MMC FIELD TRIP- May 8, 2013

Boys learning about the ambulance!



Girls IN the ambulance!



OT- learning about strengthening our bodies!

Bones!



Nutrition
How much sugar are you getting in these??? 
Which are the best foods for us?  Think RAINBOW colors!

Our field trip to MMC was fun!  We learned about being a patient in the hospital and x-rays, OT, healthy eating, handwashing, the lab - GERMS shown in cultures, and the ambulance.  What a great trip it was!  Everyone got a snack and goodie bag as well as a mask and cap!








Wednesday morning we had firetrucks and an ambulance at our school before school even started!  There was a strong gas smell so we all evacuated the building.  We were only outside a few minutes after the firemen arrived.  They quickly determined it was a pilot out that had blown out from one of the stoves in the kitchen.  We simply opened windows and went about our day - happy it was not a serious problem!  It really was a good experience for us to practice if any similar problems ever arise.  We know what to do and how to get out of the building.  We do fire drills fairly regularly, but this was a new experience for us.

We are looking ahead to tomorrow for the Science Fair.  Next week we will go to Court Manor and also have a YoYo presentation.  It is a BUSY month!

Please try and get your fall registrations in SOON so we can get our plans and materials ready for the Fall!

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION MAY 5, 2013

FIRST COMMUNION PICTURES

LITTLE ANGELS!  A VERY SPECIAL DAY FOR OUR STUDENTS WHO MADE THEIR FIRST COMMUNION!

Remember to bring your families to Church on Sundays!

Hope you all had a wonderful day!



April 18, 2013 COPS FOR KIDS PICS

Here's my crew!


These are pictures with my kids wearing Officer Brinker's
helmet.  Pretty cute, aren't they?  Officer Brinker does such a great job with my kids!  Thank  you to him for giving us his time and sharing his talents!

MAPS tests are almost over!  There are just a few left for kids who were absent or didn't have enough time to finish them.

I am looking forward to our second grade field trip to MMC on May 8th.  It has been such a good experience for our kids.  They get to learn from the experts!

We are getting ready for First Holy Communion!  It is coming up so fast- May 5th at the 10:00 Mass.  I hope you have all of your plans ready to go for this wonderful celebration!

Keep sending pennies for our window fund!  Every penny counts!  It's been fun to see the pennies add up.  How quickly can we buy that window?  Or how about more than one?  That'd be awesome!

"Bump Up Day" was a lot of fun!  What a great day to enjoy the kids we will have next year - and for the children to spend the day with US, too!  It sounds like the Kindergarten Round Up Day went very well, too! 

Have a wonderful weekend!  Thanks for sending your children to our wonderful school!  We love them!!!

March 24

                      HOLY WEEK is here!
We will be learning about the Triduum this week. We will also be making pretzels to remind us to pray.  The pretzels are like "arms crossed in prayer!   My kids always enjoy this project!

We are working on a Palm Sunday art project - we ran out of time on Friday!  I hope everyone got a chance to attend Mass and get their palms!

We have a new schedule out for the second MAPS tests in April.  April 8 will be the first day of testing and will go through the week.  Please TRY and have your children at school so they aren't missing. Mrs. Parent then has to do "make-up" tests the following week. 

We are continuing to work on subtraction with regrouping.  It's still a difficult concept for some, but we keep practicing using Work Mats and base ten blocks to help.   Our next unit will be Geometry.

We love having Weekly Readers to learn about current events and many lessons have coincided with our Science and Social Studies lessons.  The kids really like the online "games" at the end of our lessons.  These games are a review of what we have read.  They also have a video to go with each Weekly Reader. Thanks again to Mrs. Bednarik for buying these for us this year!!!

Our Easter ART projects were provided by Mrs. Pliss!  Thank you!  I'll add pictures when I can get them sent and downloaded.  Thank you, too, to Leandra, Lisa, and Jill for helping with these projects!!

We are ALL looking forward to Easter break!  Enjoy the break, and Happy Easter!!!

Catholic Schools' Week sledding - Yahoo!

Let's head back up the hill!

We made it!

Taking it easy!

Snow on my face!

Mardi Gras fun!!!

Catholic Schools' Week sledding was a blast for the kids!  Everyone had a great time, and there were no injuries!  :-)

We have been learning about Lent and doing Lenten art projects.  We do a weekly Lenten meditation and then write in Lent journals.  We use purple ink to write in them!
The meditations are relaxing, and my kids are good at picturing in their minds the messages of the meditations.  These are based on the Sunday Gospels for Cycle C.  They are enjoying sharing their thoughts from their journals with the class, too.

Next week we will begin our First Communion preparation lessons. What an exciting time it will be!  We will work on those lessons probably twice a week, and if we need more time, we'll add a day.  First Communion is the first Sunday in May.

The MAPS testing went well.  This first time was new, but we are hoping to see progress after the next session towards the end of April.  

In Math, we are doing two-digit addition with regrouping.  In "my day"  it was called "carrying".  :-)  They are doing well with it.  The next concept will be subtraction.  We still need to review money and time as those were two difficult concepts for many.  

Wednesday, March 6 is our liturgy.  Hope you can join us!  The following week is when we team up with fourth grade and do the Stations of the Cross at 12:35 on Friday.  

Have a great week!  I will try to be more on top of this!

PICTURES FROM OUR BABY JESUS PARTY!



Advent Retreat with grade three




Advent Retreat

 Our Advent Retreat with the third grade class went very well!
We made Advent wreaths, doves, saw a video, and prayed 
together!  It was a very worthwhile afternoon.  It's great to
do activities with other grades! 


Advent Retreat



This week will be a busy week, too. Today was our Baby Jesus
Party!  I'll put pictures on next time.  Tomorrow we will get to see our preschool friends at the Preschool Christmas Program.  Wednesday is the time we get to see Mrs. Hulmer's music group perform, and Friday we will be having our very first Stations of the Nativity. (Paulist Press permission granted.) 

 Friday we'll have our classroom Christmas party!