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Mrs. Hernandez Kindergarten:
Thank you to all the mothers that were able to join us last Friday for Mother’s Tea, with our dearest Kinder Angels. The children were joyous and thankful for your company. I hope your weekend was full of continued goodness!!! Our end of the year party will be held on May 30, 2012. We will be participating in an end of the year carnival type experience. Twelve booths will be set up with minute to minute games for the children to participate in. There will be popcorn and shaved ice! We will also enjoy BBQ hotdogs, chips and a drink for lunch. Please send in two or three dollars to help cover the cost of food, prizes and other items to play the games. End of the year testing is continuing on. Please check your child’s daily folder for your child’s academic portfolio. It is yours to keep and save for your records. We will also be doing Unit 6 testing in Language Arts. We have finished our Saxon Math program, so we will begin practicing First Grade math concepts and sharp-ening our skills. Please do not allow your child to bring any toys/cards to school. They know they are not sup-posed too, however they are “secretly” transporting them in their backpacks. Thank you for your continued love and support.
Mrs. Chapman’s First Grade News!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day. On May 17th and May 18th I will be absent. I will be tak-ing a couple of days off to attend my daughters’ gradua-tion ceremony. Mrs. Piegaro will be filling in for me. I know she will do a wonderful job! Over the next few weeks we will begin end of the year review and unit testing in all subjects. Test results will be sent home as they are completed. Thank you for your help and sup-port. Our end of the year party planning is under way. Information on times and events will be sent home shortly.
Mrs. Sedgwick 2nd Grade:
I hope that everyone had a nice Mother’s Day yesterday! Thank you to all of our generous families for helping us win the Jog-a-Thon fundraiser this year! Our class is ex-cited to celebrate with our donuts and movie parties! Great job! This week in math we will learn through lesson 135. This completes our math program for the year! We will review during the last two weeks of 2nd grade. We are reading the story “Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wed-ding.” We will focus on spelling words beginning with mis- and mid- this week. Our grammar lessons will be about paragraphs. We will have our last weekly reading, spelling and math tests on Friday. We will have a cumu-lative review next week and test on Unit 6 in language arts though. Our chapter 17 test in religion will be on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Our Unit 6 social studies test will be on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. This week will be our last week for homework packets. J The children should still study for both religion and social studies the following week. The grading period will not close until May 25, 2012. Jeremiah Schurr is our Star Student. We will be going to Leatherby’s on Monday, May 21 at 1:00 p.m. with our Buddies in 5A. Thanks for turning in your child’s per-mission slip and $3.00. Have a fabulous week!
Mrs. Villamil Third Grade:
I hope you all shared a very wonderful Mother's Day weekend, and that all mothers had a very lovely day in one form or another! May you always know how much you are loved and treasured by your children...The month is closing upon us quickly as we wrap-up our studies. Our Reading story this week is titled, “Me and Uncle Romie”, and our Spelling words will focus on the suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, and -ment. We will have our usual Friday tests in Reading and Spelling. In Religion last week, we began our Family Life lessons, discussing both animal families and human families, and how they care for their own. We continue our discussions this week about different kinds of human families as being loved and cared for by God. In Social Studies, we are finishing up Ch. 4 lesson 1 on Cultural Celebrations, and will begin lesson 2 on Celebrating a Community's Past. Science will focus on Competition Among Living Things in Ch. 4 lesson 4 this week. Thank you for your Jog-a-thon pledges! Your help and support was greatly appreciated. We are collecting a donation of $2.00 or $3.00 for our end-of-the-year party in grades K-3, which is being coordinated by Mrs. Jarvis in first grade. A flier went home last week about this special day in the last week of school. If you can, please send in this donation with your child as soon as possible so that preparations and planning can be completed in time for the party. Tuna, peanut butter, and cereal will continue to be col-lected during the month of May, if you'd like to give toward our food locker which helps feed the needy of our parish community. This Thursday, May 17th, the student council will be selling Otter Pops, for the price of two for $1.00. Finally, this Friday, May 18th, is a minimum day. Please remember that pick-up time is at 12 noon this day. Have a great week!
Mrs. Remick 4th Grade:
In Religion we will read about Holy People and Saints. In Lan-guage Arts we will read Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path and focus on compare and contrast, capitalization, and words with the pre-fixes mis-, re-, and non-. We will cover Ch. 12 in Social studies: People of California. In Science we will study rocks and minerals and our changing Earth. We will complete Lessons 103-108 in Math and have a math assessment. We did an amazing job raising money for the jog-a-thon. Thank you to those families who helped our school with this fundraiser! Ethan Brown is our Star Student of the Week.
Mrs. Altobell Fifth Grade:
Wow! Thanks for a great job bringing in pledges for the Jogathon! Congratulations to Gustavo, who won the Visa gift card. Way to go! We are looking forward to our Buddy trip to Leatherby’s next Monday with the second grade. Thanks for getting your $3.00 and permission slips in to me so quickly. I appreciate it!
The Fifth Grade will be reading the realistic fiction selection “Sweet Music in Harlem” this week. We will be working on the skill of identifying main idea and details. Our spelling words for the week are easily confused words. Be sure to study! In grammar, we will be reviewing correct use of punctuation. We will take our weekly tests on Friday. In math, we will be finishing our last section this week. We will work through Lesson 114 and take Cumulative Test #22 on Friday. We will also be wrapping up our last unit in Science - Chapter 4. We will review today and take the Chapter Test on Tuesday. We will be working through Chapter 20 in Religion, “We Pray for Guidance”, this week and will take the test on Friday. Be sure to print out the online review for extra credit.
