Grandparents Day Link

https://forms.gle/eENwnnNyCLQ815Mu9 

 Above is the link to sign grandparents to visit IHM on Monday, 3/25.  Please be sure to read carefully follow all directions on the form. If your child will be leaving with their grandparent(s) after mass, please send us an e-mail stating that change of dismissal for the day. 

World Showcase Sign up link:

From the newsletter: 

Complete this form to save your space https://forms.gle/UpjfokFDz3Z8avQ89 

If you aren’t able to share this year please save the date to come out and attend! February 27, 2024 from 6:30-8pm in the gym.

Continuing with our celebration of all, IHM staff is excited to bring the IHM Cultural Showcase for the first time this year. We are hoping to showcase the diversity of our school community through a sharing of the family cultures and traditions represented at IHM. Is your family of Polish descent? Perhaps you have music to share. Does your family represent German, Japanese, India, Egyptian, or any other culture? Whatever cultural background your family celebrates we want you to share it with IHM. Please consider celebrating your family's background with the greater school community, All families participating will have a table in the gym and an opportunity to highlight their own family heritage in any way they wish. Some ideas could include sharing a family tradition, a unique dance, music, song, food, holiday, clothes or textile, etc. As little or as much as you would like to share would be welcomed. This is an event we plan to hold annually and hopefully see grow over time.

Parent Presentation 

We are grateful to have been able to reschedule our parent presentation, originally scheduled

for October, with Mrs. Danyele Dove. She will be joining us on Thursday evening, February 22, 2024 at 6:30 pm in the

lower hall. As a reminder, Mrs. Dove is a school counselor at Archmere and has been working with our faculty and staff

over the last year. She will be talking about diversity, celebrating our differences and accepting all. She will be speaking

within the teaching of our Catholic faith.

Live stream link for Religion Bowl

Monday 1:15

Religion Bowl

https://youtube.com/live/EDqay64_H5c?feature=share

Email sent 1/24/24

Dear Fourth Grade Families,

Next week we take time to celebrate all that is wonderful about Catholic Schools. There is a lot going on, so here's a summary of activities. Please be sure to check the school newsletters for more detailed information. 

Book Exchange = Please bring in all book donations by Friday  (we have not had many donations to date) - See signup for volunteers below

Sunday 

• Mass at 9:00 AM (live streamed)

• School Showcase 10:00-11:00

• What to wear = school uniform

Monday - Celebrating Our Faith

• SEAP (stop everything and pray - praying rosary throughout the day)

• Religion Bowl at 1:15 (live streamed)

• bring in canned goods

• What to wear = school uniform

Tuesday - Celebrating Our Students

• Spartan Games (4th grade is 10:30-noon)

• Bingo at 2:00

• no homework

• bring in canned goods

• What to wear = gym pants and designated shirt (Falkenburg's homeroom wear blue shirts & Clark's homeroom wear white shirts)

Wednesday - Celebrating our Knowledge

• Book exchange (sign up to volunteer https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090E4EA4A92BAAFD0-47053927-18th )

• DEAR (drop everything and read throughout the day)

• bring in canned goods

• What to wear = PJ bottoms and IHM spirit shirts (IHM gear only, no professional sports teams)

Thursday - Celebrating our Staff

• making Valentine cards for local nursing homes

• bring in canned goods

• What to wear = uniform

Friday - Celebrating our School

• Mass at 10:00

• 8th grade/teacher volleyball game

• all canned food due

• What to wear = IHM spirit wear and gym pants (IHM gear only, no professional sports teams)

We are looking forward to a fun week kicking off with Mass on Sunday. Please let us know if you have any questions.

1/18-19 Note from Mrs. Falkenburg

The weather for Friday is being closely watched. If the diocese makes a call that school is closed and it is a cyber day, here is work that the students can be prepared to do. 

Religion = complete any 2 pages in Beatitude packet

Study for chapter 7 test (know how to match Beatitudes) 

Blest Are We extra credit

Math = Study for test on Monday & Tuesday

    Study 11x tables

Science = Study vocab words for refraction - quiz Monday

Complete lab pages 20 & 21

Assignments for Potential “Cyber Snow Day”

Friday, 1/19/2024

READING-   

•  Read the story of Princess Penelope and complete the exercises.  

• Read for 30 minutes. 

ELA- 

• Complete the pages 40 - 43 (Main, Helping and Linking verbs.).

