If you ever need anything please email me at [email protected]
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*Please make sure your child is wearing proper shoes for P.E. on Wednesdays and Thursdays. (Girls should wear shorts under skirts). Thank you.
*Your child's homework paper(s) will be sent home at the end of each week in the blue "Friday Folder" and should be completed by the end of the following week. Parents/guardians should check and initial each task on the list. Your child will receive a reward if his/her homework is complete and correct.
*Please empty, then send green folders back every day. Please empty, then send blue SSM Friday folders back every Monday.
*Library books are due by Wednesday.
*Please send a water bottle (already filled and marked with child's name) every day.
*Please make sure your child knows where to go after school. If your plans change, please email me so that I know all are accounted for. Thanks, Cat
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Our Teacher Assistants are Mrs. Sheila Bonner (mornings) and Mrs. Lauren Noble (afternoons).
Wishlist:
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Jan. 20-24:
Language Arts: ai, ay; past tense verbs "was/were"; plot and sequence; abc order
Spelling: the regular words are: mail, chain, rain, play, way, day, our, carry
the challenge words are: drain, trail, praying, always, basic, years, little, paper
Math: telling time by the hour and 1/2 hour
Science: Light/shadows
Religion: CH 9 Prayer
God's Shining Star: Will
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Jan. 13-17:
Language Arts: /u/ "oo" as in "look"; -ed, -ing suffixes; contractions with "not"; story sequence
Spelling: the regular words are: book, look, cook, took, hood, wood, buy done; the challenge words are: cookie, unhook, push, butcher, has, than, called, come
Math: organizing and collecting data
Science: Light
Religion: Jesus teaches love
God's Shining Star: Fulton
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Jan. 6-10:
NO SCHOOL Monday, Jan. 6--teacher work day
Language Arts: long vowel o, u with silent e; alliteration; cvce syllables; compare/contrast, verbs "is" and "are"
Math: graphs/data
Science: light
Religion: Jesus teaches love
God's Shining Star: Lila
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Dec. 16-20:
Language Arts: we will not have a language arts unit this week--I will be doing some assessments (no reading words and spelling words to learn this week)
Math: adding 3 addends; review of first semester skills
Science: Mystery Science; Weird But True
Religion: Christmas/Advent
God's Shining Star: TJ
Birthday Boy: Finnegan
11:00 Dismissal Friday, Dec. 20--Merry Christmas!
We will be attending the Santa Shoppe at 2:00 on Monday. (see SSM correspondence-I don't have specific info on this) Your child does not need to shop! I just wanted to let you know when we will be going. If for some reason your child doesn't have a chance to go that day, we will find time for he/she to go on Tuesday.
Monday is a "Christmas Colors" free dress day for your children!
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Dec. 9-13:
Language Arts: soft c, g, dge; cause/effect; drop magic e when adding -ed, -ing; past/future tense verbs
Spelling: the regular words are: rice, nice, page, age, wedge, ledge, from, once;
the challenge words are: cycle, circus, gym, danger, dislodge, sure, would, smudge
Math: number sense to 120
Social Studies: Economics
Religion: Advent/Christmas
God's Shining Star: GraceLynn
2:00 Dismissal Wednesday--staff meeting
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Dec. 2-6:
Language Arts: long i, silent e; plot and sequence; plurals with cvce; present tense verbs
Spelling: the regular words are: like, spike, ride, hide, bike, mine, water, should
the challenge words are: spine, bride, grime, write, only, give, most, know
Math: number order to 120
Social Studies: Economics (see note in Friday folder about a shoe box and donations for our projects--thank you)
Religion: Advent; St. Nick
Birthdays: Paxton, Vincent
God's Shining Star: Caden
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Nov. 25-29:
Language Arts: assessments
Spelling: (no spelling words this week)
Math: 10 more; 10 less
Social Studies: the first Thanksgiving
Religion: Thanksgiving; Advent
No Homework this week!
No School Wednesday, Nov. 27-Dec. 3
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Nov. 18-22:
Language Arts: long vowel a with silent e; verbs; characters, setting, plot; contractions with "not"; bold print; beginning, middle and end
Spelling: the regular words are: make, take, came, gate, late, some, today
the challenge words are: crane, space, each, do, since, then, these, some
Math: using place value for number sense and adding or subtracting tens, ones
Social Studies: economics
Religion: Jesus teaches love
God's Shining Star: Ben
Birthdays: Mrs. Bonner
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Nov. 11-15:
Language Arts: digraphs ch, tch, wh, ph; irregular plural nouns; main idea/details; maps
Spelling: the regular list is: whip, whale, catch, match, chin, graph, many, around
the challenge list is: phone, whirl, white, chase, itch, batch, nephew, chest
Math: place value; number sense
Social Studies: Veteran's Day; Economics
Religion: Jesus the Healer
God's Shining Star: Brooks
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Nov. 4-8
Language Arts: th, sh; character/setting/events; closed syllables; common/proper nouns
Spelling: the regular words are: fish, shop, ship, with, thing, sang, want, call
the challenge words are: shampoo, thumb, thing, flash, singing, during, better, she
Math: place value/number sense
Social Studies: Election 2024
Religion: Lady of Fatima
God's Shining Star: Kennadi
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Oct. 28-Nov. 1:
Language Arts: final consonant blends; main idea/details; possessive nouns 's; inflectional ending -ing
Spelling: the regular words are: lend, send, fast, past, sink, wink, of, who
the challenge words (if pass the pretest) are: what, were, said, ghost, shelf, tusks, almost, live
Math: place value/number sense to 100
Science: Bats!
