Upcoming Events
Spring (we hope!) Update
March is Reading Month-all students recieved a calendar detailing daily fun events. Please mark your calendar for the Open House - March 26th and watch the school newsletter for details. Also, we are asking that parents sign off on at-home reading each Thursday. Your child has a bright green log that they will ask you to sign on each Thursday in the month of March.
Systems Field Trip
This has been resecheduled for March 20th. We will need drivers. If you signed up previously and can still drive please contact us.
Our Lady of Good Help and Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
April 26th-information will be sent home at the end of this month.
March is Reading Month-all students recieved a calendar detailing daily fun events. Please mark your calendar for the Open House - March 26th and watch the school newsletter for details. Also, we are asking that parents sign off on at-home reading each Thursday. Your child has a bright green log that they will ask you to sign on each Thursday in the month of March.
Systems Field Trip
This has been resecheduled for March 20th. We will need drivers. If you signed up previously and can still drive please contact us.
Our Lady of Good Help and Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
April 26th-information will be sent home at the end of this month.
Holiday Update
First of all, thank you for your support! The students have been doing such a great job serving our school and community. They kicked the season off with the Holiday Craft Fair, put in lots of hard work “elfing” at the Holiday Brunch, performed in the Ecumenical Choir and sang at Talons for the Saint Barbara Women’s League and kept up with their schoolwork! Our students and their families are so dedicated.
A few more events are coming up-
Thursday 12-13 9:45 - 10:45 Christmas Caroling at Evergreen
Wednesday 12-19 6pm Christmas Concert
12-21 Friday 9:30 - 11:00
Class Holiday Share Day and Early Dismissal
Students may bring in a show and tell item, board game, and treat to pass. We will also do our Secret Santa gift exchange this day. Students will have selected their secret Santa and are asked to spend no more than $3.00 on their wrapped present.
12-24 - 1-4 A well - earned Christmas Break, classes resume January 7
First of all, thank you for your support! The students have been doing such a great job serving our school and community. They kicked the season off with the Holiday Craft Fair, put in lots of hard work “elfing” at the Holiday Brunch, performed in the Ecumenical Choir and sang at Talons for the Saint Barbara Women’s League and kept up with their schoolwork! Our students and their families are so dedicated.
A few more events are coming up-
Thursday 12-13 9:45 - 10:45 Christmas Caroling at Evergreen
Wednesday 12-19 6pm Christmas Concert
12-21 Friday 9:30 - 11:00
Class Holiday Share Day and Early Dismissal
Students may bring in a show and tell item, board game, and treat to pass. We will also do our Secret Santa gift exchange this day. Students will have selected their secret Santa and are asked to spend no more than $3.00 on their wrapped present.
12-24 - 1-4 A well - earned Christmas Break, classes resume January 7
- November 27 - Giving Tuesday / #IGiveCatholic
- November 30 - Scrip forms due
- December 2 - Holiday Brunch with Santa; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- December 4 - Talon's 12:30 - 12:45 Grades 4-5 will sing for the members of Saint Barbara's Ladies Club
- December 5 - Grades 4-5 Evergreen Mass
- December 8 - Community Children's Christmas Adventure, sponsored by BOSS Snowplow
- December 19 - Christmas Concert at HSCS; 6:00 pm
- December 21 - Christmas Holiday Early Dismissal; 11:30 am, NO afternoon BUS
- December 24 - January 4 - Christmas Break
- January 7 - Classes Resume
- January 27 - February 2 - Catholic Schools Week
- February 1 - NO afternoon BUS
All Saints Day Special Events
November 1, 2018
Students are asked to meet at Saint Mary’s at 8am for All Saints Day Mass. Those students in grades 4-8 who would like to earn extra credit in Religion and Social Studies may dress as a Saint for this Mass. If you can, please come and see our Saint Pumpkins and life sized Saint Posters. In the afternoon Students in Grades 4&5 have finished their novel Twenty One Balloons. The book's setting is the mysterious island of Krakatoa which is ruled by a Gourmet Government. We will have a celebration that uses this setting. Students are asked to bring in a dish to pass. You are welcome to join us.
Thanks for sending pumpkins!
