Week of 10/27

Room 4 Smiling after a great Saint's Celebration:)

A Halloween bulletin board that included a pretty funny

journal prompt "What should Mr. Tosti be for Halloween"

Some thought he should be a witch!

Others thought he should be a clown!

Dear Parents,

It was great to see you in person at the Saints Presentation on Friday! The kids did such a great job and I am so proud of them. We hope you enjoyed it! Check out the pictures of their fabulous costumes below! We will close out October this week with some Halloween fun on Friday! Here are your reminders for the week:


- Test folders will be sent home today. Please return them tomorrow (Wednesday)!

- We will have a Religion test on Chapter 3 on Thursday. A study guide was sent home today.

- On Friday, we will celebrate Halloween! The kids can come dressed in their costumes. We will do a small craft, game, and watch the Halloween Parade at the end of the day. You can watch the parade on the SKS School YouTube channel!

- Just a reminder to mark your calendar for Virtual Conferences next Thursday night (11/5) and Friday (11/6). A sign up on Option C will be sent out this week or next. Please note that conferences are not mandatory this year. If you would like to get a jump start on the conferences, I am happy to schedule a conference with you any night this week or next, please just let me know!

That is all for now!

Miss Rooney

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 3 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "Dr. Seuss"
Target Skill: Graphic Features and Biographies
Phonics Skill: Short e sound and -s blends
Grammar: Antonyms
Sight Words: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write, 
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction! This week we will focus on using a number line to count or hop back.

Week of 10/19

                                                We had so much fun picking pumpkins in the "patch".

Farmer Bob did an awesome job with the makeshift pumpkin patch this year!

The kids loved the different science experiments we did with the pumpkins. This experience was "sink" or "float".

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! We had some great practices last week for our Saints Presentation. We will have 2 more this week before our big event on Friday! Please continue to practice at home too! Some more information regarding Friday can be found below with your other reminders!

- The Virtual Scholastic Book Fair is this Week. You can shop for books from October 19 - November 2. You can shop HERE.

- Math test on Tuesday on addition on a number line, sums of 10 and adding 3 addends.

- Thursday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- Reading and Spelling test on Friday on a Musical Day.

- Reminder there will be no school on Monday, October 26th!

- Saint Presentation reminders:

- Our class' presentation will be at 9:00 am on Friday! Please make sure you are wearing your mask and socially distanced in the pews.

- The kids are to come to school dressed in their costumes over their gym uniforms (sneakers are fine).

- Please make sure robes are not too long as we will be walking to and from the church. Also, bobby pins 

tend to not keep veils on so if you can attach them to a headband that would be great.

- All 3 presentations will be live streamed on the Parish Youtube page.

- If you could do a supply check in with your child this week that would be great! Lots of them are running low on pencils with erasers, glue sticks etc. Thank you so much!

- If you have a pair of headphones laying around that you would not mind sending in with your child to stay at school that would be great. The 99 cent one's I bought over the summer, did not seem to fare well. 


That's all for now! Hope to see you Friday!

Miss Rooney

A Peek at Our Week
Religion
We will continue Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family. We will have our Saint Presentation on Friday!

Reading
Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop

Math
We will finish up our addition unit this week and have our test on Tuesday! Then we will begin our unit on subtraction. We will learn about the minus sign, counting backwards and most importantly, that the bigger number always goes first in subtraction!

Week of 10/12

Dear Parents,


Hope you had great weekend. We have a busy week this week and are cruising along through October. Please continue to review sight words, math facts and read at home! There are a lot of reminders this week, so please be sure to read them all!


- Winter uniforms start today!


- Test folders will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign and return them with the tests in the folder on Wednesday.


- On Thursday, we will be "picking" pumpkins from the convent lawn! On Friday, we will use our pumpkins for science class!


- School pictures will be on Thursday. Please send in your forms by then. There will be no class picture this year.


- To accommodate all families the Saint Presentation will be done by each class on Friday, October 23rd. Each student will get to read a short sentence or two about their saint from their report. I will send it home this week so they can practice at home! Room four will be presenting first at 9:00 am over in the church.

- Our monthly virtual Mass will be on Friday at 9:00am. Please join us on the SKS Parish Youtube page!

-Please remember to send back in a beach towel with your child so we can continue to eat lunch outside!

A Peek at Our Week:


Religion
We will begin Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family. We will start practicing for our Saint Presentation!


Reading
Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop

Math
We will finish up our addition unit this week. We will focus on adding 3 addends and finding doubles and sums of ten to help up. We will also work with simple word problems. There will be a test on Tuesday 10/20 on adding on a number line, adding 3 addends and word problems. We will do our Test Review in school on Thursday. You can use this to study at home that night.

Week of 10/5

    Room 4 practicing a new song to help them master

              sums of 10!

Dear Parents,

Happy October! The kids are settling in and have been doing a great job. I cannot believe we are finished with September already. October will certainly fly by as well. 

Here are your reminders for this week:

-Miss Rooney is teaching virtually this week:) Christy LoPiccolo will be the aide present in the room each day.

- Information about the first grade Saints Celebration was sent home last Friday. Each child may choose any saint they want! The report will be due this Friday 10/9, so please work on it this week. Please make sure the report and the picture are done neatly. Don't forget to have your child practice reading their report because they will be sharing it with the class for a grade. The Saints Celebration will be on Friday, October 23rd at 9:00 am in the Church. Each child is allowed to bring 2 people to the Church that morning. The rest of the school will watch virtually.

-Kindergarten has invited us to their pumpkin patch! Farmer Bob from Sugartown Strawberries will be delivering pumpkins and setting them up on the convent lawn. Each child will get to pick a pumpkin to bring home, followed by a pumpkin craft in the classroom. The cost will be $5.00 per child. Please send $5.00, cash only, by Friday, October 9th

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 2 on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- There will be a Spelling and Reading test on Friday for our story "How Animals Communicate." 

-Math tests will be sent home in your child's test folder on Tuesday 10/6. Please sign and return the test by Wednesday 10/7.

-Join in on the new Family 2020 Scarecrow Competition! If you'd like to compete, build your scarecrow submission at home and drop at SKS on October 12th or 13th in the morning. Be sure it is labeled with your family last name. There will be 4 categories to win. Most Spooky, Most School Spirit, Cutest and Most Funny. There will be judging by the children on the week of October 26th. The scarecrows will be displayed around the school campus up until Halloween!

-Picture Day Forms were sent home on Tuesday 10/6 please fill out the form and return them back to school.

I think that is all for this week! Please let me know if you have questions about anything!

Miss Rooney

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion: Chapter 2 - "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity"
We will finish up Chapter 2 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading
Story: "How Animals Communicate"
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
Phonics Skill: Short I sound and R blends
Grammar: Nouns and commas in a series
Sight Words: animal, how, make, of, some, why
Spelling Words: in, will, did, sit, six, big

Math
This week we will continue with addition and learn how to use a number line to solve problems. If you practice at home, please have your child start at the larger number!