Father's Day

A special message to all our great dads.  Enjoy the beautiful day with your family.  

Mother's Day

A message to all our special moms, I hope you enjoyed your Mother's Day and every day with you children. 

First Communion

We had a beautiful day May 4 as we welcomed fourteen new First Communicants to the Table of the Lord.  Congratulations! 

 

Election Day

May 13, was primary Election Day.  We have been learning about our government for the past few weeks in Social Studies.  A great way to go along with our study on government was having Mr. Nemetz talk to the kids about voting at the polls on Election Day.  The kids even had a chance to vote on a few things like their favorite candy bar, movie, drink, etc.  Thank you Mr. Nemetz for taking time out of your day to talk the kids, it was greatly appreciated!   

2nd Grade Round-Up

On Friday, April 4^th during Kindergarten round-up in the K-1 classroom, I had 2^nd grade round-up.  We started off with a writing activity of an acrostic Easter poem.  Afterwards while some students worked on decorating bags for Earth day, others used potatoes that were cut to look like Easter eggs and then painted they placed them in their basket.  As this year quickly winds down I will miss the 3^rd graders that will be leaving my room, but also excited to have new students enter 2^nd grade!

 

Dr. Seuss

“Do you like green eggs and ham?  I do not like them, Sam I am.  I do not like green eggs and ham.”  We celebrated Dr. Seuss day by starting the day off with breakfast of green eggs and ham.  We also made Dr. Seuss hats by using bananas and strawberries and placing them on popsicle sticks.  While we ate our breakfast we enjoyed hearing the story Green Eggs and Ham.  Afterwards the students were split into groups and had to come up with the only fifty words used to write the book.  Each group did an awesome job of remembering many of the words.  It was a fun morning starting the day off celebrating Dr. Seuss.    

Our master chefs preparing those green eggs. 

Ready to eat those delicious green eggs and ham.

Bon Appetite!

Bon Appetite!

Our excellent reader!

A yummy Dr. Seuss hat. 

Checking off the words they remembered. 

Catholic Schools Week

A little late reporting about Catholic Schools Week but life has been busy just like all of you have been busy. 

The end of January found us during Catholic Schools Week.  This year’s theme was Catholic Schools Communities of Faith, Knowledge, and Service.  We all shared our faith together at opening mass on January 26, and the students helped with mass in many ways.  We also shared our faith with parents and grandparents on Wednesday and enjoyed rolls and juice afterwards.  We share our knowledge that we have with others and the students also learn many new things each day.  As a service project during the week the students are raising money for Food for the Poor.  To learn more about this project you can visit www.foodforthepoor.org .  We took up a second collection at mass and the older students had a treat sale and all that money will be donated to this service project.  Thanks to all those who have donated money to our service project.  The students will be making decisions on how we want to spend our money that was raised. 

The students always enjoy dressing up during Catholic Schools Week.  Monday was ‘Walking with Jesus’ and we had some funny feet that day.  The younger students at school provided entertainment to people at the Senior Center while the older students helped wrap silverware and served the food.  The students enjoyed walking tacos provided to them for lunch. 

 

Tuesday was ‘Hurray! It’s P.J. Day!’ and we got to wear our pajamas.  The students enjoyed playing bingo and having a treat of popcorn and pop. 

 

Wednesday was ‘Let the Holy Spirit Guide Us From the Inside’ and we had mass with parents and grandparents and enjoyed some yummy rolls afterwards.  We dressed with clothes inside out. 

 

Our final dress up day was Thursday which was St. Joe’s spirit day.  We wore our St. Joe’s shirt and went bowling in the afternoon.  The second and third graders were treated to an eloquent meal at the Sturdevant-McKee Museum.  We had a busy week but, it was a great one!  Thanks for all those who helped in any way.