January 2-6

Happy New Year!!! I hope that all of you had a super holiday and vacation.

Thank you so much for all of the nice gifts I received. I appreciated all of them. Thank you for those who participated in bringing or coming in to our Christmas Party. The students really enjoyed the day.

The second quarter has ended and we are now beginning the 3rd quarter. My has the time flown by...Report cards will go home on Friday. This is a good opportunity for you as parents to remind your child how important it is that they do their best each and everyday in school. Effort grades are recorded according to returning students readers, completing assignments and homework. Conduct is a reflection of your students behavior in and out of class. Please refer to the conduct rubric if you are unsure of the grading.

In reading we have finished our 3rd reading series and we will begin our 4th reading series which is a hardback book. Please only read the assigned story of the week. Going ahead can cause confusion because we preview and build background knowledge ahead of time.

In Science we will begin the Weather. We will be discussing temperature and season change.

Our Changing World will begin the Social Studies chapter.

In Religion we will be discussing what happened after the birth of Jesus.

In spelling we will continue to work on short vowel sounds. This weeks words will be with short U. Instead of doing challenge words we will be doing dictation sentences. Two sentences each week. The students have already been introduced to dictation.

Timed tests will be combining subtraction and addition facts to 12. Keep working on this at home.

On Friday we will be having an All School Mass at 8:15. Dismissal will be at 12:30.

Remember to have planners signed for Wednesday. I am not counting tomorrow but if you did that is great. Hope you all have a great week.

Thank you and God Bless You!

In math we will start working on math facts up to 18.