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Niedbalski Notes
January 30 – February 10
Catholic Schools’ Week is here!!! I am looking forward to
all of this week’s planned activities!!! Here is a reminder
of what is happening on which day:
Week Long Activities:
Mystery Saint of the Day; Prayer for Catholic Schools in
morning; Penny War raising funds for the Belleville Area
Humane Society.
Monday:
“Dare to Dream It”…in pajamas!! (school appropriate of
course) We will also be enjoying a movie in our room that
afternoon.
Tuesday:
Mass for Grandparents and Students at 1:15 pm.
*****3rd grade is in charge of this Mass…so we
will be doing the readings and carrying offertory!!*****
Grandparents will then come to school for snack and to visit
the classroom. Student may leave with grandparents after
they visit classes.
Wednesday:
Sports Theme Attire (jeans are allowed but NO sweats) and
Roller Skating Party 2-4 pm (Sponsored by Parents’ Club);
Early dismissal at 1:45 pm and Parents’ Club at 7 pm
Thursday:
Teacher Appreciation Luncheon (11:30-12:45) provided by
Student Council and Spirit Wear if parents attended Parents’
Club the night before.
Friday:
Hats off to Catholic Education (after Mass students may wear
hats in school)
Report
cards
Reminder that if you have not returned your report card, it
needs to be done ASAP!! Thank you.
Mc Kendree Field Trip
Just a
reminder that ELC – Grade 3 will be attending STORYTIME at
McKendree on Thursday, February 9th. I am very
excited to see what his program has to offer.
Father’s Day Essay Contest
This is a contest held by the Chicago White
Sox. It is not mandatory to do this. However, if your child
chooses to do this I need the essay by Feb. 9th.
Information was given to those that said they were
interested last Thursday.
Irish Art
Contest
This is another contest the
students have the opportunity to participate in but it is
not required. Information on this was sent home last
Thursday with interested students as well. These entries
need to be at school no later than Feb. 17th.
Curriculum Goals:
Reading
~ 1/30 – 2/3
~ Read “Cactus Hotel” for Tuesday
~ Cause and Effect
~ Use a chart
~ Sequence of Events
~ Suffixes
~ 2/6 – 2/10
~Read “Big Blue Whale” for Tuesday
~ Form generalizations
~ Use a graph
~ Author’s purpose/ point of view
~ Figurative Language
Spelling
~1/30 – 2/3
~ Pages due Wednesday
~ Test Friday
~ Due to the craziness of Catholic Schools’
Week there will be
NO
dictation
~ woman, tall, cookie, bought, song, pulls, cause, always,
wolf, fought, across, sugar, saucer, often, footprint,
discovered, insects, remains, tough, treat
~ 2/6– 2/10
~Compound Words
~ Unit pages due
Wednesday
~ Dictation
Thursday
~ Test
Friday
~ everything, sometimes, outside, someone, anything,
without, sidewalk, afternoon, playground, newspaper,
notebook, basketball, barnyard, cardboard, fingernails,
adult, calm, feast, mammal, swallow
Math
~ 4’s: timed tests, worksheets, fact drills, etc
~ 5’s: times tests, worksheets, fact drills, etc.
~Triangles, Quadrilaterals
~Circles
Language
~ Continue to Review Nouns/Verbs
Science
~ Review Chapter 1
~ Chapter 1 Test on
Wednesday, February 8
~ Chapter 2: Forces, Work, Machines
~ What makes things move?
~What are gravity and magnetism?
Religion
~ Chapter 16: Celebrating Eucharist: The Mass
~ Lesson 1: Jesus celebrated Passover and the Last Supper
~ Lesson 2: The Mass is a sacrifice and a meal
~ Lesson 3:We take part in the Mass
~ Lesson 4: We celebrate Mass each week
~ Test over Chapter 16 on
Thursday, Feb. 9th
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