News for the Week of March 8-10

Post date: Mar 5, 2021 9:10:09 PM

A few reminders:

1st Eucharist Retreat is this Saturday, March 6 at 9:30 a.m. via Zoom.

School will dismiss at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, 3/9. There is no school on Friday, 3/10.

Report cards for the 2nd Trimester were sent home on Friday, March 5. Please sign and return ONLY the envelope. The report card is yours to keep. If I need to meet with you regarding your child's progress I sent you information to sign up online. If you did not receive it, I have no concerns. If you feel a need to meet, please let me know and we can make arrangements.

This week in Reading our main selection is Fire Fighter! We will review Fact and Opinion and identifying Important Ideas in nonfiction text. Vocabulary words to know from the selection are: building, burning, masks, quickly, roar, station, tightly. Our weekly Reading Test will be on Thursday.

Our phonics and spelling focus this week is on the suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -or, and -ish. This week's list of Spelling words for Thursday's Test is:

cheerful

weekly

hardly

quickly

visitor

teacher

graceful

fighter

slowly

helper

yearly

sailor

beautiful

neighbor

This week in English we will begin a Writing Workshop and start a descriptive writing project.

We will have a Math assessment for Topic 10 on Monday, then begin our work on Topic 11: Subtract within 1,000 using models and strategies.

Please continue to encourage work at home on iReady Reading and Math lessons. Students who will be receiving the Sacrament of First Eucharist should also be working together with parents in their book The Gift of Eucharist provided by Dr. Antos. Ideally, all the short lessons in the book should be finished by mid-April.

Spring is right around the corner and the kids are really enjoying their outdoor recess time together. Please send outerwear appropriate for the day's weather because we will go outside every day unless it is too wet.