RELIGION: Lent is the time when we grow closer to Jesus. The Stations of the Cross tell the story of the last days of Jesus. Our virtue of the month is "selflessness".

OUR LENTEN PROMISE OF THE WEEK: PUT THINGS AWAY THE FIRST TIME WE ARE ASKED

MATH: We will be graphing our favorite type of transportation. We will also be making a form of transportation out of shapes.

ILA: Making a name train, gluing triangles to letter T, marble painting cars, writing about where we would drive in our cars, practicing writing letter T, writing our March poem, "Nine Leprechauns", designing hot air balloons, and journaling about letter T

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT: Abridge Club's "Build a Bridge"

MARCH DATES:

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO ELYSE BROWN (March 28)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17TH - SPRING PICTURES (OPTIONAL)
FRIDAY, MARCH 19TH - DOUGHNUTS WITH DAD 9:30 - 10:30 AM
FRIDAY, MARCH 19TH - MASS AT 11:30 AM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24TH - PRE-K AND K OPEN HOUSE 10 - 12
THURSDAY, MARCH 25TH - PAINT SCHOOL BAGS
FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH - NOT AN EARLY DISMISSAL - FULL DAY
FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH - FIELD TRIP MONEY AND PERMISSION SLIPS DUE
TUESDAY, MARCH 30TH - DRESS DOWN DAY
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31ST - EARLY DISMISSAL 12:30 PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 9TH- FIELD TRIP TO DA VINCI SCIENCE CENTER

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

1). Please remember to check out the classroom wikispace page (click here). More information is posted there. Thank you!

2). We will be having an open house for new parents of incoming Pre-K and K students. Please let your friends and neighbors know. If anyone is interested in helping out, please let me know. If anyone needs an extra flyer to post, please let me know and I will email you one. Remember, your recommendations are our best advertising!

3). Permission slips and money for the field trip need to be returned by Friday, March 26th!

4). Pre-K Volunteer Opportunities:

Lunch on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays (12:15 - 1:15)

Sit with us at the monthly 11:30 Mass (March Mass is 3/19)

Please let me know if you are interested in helping out. Thank you!

5). Please remember we collect the following items:

Glass Baby Food Jars (any size)
Printer Cartridges and old cell phones
Box Tops for Education
Campbells Soup Labels and Pepperidge Farm Products
Scrap Paper - Recycle your old stationery here!
Paper Towel tubes
Toys that are in good condition

Thank you for choosing St. Martin of Tours School! If I can be of any assistance this week, please feel free to contact me at any time! I look forward to a fun filled week in Pre-K!

Mrs. Giorgi

Kindergarten Kathy Smith

March 8 to March 12

Religion Children will walk with God during Lent. They will focus on their enemies and look at ways to get along.

Math Children will learn about subtraction readiness. They will use manipulatives to help with this abstract idea.

Reading/Writing Children will do beginning/ending sounds of "L and H'. The H.F.W. they will be working on these words which are look, you, one, and see. The word families they will be building with letters are "et", "ig", and the "in" .

Social Studies Why are teachers important in our community? Children will discuss the importance of having jobs within a community and they will do a reading response from the story about teachers.

Science Children will focus on living and non living things. They will think about objects and categorize if they are living or non living and talk about the importance of eating, growing, and moving when it comes to living things.

Art Children will do Lenten Leprechauns they are focusing on how they will change to be closer and walk with God.

Homework I want to thank all the parents for their cooperation and support with world math day. Mrs. Skelly was beaming from ear to ear because Kindergarten did a great job. Wow look out my children will be great in math because they took the time to do their best. I will let all parents know whose name I will take out of the hat for our class trip. Homework will be given out on Monday and returned on Friday. Hopefully the Sun will shine all week in the classroom and outside. Keep the force and may he always be with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mrs.Gross

1st Grade Kim Lacey

February 22 - 26, 2010

Welcome to another wonderful and exciting year at St. Martin's! I am looking forward to a challenging and fun year with all of your children.

This week:

ILA - We will be continuing with Theme 4, Lesson 17 in Storytown with the Get Started Story "Jungle Fun" and main story "Can Elephants Paint?". Our comprehension skill this week will focus on main idea. Grammar/writing this week will focus on writing possessives. Spelling will focus on -le words. Please remember to review robust vocabulary, spelling/ phonics sounds, comprehension skills, and main story for every reading test. We have started weekly ILA maintenances to review grammar skills so please look for that to come home in the test folders as well.

Religion - Lent

Math - We will be finishing Chapter 6 this week with the test to follow next Tuesday, March 2. This week we will be finding missing addends, adding and subtracting with answers of 20 or less, and problem solving strategies.

Science - weather

Test Schedule

Reading/Spelling - Lesson 17 on Friday, February 26

Religion - Lent quiz on Thursday, February 25

Math - Tuesday, March 2

A few reminders:

- Thank you to those who have volunteered for our specials!

- Donations of plain printer paper is much needed for copies. Thank you to those who have already donated!

- The students are doing a great job with our literature circles. Thank you for your continued support with the assignments at home.

- Half day for students on Friday, February 26. No transportation is available.

Miss Lacey

2nd Grade Linda Maksym

March is here! That means Spring is only a few weeks away! Hopefully the snow is gone for this y ear.

ITs great to be back on track with the kids. We have so much work to do.

We all loved watching and talking about the Winter Olympics. Many of the children have expressed interest in the Ski Jump or the Luge. We have some daredevils in our class. We enjoyed keeping count of the medals of four countries-USA, Russia, Germany, and China. Of course, USA came out in front with 9 Gold, 15 Silver and 13 Bronze medals! The athletes made us all so proud.

