Month: February 2024

Dear Families, February 23, 2024

Happy Lent! We are diving into this new Liturgical season with exploring various ways to pray the Stations of the Cross this week. We prayed with an online version and then we went to the church to pray it at our Stations of the Cross on Thursday. Next week, we will be creating our own stations to show throughout the school.

We got to celebrate the 100th Day of School with our Pre-K buddies. We made crowns with our buddies to celebrate 100!

Thank you to our wonderful room parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stark and Mrs. Robinson, along with our wonderful students, we are making Easter eggs for the auction. They are eggs that have been blown empty by Mr. Stark. The Mrs. Stark have helped the students decorate the eggs and Mrs. Robinson is putting the display together, all for the “Growing Great Kids” Auction set for next Saturday, March 3rd. Please bid on it!

Helping during Math times are here!

Blessings,

Paula A. Martin-Zender

Academics

Religion – Fourth Grade Theologians learned and prayed the Stations of the Cross.
Language – Fourth grade readers are reading Shiloh, a book about a family living in West Virginia. For spelling, we focused on words ending with -le and why their words have a short vowel sound.
Math – Mathematicians are learning about the concepts of adding and subtracting with like denominators.
Science – Scientists are researching and creating a poster about various biomes throughout the world.

Friday, March 1 – Mass day – Dress uniform

Saturday, March 3 – School Auction! I hope to see you there!

Friday, March 8 – Teacher work day – No school

Specialists

Spanish – Una nota de Señora Anna- This week in Spanish, we practiced clothing vocabulary. Students draw a person dressed for each season and labeled their clothing.

Dear Families, February 9, 2024

It is nice to have a full week to dive into good academics this week! In science, we have been learning different vocabulary words for biomes/ecosystems in our world. We are going to be using those new learnings as students have picked a biome to deep dive into to teach the rest of the class. They have been paired up to make a poster identifying how the vocabulary is portrayed in each of their interested ecosystem. For instance, they are researching the “biotic” and “abiotic” things in the chosen ecosystem and how the interact with each other. If you ask them, I trust they will remember what that vocabulary is! 🙂

We had so much fun with our buddies this week, making a Valentine’s Day art project with them!

In the Friday Folder, student are going to receive a “National Parks Pass.” Thanks to one of our fourth grade parents, Julia Gage, she organized getting the pass free for all fourth graders in our class! Go and enjoy a national park! There are many in our state! Here is a link to find them out!

New dates for helping during Math times are here!

Blessings,

Paula A. Martin-Zender

Academics

Religion – Fourth Grade Theologians learned more about God the Father and how we are created in God’s image and likeness. We discussed how we need to continue to be focused on developing our virtues. We also discussed “rethinking” from our Second Step program, analyzing how that could help in our own lives. Finally, we spent time in adoration on Wednesday.
Language – Fourth grade readers began reading Shiloh which is our next book about a family living in West Virginia. For spelling, we focused on words with soft g (/j/) words. Students also presented their book reports this week.
Math – Mathematicians worked equivalent fractions, both multiplying the numerator and the denominator. We also worked on simplifying fractions by dividing the numerator and denominator.
Science – We picked a biome to deep dive into learning and then teaching others.

Tuesday, February 13 – Celebrate Valentine’s Day. Red, pink and white dress up day!

Wednesday, February 14 – Ash Wednesday – Dress uniform – Mass at 12:30

Friday, February 16 – Teacher development day – No school.

Monday-Tuesday, February 19-20 – President’s Day and mid-winter break – No School

Specialists

Spanish – Una nota de Señora Anna- This week in Spanish, students showed their knowledge of weather vocabulary by completing a mini-project. Some students made a crossword puzzle, others created a short book, and others conducted a survey of weather preferences. 

Art – In art, this week we focused on “The Great Wave” with Lines and Watercolor. Students explored the famous Japanese painting “The Great Wave” by Katsushika Hokusai. They are learning about the different parts of the painting and how it’s designed. Then, they are using what they’ve learned to create their own wave scenes with simple lines and watercolor. They are adding their own special touches to make their pictures unique.

Dear Families, February 2, 2024

Wow! What a week! We had lots of fun with celebrating our families, celebrating the community and celebrating the students! Thank you for all of the love sent on Monday for celebrating us teachers! Today we celebrated an alumni from the 1950s after Mass today!

Students are invited to wear their uniform to Assumption this weekend to honor Catholic Schools Week. There will be an Open House that day too! Please come and invite anyone interested in Assumption Catholic School! from 11:30-1:30! I will be here then!

Also, here is a link for the Weekends with Pebbles Sign up!

New dates for helping during Math times are here!

Blessings,

Paula A. Martin-Zender

Academics

Religion – Fourth Grade Theologians are diving into “I believe in God, the Father, creator of Heaven and earth…” We also celebrated Catholic Schools Week.
Language – Fourth grade readers learned about West Virginia which is the setting of Shiloh, the next class book we are diving into starting this week. We learned abou the author, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In spelling, we focused on words with qu words.
Math – Mathematicians worked equivalent fractions, both multiplying the numerator and the denominator. We also worked on simplifying fractions by dividing the numerator and denominator.
Science – We are learning about biomes: biotic, abiotic, consumers, producers and decomposers.

Social Studies – Students researched West Virginia.

Sunday, February 4 – Catholic Schools Week celebrated at Assumption. Wear your dress uniforms!

Sunday, February 4 – Open House for Assumption Catholic Schools 11:30-1:30 Invite anyone interested in our wonderful school!

Thursday, February 7 – Book Talk – 3-5 objects in a bag to tell about the book read.

Specialists

Spanish – Una nota de Señora Anna- This week in Spanish, students showed their knowledge of weather vocabulary by completing a mini-project. Some students made a crossword puzzle, others created a short book, and others conducted a survey of weather preferences.