NEWS FROM 3A

WEEK OF OCTOBER 2, 2017

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Hike for Life! How
lucky we are to have Mt. Cristo Rey so close to us. The journey to the
top was beautiful and thought-provoking.
Report card conferences are coming up soon! Please be on the lookout this week and
next for the clipboard with the scheduled times outside the classroom. Sign up for a 10
We emphasize the spiritual,
minute conference on Wednesday, October 18 starting at 1:30.
intellectual, and physical
The clipboard will also be up after conferences for sign-up for the Fall Foliage Festival
development of each
on October 27. Our booth is the Fruit Cup Booth. We will need volunteers to chop fruit,
individual.
decorate the booth, set up and clean up.

MATH ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

This week, students will compare
and order numbers. They will cre-
ate and use bar graphs to solve problems.
Please continue to practice their basic addition
and subtraction facts with them. They will
need to have a good grasp of these facts in or-
der to do well in adding and subtracting great-
er numbers and for regrouping. Tutoring for
math is from 3:30-4:30 . Title I tutoring is also
available.
This week in Language, we
will work on plural nouns and
review all we have learned
about nouns. In spelling, this
weeks words have the sound of long e spelled with
ee and ea. In reading, we will read two stories about
grandfathers and compare/contrast them and we will
finish up our unit on stories that are handed down.
Students will be interviewing parents for stories that
have been handed down. Their first probe book will
be due on Friday, October 13. Tutoring for reading
begins on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30. Title I tutoring
is also available.

HANDWRITING
Students will practice cursive Oo this week. ALL work written on the board will
be in cursive. Students are now required to write ALL work in cursive unless
otherwise designated.
 SCIENCE-This week students will be assessed on what they learned
about the sun and the moon.

RELIGION-This week students will continue to learn about the early be-
ginnings of the Church. This weeks Word of the Week is cornerstone-a
stone that forms the base of a corner of a building, joining two walls.
This Weeks Good News comes from Matthew 21:33-43.

SOCIAL STUDIES-Students will compare the way people meet their

needs in different communities. They will also learn how to use a map
scale to measure distances on a map.

REMINDERS
Golf Tournament
Sign up to play in the annual Diocesan Golf Tournament. If your child is interested in playing as well, they
will be excused from school for that day. The tournament will take place on October 13. For more infor-
mation call the school office.
We are collecting pop tops for Ronald McDonald House. We have filled a large collection box and are work-
ing towards filling even more! Help us out by sending in pop tops (soda tabs)! We could win a class party!
Thank you to all who have sent in tops! We are doing an awesome job!
ALL parents need to have Virtus training. There will be a training on Tuesday, October 3 at 3:30 in the Li-
brary. Be sure to register online and attend. Returning parents need to be recertified-training is online. You
will need this training in order to volunteer for the Fall Foliage Festival.
Please send in any prayer intentions that you may have so that we can pray for them during our morning an-
nouncements and during our Friday rosary. Dont forget to send your children with their rosary on Fridays!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
October 3 Flu shots and other vaccines 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. San Pedro Room
Virtus training @ 3:30 in the Library
October 4 School Board meeting @ 5:30
October 5 MASS-this is Father Andys last Mass with us-Mass attire required
October 7 UTEP Homecoming
October 8 Second Sunday breakfast with 4K and 8A from 8:00-1:00
October 9 Diocesan Teacher Institute (NO SCHOOL)
October 11 End of first quarter
8th grade retreat @ Prude Ranch
October 12 Childrens Liturgy-No Mass attire required
October 13 Diocesan Golf Tournament
Cathedral High School visits 6-8 grade boys @ 1:30 Library
October 16 Kick-off to Red Ribbon Week with presentations
Lifetouch picture re-takes
October 18 Early dismissal @ 1:00 p.m./Spirit Dress Day
Report card conferences from 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AFTER SCHOOL CARE ONLY UNTIL 5:00
October 19 Living Rosary in Gym; no Mass attire required
October 20 Breast Cancer Awareness wear blue jeans/pink shirt
October 22 Red Ribbon Week
October 23 8th graders visit Cathedral/Loretto
Sock it to Drugs!/Wear red socks
October 24 Shade Out Drugs/Wear sunglasses
October 25 Home & School meeting 7:45 a.m.
Love yourself: Dont do Drugs/Wear red t-shirt and jeans
Fire department presentation grades 3K-2nd
October 26 Mass 5A/Bring stewardship envelopes
Put a Cap on Drugs/Wear a cap
October 27 UTEP Homecoming/wear free dress with H&S pass/Wear your red ribbon today!
FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL from 3:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE
October 31 Costume Parade in gym @ 9:00 a.m. Theme: Viva our Culture! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAVE A BLESSED WEEK!