• Go to our Google Classroom and click on the link for poeticpower.com.  Use the Poetry Machine to create a poem about winter.  This means your poem can be about the season of winter or anything related to winter ( snow, snowmen, snowflakes, warm clothes, “winter” food, activities, etc. ) Please share your poem with me.  jclark@ihm.org

Social Studies- 

• Go to the Google classroom and complete the Chapter 2 test. 

• When you have completed the Chapter test, go back to Google Classroom to complete the capitals quiz.

HAVE SOME FROSTY FUN!!!!!!

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Update 1/16 at 12:00pm = due to a miscommunication from admin, no virtual work is required today. A followup email will be coming from Mrs. Morroni shortly.

Thank you to those of you that already completed assignments. We appreciate your hard work..

1/16 Virtual Cyber Day Work

Mrs. Falkenburg

• Math = complete 20 minutes of Moby Max Math + study 9x tables

• Religion = complete online extra credit to study for Chapter 7 test http://www.blestarewe.com/take-a-quiz

• Science = study science vocab words + Conduct a refraction experiment at home. Fill a clear glass with water. Pick 3 items to dip into the water and see how light bends the image. Be ready to share your observations at Morning Meeting.

1/5/24 - Email

Good afternoon Fourth Grade Families,

Today students are coming home with a flyer from our 8th graders who are having a pizza fundraiser. Families may order slices of pizza on several dates including our field trip day on Friday, January 12th. As stated in our permission slip, fourth graders will be eating a late lunch in the classroom on this day and will need a complete lunch (napkins, utensils, snacks etc.) since we will not be going to the cafeteria. Fortunately, the 8th graders will be able to hold pizza for us to eat when we return.

Pizza order forms are due January 10th!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

~Miss Clark & Mrs. Falkenburg

12/20/23 - Email

Here is the link to volunteer for lunch and recess for the rest of the year. Thank you so much to everyone who helped us during the first half of the year. We hope to see you again and add some new faces for the second half of the year.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094DAFA729A2FDC25-46954413-4thgrade

Thanks,

Miss Clark & Mrs. Falkenburg

12/5/2023- E-mail 

Dear Fourth Grade Families,

Here is a link to sign up if you are able to help with this year's Secret Santa Shop. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CA9AD2AABF5C70-46625341-santas#/

Also, a quick reminder that this Thursday is a Spirit Day and please turn in field trip forms ASAP so we can pick chaperones.

Thanks so much!

11/27/23

A note from Mrs. Morroni about afternoon carline

Parents - A few very important reminders about afternoon carline/dismissal.

*The playground is closed during the afternoon carline. We cannot have students and parents playing on the playground and then trying to get back to cars or worse cross the moving car line. Additionally, in nice weather our aftercare often immediately transitions to the playground. 

*Pets, especially dogs, are not allowed at afternoon pick up. There are too many people in too small of a space to accommodate pets. Some parents and students are not comfortable around animals and not all pets get along with one another. For the safety of all please do not bring pets to the afternoon carline. 

*Please ensure that once you have picked your child(ren) up from their teacher that they remain with you unless they are running back inside the school building. Once the bell rings the carline begins almost immediately and all children need to be with guardians in their vehicles. 

Thank you for your assistance in keeping everyone safe. 

Blessings

Tina Morroni

Email sent 11/9

Good afternoon Fourth Grade Families,

We just wanted to send a quick reminder out for a  few upcoming events:

1. Tomorrow, Nov. 10th, is our annual Veteran's Day Ceremony. Students may add red/white/blue to their uniforms. Thank you to all our Veterans and families who support them for your service.

2. Book Fair begins next week. Miss Clark's class will go on Monday, Nov. 13th at 11:20. Mrs. Falkenburg's class will go on Tuesday, Nov. 14th at 11:20. These are our normal library times. The book fair will also be open for parent shopping Mon.-Thurs. at 2:40. If your child has an Ewallet, please make sure they know how much money is loaded.

  https://www.scholastic.com/bf/immaculateheartofmarysch10

Book Fair

Miss Clark's class = Monday, Nov. 13 at 11:20

Mrs. Falkenburg's class = Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 11:20

Link for ewallet: 

  https://www.scholastic.com/bf/immaculateheartofmarysch10

Read-a-thon 

www.read-a-thon.com/readers

code: 3196113

Email reminders from Mrs. Morroni sent 11/2

Good afternoon IHM Families

Dropping in with an end of week update.

