News

Religion: This week we are talking about the

church. We read about the beginning of the church
after Jesus ascended to heaven. We read the Bible
story about the Holy Spirit coming to help the
apostles go out to teach about God and Jesus.
Reading: We are working with long vowel sounds
spelled with 2 vowel letters. We practiced adding
endings to long and short vowel base words. We
read a play in our reading text about a contest
between the sun and the wind.
Language Arts: We are working on identifying
nouns, verbs, contractions and compound words.
Math: We continued to work with related addition
and subtraction facts. We reviewed problem
solving skills. We used connecting cubes, number
lines and drawings to check our work.
Science: We read stories about the sun and the
planets. Students are working in small groups to
create a model of the solar system. The model is a
poster that shows the sun, 8 planets, the asteroid
belt and the orbits around the sun. We painted
styrofoam pieces for the sun and each planet.
Each group is writing a booklet about the planets.

Catholic Schools Week

Catholic Schools Week begins on Saturday,
January 28. You should have received a letter
from Mr. Braun on Thursday. Please return
the bottom portion of the letter to let us know
if your child will attend the 5:00 Mass.

Mrs. Harris
January 20, 2017

Reminders
*January book reports are due
Tuesday, January 24.
*We are going to the 8:15 Mass on
Wednesday morning. Please be on
time.
*Read every day. Record minutes read
on the Read to Succeed log and earn
a ticket to Six Flags.
*Please continue to save Boxtops for
Education.
*100th Day of School is Friday, Jan.
27! It will be a fun filled day.

Social Studies: This week we

read stories about Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. We also watched
a video about him from Discovery
Education. We wrote sentences
and drew pictures about our own
dreams for the world.
Art: We have been busy creating
winter characters. We
sponge painted
snowmen and
snow girls. We added
details using paint
and Q-tips.