Mrs. Porter’s Newsletter

Feb. 11^th-15th

Calendar of Events

Tuesday, Feb. 12th-12:00-Valentine’s Day party-please see the e-mail from the school office about ordering candy grams or paying to wear jeans that day

Wednesday, Feb. 13th-8:30AM All School Mass-Ash Wednesday

Monday, Feb. 19th-No School-Presidents Day

NEWS AND NOTES

Tuesday is our Valentine’s Day parties!    I ask that students do not put names on the Valentines.  They can sign them, but it’s much easier to pass out if they aren’t “individualized.”  Our class has 23 students.  The party will begin at noon and all are welcome.  We will be decorating our bags to put the valentines in that morning. 

Yesterday, your child brought home a Rice Bowl for Lent.  Traditionally, these have been used in Catholic households to try and save extra change for those who need help.  At the end of Lent, you will turn your rice bowl in to the church.  I will encourage students to take a little extra time during the season to think of how to help others.  Maybe your child can do some extra work around the house to earn money for those in need.  We will talk about this in the classroom.

Thanks so much to all those who have donated Kleenex boxes and paper towels!  This is always the time of year when our supplies start running low, so I appreciate all of your help in stocking my closet.

The second and third grade classes are in the process of deciding where we would like to go on our field trips.  We are going to try and go on at least 2 sometime in the spring.  I will keep you posted on what we decide.

Our class mass is coming soon.  We will be in charge of the mass on Wednesday, Feb. 20^th.  If your child did not have a part at our last class mass, they will have one for this one.  I do have a list that tells me what each student has done for masses this year. 

I am so proud of how many students are remembering to fill in their mass journals.  Even if you don’t go to mass, you can find the readings for the day online.  It would be great if you share the readings with your child over the weekend and then he/she can reflect in the mass journal.  This weekend, students are asked to write a reflection on week number 6. 

Here’s the scoop for next week:

Reading-Valentine’s stories/Daily 5/Small group work with vocab./comprehension-complete biography unit

Spelling-Unit 20-prefixes-nouns/verbs, plurals, and spelling of /s/.

Religion- Chapter 3-We are forgiven

Math-Collecting and organizing Data

Social Studies-President’s Day activities