Mar. 20, 2026

Wow, another Friday has come!!!!

I cannot believe that I am saying this, but next week is our last week before Spring Break!!  If your child has completed the cross project that I sent home on Ash Wednesday, please have them return it so we can decorate our room with their “beautiful choices”.  Showing their “good choices” in class, the kids have worked to take off almost all of the “thorns” in the cross.  THERE IS ONE LEFT and then they can start adding gems.

The last day to earn points for AR prizes is Thursday, April 30!  Therefore, keep your child interested in AR and motivated to READ at home.  Honestly, this has been another wonderful year of excellent reading improvement!!  I still believe that the AR program benefits your child’s development of reading skills!!

Grade cards came home today!   Also, your child is bringing home assessment result packets from their benchmark Math testing.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

We will be going to Mass on Wednesday, March 25 (not Thursday) for the celebration of  the Annunciation.  We celebrate this nine months before Christmas as it is the announcement by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive the Son of God, Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.  On Thursday, the 8th graders will be leading us in the Living Stations of the Cross.

Weekly Highlights:  

*Our “buddy class” came to play with us this morning!!  It was incredible seeing the two groups play and interact together!!  🙂

*We had an exciting field trip to see ”Alice in Wonderland” Monday morning!!  The characters even came out to see us as we were leaving!  

Next week:

Religion - decades; Brother Francis/ reflection booklet; Adoration; Mass on Wednesday at 8:35am; Living Stations on Thursday 

Math -  3D shapes; attributes of shapes; find “faces” of shapes and ability to roll/ stack;  Math facts +/-

ELA Skills - reader; adjectives; begin descriptive paragraphs (some group work included to gather detail information)

ELA Knowledge - vocabulary words: stationary, emperor; Aztec farming and ruler;  “The Floating Gardens of Xochimilco”, “In the Palace of the Emperor”

Author- Patricia Polacco

Welcome Spring!        

Mrs. Greer