1.Just in case you missed the Veterans Day sign up link in the last few Newsletters, the link is here.  Our Veterans Day assembly is next Friday. If you have family members or other special guests that wish to attend please make sure they RSVP at this link by the end of the day tomorrow, Friday November 3, 2023. Our team of teachers organizing the event need to ensure enough tables, treats, and activities for our students and guests for the morning.

2. Our Student Council and the IHM Santa Maria Chapter of the Knights of Columbus are once again collecting new and/or gently used coats for distribution in the area. If you have any gently worn and outgrown coats please send them in with your child and they will be collected by the Student Council over the next week. Thank you

3. And lastly…. You’ve seen it on the calendar… You heard about it during Back to School Night…Now is the time… the 3rd IHM Read A Thon officially kicks off tomorrow. We are so excited and looking forward to another wonderful Read A Thon. For families new to IHM, the Read a Thon is an every other year fundraiser, organized by HSA, that runs for 2 weeks. It gets students excited about reading! Students and families can choose to participate as little or as much as they wish. Some families may select to participate only in the reading/logging of minutes, other families may select to only be involved in the donations, while others participate in both aspects of the event. In the past we have raised between $40,000-60,000 so it has been very successful.

There will be lots of winners! Just as in the past, there will be winners for students reading and logging minutes as well as winners for students raising money. Small prizes such as gift cards, gift certificates, HS Swag and other items will be pulled every afternoon from students with minutes logged since the previous day or money raised since the previous day. Grand prize winners (the most money raised and the most minutes read) at various grade clusters will have the chance to win Apple watches, game systems, tablets. etc. 

The Read A Thon kicks off tomorrow. Your child should have already brought home a sheet with a QR code and a website for setting up their page. Our first goal is for 100% page set up participation. Even if students don't log minutes or even if students don't collect any money - the company will give us as an organization extra money if we have 100% page set up. Everyone that  sets up by tomorrow afternoon (the first day of the Read A thon) will be entered for a chance at a $100 gift card. To be drawn during our Kick off assembly tomorrow. 

The Kick off assembly is tomorrow afternoon at 2pm with a brief assembly in the gym. Students will get the chance to hear about logging their minutes, learn about some of the prizes they can win, and get excited about reading so they can earn prizes. In years past the HSA sponsored a Pop Up 'TAG" Day to kick off our two weeks of reading fun! The funds from tomorrow’s pop up TAG Day will feed the money machine that all participating students (minutes logged and donations collected) will get a chance in a drawing to get into and win money.  

As always we are grateful to HSA for all of their support. We would not be able to do what we do if it were not for all of the support of the HSA and each of you parents supporting the HSA! Please feel free to reach out to Amber Acaro (hsa@ihm.org or ambermarie343@yahoo.com)  with any questions about Read A Thon. 

Email sent 11/1

Good afternoon Fourth Grade Families,

We hope your Halloween was filled with lots of fun memories. Thank you to our parents who came to help out with our party, and to everyone who came to the parade. We always appreciate all the family support we receive to help make these special days extra memorable.

Just a quick reminder that the sign up for our Veteran's Day ceremony is due by Friday.

https://forms.gle/mqB7PBEqqXgDtYSR7 

Also, tomorrow is a Spirit Day. If your child would like to participate they can wear uniform pants with a team shirt. Bring in $1.00.

Finally, students are bringing home an outreach letter about IHM's food collection for Thanksgiving

Email sent 10/27

Good afternoon Fourth Grade Families,

There is a lot happening over the next few days so here's a snapshot of events:

October 30: If you sold 5 or more items in the Joe Corbi Fundraiser, your child may dress out of uniform Monday, October 30th. There is a list of students at the bottom of this email. 

October 31: On Halloween, there will be a parade for PreK-4th grade beginning at 9:30am. Students may come to school in their dress down clothes with their costumes in a bag. We will change before the parade. In the afternoon, we will have our first class party! Thank you to all our homeroom parents and volunteers who have been busy planning a fun time for our fourth graders.

Week of 11/13-11/17

Book Fair - Students will attend the book fair during this week, and purchase books. You can use this link to set up an e-wallet where money can be added. Please print out the ewallet amount so students know how much they have to spend (or write it on a piece of paper). More information will be sent out as the date approaches. https://www.scholastic.com/bf/immaculateheartofmarysch10

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and hope to see you at the parade!

