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3-112 Friday, March 9th 2012 Mrs. Reckwerdt

By creckwerdt | Published: March 9, 2012

* We just finished the week long Terra Nova Testing program.

* Penny War is staring on Monday to benefit our new parish center!

 *  We will be back to our normal schedule and subjects.

 

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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: March 9, 2012

Week of March 12, 2012

 

  • Congratulations on the completion of the Terra Nova!  This week is reserved for any Terra Nova sections that students may have missed due to absences. 
  • Search your homes high and low, to collect forgotten coins!  Penny Wars is this week and we want to win! 
  • Join us for Mass on Tuesday, March 13th.  Third grade is hosting this Lenten Mass.
  • Book orders are due on Tuesday, March 20th. 
  • As we return to our normal schedule, there will be few tests and quizzes this week.  Fear not, once we are back on track there will be a couple more tests before third quarter comes to an end (3/22). 

 

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3-112 Weekly News 3/2/12 Mrs. Reckwerdt

By creckwerdt | Published: March 2, 2012

Terra Nova Tests:   In your child’s Friday Folder are two practice test booklets with similar problems to others which will be on next week’s Terra Nova Tests.  Please look over these test booklets.   In order to the best possible work on the Terra Nova tests, students must be well rested and should have a healthy breakfast and snack.   The tests,  you will notice by looking at the practice booklets, are broken down into many timed segments.   All tests will be scheduled in the mornings. Students should bring a book to read each day for when they complete the test.  Students should do their best but should not get stressed  out about the tests.  Results usually arrive back in May and are not part of the report card grade. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: March 2, 2012

Week of March 5th, 2012

  • Terra Nova testing begins this week.
  • There will be no homework or tests given this week due to testing.
  • Students need to get a good night’s rest and eat a healthy breakfast,  so they can do their best!
  • Students may also bring a chapter book to read between each test section.
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News from 3-112 Friday, February 24, 2012 Mrs. Reckwerdt

By creckwerdt | Published: February 24, 2012

Dear Parents and friends,

 

 

 

I was delighted to see so many families at our Biography Presentation.  I enjoyed the reports and I am sure that you did too.  Please check out these cute photos.

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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: February 24, 2012

Week of February 27th

  • Chapter 12 Religion test will be on Wednesday, February 29th
  • Chapter 10 Math test will be on Thursday, March 1st
  • There will be a Ch. 3 Social Studies test on Friday, March 2nd
  • Thursday, March 1st, 3rd grade will be attending 8am Mass
  • Practice Terra Nova testing will beginning this week.  Students should be on the look out for a good chapter book to bring the week of March 5th

Take a look at Room 111′s Biography Reports!

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: February 16, 2012

Week of February 20th

  • Spelling test on Wednesday, February 29th
  • English Ch. 7 test will be on Friday, February 24th
  • Join us for Ash Wednesday Mass on the 22nd
  • A “Great Job!” goes out to all students for their Biography Presentations!  Everyone did an excellent job and made it a very fun afternoon.   
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News from 3-112 Friday, Feb. 10th 2012 Mrs. Reckwerdt

By creckwerdt | Published: February 10, 2012

Our long awaited Biography Reports are almost completed.  Parents, grandparents and siblings are invited to attend the 8:30 presentation Wednesday morning, February 15th.  Please check in at the office and go upstairs to  Room 201.  Students will present clues to help you discover who they read about.

Our phonics unit, 4,  dealing with contractions, plurals, suffixes,and  syllables has been studied and skills practiced.  The end of the unit test will be on Wednesday.

Math:  Students are getting better and faster with their memorization of the facts.  We have played Around the World in friendly competition and various other games and drills to strenghten the memorizatioin of the multiplication facts.  Please continue to help at home with a few minutes of flash card, written drills, or oral  review.  

Science:  There will be a chapter 7 test on Tuesday about the  Earth’s landforms and slow and fast changes to our Earth.  Students need to understand about weathering and erosion.

Valentine’s Day:  There will be a Valentine’s Day party!  Students can bring in Valentine cards for their classmates.  

Parent/ Teacher Conferences:  Thursday afternoon and evening there will be conferences.  Students will be dismissed before lunch.   There will not be any After Care on Thursday. I look forward to meeting with everyone.

Religion:  Please take your child to Mass.  They already know what Mark’s  Gospel will be about. Behavior at Mass this morning was excellent.

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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: February 10, 2012

Week of February 13th

  • Thank you to all who volunteered for the Feed My Starving Children field trip.  Letters will be coming home soon with more details!
  • Room 111 will present their biography reports in Wednesday, February 15th at 1:30
  • Religion Ch. 11 test will be on Wednesday, February 15th
  • Thursday, February 16th is a half day of school. Dissmissal is at 11:20
  • There is no school on Friday, February 17th – enjoy!

 

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3-112 Newsletter February 3rd 2012 Mrs. Reckwerdt

By creckwerdt | Published: February 3, 2012

We had a great Catholic School’s week!   Challenging Religion Trivia every morning, pajama day, a Ramona movie with pop corn, and the great Red & White Volleyball game.  Our Red team won which made it even better

Service: On Wednesday I sent home a note asking for chaperones to our March 29th field trip to Feed My Starving Children  in Aurora.  This is the trip for which I was awarded a Target Grant.  We need a 1/3 adults to children  ratio to be able to participate, so please consider joining us on this very worthwhile trip.  It was brought to my attention yesterday that the woman, Mona Purdy, who founded the charity, Share Your Soles, which we just supported with our fantastic shoe drive and donation, has lost everything in a fire.  There is a website  collecting donations for  her in case you  feel like helping her out since she has spent her life helping others.

