for now! 

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 136

Math: complete worksheet

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 143

Math: wb page 46

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 145

Math: complete test review

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will start 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, sing, all does, they

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

Math
This week we will finish up fact families and have a test on Thursday.

Week of 11/8

 

Dear Parents,

We had the best time on our field trip last week! Check out a few of the pictures :) 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! 

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

- Your child's login information to IXL will be sent home this week! We are waiting on 2 other apps that are funded through the state to come through and will send those logins home as soon as we get them!

- We will celebrate our November birthdays on Thursday! Happy birthday to Maeve, Finn, Adam and Paloma!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 135

Math: wb page 40

Tuesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 137

Math: wb page 41

Wednesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 134

Math: wb page 43

Thursday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 140

Math: wb page 42

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

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

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, sing, all does, they

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

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

Week of 11/2

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great Halloween! We had a fun time celebrating on Friday and the costumes were great! We have a short and busy week with our field trip and conferences.  Since it is short week there will be no homework! Here are your reminders for the week:

- Tomorrow is our field trip to Highland Orchards! The kids can wear their gym uniforms to school and I would make sure they have a coat or vest because it will be a brisk day and we will be outside all morning! We will return and eat a late lunch at school! It should be a great trip!

- As the weather gets chillier please remember to send your child in with a coat, hat, gloves etc.  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 review in school today and tomorrow afternoon when we get back from our trip! 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! If you have signed up for a virtual conference I will send home a conference sheet in your child's home folder and a zoom link on Thursday! Please have it with you for the conference. 

Thursday: in person conference 4:15-6:30pm
                 virtual conference 6:30-8:00pm

Friday: in person conference 9:00am-12:00pm

             virtual conference: 12:00-3:00pm 

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, do, find, funny no
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, step, sled

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 10/25

Dear Parents,

It was great to see you at the Saints Presentation on Friday and some of you at the Fall Social on Saturday! 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:

- If you did not sign the permission form or pay for the field trip next week please do so by this Wednesday! Congrats to Mrs. Hepp, Mrs. Judge, and Mrs. Colfer who were picked to be our chaperones! Thanks to all of the volunteers!

- For the first 3 stories we kept the sight and spelling words to 6 each so that they kids could get used to studying them and to prepare for the test. Since they have been doing such a great job we will now do 10 sight words and 8 spelling words per story. 

- If you have an extra pair of headphones at home could you please send them in for your child sometime this or next week? They are very helpful when we use the chromebooks! They will be returned at the end of they year. Thanks!

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

- 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 over their gym uniform. Our parade will begin at 8:30 if you would like to come see us! 

- Just a reminder to mark your calendar for Conferences next Thursday night (11/4) and Friday (11/5). Please note conferences are optional and will be held in person and virtually.  Please make sure you schedule it in the correct time block:

Thursday: in person conference 4:15-6:30pm
                 virtual conference 6:30-8:00pm.

Friday: in person conference 9:00am-12:00pm.
             virtual conference: 12:00-3:00pm

- Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, November 1st for the feast of All Saints Day!

That is all for now!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 120

Math: wb page 38

Tuesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 122

Math: wb page 36

Wednesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 119

Math: wb page 37

Thursday

Reading: RN page 128

Math: complete worksheet

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, do, find, funny no
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, step, sled

Math

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

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

St. Joan of Arc

St. Kateri

St. Patrick

St. Nicholas

St. Adam

St. Francis of Assisi

St. John the Baptist

St. Monica

St. Catherine of Siena

St. Catherine of Siena

St. Francis of Assisi

St. John the Apostle

St. Rose of Lima

St. Samantha

St. Rose of Lima

St. Philomena

St. Michael the Archangel

Week of 10/18

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. A link will be sent out to you!

- The 7th grade will be selling popsicles for $1.00 at recess on Tuesday and Wednesday to raise money for Cases for Smiles. (Rain date will be on Thursday) Raffle tickets will also be sold for a chance to win variety of different prize baskets. Informations will be sent home Monday or Tuesday!

- 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.

- If you have not done so, please use this link for our field trip permission slip and payment. Chaperones will be picked this week!

Saint Presentation reminders:

          - The presentation will be at 9:00am on Friday! Family members are welcome in church, but 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. 

          - The presentation will be live streamed on the Parish Youtube page.

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

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 110

Math: wb page 31 and 32

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 116

Math: wb page 33

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 113

Math: wb page 34

Thursday

Reading: study for test tomorrow

Math: wb page 35

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 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!

Week of 10/11

We practiced adding on a number line using our dice last week!

Dear Parents,

Hope you had a great weekend. We have a busy 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!

- Please send an old t-shirt to be used as a smock for art class by Friday!

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

- School pictures will be on Thursday. Please send in your forms this week or complete them online. 

- We will have a math test on Friday finishing up our unit on addition. We will do a review in school on Thursday. 

- Mark your calendar for the our field trip to Highland Orchards on Wednesday, November 3rd! More information will be sent home soon.

- Our monthly virtual Mass will be on Friday at 9:00am. The first grade will be attending the mass in church this month. Please join us in church or virtually on the SKS Parish Youtube page!

- If you haven't signed up for SKS Trunk or Treat you can do so HERE

That is it for this week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 105

Math: workbook page 29

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 107

Math: workbook page 30

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 113

Math: wb page 27

Thursday

Phonics: page 118

Math: wb page 28, review for test

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.