Religion: We will discuss Advent and St. Nicholas this week.
We will say the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary.
Saint of the Week: St. Nicholas of Myra
Reading/English: Text Types and Purposes: Write Fictional Narratives
skills: read a student model, plan a fictional narrative about a family using time-order words and details to tell about the events, compose a fictional narrative text about a family, personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns, and adjectives
Spelling: nk, ng words
-pretest Monday
-final test Friday
Spelling Word Lists:
List 1: bank,
blank, bring, pink, rang, rink, sang, sunk, trunk, wing, every, sure
List 2: anything,
backpack, kingfish, homework, lipstick, wrong, chunk, skunk, sunrise, pancake,
every, sure
Math:
skills: use addition to check subtraction, missing numbers, use related facts, equal and not equal, addition fluency to 18
Science:
-discussions on stars and how they form patterns, constellations, change in sky from seasons and the position of the sun
Social Studies:
-understand time relationships: past, present, and future
Other:
Notes
from the Teacher:
-Just a reminder
there will be NO After School Program on the last day of school before Christmas Break. The last day of
the program will be Thursday, December 17. Please make other
arrangements for your child after school on December 18. Call or send a
note to school informing us how your child will be getting home. Thank you!
-Our Mass is December 8 at 9:00. PLEASE STUDY MASS PARTS WITH YOUR CHILD!!!
Calendar Count Down
Dec. 3- 9:00 Mass
Dec. 4- Vision Screenings 1st
and 3rd grades/ Pick up “Family Favorites” Fundraiser order at
Lourdes Parish Hall-Students who purchased 2 items or made a $20 donation get a
Free Dress Day
Dec. 8- 9:00 Feast of the
Immaculate Conception Mass THIS IS OUR MASS!
Dec. 8-1:00 Jubilee Jam
Dec. 11- 12:30 Christmas Program
Dec. 15- 9:00 Play performance by
OCHS Drama Dept.
Dec. 16- Santa visits the K-3
Campus
Dec. 17- 9:00 Mass with Bishop
Medley
Dec. 18- 12:30 Christmas Parties
Begin!
Dec. 18- Pajama Day
Dec. 21-Jan. 1- Christmas Vacation
Preparing for Christmas at the K-3
Campus
Pope Francis has called ALL
of us to reach out to the poor. Teaching
children to participate in Corporal Works of Mercy is what we are called to do
as a Catholic School. We are excited
about the upcoming Jubilee Year of Mercy, which begins on December 8,
2015. You will hear more about this
later!
This year at the K-3 Campus
we will once again be partnering with the Glenmary Sisters to collect items
that will be given to missions.
We ask each child to bring
in items from the grade level list. We
will collect these items from November
30-December 11. We will collect
and keep the items in the classroom as a visual sign of our gifts! The Glenmary Sisters will come to the school
to collect the items. We will carry the
donations to the Sisters, and I will explain the importance of our call to love
and care for others.
The first grade is asked to
bring WINTER WEAR: hats, gloves, scarves, coats, and socks.
Thank you for your
generosity!
Sincerely,
Kim Riney
ADVENT ACTIVITIES AT THE K-3 CAMPUS
Along with our annual drive
for the Glenmary Sisters, we will do other things to draw us closer to the
meaning of Christmas! The students will
begin each school day with an Advent song and meditation. Each class will have an Advent Wreath. The morning song will be led by a different
class each day over the school PA.
Each classroom will also be
doing daily activities and lessons to help the students focus on the true
meaning of Advent and Christmas. I will
read the story The Sparkle Box
to the students. Throughout Advent,
students can put a little note into the box when another student does a kind
deed for someone. On the last day of
school, we will open the “sparkle box” and read about all the gifts/kind deeds
they have gathered as gifts for JESUS.
Students do NOT exchange
gifts at the K-3 Campus, but there will be a Christmas Party in our classroom
on December 18 at 12:30. I
will send home more information at a later date.
Your child also brought home
a devotional book entitled Waiting
for Jesus. This is a gift from us to your family. We hope you take each night to say the
prayers, do the activities, and truly REFLECT and LIVE out the season together
as a family.
Parents are invited to attend the K-3 Christmas Program
on December 11 at 12:30 in the Gym.
