Friday, May 3, 2013


Mrs. Porter's Newsletter
May 6-10, 2013

 

Calendar of Events

Sunday, May 5th-Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Wednesday, May 8th- First Communion Mass-8:30AM

Thursday, May 9th-Annual Fund Dinner

Friday, May 10th-
Eight Grade Play-10:45AM/Dismissal 12:00PM

 

Important News and Notes

Our second graders have been celebrating a very special time in their lives.  They have joined all of us at the Table of the Lord in Holy Eucharist.  Here are some notes about our own celebration here at Holy Spirit to honor these second graders.

 

The mass will be held on Wednesday, May 8th at 8:30 AM.  Everybody is encouraged and welcome to attend this celebration.

 

Students will need to come to school dressed in their Communion outfits on Wednesday morning.  We will change immediately after the picture with the boys in Ms. Hill’s room and the girls in Mrs. Porter’s room.  The students are allowed to be out of uniform on this day as long as it’s appropriate for school.  If you are able to attend, please help your child get dressed and take his/her Communion outfit with you.  If you are unable to attend, parent volunteers will help your child.  Please send an appropriate bag to hang his/her outfit in during the school day.

 

A special Holy Spirit School Communion picture will be taken immediately after mass.  Many of you have already sent in a picture order to the religion education office.  If you have not sent in an order, you can still order pictures, even on the day of the celebration.   It usually takes about 20-30 minutes to take the pictures.

 

There will be a pizza party in honor of our students after the picture is taken and we are changed.  Thank you Mrs. Welborn and Mrs. Smith for organizing this lunch.  We are hopeful that we will be able to enjoy lunch outside!

 

During the afternoon, we will be doing some fun activities that correlate with First Communion.  One of the activities is a prayer service about bread.  If you would like to donate some bread for the kids to eat during the prayer service, please send it in that morning. 

 

Thank you for helping us make this another special day for our second graders.  It has been a busy and important year!

 

Some additional information:

 

The annual fund dinner will take place on Thursday, May 9th.  I know the eighth graders have been working extra hard on their performance so it should be fun.  I’m looking forward to experiencing my first annual fund dinner.  I’ve heard great things about it.  School will dismiss at 12:00 noon on May 10th and the students will be able to watch the performance that morning at 10:45.

 

We have been working very hard on Benchmarks and IREAD2 testing this week.  These results will help us know what the students need to focus on in third grade.

 

Finally, I will not be sending home a First in Math sheet this month, but I want all students to work on the following games:

 

Bonus 2:                                                        Know and Show 3 & 4:

Grand Slam-Add/Subtract                             Numbers Zoo                  

First to 20                                                     Get a Clue

Deep Sea Sequence                                        Yakity Yak

                                                                      You Rule

                                                                     

These games do correlate with the second grade common core standards.  Thank you so much!  I’m hoping that our class can finish the year with the First in Math trophy!

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