WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR NOVEMBER 9th-13th, 2026

Hello!

I hope everyone had lovely 3-day weekend!  I am grateful to have met with you at Thursday's conferences.  I am excited to see how much the children progress this school year.

We have "Spirit Week" this week.  Here is the list of special days for this week.

Monday: Mismatch Monday-students can mismatch their clothes as much as they want.  They have gym.  So, please have your child wear his/her gym shoes.

Tuesday: Crazy Hat Day! Students may wear a crazy or silly hat with their regular MHR uniform.

Wednesday: Red, White & Blue Day! In honor of Veterans Day, students may come out of uniform by wearing red, white, and blue to show their appreciation for the brave men and women who have served our country.

Thursday: Jersey Day! Students may come out of uniform wearing their favorite sports team jersey.

Friday: Twin with Your Grade! Students are encouraged to coordinate with their classmates and dress alike to show off their grade-level spirit! (out of uniform).  If you would like to just come up with a color top for the class to wear, let me know!

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: This week the students will learn the letter-keyword picture-sound combinations of qu and z.  We continue working on word families and will work on word chains.  

• Wonders: Our Essential Question of the Week is: What are different sounds we hear.  Vocabulary words we will be learning are: listen, volume, exclaimed, chat, and familiar. They will be blending words with the letter c at the beginning and end.  Our new high frequency word is "and".   

MATH:

•   We will continue working on counting, identifying and writing numbers.  This we are working on 1-70.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We are learning about Veteran's Day in  our Scholastic Magazines.   We will be making cards for veterans who are joining us at mass on Wednesday. 

RELIGION: 

• We are learning about how God teaches us how to say sorry.  We will be attending the Veteran's Day mass and making cards for the veterans expressing gratitude for their service.  We will also continue our daily gratitude throughout November.

November Happenings-I am squeezing all the rest of our fundraiser rewards in this month:

• 11/9-13: Spirit Week-Information is shown above.

• 11/17: Out-of-Uniform Day...for our class only-yes, another reward from the fundraiser.

• 11/18:  End of first trimester.

• 11/20: Hat Day-another class reward from the fundraiser!! 

• 11/24: PJ, Stuffie, and Movie Day-our final reward we earned for the fundraiser.

• 11/25-29th: No school for Thanksgiving break.

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR NOVEMBER 2nd-5th, 2026

Hello!

I hope everyone had lovely Halloween weekend!  The children were wonderful at the Halloween party.  I have included pictures on the Photos tab.  Special thanks to our room parents: Mrs. Slubowski, Mrs. Hanratty, and Mrs. LaRocco!  It was so much fun!

We have a short week.  Monday is All Souls Day and Dias De Los Muertos.  Student council is setting up an altar for students can bring in pictures of loved ones who are in heaven (human and pets).  The students colored sugar skulls to be hung in the hallway this week.

Monday: All Souls Day and Dias De Lost Muertos

Tuesday: Just a normal day!  Wow!

Wednesday: Our first all-school mass!  Feel free to join us. 

Thursday: 11:30 dismissal day! Parent teacher conferences are 1-6pm. If you cannot make it and still   want to meet on another day, please let me know.  

Friday: No school-Professional Development day for the teachers.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: This week the students will learn the letter-keyword picture-sound combinations of y and x.  We are working on reading the words by chopping the letter sounds and blending them together to create the word.  They are doing pretty well with blending the letter sounds to make a word.  

• Wonders: Our Essential Question of the Week is: What rules do we follow in different places?  Vocabulary words we will be learning are: rule, cooperate, guard, prank, and responsible. They will be blending words with the letter n at the beginning and end.  Our new high frequency word is "to".   

MATH:

•  We finished identifying and writing numbers 1-20.  We will be working on identifying and writing numbers 30-50 this week.  

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We are talking about community and our responsibilities as citizens.  We should be wrapping up this week. This unit ties in well with our reading and religion this week!

RELIGION: 

• We are learning about how God gave us neighbors.  We are also gearing up to be ready to attend our first mass on November 4th!  Please join us if you can make it.  We will also be completing a month of gratitude challenge.  Each day, we will list different things we are grateful for!

November Happenings-I am squeezing all the rest of our fundraiser rewards in this month:

• 11/2: The student council is making a Dias de Los Muertos bulletin and Ofrenda (altar honoring loved ones who are in heaven).  Students can bring in a picture of the loved one anytime this week.  

• 11/5: School will be in session until 11:30. SO, WE WILL HAVE OUR DONUT PARTY THAT DAY! That is another event we earned for the fundraiser.  Parent-Teacher Conferences are 1-6. Registration for conferences were shared on Friday.

• 11/6: No school for students. Teachers have a Professional Development Day.

• 11/9-13: Spirit Week-There will be different themed days with an assembly on Friday.  More information to come.

• 11/17: Out-of-Uniform Day...for our class only-yes, another reward from the fundraiser.

