Tuesday

It's a very short week so there won't be any homework. There will also be no spelling test next Tuesday.
Happy Thanksgiving!!

Monday

Winter has come to Arizona. Please remember to send in water bottles and sweaters with names on them. It's going to be chilly this week.
In language, students worked on verbs along with vocabulary and phonics.
In math, students worked on their 5's facts using dot papers.
Students did go to music and Atrium.

Thursday

Pioneer Village was a huge hit! The students loved all the old buildings. I think they like being able to run from building to building. There was a church, schoolhouse, blacksmith, Victorian house, sheriff office and a jail, along with a bank with a vault. To culminate the day there was a short review of gun safety and a gun fight in the wild west. Ask your child which buildings they liked best.

There is no homework tonight.

Tuesday

Today student completed their weekly workbook pages, along with writing a final copy of their "All About Me" stories. In addition, they completed their spelling test, dictation and close test. They began the unit assessment which they will finish tomorrow.
In math, students learned how to use dots patterns to multiply by 2.
In religion, we began reading about Advent.

Don't forget to bring a sack lunch and drink on the field trip to Pioneer Village on Thursday!
Also, I have a new grandson that was born today, just in case the news is out!

Safe Environment Training for Children and Youth Parent Information Letter

Safe Environment Training for Children and Youth

Parent Information Letter

Dear Parents / Guardians of Students:

As Catholics, we believe that every human being is created in the image and likeness of God. Each of us is sacred and our lives—body, mind, and soul—should be treated with respect. The safety of your child(ren) is always a priority to us. Therefore, Safe Environment education is incorporated into EVERY Catholic school and religious education program EVERY year.

Safe Environment education for children focuses on identifying appropriate physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries. All children are reminded that they are loved and valued by God and the Church. In addition, it reinforces the important message that children and youth are able to talk to trusted adults if they or anyone they know are being hurt.

This year the Safe Environment lessons for Saint John XXIII students will be integrated into the classes during the months of November and December.

In Kindergarten through 5^th grades, the lessons will be 20 minutes of a class period.

Grades 7 through 12 will utilize lessons that have been incorporated into the Catholic school classes.

In 6^th grade, the NEW TWO-PART lesson plan based program, "Created in God's Image for Youth", will be utilized to teach boundaries.  This is a change from the video program that we have used over the past several years.  Parents, as the primary educators of the Church, have the option to present this material to your child directly. If you choose to present this material yourself rather than having it provided at school, please inform the school coordinator (Mrs. Hepsen) and the lesson plans will be provided to assist you.  Your child may then go to another classroom on the day the program is offered. If your child is absent on the day the Safe Environment program is presented, you will be asked to sign an acknowledgement letter that you received the material.

If you have any questions, contact your child’s homeroom teacher via email or call the Diocesan Safe Environment Training Office at 602-354-2418.

Together, we can work towards the elimination of child sexual abuse.

Sincerely,

Mary Hepsen, M.Ed., M.S.Ed.

Certified School Psychologist

Safe Environment Coordinator

Saint John XXIII Catholic School

16235 N. 60th Street

Scottsdale, AZ 85254

480.905.0939

mhepsen@saintjohnxxiii.org

General Overview for Parents

Every person is created in the image and likeness of God. Every child is loved by God and must know of the love that they are created in.

BOUNDARY DEFINITION Something that marks a limit, like a fence or the lines on a basketball court.

Each person has the right and responsibility to state when a boundary is being violated.

3 TYPES OF BOUNDARIES	EXAMPLES OF BOUNDARY VIOLATIONS
Physical ·       Who can touch you ·       How much they can touch you ·       Where they can touch you	Physical ·       Inappropriate massages and wrestling by adults ·       Adults touching private areas ·       Inappropriate kissing
Emotional ·       How close you feel to a person ·       How much time you spend with a person ·      What information you share with a person	Emotional ·      Inappropriate questions about minors sexuality ·      Asking too personal of questions ·      Adult approaching minors inappropriately on phones, text, the internet
Behavioral ·       The things you will do ·       The things you will not do	Behavioral ·     Giving minors beer, drugs, pornography ·      Asking students to keep secrets from parents

REINFORCE through regular conversations

·      When abuse or a boundary violation occurs, it is the adult that is in the wrong; it is never the child's fault.

·      If a child is ever uncomfortable with the actions of an adult they need to tell a trusted adult and keep telling until they are heard.

·      Who to trust?

v Parent, family member, teacher, pastor, catechist, youth minister

·      That they understand they will always be loved no matter what they tell you

·      What is the difference between keeping secrets and holding a surprise

Diocese of Phoenix Safe Environment Curriculum

Adapted from Praesidium inc. "Called to Protect for YouthTM"

2B Crazy Tie Day

Friday is "Crazy Tie Day"

CRAZY TIE DAY

 

Last Friday, Ms. Clary, Student Principal for the Day announced that Students and Staff can wear their funniest, craziest tie on

Friday, November 6, 2015.

If you do not have a tie use the attached template and make a crazy paper tie! Join the fun.