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Magic Show: We are having a Magic Show on
Tuesday, March 9 at 6:45 PM in the gym. This show will benefit a family who
is battling stage 4 cancer in their son. Please come, or send a donation, if
possible. This is a good time to hug your healthy children, and give thanks
for your blessings! Student Government sends out their thanks for your
generous food donations to benefit Catholic Charities. The staff at the
food pantry were so overwhelmed with the charity you have all shown.
Thank you so much. Student Government is set to meet Thursday,
March 11th. Our next school dance for grades 6-8 is next Friday, 3/12. Scrabble Club has been extended! Because of
the school cancellations, we will be meeting through the month of
March. We will have a Scrabble party on our last meeting date, which is
March 23rd! We are having a great time in Scrabble Club! Math Olympics - We will meet on Tuesday this coming
week. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Rehearsals are well underway for this year's school play. We are
still looking for some adult helpers to help with program advertisements, the
refreshment stand, & set construction. Let Mrs. Baker or the school office know if you'd like to be part
of the fun! The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is coming! –March 14. Please keep
this day in mind. It will be a day of fun marching in the St. Patrick’s
Day Parade with all our super families to support St. Joseph School! Please
get your permission slips signed and returned to your teacher. Congratulations to our talented band member! Kelli
Castaldo, Adam Dachehausen and air Mautane have been selected as members of
the Mid Hudson Valley Catholic School Honor Band.They will participate in a
concert at Our Lady of Lourdes High School at 1:00 PM on Sunday, March
7,2010. We are very proud of all our band members but especially of these
dedicated musicians. |
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March 05, 2010 |
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St. Joseph School |
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Pre-K 3 We are having a bear-y good week! We
are talking about all kinds of bears. We made Polar and Panda bears and read
about “Corduroy”,the bear. We read the story of the Good Samaritan and
dramatized it in Class. We also celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday with
some Cat in the Hat projects. Pre-K
4: This week, our class learned all about March. We have been keeping track
of lion/lamb days, made windsocks and discussed clouds. For Dr. Seuss’s
birthday, we made green eggs/ham and “Cat in the Hat” hats. We also
celebrated the 100th day of school by counting to 100 and having a cookie
treat! In Religion, we discussed Palm Sunday and made a Lenten cross out of
colored egg shells. Kindergarten - The 100th day of
school FINALLY arrived! The class had wonderful fun at rotating
stations making Zero the Hero puppets, necklaces of 100 fruit loops, 100th
day crowns, & eating 100 (pretzel stick & 2 donuts). They
counted to 100 by 1's, 5's, & 10's & wrote about having 100
somethings. This week the children were so excited to attend the
Stations of the Cross. They have been doing kind, loving acts and
adding paper flowers to a vine for each kindness. Enjoy the weekend
everyone - NO SNOW!! Grade 1 celebrated the 100th day of school
this week. We used 100 edible items to make groups of 2, 5, and 10. We
weighed our 100 items to see whose weighed the most and the least. Then we
shared our 100 goodies with the class. We also made lists of 100 animals that
we know and 100 places on the globe. In math, we have been working with sums
from 13 to 20. we have also been practicing how to write addition problems in
horizontal and vertical form. Have a super weekend! Grade
2 Happy Birthday to Fr. Frank, Mrs. Jackowski, Mr. Pezzo and Jack
Lockrow! Three cheers for Abbey-Gayle
Kelly for her excellent performance on a recent Math test. Stephen Dong, Jax Mautone and Maitiu Murphy
have completed another home reading record!
Wow! We continue to enjoy listening to Jane Caulfield’s reading which
is so fluent and expressive! We celebrated “World Maths Day” on March 3 by
creating Math problems related to the numbers on our sports tee shirts! |
Try the online Stations of
the Cross for Children at
http://www.loyolapress.com/multimedia-stations-of-the-cross-for-children.htm
or simply go to www.loyolapress.com and browse their website. Or try the
Passionists’ at
http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/child/stations/index.html Grade 3 is hoping spring comes soon! We
are working on area, perimeter, and volume in math. In
reading, we just began a new class novel "Ramona Quimby,
Age 8". We are also gaining a deeper meaning of the Stations
of the Cross. Grade 4 : We would like to wish Fr. Frank a
very happy birthday. We have been busy this week in math learning about
fractions, factors, and reducing fractions to lowest terms. In reading we
have been continuing our class novel about Sojourner Truth. Her connection to
Ulster County is fascinating. In religion we continue our daily Lenten
reflection about Jonah. Grade 5: This week we are trying to catch up
from the snow week we had. The students learned the capitals for the
Northeastern states in social studies. In writing, we have been working
on a creative piece about a mysterious package found in a lunchbox.
This week we began learning about the five different forms of prayer in
religion class. We also attended Novena and Stations of the Cross. Grade 6: We are thankful to finally have a
week of normal school! It has been a great week of learning new things! 7th
Grade : Religion -
After all the snow, we are finally able to work on our Stations of the
Cross Bulletin Board. We hope to have this finished next week .
We're all looking forward to the magic show Tuesday night. Remember to
bring a friend. Math Corner - 5th
grade - We
are learning metric measurements. 6th
grade - We
are still working with geometric figures, learning about similar polygons 7th
grade - We
have been learning how to find the surface area of cylinders and prisms 8th
grade - We
are learning about linear equations and line slope. 9th
grade - We
are learning applications of systems of linear equations. |