Mrs. Moniz:
Thank you to all who supported the Jog-A-Thon! We did not win, but were in a top spot! Thank you! We have our pizza and ice cream lunch party (we won this for first place in Auction gift gath-ering) on May 17th. Also, if you are interested, there will be an opportunity for you to help with the 8th grade Graduation Break-fast…this is to learn the ropes for next year! Contact Nancy Lucas for more information. Counting down………..!
GRADE 6: Literature: We will continue poetry study with our own poetic interpretations and symbolic creations. Grammar: I am very pleased with the improvement made in adverb understanding and application. The exams were MUCH Better! WE move to Ch.19 to study sentence structure. Vocabulary: Unit 12.
GRADE 7: Literature: We completed our study of “The Monsters are due on Maple Street” with beautiful interpretations of the plot based on prejudicial behavior. We will finish the year with poetry study, beginning with authors such as Emily Dickinson and Lang-ston Hughes. Grammar: subject/predicate quiz today. We will re-view subject complements, including direct and indirect objects. Vocabulary was completed for the year with fine results on the unit review. Way to go Fine 39!
GRADE 8: Literature: Wow! Wow! The Holocaust presentations were fantastic! Be proud of the wonderful young people that have graced me with the pleasure of teaching them! The depth of their dramatizations was beyond expectations! We will complete the year with Holocaust survivor documentaries and a review of a Dick Gregory piece that focuses on the justice in charity. Gram-mar: FINAL EXAM WEDNESDAY!
Lili Eilhardt is such a gentle soul. Her quiet grace is a blessing to us all. We are glad to have this lovely girl as part of the 6th grade!
The last of my veteran colleagues is about to fly away and how jealous I am of Mrs. Adamson! Ha! She and I have seen much in over 20 years of teaching together. Who stays at work until 6:00 every night like we do? Only the crazy teachers like us! We can finish each other’s sentences, laugh until we cry, and cry until we laugh…. Treasured memories and a treasured friend…I will miss you dearly.
Mrs. Hendry:
Religion: 6th Grade: We are finishing up with The Val-ue of Life lesson 7th Grade: We are working on Family Values this week. 8th Grade: FINAL Today!!! Then we are finishing up the movie “What If…” that we started a couple weeks ago.
Math: 6th Grade We will review last week’s test and study Proportions and Ratio Problems, Geometric For-mulas, Distributive Property, and Reducing Rates. We will have a quiz NEXT Tuesday. 7th Grade will cover Area of a Complex Figure and Trapezoids, Complex Fractions, Percent of a Number and Graphing Inequali-ties. 8th Grade FINAL on Tuesday. Then we will be fin-ishing up our project. Math lab is Monday and Tuesday this week until 4:00 PM.
Summer School Math: I will be teaching the Summer School Math Class for incoming 6th, 7th and 8th graders. This will be a fun, relaxed 5-week class that will focus primarily on preparing for next year. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Summer: I will be moving classrooms this summer and would LOVE some help. If any students are interested in community hours (Confirmation excluded) I could really use the help. I will be checking my email throughout the summer, so we can connect that way.
Mrs. Adamson:
8th grade has finals this week. We will be reviewing and testing all week. Monday – Religion, Tuesday – Math, Wednesday – Grammar, Thursday – US History, Friday – Science. Everyone needs to be present if at all possible.
SCIENCE 6 - We had our Frog Jumping Contest. Nick Mil-ler’s frog “Speedy Gonzalez” came in 1st at 54 inches; Melanie Toth’s “Alberta” was 2nd at 36 inches; and David Barsotti’s “Mr. Toad” came in 3rd at 33 inches. Needless to say, we had a lot of fun and “all” went home winners!
SCIENCE 7 - We may be doing some Chapter 9 experiments if time allows.
SCIENCE 8 - We continue our study on Motion Forces and Energy. Our final will concentrate on the Periodic Table.
HISTORY 6 - We continue our study of Chapter 11 in Ancient History.
HISTORY 7 – We have a Chapter 11 Test Wednesday to finish our book on Medieval History.
HISTORY 8 – We’ll be viewing a video on the US Constitution and reviewing all week for our test Thursday, which will be on the US Constitution.
Our time is flying. A letter was sent home last week with up-dated information. A letter will be sent home this week concerning “Sunsplash”. Here we go…
Mrs. Biller Art:
The Fine Arts program has completed state stand-ards for grades K-8. The primary objective for the remainder of the year will be to review art genres and conventions.
All grades will participate in creating a “mock-up” of a mural to represent Holy Family Catholic School.
Note to 8th grade students: if you wish to create a stepping stone, please bring one to class. Mosaic pieces and fixative will be provided.
Mrs. Patterson:
Special Note:
All homework assignments are now listed on the calendar section of your student’s grade on edline.
Math lab is every Tuesday from 3:00 – 4:00
6th Grade:
Sixth grade is busy in the computer lab this week. They will be putting the final touches on their math games before building begins. This project counts for a test score as well as a project score.
7th Grade:
There will be a quiz on slope and slope-intercept form on Wednesday. We are coming close to finishing the curriculum for the year.
8th Grade:
Eighth grade begins their project this week. Each student has been given a rubric for the grading of the project. This project will count as a test grade as well as a project grade.
Mrs. Olmedo Spanish:
We had a wonderful time last week creating and labeling our community buildings and the people who use those buildings. We will be wrapping up our unit on community and reviewing what we have learned this year. Gracias.
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