Sept.19, 2025

Dear Parents,

On Monday, we will have several ladies visit from the parish’s  Rosary Project.  They have so kindly prepared little decade rosary kits that the students will put together.  These will be kept here at school so we can use them to pray with.  Throughout the year, we will visit the Holy Family Chapel on Monday mornings to pray a decade of the rosary.  I will let a couple of students lead us each week after we get used to this style of praying.  The decade rosaries will come home at the end of the year.  I will be inviting  Fr. Adam to our classroom for a little visit so that he can bless the rosaries and talk about the significance of doing so. 

Please practice Math facts and handwriting in fun ways at home!!  You can use SO many exciting methods:  chalk, sand, playing cards, ABCYA.com Matth Bingo, etc. 

Also, it is exciting to see how much the students are reading at home.  The books that they are reading are great too!  The more they read, the better reader they become.  Also, their confidence and LOVE for reading just blossoms! 🙂 Many students are borrowing some of my books.  I DEFINITELY LET KIDS BORROW books!!!!!

Weekly Highlights:

• TWO of our butterflies emerged on our fog day!!!!  This surprised me as I thought that they would wait until Thursday.  🙂Yesterday, we were fortunate enough to see another chrysalis split open and the adult butterfly appeared.  All three of those were females making our total count 5 female/ 0 males!!!!!!!!  “Baby” is our last chrysalis possibly making an appearance as a butterfly on Monday.

• We have been learning about Creation this week.  Ask your child who God created last and why.  😁Also, ask if God thinks that we are “good”.

• The students have been writing fabulous Math sentences this week!

Religion -Holy Trinity; Adoration; Mass

Math - counting “on” using story problems and number lines; commutative property (6+3/ 3+6); adding “0” and “1” to find the sum; Math Fun (+)

Science/ S.S./ Health - (nothing special this week)

ELA Skills - Tricky words:from, word, are, were, have, one, once, do , two; nouns that name things; digraphs “ch” and “sh” (I will be teaching hunk and chunk jingles.); progress monitoring

ELA Knowledge -; identifying characters, settings, plot, and moral of various folktales; vocabulary words: advice, mischief;satisfied,  “The Crowded Noisy House” (folktale having a rabbi as the main character), “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”, “All Stories Are Anansi’s” (African folktale)

Author - Steven Kellogg

Enjoy the warm weather!!

Mrs. Greer