"Jesus Calls Us To Help Others"

Matthew 20:29-34


The children will be able to reflect on what their two hands enable them to do and appreciate the gift of their hands. They will become aware of people who help them in different ways and see Jesus as one who helped others.


They are following Jesus' journey to Calvary in their Stations of the Cross booklets.


We'll attend the 8:00 Mass this Friday with our buddies. I will meet the children in the front lobby of the school at 7:55. I will pick up those who go to before care. I hope all of them of them will attend. Please join us if you can.


The Reading Selection is My Lucky Day, an animal fantasy. Skill: Cause and Effect; Phonics: Ll /l/; Grammar: Action Parts; HF Words: are, that, do; -op Word Family: bop, cop, hop, mop, pop, top.


We're enjoying My Father's Dragon and will finish it this week. We'll write about our favorite character in the story and recall some of the details.


We're doing well counting by 5's and 10's and will work on skip counting by 2's and odd and even numbers. "Race to 100" on the Smartboard is a lot of fun. We're trying to learn how to win and lose graciously.


In anticipation of our visit to the Planetarium we'll learn about "Our Place in Space" with a variety of activities. We'll take a look at Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and paint our own night sky.


The 3rd graders helped us collect 158 toothbrushes for World Dental Relief. Thank you so much!


Homework: Write two sentences. Each sentence should have two rhyming words. Illustrate each sentence in the space provided. Paper is in your child's folder. Does your child's folder need to be replaced? Please do so if so.

Reminders

* Stop by and see the Faces of Jesus and the time lines on display.

* Tooth brushing charts due

* "Math is Me" due Thursday

* Read Aloud due Friday

* SeeSaw Book order due Friday

* Book/transportation forms need to be returned

* 12:30 Dismissal Friday - Send a note if your child will go to EDP

* Thank you for sending in hand wipes for the class to share.

* Join other K moms at Laughs for Ladies next month. Good food and great prizes.

* Have a good week!