Take care,

Miss Clark & Mrs. Falkenburg

Joe Corbi dress down kids: 

Emma B

Thomas

Cara

Riley

Cassidy

Trevor

Isla

Timothy

Mitchell

Caroline

Kenna

Finn

Wyatt

Seraphina

Madison

Kyle

Olivia

E-mail from Mrs. Flanagan 10/24 regarding Scholastic Book Fair 

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 12:21 PM Katie Flanagan <kflanagan@ihm.org> wrote:

Hello Everyone!!

 It's that time of year again.....BOOK FAIR!!!!

 Could you please add this link to your websites

  https://www.scholastic.com/bf/immaculateheartofmarysch10

 Please feel free to set up an e- wallet this year if you have not in the past (Link will guideyou).  Let's get the students excited about it! 

The dates are November 13-17. If you have any questions, I'm here. 

Email sent Monday, 10/23/23

Good Morning Fourth Grade Families,

IHM will be holding their annual Veteran's Day Ceremony on November 10th. If your family knows a Veteran that would like to attend, please sign them up using the link below. There are more details in the link, but please note that forms are due by November 3rd.

https://forms.gle/mqB7PBEqqXgDtYSR7 

E-mail sent Thursday, 10/12/23 RE: Sojourner's Donations

Good Afternoon,

As part of our school outreach program, each grade selects an organization to work with and raise funds for. The 4th grade outreach organization is Sojourners' Place. 

Sojourners' Place provides shelter and a variety of services for homeless men and women that empowers the residents to return to the community as independent citizens. Twice a year in the Fall and Spring we collect much needed items for the residents.

This year for our Fall collection we are gathering the following things from their wish list:

• Spices especially garlic powder and pepper.

• Adult sized hangers

• all paper products

• Any cleaning products

• Tide pods (not liquid)

• body wash

• lotion

• instant mashed potatoes

• canned vegetables

• spaghetti sauce

• kidney beans

• canned chicken

 Any donation you can make to our collection is VERY much appreciated.  Please send donations to school with your student beginning Monday, October 16th until Monday, October 30th. 

.  

God bless.

Miss Clark and Mrs. Falkenburg

Important email send from our Homeroom Parents on 10/13/23

Hello Fourth Grade families,

We are looking for one additional parent volunteer per class for each of the holiday classroom celebrations this year.  At this time, please sign-up here for one party only to give as many parents an opportunity as possible.  This sign-up genius will also be posted to school notes.  Please remember that all volunteers MUST have completed the required background checks.

The 4th Grade Luau is scheduled for Friday, May 24 and a separate sign-up will be sent out later in the year for that event.  Please mark your calendars as we will be looking for many volunteers for this annual Fourth Grade event!  

Finally, we are in need of newspaper for the Halloween craft, so please send any newspaper donations into school by Monday, October 30.

Thank you in advance!

The Fourth Grade Homeroom Parents

Upcoming news........

Be on the lookout for an email Friday morning, 10/13/23,  from our homeroom parents! They will be sending out a signup for the upcoming Halloween party.  We need a parent volunteer for each class to help faciliate the party.  Thanks :-) 

Please use the link below to register for aftercare on October 19th (a half day at IHM).  Even if you are registered for aftercare full time, please use this link to sign-up so that we can have an accurate estimate of attendance. Thank you! 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIMTAQw_CelwZz4IjMRua6lO0pArXyFSpQYxrMqL6Vsg1Z8g/viewform?usp=pp_url

Reminder: Aftercare will close at 4:30 on October 31st!

Email sent 10/4

Good morning Fourth Grade Families,

Here is the link to sign up for Fall Conferences. Miss Clark and I will be having conferences together in Room 2 on October 19th and 20th. If you have any questions please let us know.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094DAFA729A2FDC25-44880880-conferences

Take care,

Miss Clark & Mrs. Falkenburg

Work directions for Friday, September 29th

From Miss Clark:

Good morning!  Please follow the directions to complete your Reading/ELA and Social Studies assignments for today. 

Reading- Click the link below for the A Strong Right Arm review.  You must complete it at least 2 times.   https://quizizz.com/join?gc=95490961

ELA-  Complete the following grammar review at least 2 times  https://quizizz.com/join?gc=89159976

Social Studies- Follow the directions below and complete the activities assigned.  

