Weekly Letter  

Dear Parents, 9/8/25

This Tuesday from 6:30-7:00 pm is our Back to School Night! It’s always nice to get the chance to see everyone.  

This Friday there is no school because all of the teachers in the diocese will be at the Mater Dei for the diocesan convocation. 

We have now begun Unit 1 of reading workshop and the reading skills that our students will be learning and practicing each day. Please remember that we’ve also begun writing down the teaching points (known in our planner as TP). The teaching point is the skill that I modeled, we practiced in class that day, and the skill that I am asking the students to practice at home during their nightly reading. Please review the teaching point in addition to the phonics/word study words that the students already should be reviewing each night. We will begin the weekly Friday phonics tests this Thursday. It will cover phonics from the week in many different forms. 

We have also shortened the stamina chart reminder in our planners at the end of the day to SC (short for stamina chart) and TP (teaching point). The 10 minute reading homework is a minimum, not a maximum. Many students are already reading for much more! I can see it on the stamina charts. Please remember to have your child return completed stamina charts and get new charts. I’ll show them off once we get them and they’ll get a sticker each time they complete a chart.

The tests this week are: math (chapter 1) and grammar quiz on Wednesday and spelling (lesson 4) and phonics on Thursday.