Week+of+Apr.+11th,++2011

Newsletter for Week of Apr. 11th, 2011 ** Week in Review ** ** ﻿ ** ** Can you recognize us? We are enjoying a "Taste of Japan and Italy" at our international lunch. We had lots of fun and we want to thank all the parents so very much for helping prepare our wonderful lunch as well as serve it. The parents could see how much the children enjoyed themselves ** **. We enjoyed the flavors of potstickers, stir-fried vegetables, pizza, teriyaki chicken, ramen noodles, pasta alfredo, fortune cookies, italian ice, gelato, green tea, and we even used chopsticks. What a feast! This week we reviewed many skills and since we are pretty tired as well as excited for the upcoming vacation it was not in our best interest to introduce new information. Following vacation we will jump right into our studies once again as well as being introduced to taking notes and writing a research report. On a side note, after looking at our Mary Garden up close, we are seeing our bulbs begin to sprout. With the soil settling and the squirrels scavenging around, we could use any extra garden soil you may have left in a bag from your plantings to cover the tops of our bulbs in the garden. ** Enjoy your vacation. Relax! That's what I am going to try to do.

**Reading** When we return from our vacation we will be reading the non-fiction story, "A Tiger Grows Up" It is going to tell us how a cub will need get ready to adapt in order to return to the wild. The photographs are wonderful. We will work on sequencing our story as we did this past week in order to retell it in order. We will also be working on additional diphthongs--//oi and oy. We will also be introduced to prepositions this week. We have always been using them, not knowing what they have been called. This is far advanced from prior first grade skills. // Vocabulary for "A Tiger Cub Grows Up" mature...newborn...remain...process...slender ...cub...wild...enough...air...learn...open...eyes cub...noise...spoil...joy...coin...join...toy...boy

**Re** **ligion** = = = = This week will be doing many things. On Monday afternoon we will be praying the Stations of the Cross with our school family as we are entering into the second half of Lent. Each day that we have had our prayer service in the classroom we have continued to learn more and hear more about the Bible and its very special stories. As we begin our last unit we will begin to learn about the celebration of the Mass and the parts of the Mass. Father Aaron will also meet with us on Wednesday to give us a tour of the Sacristy and to tell us about the //Tabernacle//. We heard that word in the Bible during our reading in the Old Testament, just this past week. = = = = = = = = = Math =  Our next chapter will move into time and calendar. We have been working on calendar time all year and analog time in bits and pieces since March. Two of my favorite sites are [|Stop the Clock] and [|Bang on Time]. Telling time is another concept based on readiness. I truly hope everyone has at least one analog clock at home. ** hour...minute hand...hour hand...minutes...half hour...year...month...morning...afternoon ** **evening **
 * Vocabulary for Time and Calendar **

** 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.
 * How did the soggy Easter bunny get dry?**

=Important Dates = Apr. 4th-8th.....Spring Break Apr. 11th.........Birthday Blessings Apr. 11th.........Stations of the Cross Apr. 13th.........Meeting with Father Aaron in church Apr. 21st.........Early Release Apr. 22nd........Good Friday Apri. 24th........Happy Easter Apr. 25th.........Easter Monday, no school Apr. 26th.........Cousin's Sub lunch--no hot lunch