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.

 

 

 

March 05, 2010

FRIDAY FLASH

St. Joseph School

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.