3a Newsletter Week Of April 1 2019

NEWS FROM 3A WEEK OF APRIL 1, 2019 Congratulations to all of our Speech Festival Participants! They did an excellent job of impressing the judges with their acting, reading and orating. I will make copies of the judging sheet and send them home this week. We emphasize the spiritual, intellectual, and physical development of each individual.

Thank you to all of the parents who helped out at the event as well as those who worked with their children to prepare them. These are times when we can see that working as a team brings great results, so thank you again! The IOWA Test has been postponed until next week. We are working to make sure that we have everything we need to administer the tests properly.

MATH

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Students will work on the last group of multiplication tables 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, 11’s and 12’s. We will work on basic division using the times tables we already know. The next test will be on Wednesday over the 11’s. Students will have the opportunity to practice their times tables through the use of wrap arounds, flash cards and centers. We will also cover money, time, fractions and geometry. Please practice all of the multiplication tables with them. They will need them for division and for fourth grade. Tutoring for math is available on Mondays from 3:30-4:30.

This week’s spelling unit has words with double consonants plus y. The regular Dictation Test and Spelling Test schedule will resume. We will continue to work on writing and research skills. In reading, students will read about the waves of immigrants that came into the United States. We will tie this into their social studies on how and why immigrants came and how they contribute to our nation. Students will be researching information to go into their probe books. Probe books will be due on Friday, April 5. Tutoring for reading is available on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30.

HANDWRITING ALL needs to be done in cursive. Students may use pen for their dictation and spelling tests. We will continue to practice forming letters in cursive during class.

SCIENCE-Students will identify mineral nutrients in packaged foods and drinks.

RELIGION-This week students will learn about celebrating Eucharist. This week’s Word of the Week is condemn-express complete disapproval of, typically in public. This Week’s Good News comes from Luke 15:13. SOCIAL STUDIES-This week students will learn immigrants and their influence on and contributions to communities. We will continue our work on map skills as well.

REMINDERS The only drop off is on Stanton Street. The Arizona parking lot is not a drop off. Parents need to park and walk students to the school at the crosswalk if they are using the parking lot. The lot behind the gym and the church is also not to be used to drop off students. Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation! We are collecting Price’s bottle caps and Box Tops for Education. Please help us out by sending these items in when you purchase milk or other products with box tops for education. We are also collecting soda pop tops. Please send those in when you have the opportunity.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR April 2 April 3 April 4 April 5 April 9 April 10

April 11

April 12 April 14 April 17 April 18-23 April 24 April 25 April 26 April 30

Confessions 3rd grade @ 8:00 Confessions 4th grade @ 8:00 Confessions 5th grade @ 1:00 Mass 3A Teacher of the Year Awards at El Paso Zoo Stations of the Cross @ 8:00 Ms. Esparza’s Farewell @ 5 in the gym Confessions 6th grade @ 8:00 Confessions 7th grade @ 8:00 Loretto visit for 7th & 8th grade girls @ 9:00 Confessions 8th grade @ 1:00 Mass 6A Principals’ Meeting Volunteer Breakfast Stations of the Cross Second Sunday Menudo Early release @ 1:00/NO AFTERSCHOOL CARE Easter Break Classes resume Mass 5A—Bring stewardship envelopes Students vs. Faculty/Parents Basketball Game @ 1:00 in the gym Last day to register to lock in this year’s tuition rate

HAVE A BLESSED WEEK!