Just a reminder that the Olympic Packet is due Thursday, March 4th. I look forward to reading everyone's stories.

Terra Nova testing begins on Friday, March 5th. Please make sure your child gets plenty of sleep and brings in sharpened pencils each and every day. Please try to have your child here on the testing days. It is very important. They also need to be here on time. Breakfast will be served at 8:15 for those wishing to participate. Look for more information coming home soon about the testing schedule.

First Friday Mass is March 5th at 9 am.

I am looking to see if any parent would like to come in and make Irish Potatoes with the class on Wednesday, March 17th. If you are interested, please let me know. Thank you

Also, I would like to thank all the parents for the birthday donations to our classroom, and a special thank you to Gavin, and Blake Hart and Rachel Schu. We are enjoying all the games, books and art supplies! The vaccuum and rugs are wonderful additions to our room also. Thank you so much again.

3rd Grade Donna Leahy

Welcome to Third Grade!

Below you will find the following: What we are doing in class, spelling words, homework, specials schedules and class news.

Below you will also find a list of Vocabulary Words to study for the Theme Test next week.

Wednesday 3-3-10

Reading: Reading Log.

Math: Portaportal.com math measurements

Spelling: Sentences 8-17

Religion: We are about Lent. We are brainstorming ways we can be more like Jesus during this time. We are learning how to read the Bible and read about Stewardship.

Math: We are beginning Chapter 8 and learning about different types of measurement.

ILA: We will be reading "Ask the Experts". Our test will be on Friday

Social Studies: We are learning how where communities change. We are learning specifically how inventions have changed communities.

Science: We are beginning Chapter 6 and are learning about earth science. Specifically we are learning about Rocks and minerals.

Test Schedule:

Friday 3-5-10

Reading and Spelling

Monday 3-8-10 through Friday 3-12-10

Terra Nova Testing

Spelling Words:

1. title

2. rattle

3. saddle

4. gnat

5. knight

6. wrench

7. rough

8. edge

9. police

10. giant

11. judge

12. hotel

13. seven

14. broken

15. taken

Vocabulary Words

1. luscious

2. shudder

3. issue

4. advice

5. consult

6. recommend

7. sensible

8. devise

9. expertise

10. Correspondence

Special Schedule:

Monday: Gym 10:40-11:25

Tuesday: Art 1:15-2:00

Wednesday: Music 10:10-10:55, Spanish 1:15-1:45 and Computers 11:15-12:00

Thursday: Library 10:05-10:40

4th Grade Nicole Bello

WELCOME!!!!

Hello and welcome to 4^th grade! I am Miss Bello and I will be your teacher this year. 4^th grade can be a lot of fun, but it is also going to be a lot of hard work. You are going to learn to be more responsible and more independent. Some of the fun parts about 4^th grade are that you are the oldest students on the first floor, you get to eat lunch with the “big kids,” and you are allowed to write in blue pen! We also write a newspaper, called The Daily Apple, that is distributed at Applebee’s during Family Night.

Here are some things that you need to know about 4^th grade:ê I am very big on respect. You don’t have to be friends with everyone, but I do expect you to respect everybody.

ê You are responsible for your own actions. Please don’t blame anyone else.

ê You will be held accountable for everything!! If you do your homework and leave it at home, it still counts as a missed homework.

ê We do not have a maid in 4^th grade. If you make the mess, you will clean it up.

ê If you have a question, just ask!! I don’t always know what you are thinking.

This year, our classroom theme will be “going green.” This means that we are going to be very careful to recycle and reuse things. Also, I am going to post a lot of things to our Scholastic website so that I don’t have to send reminders home. Please make sure that you show your parents how to use the website. There is a link to the Scholastic website on my homepage for school. Or, you can go to this address:http://homepage.scholastic.com/CHBuilderWeb/jsp/StudentParentLogin.jsp Classroom Username: SMOT4

Classroom Password: (please ask for this)

(Make sure you select whether you are a student, parent, or other!)

Your homework will also be posted on the Scholastic website. Just remember, you are responsible for copying in class, so you can’t just use the website. I promise that if you work really hard and respect each other, you will have a great year. Let’s work together to make that happen!

Miss Bello

*** Note: Please refer to my Scholastic webpage for homework, announcements, and other fun stuff!! Thanks!

Resources

5th Grade Debra Repak

6th Grade Geraldine Fox

Week of March 8th 2010!!!

6th grade

We are taking Terra Nova Testing this week!

Religion - next 2 saint cards due Friday, March 12th.

Social Studies - studying Asia and the Pacific pp. 115-119-123 key terms and key places due Tuesday, March 9th.

Wow Fact! -

Current Event - Thursday, March 11th!

Spelling - Terra Nova

Reading Comprehension - Terra Nova

Vocabulary Workshop - open book test Thursday, March 10th on Review Units.

5th grade

We are taking Terra Nova Testing this week!

Spelling- Terra Nova

Reading Comprehension - Terra Nova

Vocabulary Workshop - Unit 10 open book test on March 11th. Vocabulary Cards are due Tuesday, March 9th.

Bridge to Terabithia....we have completed reading this book and we will be viewing the movie this week then working on a compare and contrast essay. Packet due this week!

Thank you,

Mrs. Jeri Fox

7th Grade

7th grade is off to a great start! Remember to visit the following links to learn more about our class and activities!

Visit our class wiki at http://buehler23.wikispaces.com to see some student work and extra information on the topics we are discussing in class!

Create an account and login to GradeConnect at http://www.gradeconnect.com/front/login.php to view class assignments, assessments, and student grades.

8th Grade Patricia Seaver

For all the information related to eighth grade, please go to our wikispace at:

http://smtgr8.wikispaces.com/