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Newsletter for Week of May 5th, 2014 = Week in Review = Wow, are we thrilled that Hannah won the ice cream sundaes for the class through the Shamrock raffle supplied by Mrs. Milazzo. Just a perfect treat! With May starting, you have many new things to be aware of. In May, being the month of Mary, we have begun praying a decade of the the rosary each day throughout the month. We will be praying the Joyful Mysteries, Sorrowful Mysteries, the Mysteries of Light, and the Glorious Mysteries. I have a rosary for each child. On Monday, May 5th we will be celebrating out International Tasting Lunch. Thank you so much in advance to the parents who are able to help the First Grade with this culminating activity to our study of Japan and Italy in Social Studies. Tuesday, leaving around 9 a.m. and arriving back around 1:30 p.m. we will travel to and explore the Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary. Please remember to dress your child for the weather as this is an outdoor activity. **They should be bringing a bag lunch with a beverage.** We will eat at the sanctuary. Next week Wednesday we will begin hearing our research reports. We can't wait to hear about the lives of so many interesting people that have been selected this year. On Friday, May 9th, we will celebrate our annual Mother's Day Picnic Breakfast. We hope you have marked your calendar as noted on our newsletter for the past four weeks and that you are planning to attend. I hope you received enough advance notice so your plans may be arranged. Finally, after all the reports are given we will  begin our final major project which will be the writing of our autobiography and assembling a time capsule which we can open on our high school graduation day in 2025. **Reading** "Cool Jobs" will be our selection this week. It will introduce us to a zoo dentist, flavor maker, a beekeeper, and even a team mascot. If you have a cool job and would love to share it with our class this week, be sure to contact me. We would love to learn about the cool job you have! We are returning to prefixes this week and specifically the re- (do it again) and the un- (not) prefix. We will also continue working with pronouns, DOL, vocabulary words,and classifying and categorizing. We will begin hearing the presentations of our research reports on Thursday. We had a wonderful Read and Treat on Friday. It was just what the doctor ordered.....time to relax and enjoy great stories and a snack, with the first Spring weekend approaching. interesting...ordinary...duty...equipment...profession...thorough satisfaction ...build...goes...laugh...only... unhappy...redo...retry...reuse remake...unpack...unsafe
 * Vocabulary for "Cool Jobs" **

**Religion** We will continue working in our "Growing in Love" book this week. We will be praying a decade of the rosary each day during the month of May. We will be hearing about the mysteries of the rosary as well. Each child has received their own rosary. We congratulate all of the Second Graders as they have now received the Sacrament of the Eucharist this weekend and last and we ask God to bless them all. Our last Mass will be May 14th in which our school honors them and we celebrate Mary with the crowning of her as Queen of Heaven and Earth.

**Math**  In this unit we have been working on our geometric shapes. The children have been asked to determine and explain the specific attributes to each shape. Attributes are things that make a specific shape unique from others. We look at sides, vertices, parallel lines, faces and edges as well. For this geometry standard the children will not just have to identify each shape but also compare and contrast its attributes.

**Vocabulary for Solid and Plane figures ** attributes...curved...slanted...features...geometry surface...sphere...cone...cylinder...flat...surfaces...cube...pyramid rectangular prism...corners side...trapezoid...rhombus...hexagon

**Riddles of the Week** He wanted to rake in the cash. A "flour" garden
 * Why did the young boy start a gardening business?**
 * What kind of garden does a baker have?**

= Important Dates =

= =  May 5th......................First Grade International lunch May 6th......................Field Trip-Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary Fieldtrip, 9-1:30 May 7th,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Research Reports due May 7th......................No Mass May 9th......................**Mother's Day Breakfast** at LCT-Dominiak Hall, **8:30 a.m.** May 10th....................Shamrock Student Lock-In Night 5-9 p.m. May 14th....................Final Class Liturgy May 14th....................May/June Birthday Blessings May 16th....................Pizza Hut Lunch May 19th....................Map testing begins, date change May 20th....................Rainbow Olympics LCM (May 22nd-rain date) May 26th....................No school, Memorial Day May 30th....................**Father's Day Breakfast** in LCT-Dominiak Hall, **8:30 a.m.** June 2nd....................Out of uniform for the remainder of the year June 2nd.....................Frog and Toad performance at 12:45 Dominiak Hall June 6th.....................Early Release-Last Day of School