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December 6, 2019 News
Swimming is Complete!
The coaches and staff at the Aquatic Center were incredibly complimentary of your children and their consistent positive behavior, and appreciated the opportunity to work with them. Thank you for raising well-mannered, polite, and respectful children!
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Christmas Program
The Christmas Program will take place on Tuesday, December 17 at St. Francis de Sales. Your child will need to be there at 6:00 pm and the program starts at 6:30 pm. A few of you have asked me if there is anything they are supposed to be reciting or practicing, but Ms. DeGraw (music teacher) said that everything is being prepared in Music class and that there are not any speaking roles this year as there have been in the past.
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Christmas Party
The First Grade Christmas Party will take place on Friday, December 20th from 2-3 pm.
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Atrium Update- From Mrs. Plackowski
In November, the first and second graders listened to the Parable of the Yeast (Matthew 13:33). We were able witness firsthand how the Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast by mixing flour, yeast, and warm water together and watch how the mixture grows and expands. The children were asked to think about what God meant when He said that the Kingdom is like the yeast. We also explored the regions and waterways of Israel with a puzzle map.
With the start of Advent, we had a procession to prepare the prayer table for this new liturgical season with a purple tablecloth, advent wreath, and candles. We remembered what clues the prophet Isaiah shared with us about the gift that God will be sending (a great light Isaiah 9:1 and the names of the coming King Isaiah 9:5). We also heard from the prophet Micah revealing where the new King will be born.
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What We Learned This Week…
It is my hope that the bullets you’ll find in this section each week can be conversation starters for you around the dinner table with your son or daughter!
Religion
- God loved us so much that He gave us His only Son
- Jesus died on the cross so that we could have eternal life
- imagining what Heaven is like
- what does it look like to be a friend to God everyday?
- prayer: Hail Mary
Math
- number talks: counting all the dots/counting on using a ten frame
- subtraction strategies
- count backwards
- think addition to subtract
- subtraction story problems
Reading
- short e sounds
- digraph sounds of ch, sh, th
- adding -s and -ing to words
- reading to self stamina
- segmenting words into separate sounds
- blending sounds together to make words
- comprehension: how do the character’s feel? do their feelings change throughout the book?
- making inferences
- fluency
Social Studies
- valuing friendship with everyone and kindness towards all
- how do the virtues we practice fit into these values?
- what does it look like to be Catholic each day with our classmates?
- The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Drummond