Healthy Choices, Growing closer to God, Helping Others

On Ash Wednesday, Father challenged us with 3 things:

• Make a healthier choice for our body during Lent (Fasting)
• Grow closer to God (read the Bible, pray daily, attend mass)
• Help others (Almsgiving / Rice bowl)

How do you as a family practice one (or each) of these during Lent?  

This week, we have focused on our healthy choices, both our food and our activity!  We had a visit from the tooth fairy and from the Ruth Lilly Health Center!  Ask your child about what "sometimes foods" are and what "anytime foods" are.  See if you can prompt them between choices of activities or for snack!

DAILY 5:

This week we have read some fun books about food! See if your child can tell you about 10 Crunchy Carrots, I am a Pizza, or The Very Hungry Caterpillar!  We have also read several words in Talking Letters!  See if the kids can tell you what words they had to read as "passwords."  

Looking for ways to help?  Check out the article at this link:

http://www.themeasuredmom.com/reading-skills-kids-need-theyre-ready-sound-out-words/

MATH WORKSHOPS:

2-d and 3-d shapes are all around us!  We are exploring these shapes and figuring out how to describe them.  How many sides do they have? How many corners?  Where can you see them?  You may want to go on a shape hunt in your house this weekend!

UPCOMING DATES:

Week of Mar. 2: RAM of the Week - Elaina M.

Week of Mar. 9: RAM of the Week - Giovanni R.

Wednesday, Mar. 18: Noon Dismissal & Parent/Teacher Conferences 1-8 pm

Thursday, Mar. 19: Noon Dismissal

Friday, Mar. 20: NO SCHOOL / Beginning of Spring Break

SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WEEK:

The tooth fairy in action:

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Always a fun day!  We enjoyed the week getting ready with some fun activities, getting our "bags" ready, and passing out our Valentine's.  Thanks to all the helping hands we had this afternoon for a fun party!  

I hope you all enjoy the 3 day weekend!  Just a few reminders of some upcoming items:

Feb. 16 - No School
Feb. 17 - Donation for Non-uniform Day; Proceeds going to a former teacher's son who is currently making life changes due to a surgery that has left him paralyzed from the waist down.  Any little bit helps! (More info in the school newsletter!)
Feb. 18 - ASH WEDNESDAY
Feb. 19 - School Wide Convo - Grandma Rose (see email for more information!)
Feb. 23 - RAM of the Week - Toby G.
Feb. 26 - Guest Speaker (shhh! Tooth Fairy)
Feb. 27 - Guest Speaker from Ruth Lilly
Mar. 2 - RAM of the Week - Elaina M.

Snapshot Highlights:

 

 

 

February is here!

Happy February!  We are exploring our emotions and healthy choices this month!  We've talked about seasons and how important it is to take care of our body, but now we are looking a little more closely at things INSIDE our body to make us feel good.  While we have lots of different feelings, we always want to practice self control to still make good choices.  Food can be a sticky topic with this age group as they are learning to expand their choices.  We will take time to look at the various food groups & our 5 senses.  We will get to compare how things look and feel.... AND of course, TASTE some :)

DAILY 5
   We have lots of books that will speak to a variety of emotions and using self control.  As we move closer to Valentine's Day and the beginning of Lent, this is a good time to look at how we can choose our feelings or even change them if we need!  Literature is a great way to explore how characters solve problems... both in good ways or bad ways!  This gives us lots of good conversation.
   We also have all started a dictionary.  Ask your child what letter we are working on and what words they chose for that letter.  These are "important to them" kind of words.  We create a list of 10 words together, and the children choose 5 to put in their dictionary.  If they get the whole list done, they can explore the class dictionaries for other words they like.

MATH WORKSHOPS
  Math workshops are shifting from patterns to shapes, both 2-D & 3-D.  This will include words that tell us about the shapes and their names.  Students will be encouraged to make things by putting shapes together as well as practice seeing shapes withing a picture and the world around them.

UPCOMING DATES:
Monday, Feb. 2: RAM of the Week - Kaleigh M.
Friday, Feb. 13: Valentine Party - Contact Mrs. Wolski if you'd like to help!
Monday, Feb. 16: No School - Presidents' Day
Wednesday, Feb. 18: Ash Wednesday; Beginning of Lent
Monday, Feb. 23: RAM of the Week - Toby G.

Catholic Schools Week

What a great week!  We kicked it off with 100 Day / Dictionary Day.... all the way to the volleyball challenge!  Enjoy some snapshot looks into our fun!

100 Day

 

 

 

Dictionary Day

 

Thanks for being at HSS!

 

Volleyball Game - Way to go teachers!