May 8, 2026

Happy Friday Parents,

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you moms!!!  The kids made you something that I think you are going to treasure!!!  🙂

We have been learning more about our Heavenly Mother this past week. Today, we honored Mary with the all school May Crowning!  It was nice seeing so many of you there!  

Every month, our school has learned and put into practice a virtue (good habit).  This month, the virtue is magnificence.  We now understand that the story Daniel in the Lion’s Den is a great example of this virtue, doing great things for God!!  In addition, St. Maximilian Kolbe and Mary (the first saint) help us understand how to live out this good habit!!

Monday is an out of uniform for $1.  If students choose to participate, they can wear out of uniform bottoms with a gray or green SMS t- shirt.  We are having a school clash of colors with classes assigned to a certain color of our t-shirts!  FUN!! 🙂

Monday is also the 4th quarter PBIS party of extra recess and popsicles.  ALL OF 1A IS ATTENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!  YAY!!!!!

Hopefully your child told you about the FIRST GRADE COUNTDOWN which began May 6.  Everyday, I pop a balloon and we find out what is special for that day by reading the little card inside.  Wednesday was writing with a new pen ALL DAY.  Yesterday was 1st grade extra recess with chalk, etc.  Today, the first grade sat wherever they wanted in the first grade lunch section.  It is so nice to interact with the other homerooms!! 

Weekly Highlights:  

*We learned the “Hail Mary” prayer with hand motions!

*Sandy and Luna, the little eaglets, have grown so much this week! 🙂

Next week:

Religion - decades; Adoration; Mass; Pentecost

Math - continuing to add 2 digit numbers; Math facts +/-

ELA Skills - reader; finishing Spelling words: *was, trucker, kitten, duck, add, offer, planned, parked; r sound spelled “r”, “rr’, and “wr”; l sound spelled with “l” and “ll” ; writing/ illustrating their own end of year booklet

ELA Knowledge - vocabulary words:  launch, determined, abundant ;  “History of Space Exploration and Astronauts”, “Exploration of the Moon”, “The Solar System, Part 1”

Author- Peter H. Reynolds

Happy Mother’s Day!

Mrs. Greer