Angelville News January 30- February 3, 2012

BON DIA

WEEK 20

THANK YOU to all of the parents who helped make our Open House a success! It was wonderful to see so many faces on a Sunday!

*This week Genevieve is our ROCK STAR!!

This week is Catholic Schools Week! Each day will be a special dress-up day as most of you already know.

Monday - Cozy Day - making Valentines Cards for the seniors in our Church community.

Tuesday - uniform for mass - 9:30 "Day of Service" in the Family Center. Please come out and watch our performances that K-4 will be presenting to the Seniors in our church community. All parents are welcome. The 3/4 classes will be doing Readers Theatre, some of the younger grades will be singing.

Wednesday - Mix Match day

Thursday - Sports Day

Friday - Blue and White day - Teacher/8th grade basketball game at 2pm. It will be worth a watch.

READING - This week in reading we are working on Readers Theatre. Each student has a part in one of our plays. They will preform two of these plays to the senior community tomorrow in the Family Center. All are welcome to attend, aprox, 9:30am.

WRITING - In WW this week we will work on becoming Essayists.

RELIGION - Service toward others.

MATH - The triangles will take their Fractions test on Wednesday. It kept getting pushed back due to interruptions in our schedule. Hoping it will finally take place this week.

SPELLING/GRAMMAR - we will continue with our adjective practice and have a mini quiz on Friday. Spelling this week are occupations.

Have a Super Week!!!

GUM WALL-----BIG HIT

Our Tour of the GUM WALL must have been the hot topic of the day! Some chewed to add to the wall, while others wanted to touch the wall, and still others sat back in AWWH at how sick it was. Might not be my taste for ART, but Art none the less.

I think my favorite picture of the day was Maya putting her gum up with her brightly colored rain coat to boot. She could have been part of that wall. FUN TIMES!!!

Pike Place Market

Pike Place Market was a big hit yesterday! I have not been in some time and had a ball. Wish I could have done some kind of walking/eating tour! Great Day! A huge THANKS to all of the parents who came out for such a special day:)

One hit of the day I think was when the Fish Monger was flying squid to the students. He eased my mind knowing he was not going to sell that squid to any patrons. PHEW!!

Religious Leader Collage

What the students need for their collage in art on Wednesday, January 25.

Religion Assignment

A Follow up to studying about Martin Luther King Jr and his peaceful fight for justice and equality for all humans is an assignment we will be working on this week. We will display this assignment on our board outside in the hall for our Open House this Sunday from 11:30-1:00pm. Open House is designed for all new perspective parents looking at sending their student(s) to St. Alphonsus.

Each student is researching a Religious individual who spent his or her life in peaceful pursuit for justice and equality for all humans. I handed out a guide of questions for each student to be looking for as they research their Religious individual. After the research is complete and all information has been gathered each student will create a collogue of their Religious person or Icon. Students may work on this at home as well, especially if they are having difficulty finding the information. I will help as best I can with 19 students on computers in the classroom at one time.

Angelville News January 23-27

BON DIA

Week 18

*WOW! What a week! I don't think any of us thought we would be out of school that long. Hope everyone enjoyed the snow, sledding, walking to and fro, and best of all staying up late. Here are a few pictures from my neck of the woods.

*This week we have a very exciting Field Trip to Pike Place Market. This Thursday the 26. We will be taking the metro bus to the market so if you have not already brought in your permission form and money of $1.25 please do so. *The students need to bring a sack lunch and drink. *We need to make sure that all of our students are dressed warm, as it looks now it will be raining. *I ask that the students not bring money to the market, this will only take away from the tour and the real meaning of being in the market, and can cause headaches for the chaperone's. If you plan on chaperoning please be in my room by 9am on Thursday.

The Academic schedule will pick up where we left off last week. You can review my blog from last week we to see what we will be doing this week.

Today, I hope you all enjoy the SUN!!

Angelville Newsletter January 17-20

BON DIA

Week 18

*LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!!! Yes that is what we are saying here in 3/4 West. When the snow started coming down today we all got so excited. Something about snow that is so magical, sledding, slurping soup, drinking cocoa, and much much more. Enjoy hanging at home if we do get the storm that they are predicting.

Last week we had many wonderful lessons from our Korean teacher about their culture and dress and what it is like to be a student there. I will post some of the picture of their traditional dress called Han-bok! We laughed ourselves silly last Friday!

This weeks schedule and materials covered all depends on having school. It was tough to begin anything new today with so many students our of school.

Planned :

SS- Pike Place Market Lessons

Religion - Steps to Respect

Math (4) - Fractions/Decimals - probably fraction test for the triangles early next week.

WW- Growing our personal narrative seed stories in to becoming ESSAYISTS!

RW- Re-testing reading levels. I sent home where each of your students are at in their reading level and some book ideas, with ways in which they can move on to the next reading level.

Science - Volume

Enjoy your week!!