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!