Reading:    This week we read and worked on activites with the novel, Ramona.; Age 8 by Beverly Clearly.  Next week we will return to our text.

Language Arts: We continue to practice language/ phonics skills daily.  Most everyone understands the  skills.  However not everyone uses them in their writing.

Math:  We just began the new math chapter of probability.  We will also continue to work on our multiplication facts until they are quick and automatic.  Please help at home to also increase accurancy and speed in your child’s ability to memorize the facts. There will be a SS math quiz on Tuesday.

Social Studies:  The President mobiles were all presented this week.  I was pleased that everyone  was able to learn about a particular persident and then share that information with their classmates. The mobiles looked great!  In our text we are studying why people move and intermediate directions.  The chapter 3 test  will be  on Wednesday or Thursday.

In Science we  will be starting chapter 7; Forces That Shape Our Land. This includes landforms, weathering, erosion,  floods, earthquakes, volcanoes.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Room 111 Newletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: February 3, 2012

Week of February 6th 

  • Science chapter 7 test will be Wednesday, February 8th
  • Math chapter 7 test will be Friday, February 10th
  • Third grade will attend 8am Mass on Friday, February 10th
  • Room 111 will present Biography Reports on Wednesday, February 15th at 1:30pm 
  • Please let me know if you are interested in chaperoning for our field trip on March 29th.  We will be working for the Feed My Starving Children Foundation, packing food for those less fortunate.
  • A big Thank You goes to all who helped organize activities for Catholic Schools Week.  The entire week was lots of fun!
  • Fun websites to practice Reading  skills

 

 

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News from 3-112 January 30th 2012 Mrs. Reckwerdt

By creckwerdt | Published: January 30, 2012

      

 

  A wonderful  Catholic Schools Week has arrived.  We started off with a great Mass and Open House on Sunday.  I was delighted to see so many families, prospective families and former students.This week we are doing Faith Trivia every morning. Tuesday there is a CSW Mass at 10:30 am hosted by both 1st grades, Mrs. Grusecki’s 4th grade, and my third grade class. On Wednesday everyone gets to wear pajamas to school for Student Appreciation Day.  No tests will be given on Wednesday or written homework for that day.  We do have a science test on Thursday.  Students voted that that would rather have it on Thursday than Tuesday, so a few minutes of review might not be a bad idea on Wedneday.  We are reviewing in class and I announced this date last week.  Thursday is  scheduled for a movie, a rare treat! Friday is the Red & White volleyball game. Third grade plays at 10:20 to 10:40.

Our Service project Shoe Drive for Share Your Soles was a tremendous success! Thank you to  everyone who donated shoes, supplies, cash donations , and labor to this project.  Third grade collected nearly 500 pairs of shoes, and  $116.22 for the charity.  The third grades cleaned and polished the hard shoes. Several moms  helped by assisting on our shoe cleaning day, washing the gym shoes, and /or delivering the clean shoes to the Share Your Soles Warehouse in Alsip. The students did a wonderful job and seemed to enjoy being able to help the less fortunate.

Many Social Studies President Mobiles have been completed and turned in.  I am anxious to hear more from the students about what they learned as they researched their president.

Wednesday, February 15th is the scheduled third grade biography presentation.  Parents and grandparents are invited.  We will be meeting in a room upstairs either at 8:30 am or 1:30 pm.  We will get the time settled soon depending upon our special classes for the day. Information for the written part of this resport was passed out to students last week.  I hope you will be able to attend this special event.

Have a wonderful week!

Mrs. Carol Reckwerdt

 

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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: January 27, 2012

Week of January 30th

  • Come kick off Catholic Schools Week Sunday, January 29th!  Mass is at 9:30 followed by Open House at 10:30
  • Student Appreciation Day is Wednesday, February 1st!  There will be no homework or tests that day, and students can wear their PJs to school!
  • President reports are due on Monday, January 30th.  Reports that were turned in early look fantastic!
  • Religion Ch. 10 test will be Friday, February 3rd
  • Biography reports are due on Wednesday, February 15th.  Students will be presenting their reports that day as well.  Look out for the time Room 111 will be presenting, student invitations will come home this week.
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Room 111 Newsletter

By Erin Thomas | Published: January 23, 2012

Week of January 23rd

  • Thank you to those of you contributed donations to the Share Your Soles Foundation.
  • Parent volunteers are needed to drop off the cleaned shoes at the donation site in Alsip.  An e-mail, with more details, will be sent later on this week.  If you are interested please feel free to send me an e-mail!  
  • English Ch. 6 test will be on Wednesday, January 25th
  • Join us to kick off Catholic Schools Week on Sunday, January 29th.  Mass will be held at 9:30 am and Open House will follow from 10:30 to 12:30.  Hope to see you there!
  • Math Ch. 6 test will be on Thursday, January 26th
  • Social Studies Ch. 2 test will be on Friday, January 27th

 

 

 

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News from 3-112 Mrs. Reckwerdt Jan. 20th 2012

By creckwerdt | Published: January 20, 2012

Due to the bad snow I will  be  leaving shortly and will publish a newsletter on Monday. 

Sorry for your inconvenience.

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