ROCK STAR GRACIE

Gracie is our Rock Star this week! Today the students wrote about the person they admire most. All of the stories were Fantastic!!

I admire my father. He has Japanese skin, black hair, whiskers, and his name is Aaron. He acts very silly! My father is very tall. He was born in 1963, on December 17th, and it is almost his birthday. He will be 48 years old. And I love my father like crazy!! by Gracie

Angelville News, December 12-16, 2011

Bon Dia

Week 15

This week our ROCK STAR IS GRACIE!!

Holiday Hoopla was a success last week and I'm sure many of you will be revceiving wonderful gifts under the tree this year:)

WOW! Hard to believe we are almost to Christmas Break! We have a full week of activities.

Thursday is our annual Christmas Concert in the Church. Please have your students at school in their classroom by 6:45pm.

Friday is our Christmas party! We will watch the movie Stone Fox, and enjoy some treats that Mrs. Blandford is preparing for us. Thank You! On Thursday we will take the Stone Fox test.

In Writers Workshop this month the students have been working on writing prompts. I am really enjoying their writing. Today they wrote about the person that they admire most. Many of you Mom's and Dad's would be very happy to hear how your students feel about you.

In Religion we continue to prepare for the coming of Jesus. We will complete our Advent chapter and have a quiz on Friday. We will cover the review this Wednesday.

In Math we continue to work with Fractions. Many of the students may also begin to work on a computer program called "Success Maker." This is a wonderful program which will increase math skills and give students who may be behind some extra support to move ahead.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

ROCK STAR, BRYNNE

Last week Brynne was our rock star. Brynne shared her collection of rosary's with the class, along with some currency from Jamaica, where her father taught some years ago, and a VW parking sign. If anyone knows her father they know how much he loves the VW van.

Brynne is a wonderful part of the Angelville community. She is kind to all students and easy to be around. Brynne is eager to help in any way she can in the classroom, with teachers or peers. We are super luck to have her in 3/4 West!!

Northwest Boys Chior Performer

One of our very own students will be performing at St. Al's church in his holiday choir recital, Leo. Please come out and support Leo if at all possible next weekend. Leo would be more than happy to see some of his peeps! Good Luck Leo!

NW Boy Choir and they have their holiday recital this year in the St Als parish church. It's on Dec 18 at 3:30.http://www.northwestchoirs.org/events.php

Angelville News, December 5-9, 2011

Bon Dia

Week 14

2nd week in Advent.

In Religion we are celebrating Advent and the Jesse Tree, Jesus' tree of ancestors from thousands of years before. Each day in Advent we color a new symbol to add to our Jesse Tree followed by a reading in the bible. We will continue to celebrate Advent for the next two weeks. On Thursday we will celebrate at Mass the Celebration of the Immaculate Conception, when Angel Gabriel came to Mary telling her she would bare God's son.

In reading we will finish up the book Stone Fox. There are 10 chapters in Stone Fox and today we are working on Chapter 6 with vocab and comprehension questions. Next Thursday we will have the Stone Fox Book final. On Friday we will watch the movie.

In Writers workshop we celebrated our 3rd Published Party. Each student got up and read their final Personal Narrative where we have been working on paragraph structure; Topic Sentence, detailed sentences that support the Topic sentences, and a closing sentence. I will assess these stories with a rubric and I will be looking for all components of a good paragraph. This month we are moving on to "Prompt" writing. We will try and publish one more piece at the end of next week, time permitting.

In SS we will begin another newspaper in Studies Weekly. Our class has been chosen to work with a teacher from Korea for two weeks in January. We will team teach and work on lessons in collaboration that our students learn more about Korea, Korean culture, and traditions. Should be very FUN!!

In Math our 4th graders continue to work on fractions, and will until the end of the year.

In 3rd grade math they continue to work on multiplication. It is most important that all students coming into 4th grade know their multiplication facts.

Happy Holidays