This Week's News:

Dear Parents,

      This week I will start working on the Prayer Service with the students and speaking parts will be randomly chosen (I will pull names). Unfortunately, every child will not have a speaking part, but they will all have the opportunity to go up on the altar in church as a class and sing a song for you!  If your child has a reading part, please have them practice reading it slowly and clearly. Our first practice will be April 28th. By this time we hope that they know their part so well it is almost memorized!! 

       We would like to ask everyone to please practice the "End of Year" prayer that will be recited in the Prayer Service and songs they will be singing. These will be coming home in their folders this week. They will practice the songs in music class also, but please have them recite the "End of the Year" prayer as part of their nightly homework when we return from the break!

    This week we will have our own re-enactment of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday, and will be learning more about the very important days in the church calendar that begin with Holy Thursday and continue through Easter Sunday in our Religion books. Thank you again for your help and encouragement of almsgiving that has been taking place with the students in our class! We will continue to collect "Change for Miles" through this Wednesday. I hope you all have a very blessed and holy week and Easter, and have a wonderful week off of school! Please remember, our Easter break begins this Friday!

                                                                            Sincerely,

                  Mrs. Mahtook

Reading level reminders:

  If your child is reading at or below a "C" level at this point please be diligent about practicing all sight words that have been introduced and practicing their reading daily with the books we send home. Books on-line can be found on the website Epic or Raz Plus. The public library also has leveled books you can choose from and/or any books you may have at home are great to use. We work on reading strategies in class and reading sentences and short books, but the one-on-one practice that they can get at home will be so valuable for them. Please continue reviewing your child's sight words from this 3rd period, and from the 1st and 2nd periods regardless of their reading level. By the end of the year, they will have to be, at least, on a level C, and should be on a D. Be proud of how much they have accomplished in the first half of this year; we are!!

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Save the Dates:

Zoo field trip- April 20th

The next formal Benchmark Reading assessment will be April 21st and 22nd

(your child will stay home one of these days).

The Kindergarten Prayer Service will be the morning May 20th in the Cathedral.