Religion: Lady of Fatima; Saints
God's Shining Star: Rylee H
NO SCHOOL Friday, Nov. 1
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Oct. 21-25:
Language Arts: short vowel u; contractions with 's; singular/plural nouns; character, setting, events
Spelling: the regular list is: run, fun, nut, cut, bug, rug, could, one
the challenge list is: that's, this, under, put, drum, duck, fuss, many (we will take a pre-test on Monday of the regular words--if your child gets all of them correct, he/she can choose to be on challenge
Math: place value
Science: our chicks should be hatching!!!
Social Studies: economics: goods and services; needs and wants
God's Shining Star: Quinn
Report Cards are coming home Friday
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Oct. 14-18:
NO SCHOOL Monday, Oct. 14--teacher professional development day
Language Arts: short vowel e, ea; character, setting, events; lists, nouns
Spelling: the words are: leg, beg, men, hen, head, bread, there, again
Math: missing addends; story problems with add/sub
Science: embryology
Social Studies: economics
Religion: Rosary
God's Shining Star: Finnegan
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Oct. 7-11:
Language Arts: no unit/chapter this week--assessments
Spelling: no spelling words this week
Math: missing addends
Science: embryology; survival of living things
Religion: the Bible
Thank you so much for getting those textbook loan forms and PT conference forms in! Free dress for your kiddos Monday!!
No School Thursday, Oct. 10 (Parent Teacher Conferences), Friday, Oct. 11
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Sept. 30-Oct. 4:
Language Arts: s and r consonant blends; illustrations and details; retelling; punctuation; possessives, sequence
Spelling: the words are: spill, spin, grab, grass, drop, drip, two, move
Math: subtraction strategies; fact families/related facts
Science: how living things survive; embryology! (incubators with eggs arrive Monday)
Religion: archangels, Guardian angels; St. Francis of Assissi
God's Shining Star: Vincent
Please return your textbook loan forms if you haven't done so already. Also, please sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences, thank you!!
**Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat **
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Sept. 23-27:
Language Arts: short vowel o; ABC order; sequence; questions and exclamations
Spelling: the words are: top, hop, log, hog, hot, lot, they, too
Math: subtraction strategies
Science: living things: using their "structures" to survive
Religion: Angels; Holy Family; St. Francis
God's Shining Star: Paxton
Wednesday, Sept. 25 2:00 Dismissal--Faculty Meeting
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Sept. 16-20:
Language Arts: consonant "l" blends; plural -s; key details; labels; statements
Spelling: clip, flip, slip, flag, black, plan, be, pull
Math: addition strategies (counting on, number lines, doubles)
Science: how living things survive
Religion: Holy Trinity
God's Shining Star: Londyn
Birthday Boys: Jonathan, Brooks
Friday, Sept. 20: NOON DISMISSAL Martyr Marathon
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Sept. 9-13:
Language Arts: short vowel i; bold print; double final consonant; sequence; main idea/details
Spelling: the words are: pin, win, hit, sit, miss, kiss, out, up test will be Thursday!
Math: patterns, using pictures to add; using "counting on" strategy to do addition
Social Studies: Civics--what groups we belong to; review and test over chapter
Religion: Creation
God's Shining Star: Jonathan
Birthday Girls: Riley and Londyn
NO SCHOOL Friday, Sept. 13--teacher professional development
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Sept. 2-6:
no homework this week
NO SCHOOL MONDAY, Sept. 2 Labor Day
NO SCHOOL TUESDAY, Sept. 3 Teacher Professional Development
Language Arts: assessments
Spelling: no spelling this week
Math: partners of same sums (addition); subtraction from 10; repeating patterns
Social Studies: Civics: school rules, being a good helper, groups we belong to
Religion: God's Creation
Birthday Girl: Quinn
God's Shining Star: Jonathan
Thanks for sharing your child with. me, Cat
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Aug. 26-30:
Language Arts: illustration and details; short vowel a; inflected ending -s; key details; sequence in a story
Spelling: the words to practice are: man, can, nap, tap, cat, hat, not, does
Math: partners/sums of 6-10
Social Studies: Civics: getting along in school; learning from each other; school rules; being a good helper at school
Religion: God's Creation
Birthday Boy: Will
Thanks for sharing your child with me, Cat
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Aug. 19-23:
Monday, Tuesday 12:00 dismissal
Wed.-Friday regular dismissal
Your child may bring a snack to school each day, OR you may contribute to the snack bin that the class shares, thank you.
We will spend the first week of school reviewing procedures, rules, schedules, and getting to know one another. The theme will be "Bears"
