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 yeaterday 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!

Math:  SS # 87   Practice your multiplication facts!

Religion:  Go to Mass.

FYI:  Sorry I did not get this week’s Frog sheets stapled on the papers.  It seemed like they hopped away when I went for them.  Could not spare the time to look before stapling the week’s  tests and gathering the worksheets together.

Field trip:   Please consider coming with us March 29 to Feed My Starving Children.  We need a 1/3 ratio of adults to students.  Send me an email or return the form that went home on Wednesday if you can be a chaperone.

• 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
• Main Idea 
• Drawing Conclusions

Math:  SS#86     multiplication ws. ( both sides)

Religion:   Review chapter 10 for test…..complete review ws.

CSW:   Red & White Volleyball game tomorrow!  Wear your red!

Reading – Work for Chapter 4-6 should be complete in file folders

Math – 7.3 wks and SS#88

Religion – Ch. 10 test tomorrow

• Room 111 will be presenting their Biography Reports on Wednesday, February 15th at 1:30pm!
• Wear white with your dress down outfit tomorrow to support our team for the Red and White Games. 

Science :  Test 6 tomorrow;  review please

No written homework  today,

No homework in honor of Student Appreciation Day!

Reading – Ch. 1-3 finished in Run, Billy, Run

Math – SS #87

Religion – Ch. 10 test on Friday, February 3rd

Other – Tomorrow is PJ Day.  Students must wear their gyms shoes to school.

Math:  SS #85   ws the 9′s

Science:  Test 6 on Thursday.  Review/ conmplete study guide worksheet    Fill in bingo sheet for class review

Tomorrow is Pajama Day.  Students must wear gym shoes, not slippers, crocs etc.

  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