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Newsletter for Week of Mar. 31st, 2014

= Week in Review = The children loved our "inference" project. The examples of their personality were absolutely perfect. The only sad part was it had to come to an end. If you are thinking of something special to do as an Easter activity, this would be great with family and guests. We are coming to the end of our map study in Social Studies and unfortunately the way Easter vacation falls it is not ideal for our unit. We have decided to begin our specific country study to coincide with our map study before vacation. The children will be introduced to our **Flat Stanley project** as well, in order to encourage his participation by the children over vacation. When we return, the First Grades will switch in order that they learn about the other country. I will be teaching Japan (Asia) and Mrs. Wermers will be teaching Italy (Europe). Following exposure to both countries, the children will be able to celebrate an international lunch with tasting flavors from both. If you would be interested in helping with this celebration at the end of April or beginning of May, please contact our Room Mothers.

**Reading** This week we will be enjoying the animal story "A Tiger Cub Grows Up." We will once again be working on summarizing and sequencing. We were learning about the diphthongs o**u and ow** last week and this week we focus on the diphthongs **oy and oi**. The children will be working with prepositions and prepositional phrases this week. They will be reminded that it connects one part of a sentence to another. W e will continue to work on gathering meaning from words by using our context clues and we return to working on composing alliterations. Read and treat was so much fun and it was filled with suspense. We also learned about how our voice expression makes all the difference in our reading.

mature...newborn...process...remain...slender ...air...enough...eyes...learn...open...cub...wild
 * A Tiger Cub Grows Up **

**Religion**  On Monday the children of LCT will participate in the Station of the Cross at 9:30 a.m. in church. The children will be seeing very large illustrations to tell the story of the journey of Jesus to the cross. Each is explained and we pray and sing between each station. I am sure you would be most welcome to join us. We now have completed the first half of Lent with Gaudete Sunday in which Father Dan and Father and Father Marti wore rose vestments. It is a perfect time to encourage your child to continue their sacrifice or acts of kindness. If they seem not to working on anything, it would be great to begin a new promise for the remainder of Lent...even as an entire family. We will continue our study of the Kingdom of God. This is a very difficult topic when talking about heaven. The children have amazing visions of what it could be like, but saying good-bye to loved ones and accepting it as the will of God and their loved ones reward for leaving a good life, is never easy. Heaven is introduced as being with God in happiness forever.

= ** Math ** =

We have our next Math unit on fractions. This year the children are primarily introduced to the concept of fractions as we work with 1/2, 1/4, and 1/3. The term equal parts is being emphasized regardless which fraction is being presented. It would be so great if you could introduce them to how you use fractions in your baking and throughout daily life.

equal parts...unequal parts...one half...one fourth...one third...parts of a group...fraction...whole...1/2...1/4
 * Vocabulary for Fractions **

** Riddles of the Week ** I'll catch you later.
 * What did the baseball glove say to the baseball? (for opening day)**

With a hare dryer. **Important Dates** Mar. 31st...................Spring [|Chess Club] sign-up Apr. 4th......................First Friday, out of uniform Apr. 9th......................Volunteer Appreciation Liturgy Apr. 9th......................Apr. Birthday Blessings Apr. 11th....................PBIS Pajama Day reward Apr. 11th....................[|Cousins Sub] orders due Apr. 11th....................[|Mad Scientist], final session begins Apr. 12th-21st............Spring Break Apr. 17th....................Holy Thursday Apr. 18th....................Good Friday Apr. 20th....................Easter Sunday Apr. 21st....................Easter Monday Apr. 22nd...................School resumes May 5th......................Begin Spring Map testing May 6th......................Field Trip-Shalom Wildlife Preserve May 7th......................No Mass May 9th......................**Mother's Day Breakfast** at LCT-Dominiac Hall May 10th....................Shamrock Student Lock-In Night 5-9 p.m. May 14th....................Class Liturgy May 14th....................May/June Birthday Blessings May 16th....................Pizza Hut Lunch May 20th....................Rainbow Olympics LCM (May 22nd-rain date) May 30th....................**Father's Day Breakfast** in LCT-Dominiac Hall June 6th.....................Early Release-Last Day of School
 * How did the soggy Easter bunny get dry?**