Grades 4-8 will chose a Saint to research and create a pumpkin “look alike” the week of October 30th. Please bring a pumpkin to school before 10-23. Students are also encouraged to find additional materials that will make their pumpkin extra saintly. The pumpkins will decorate our hallways. On November 1rst we will celebrate All Saint’s Day with a mass. Students grades 4-5 are encouraged to bring a costume and dress as their Saint for afternoon activities. Da Little Red Cottage in Vulcan has good prices on pumpkins if you need. We’re looking forward to fun activities!
Knitting Club and Holiday Craft Show
Holiday Craft Show November 17-18
Calling all Knitters! The Holy Spirit Knitting Club is looking for donations of hand knitted items (dish scrubbies, scarves, prayer shawls etc.) to sell at the Holiday Craft Fair. Our group is made up of students in grades 3-7. Some are newbie knitters, some are experienced crafters. They’ve all been working diligently each week knitting dish scrubbies but would love to have a table full of items for each day of the show. Donations can be sent with your child-please attach your name to the item. You don’t knit but would like to be involved? Come to the Craft Show and work at the table!
Curriculum Information
This is an overview of what your grade 4-5 student will be learning this year in my class.
The Lesson Plan page of this site gives the details of each day.
Homework assignments are noted in the Lesson Plans.
Students will record their assignments in their agenda books.
Language Arts
Grammar
Daily Oral Language / Shurley Grammar /Writer’s Conferences
Literature
Classical Curriculum Titles
21 Balloons/Bud not Buddy/Chains/Inside Out Back Again
Independent Reading
Students will select one book each quarter (approved by teacher) and will create a response project for presentation - there is more information following this overview.
Poetry
Monthly memorization and presentation
Captain Kidd/America for Me/Four Things/The Rainbow/Christmas Everywhere/The Fools Prayer/ The Tide Rises, Falls/ Hernando da Soto
Spelling
Textbook exercises weekly-test every Friday
Religion
Concepts taught:
What we believe/How we worship/How Faith is demonstrated in our lives/Prayer/The Liturgical Year
Bible Verses - weekly memorization and activities
Weekly Mass/Monthly Mass at Evergreen
Social Studies Semester Two
US History time frame - Post American Revolution/Growth of the new Country/Civil War/Industrial Age
WW 1,2
The Lesson Plan page of this site gives the details of each day.
Homework assignments are noted in the Lesson Plans.
Students will record their assignments in their agenda books.
Language Arts
Grammar
Daily Oral Language / Shurley Grammar /Writer’s Conferences
Literature
Classical Curriculum Titles
21 Balloons/Bud not Buddy/Chains/Inside Out Back Again
Independent Reading
Students will select one book each quarter (approved by teacher) and will create a response project for presentation - there is more information following this overview.
Poetry
Monthly memorization and presentation
Captain Kidd/America for Me/Four Things/The Rainbow/Christmas Everywhere/The Fools Prayer/ The Tide Rises, Falls/ Hernando da Soto
Spelling
Textbook exercises weekly-test every Friday
Religion
Concepts taught:
What we believe/How we worship/How Faith is demonstrated in our lives/Prayer/The Liturgical Year
Bible Verses - weekly memorization and activities
Weekly Mass/Monthly Mass at Evergreen
Social Studies Semester Two
US History time frame - Post American Revolution/Growth of the new Country/Civil War/Industrial Age
WW 1,2
Independent Reading-Students select a teacher approved book to read and review. One book is required each quarter although students are expected to have something to read with them at all times not including text books, class novels etc.
Students are challenged to:
Students are challenged to:
- Read with stamina
- Carefully select books
- Be accountable
- Select and create a response project (due dates will be recorded in agendas)
Class Guidelines
Our School That we help students solve problems That we treat students as individuals That we offer opportunities to learn - like field trips That we teach students how to be closer to God Our Teachers That we give plenty of work but adequate time to do it That we listen to the student’s questions That we explain topics clearly That we offer help even if it’s easy for others to understand Our Classmates That our classmates respect the property of others That our classmates respect the teachers and are quiet when that is called for That our classmates are kind, respectful, and patient No bullying Our Selves That we work hard and do our best in work and social skills That we are nice to the teachers That we join in group discussion That we follow the Golden Rule |
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