3-9-2020 I hope you all had a nice weekend and have had a chance to enjoy this beautiful, sunny Monday. We did some gardening with Papa this morning and enjoyed having some bonus minutes outside. We finished a writing project last week highlighting how to successfully use elaborative detail. It even involved a little "sewing" and the children loved it! We are moving along in math attempting double digit subtraction. Tomorrow is our big night as we receive the sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time. A letter repeating some of the details is in your child's homework folder. Our Reading Week will be celebrated the week of March 30. We will have our Seus-a-bration along with a day to come to school dressed as a favorite storybook character. Stay tuned for more details. Our phonics target skills are suffixes ly, ful, er, or, and pronouns. Again, thank you for sending in hand soap, paper towels, and hand sanitizer. Tables are washed nightly by me with antibacterial wipes and Lysol is sprayed on door handles and other common surfaces. Fingers crossed that we stay healthy.
Have a good week!
Mary Ann McKenney
EMAIL: mamckenney@saintkevinschool.org
"God doesn't require us to succeed, He only requires that you try." Mother Teresa
”Teachers spend more time with our kids than anyone else — and during some of the most formative years of their lives. Learning state capitals and algebra equations are just the tip of the iceberg.” Stephanie Ruhle
FAVORITE BOOKS has changed to Winter titles.
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How playing outside makes your kids smarter.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2373141/how-outdoors-makes-your-kids-smarter?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=onsiteshare
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I LOVE this article!
http://www.moultrienews.com/opinion/teacher-to-parent---positive-reinforcement-doesn-t-work/article_cf5c0206-2522-11e7-98ed-b3a9b0e7d4f6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
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Some Cape Cod schools drop homework for younger students
http://capecodtimes.com/news/
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School bans homework and assigns reading and playing instead
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/27/1638352/-After-a-school-bans-homework-and-assigns-reading-and-playing-instead-they-re-seeing-great-results?detail=facebook
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Second grade reading list from Goodreads website
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/2nd-grade-reading-list
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I find the success of schools in Finland fascinating!
Michael Moore and the Finnish Education System - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com.
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*Very interesting and frightening article. A bit dramatic but worth taking another look at how much screen time your child has.
http://abc7news.com/1664438/ How Screens Turn Kids into Psychotic Junkies
MONDAY
*Spelling: Spelling Packet
Complete the spelling packet and return on Friday. Our new words are:
cheerful, visitor, slowly, weekly, teacher, helper, hardly, graceful, yearly, quickly.
*Book Club
*RETURN LIBRARY BOOK IF IT WAS NOT RETURNED ON FRIDAY!
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TUESDAY
*Making Words: CUT OUT THE LETTERS on the top of your homework paper. DO THIS STEP FIRST. See how many words you can make. What word uses all of the letters? List the words by Word Families on the back of the paper. This is due on Wednesday. (a,o,u,j,l,n,r)
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
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WEDNESDAY
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
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THURSDAY
*Study Spelling
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
*RETURN RED BOOK CLUB FOLDER ON FRIDAY
*RETURN LIBRARY BOOK ON FRIDAY (they are returned to the library on Monday)
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*RETURN YELLOW FRIDAY FOLDER ON MONDAY!
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3/4 PSO Meeting @ 6:30
3/10 First Reconciliation @ 6:30
3/17 Dress Down Day
3/20 Family Night...Globe Trotters
4/1 PSO Meeting @ 6:30
4/3 School Mass @ 10:00
4/10 Good Friday...no school
4/13-Spring Vacation
4/17
PLEASE CHECK SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR ADDITIONAL DATES AND SCHOOL EVENTS.
www.ABCYa.com - reading, math
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
www.planetesme.com - How To Get Your Child To Love Reading
www.robertmunsch.com - reading
www.starfall.com - reading
www.xtramath.org - math
www.storylineonline.net**