• 11/18:  End of first trimester.

• 11/20: Hat Day-another class reward from the fundraiser!! 

• 11/24: PJ, Stuffie, and Movie Day-our final reward we earned for the fundraiser.

• 11/25-29th: No school for Thanksgiving break.

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR OCTOBER 26th-30th, 2026

Hello!

I am sure there is a lot of excitement for Halloween!  However, that isn't even half of the excitement for the week:

Monday: 1:30 dismissal and out-of-uniform for $1 to support the Fr. Franzen Fund.

Red Ribbon Week begins!  We will be practicing a mindfulness Monday.

Pumpkin Decorating Contest entries can start being dropped off today.

Tuesday: RRW-Tasteful Tuesday.  The nurses of SXU will talk to the students about the importance of healthy eating and good food choices.

Wednesday: First Responder Day-If you are a first responder, feel free to join the mass and clap out at school.  Students will get to tour a fire truck!

Thursday: Mrs. Ainslee Rainwater (our choir director) is going to entertain the children with some Halloween fun with stories and singing. 

Friday: Baby bottles are due.  In addition to all the information that Dr. Fay shared about parade, parties, etc., we are having the pizza party that we won for the fundraiser. It should be a crazy fun day!  Students will vote on the pumpkin decorating contest today!

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: This week the students will learn the letter-keyword picture-sound combinations of v and w.  We are working on reading the words by chopping the letter sounds and blending them together to create the word.  They are doing pretty well with blending the letter sounds to make a word.  

• Wonders: Our Essential Question of the Week is: What kind of bugs do you know about?   We do not have a new high frequency word for this week. The students are going to be assessed on identifying and spelling the current words.  Last week, we practiced on how we take a quiz to spell the words.  

MATH:

•  We are finishing identifying numbers up to 20 as well as working on counting to 50.  

SCIENCE:

• In our Scholastic Magazine, we are reading about pumpkins!  We will be doing various crafts and activities too!

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We are reading about what firefighters use to do their jobs!  It fits in perfectly with our First Responder Day!

RELIGION: 

• We are learning about how God gave us friends and how to be a good friend.  We are also gearing up to be ready to attend our first mass on November 4th!  Please join us if you can make it.  

November Happenings-I am squeezing all the rest of our fundraiser rewards in this month:

• 11/2: The student council is making a Dias de Los Muertos bulletin and Ofrenda (altar honoring loved ones who are in heaven).  Students can bring in a picture of the loved one anytime this week.  

• 11/5: School will be in session until 11:30. SO, WE WILL HAVE OUR DONUT PARTY THAT DAY! That is another event we earned for the fundraiser.  Parent-Teacher Conferences are 1-6. Registration for conferences were shared on Friday.

• 11/6: No school for students. Teachers have a Professional Development Day.

• 11/9-13: Spirit Week-There will be different themed days with an assembly on Friday.  More information to come.

• 11/17: Out-of-Uniform Day...for our class only-yes, another reward from the fundraiser.

• 11/18:  End of first trimester.

• 11/20: Hat Day-another class reward from the fundraiser!! 

• 11/24: PJ, Stuffie, and Movie Day-our final reward we earned for the fundraiser.

• 11/25-29th: No school for Thanksgiving break.

As I was prepping for this week, I was thinking about how much they have grown already this school year.  There is so much for them to learn to help prepare them on how to be a student.  It is fun to see them transform from little students from preschool at the start of the year into students who will be ready and prepared for first grade.  Who knows how they will be by Christmas!  

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR OCTOBER 19th-23rd, 2026

Hello!

It is hard to believe we are in the middle of October already.  We will be meeting with our sixth grade buddies this week to do a Halloween activity.  Should be fun!  

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: This week. students will be identifying letter-keyword-sounds for the letters l, h, and k.  We will also be reviewing punctuation marks.

• Wonders: Our Essential Question of the Week is: What shapes do you see around you?   We will be checking out where we see shapes in our world.  Our new sight word this week is "like".  We will do some activities for verbs and colors!  I will also be reviewing and assessing the students on identifying all the sight words we have worked on so far:  I, can, see, the, we, a, and like. 

MATH:

•  Last week, we finished ordinal numbers and began working on numbers 11 and 12.  On Friday, we combined our "tools" ELA unit with some tools we use for math!  The students were so engaged on the activities.   This week, we are identifying, writing and counting  numbers 13-20.  

SCIENCE:

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We are finishing up laws and community.  Can't lie-we got so into learning about bats, we didn't get to laws and community!

RELIGION: 

• We are continuing to learn about how God gave us family this week.  One thing we talked about last week was Mary being Jesus' mother and how October is the month of the Rosary.  The whole school will be saying the Rosary together on the 21st at 1:45 in the church.  Please join us.  

The 411:

• 10/23: For a $2 donation, the children may wear orange on Friday.  All of the money collected will be donated to the MuSic Movement organization. 

