CLASS NOTES
Mr. Cuttica
It was an exciting week with the Fire Department visit, the Living Rosary, the celebration of the Miracle of Fatima, and Saint’s projects that were due Friday. This coming week we have two noon dismissals, Thursday and Friday, for parent teacher conferences. Please be prompt for your appointment. We also have a Pep Rally this week and the Summer IXL winners will be honored. Thank you for signing up to help with Holyween! Be sure to attend next Saturday. The children (and this adult) always have a great time. What a wonderfully active school we have! We are all truly blessed to be part of Our Lady’s School!
Week of October 10-16
READING: “Boots for Beth” will be our story this week. It’s a fun story that the students will enjoy. You can see the selections are getting more difficult as the books progress. NOTE: starting this week we will read only the questions on the test to the students, they will read and choose the answers. After Christmas, they read and answer the entire test.
PHONICS: We will review the vowel sounds learned and concentrate on the digraph /th/ this week. Be sure to have them blend unfamiliar words!
SPELLING: This week’s words are: was, said, this, that, path, set, then, them, with, men. The high Frequency words are: use, could, new, friends, put, she. Students should be practice READING ALL the High Frequency words!
ENGLISH: We review types of sentences and punctuation. This week we will be reviewing and testing our unit on sentences. Our next section is identifying nouns.
MATH: Our daily review includes skip counting, calendar work, concepts of before, after, between, addition and subtraction facts. Most of the students know the “doubles Rap” by memory… keep working on it! Our new chapter focuses on addition and addition strategies. We will practice using a number line as well as “counting on” to add.
PLEASE practice Saint lines with your child at home!
Pumpkins/Fall/Scarecrows … ALL FALL!
Please see Ms. Streib’s class page for information about Religion, Social Studies, and Science!
IMPORTANT DATES
· 10/16 National Dictionary Day!
· 10/17 National Pasta Day!
· 10/18 Feast of St. Luke
· 10/19 Noon dismissal National Seafood Bisque Day!
· 10/20 Feast of St. Martha
· OCTOBER 21 … HOLYWEEN!!!!!! SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!
NEWS n NOTES
· Mass is Thursday, dress uniform! Please join us if you can.
· PLEASE check the classroom website for updates and info! There are some helpful links for math and Reading on there as well.
· PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE keep those Boxtops for Education coming in…. ask everyone you know and then some! We are in first place as of now!!!! (There are those that want to knock us down to second!!!!)
· PLEASE send in items form the list that went home this week? If you need another list, let me know!
o Coffee containers (like Folgers) with lids
o Brown paper grocery bags (wee need quite a few)
o Shoe boxes
o Tissue boxes (large rectangular)
o Long shoe laces
o Magazines (appropriate … to cut apart for pictures)
THOUGHT: the children need to start memorizing math facts! Make some flash cards on 3x5 index cards. Learn 5 at a time, continually practicing them until mastered. They have to say them before breakfast, in the car, before dessert, before they watch TV or during a commercial, etc. Be creative!!!!! Maybe even stick one or two in their lunch pail as a surprise! With this constant repetition, they will be easy to learn. They should know all the doubles because of the Doubles rap we have been reciting daily! Thanks!
A Prayer toSt. Luke the Apostle
Feast October 18th … Patron of Physicians and Surgeons
Pray for your family physician!
Good Saint Luke, we are told that before you met our dear Lord and became a follower of His and a writer of His Gospel, you were a doctor. We beg you this day to bless and help and protect our doctor. Obtain for him the graces he most needs to do his work well and serve God generously. Help him to be strong and gentle, prudent and charitable, understanding and self-sacrificing. Give him great skill in the care of our bodies, so that, blessed with physical strength and health, we may more faithfully perform our daily tasks.
Help us all, good Saint Luke, to imitate very closely the life and virtues of our Blessed Mother Mary, about whom you wrote so beautifully, and of Him whom she bore into this world, Jesus Christ our Lord and our God, who lives and is King for ever and ever. Amen.