How to get students to their assignments

1. Have students go to www.readworks.org/student

2. Students enter class code 6JNERX

3. Your password is 1234

From Mrs. Falkenburg

 My work can be found in the “classwork” tab under each subject title. 

Science - Watch this video about the respiratory system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Jbbu7UZAA

On a separate sheet of paper, describe what the function of the respiratory system is. 

Study your science words (posted in Mrs. Falkenburg’s Science section)

Math - Complete 30 minutes in Moby Max working on your given assignment. If your assignment is already completed, complete 30 minutes of work in the “math” section (I can see engagement minutes on the teacher site).

Login: firstinitial+lastname (mfalkenburg)

Password: IHM12345

Religion - In chapter 3, we will be learning about the Ten Commandments, but first we will discuss the importance of keeping promises. 

From page 51 in our books: “God loves us and promises to be present in our lives. We make promises to God, our friends, and our family to show them how important they are to us. When we keep our promises, we make others happy.

Activity: Think of two special people in your life. On a sheet of paper, write a promise to each person (one on the front, other on the back), and say how you will try to keep your promises. Each promise should be 5-8 sentences long. Following this outline:

Dear _______________,

I promise to …….

Email sent 9/28/23

JoEllen Clark <jclark@ihm.org>

8:36 AM (0 minutes ago)

Good morning!

I wanted to touch base about our test on A Strong Right Arm set for Tuesday, 10/3.  Since we will now be a day behind in our reading due to our emergency closure today, our test will bump to next Wednesday, 10/4.  

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Sincerely,

Miss Clark 

Email sent 9/15

Dear Parents,

It’s not too late to sign up for band!  If you student is interested in playing an instrument, please visit the website below for more information.  I have also attached a packet of information with tuition and instrument rental rates. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

Mrs. Jennifer Blair jblair@nemusicprograms.com

Northeastern Music Programs | (nemusicprograms.com)

Email sent 9/7/23

Dear Families,

Thank you for a great turn out last night for our Open House. Here is a copy of our slideshow presentation for anyone who needs it.  I'm also attaching a link for families to fill out their contact information to share with others and for our homeroom parents to access (please note, Falkenburg's homeroom is on top and Clark's homeroom is at the bottom). 

Class directory

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvmY4bEyUUgXnRP2k-oLraRqKaZxxqhNt49vZMVYtlc/edit?usp=sharing

Open house presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15vyVl2b30pXpDF9Rfgp5JrH2rr1cl43yeQS87mgpyU0/edit?usp=sharing

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Email sent 8/25/23

Welcome back for the 2023-2024 school year.  We are so very excited to meet everyone and see the rooms full of students again. On the first day of school on Wednesday, we will do a lot of getting to know you activities, having fun, and organizing supplies. To help make the first few days a smooth transition here is some important information:

1. Bring your water bottles (label with name) and pack a snack every day.

2. Supplies - Please label all stationary supplies (unwrapped) with your child's name. It is very helpful to place loose items in a ziplock bag for carrying and storage. We will store extra supplies for use later in the year. Please note that students will be using hooks to store their backpacks and coats.

If you are able to attend the supply drop off time on Monday from 10:00-11:00, please place supplies on your child’s desk. Large items like ziplock bags, paper towels, wipes etc., can be placed on the side table. 

Mrs. Falkenburg room 4-2

Ms. Clark room 4-3

3. Summer homework - completed math packets are due by Monday, September 5th. This will be graded as a test score. 

4. Specials - Ms. Clark’s class will have gym on Tuesdays. Mrs. Falkenburg’s class will have gym on Thursdays. Students should arrive at school in their gym uniform (see handbook for uniform guidelines) on these days.

5. Switching classes - Ms. Clark will be teaching ELA, reading, and social studies. Mrs. Falkenburg will be teaching math, science, and religion. We will both support RTI and DI (direct instruction) times.

6. Please fill out this questionnaire so we can learn a little bit more about your child (you may need to copy and paste the link)

https://forms.gle/RaVVLJpeUsPN9vU67

We will go into more details about curriculum and classroom expectations at our Back to School Night on Wednesday, September 6th and 6:00pm. We hope everyone has a relaxing weekend. 

Take care,

Mrs. Falkenburg & Ms. Clark 

mfalkenburg@ihm.org

jclark@ihm.org

*Please note that email addresses were generated by Power School.