• Week of October 26th is Red Ribbon Week-more information regarding the themes for each day. Also, there is a pumpkin decorating contest that week.  One entry per family. Students will be given the opportunity on October 30th to vote for their favorite pumpkin.

• 10/26: Early dismissal at 1:30.

• 10/28: First Responders Mass.  Students will also honor first responders with a clap-out.  Students will get to check out a fire truck too.  

• 10/30:  Costume parade and Halloween Party.  Baby bottles are due.

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR OCTOBER 12th-16th, 2026

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS: The students received a Scholastic Book Order form last week.  All orders are due by Thursday, October 15th.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

RUN-A-THON/DANCE-A-THON: As you know, we got second place in our class collection for the fundraiser.  The class will be receiving donuts one day and a pizza party.  I will keep you posted on when those will happen. 

In other news:

• 10/23: Wear orange for a dress down day for MS.

• Week of October 26th is Red Ribbon Week-more information regarding the themes for each day. Also, there is a pumpkin decorating contest that week.  One entry per family. Flyers were sent last week.

• 10/26: Early dismissal at 1:30.

• 10/28: First Responders Mass.  Students will also honor first responders with a clap-out.  Students will get to check out a fire truck too.  

• 10/30:  Costume parade and Halloween Party.  Also, baby bottles are due.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: We are identifying, writing, and making the sounds for letters  p and j while reviewing letters: a, g, b, t, f, n, m, i, u, c, e, r, and o.  We will do some activities on alliteration and rhyming. 

• Wonders: Answering the Essential Question, “How do tools help us to explore?”, students will explore literature, discuss and write through focus on phonics and phonological awareness. We have a new sight word: a.  We will learn about verbs!  I am excited to work on action words.  We will also review nouns  and syllables.  

MATH:

•  We are wrapping up ordinal numbers.  Then, we will be learning about numbers 11-15.

SCIENCE:

• We are still talking about BATS (not the baseball kind)!!!!  Should be spooktacular!!

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We are going to discuss more about rules and laws. We are going to discuss what laws and types of citizens that make a good community.

RELIGION: 

• We are talking about God made our families.  Please send a family picture to school by Thursday!!

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR OCTOBER 5TH-OCTOBER 9, 2026

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS: The students received a Scholastic Book Order form last week.  All orders are due by Friday, the 9th.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

In other news:

• Uniforms: since the class has gym on Monday, they will begin regular uniform on Tuesday, the 6th. 

• Columbus/Indigenous People Day: No school.  

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: We are identifying, writing, and making the sounds for letters  e and r while reviewing letters: a, g, b, t, f, n, m, i, u, c, and o.  We will learn about alliteration!  We will continue to work on rhyming words. 

• Wonders: Answering the Essential Question, “How do my senses help me learn”, students will explore literature, discuss and write through focus on phonics and phonological awareness. We have a new sight word: see.  We will also continue to learn about nouns  and syllables.  

MATH:

•  We are wrapping up 0-10 with a review and assessment on Monday.  Then, we will be working on one more with numbers up to ten and identifying ordinal numbers up to ten.    

SCIENCE:

• We are still talking about fall, how animals behave in fall, and how plants change during the fall.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We did not get to laws last week.  So we will be learning about laws and how to be a good citizen. We are going to discuss what laws and types of citizens that make a good community.

RELIGION: 

• We are wrapping up God making our senses as well as the Gospel story about Jesus calming the storm. 

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 28TH-OCTOBER 3, 2026

RAIDER RUN-A-THON: I am not sure if you heard the news, but our class is in first place for the run-a-thon!!!  The kids are so excited!  If we win, we will get a pizza party and some major street cred!  Our walk time is 9:30-10:15 on Wednesday.  Students will receive their shirts on Tuesday.

In other news:

• School pictures are in the backpacks on Monday.

• Run-a-thon is Wednesday. 

• On Friday, October 2nd, we will have a fire drill at 9am.

• Check out our latest pictures on the "Home" page.  We met with our 6th grade buddies and spent time leaf hunting.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

•  Fundations: We are identifying, writing, and making the sounds for letters  d and s while reviewing letters: a, g, b, t, f, n, m, i, u, c, and o.  We will continue work on rhyming words. 

• Wonders: Answering the Essential Question, “How do baby animals move?”, students will explore literature, discuss and write through focus on phonics and phonological awareness. We have two new sight words: we and can.  We will also continue to learn about nouns and syllables.  

MATH:

•  Focusing on comparing numbers 0-10.  I am hoping to get to 10 plus 1 as well.   

SCIENCE:

• We are still talking about fall, how animals behave in fall, and how plants change during the fall.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

•  We are learning about laws and how to be a good citizen. We are going to discuss what laws and types of citizens that make a good community.

RELIGION: 

• We are continuing our chapter on God Made Our Senses.  We are also reading The Bible story about Jesus calming the storm.  We are going to do various activities and discussions on how Jesus calms our storms in life!