Week of 12/13

Dear Parents,

I hope you enjoyed the Christmas Concert last week! The kids looked and sounded wonderful. We hope it put you in the Christmas spirit! We have a busy full week so please read all the reminders! Here they are:

- We will start a new story this week and the long vowel e. 

- We will have math test on Wednesday on place value. A review will be sent home for homework.

- Report cards will be sent home tomorrow. Please remember that these grades are a reflection of your child's work in school along with their test scores. You may keep the actual report card at home. Please just sign and return the envelope. If you have any questions please let me know!

- On Thursday morning we will go to Santa's Secret Shop! Please mark the envelope with who your child is shopping for and how much to spend on each person. It is really helpful to me and the volunteers! You can send your envelope in anytime before Thursday! Thanks!

- Friday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down. Thank you!

- We are still collecting socks for the homeless if you would like to donate some this week! 

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti 

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 166

Math: workbook page 64

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 168

Math: complete test review

Wednesday 

Reading: RN page 167

Math: no homework

Thursday

Reading: RN page174

Math: complete worksheet

A Peek At Our Week

Religion
We will continue talking about the season of Advent and Christmas. We will also start Chapter 6 "

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: chin, chop, much, rich, cheer, three, beach, teach

Math

We will continue have a test on place value on matching place value blocks to the number they represent, identifying digits in the tens and ones place, and finding the value of digits.

Week of 12/6

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a nice weekend! I thought virtual school went pretty smoothly last week. Thanks again for your help and patience with it! We have another busy week here with the Christmas Concert and no school on Wednesday!  Here are your reminders for the week:

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

- No school on Wednesday due to the Holy Day!

- Thursday will be the K-4 Christmas Concert! The kids should wear their Sunday/Christmas best to school on Thursday morning. Please no jeans. There will be two shows, one for parents of K-2 and another for 3-4. If you have a child in both of those grades please choose which show you would like to attend.

          - Performance 1 - 9:15-10:00 am

          - Performance 2 - 10:45-11:30 am

- The 7th grade will be doing a sock drive for the homeless. If you would like to donate socks please send them in this and next week. Thanks for you help!

- There will be a spelling and reading test on Friday. The spelling words are more difficult with the long vowel patterns so please be sure to study! 

- We have our Monthly Mass on Friday at 9:00! All are welcome!

- Report cards will be given out next week.

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 159

Math: workbook page 59-60

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 154

Math: wb page 61 and 63

Wednesday - NO SCHOOL

Reading: 

Math: 

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Math: wb page 66

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will continue to talk about the Advent season and the meaning of Christmas! We will finish up Chapter 5 and take the test together in school.

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

Math

We will continue our unit of Place Value. We will focus on identifying the value of digits, writing expanded form and building numbers with place value blocks.

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