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3a Newsletter Week of April 23 2018

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NEWS FROM 3A

WEEK OF APRIL 23, 2018


This week we will be administering the IOWA test. Please
help to prepare your child by getting them to bed early, giv-
ing them a good breakfast and bringing them to school on
time. They may bring a snack and/or chewy candy for
breaks in between tests. They will need at least 2 #2 pencils. They may also
We emphasize the spiritual, bring activities to do should they finish early i.e. coloring books, books to
intellectual, and physical read, puzzle books etc. Our testing days will be Monday, Tuesday, Friday and
development of each the Monday of the following week. I will be out on Wednesday for the First
individual. Eucharist retreat and Thursday is the Speech Festival. Please try to avoid ab-
sences on testing days. Let’s get ready to do our best!

MATH ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS


This week we will add working with This week’s is a review unit
fractions and geometry to the topics so there will be no Spelling or
that we will be working on besides our Dictation test. In Language, we
usual multiplication and division. Students will be will work on subjects and pred-
able to have some fun with tangrams and finish up icates and get into adjectives
their cases as place value detectives. We will also and adverbs. We will be completing our reading
begin practicing the rest of the times tables from the unit on The People, The President and the Preamble.
7’s to the 12’s. The 7’s quiz has been postponed until We will learn more about the United States as a
the week after testing is over. They have the use of melting pot and how our government came to be in
wrap arounds to help them memorize their times ta- existence. We will also be working on prefixes and
bles. Please work with them at home. Please continue suffixes in Phonics. Tutoring for reading begins on
to practice their basic addition and subtraction facts Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30.
with them. They will need to have a good grasp of
them in the future. Tutoring for math is from 3:30-
4:30 on Mondays.

HANDWRITING
Students will practice cursive Jj as well as copy paragraphs and poems for further
practice.
SCIENCE-Students will identify the layers of the earth’s atmosphere
and their characteristics.

RELIGION-This week students will learn about celebrating Eucharist: the


Mass. This week’s Word of the Week is prune-to cut off some of the
branches of a tree or bush so that it will grow or look better. This
Week’s Good News comes from JOHN 15:1-8.

SOCIAL STUDIES-This week students will learn about community envi-


ronments and work on some map skills as well.

REMINDERS
Parents, please remember to use the crosswalk when walking your children across Arizona for safety’s
sake.
We are still collecting pop tops for Ronald McDonald House. We have filled six large collection boxes and
have nearly filled a seventh one! Help us out by sending in pop tops (soda tabs)! We could win a class party!
Thank you to all who have sent in tops! We are doing an awesome job!
We are also collecting box tops and Prices’ bottle caps. Help us out by sending these items in whenever you
buy products with the box top label or Prices’ products!
Please send in any prayer intentions that you may have so that we can pray for them during our morning an-
nouncements and during our Friday rosary. Don’t forget to send your children with their rosary on Fridays!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
April 22 Second Sunday Brunch hosted by 4A and 5A from 8 am-1 pm
April 23-26 IOWA testing
April 25 First Reconciliation Retreat
School visits by ARTedu
April 26 Mass by 7A
Stewardship envelopes due
Volunteer breakfast after Mass
SPEECH FESTIVAL @ Most Holy Trinity
April 27 Spirit dress
Early release @ 1:00 pm
After school care until 5:00 pm
April 28 First communion @ 10 am
Open House and Ice cream Social 12-2pm
April 30 Register by today and lock in this years’ tuition rate

Make note of these dates in May:


May 3-4 Fine Arts Department presents The Circle of Life @ 7 pm—$5 children; $8 adults

HAPPY EASTER!

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