Friday

Yesterday students were busy making amazing School Supplies Drive posters and banners for the 2nd grade drive next week. Today Alexis and Haley helped with our announcement and Winston helped by wearing the crayon costume. They all did an great job! Their pictures have been posted in earlier posts. Be sure to check them out.
If you are signed up for a shift in the mornings next week, the students may wear the costumes and hold up signs. Remember only students with parents may be on the curb holding signs and collecting supplies.

Today in religion we are reviewing the Blessed Trinity.
In grammar students reviewed subject and the greeting and closing of a letter.
In math we worked on comparing numbers, i.e.  greater than and less than.
Students also had Spanish and art today.
Happy Friday!

School Supplies Drive

School Supplies Drive

School Supplies Drive

Wednesday

See you tonight for Curriculum Night which runs from 6:00-7:00. There will be 3- 15 minute sessions with a 5 minute transition. You only need to stay for one session. They will be repeated.

Tuesday

Today students took their first religion quiz. I will be sending those home as soon as they are graded. They all did an excellent.
They also took their first spelling test. The new spelling words for this week are in their agendas and on the website. The Homework Grid is too. In language they learned some cute chants for remembering "there" and "their". There also was one with contractions and one for "surprise words", like said, what, was and they.
In math students are reviewing all the different ways to write a number, i.e. standard form (908), word form (nine hundred eight), and expanded form ( 900+8). They are getting the idea.

Help Wanted for the School Supplies Drive

Faith in Action

“We are the hands and feet of Christ”

2^nd Grade

School Supplies Drive

September 9-13

The Faith in Action program at Blessed Pope John XXIII is designed to teach students, as they grow, how to be good stewards of all the gifts God has given them.  This is done by:

1)     Helping students see that God has given them many blessings

2)    Teach a gratefulness to God for those blessings

3)    Show that stewardship is a way of life

In age appropriate ways, through different categories of service, each grade level learns about a different need in our community.  Coordinating with Administration and Faculty, parent volunteers are called upon to help set up service projects for the students throughout the year.

This year, your project is “School Supplies Drive”

Within our community and throughout the valley, there are families who are unable to provide what a child needs just to get through a day of school.  There are schools within our diocese which also often fall short on their supplies as well.  That is where our wonderful 2^nd grade comes in…they step in to BE the hands and feet of Christ!!

This is a GRADE wide project which is facilitated as a WHOLE 2nd grade

Volunteer Parent Opportunity

Throughout this week, your children will be preparing signs and posters as well as ways to reach out to our students and community to make them aware and remind them of their drive next week.

The children will be allowed, under parent supervision, to be curbside with posters and to collect school supplies from our community.

We will need:

*1 parent volunteer to send out a sign up genius to ALL 2^nd grade

*4-6 parent volunteers to be curbside or in the courtyard next week each day from 7:30-8:00 to supervise

*ONLY children whose parents are volunteering will be allowed grace should they run a couple of minutes late getting back into class in the morning of their shift

ONLY the children whose parents sign up for curbside will be allowed outside the gate.  All children are welcome in the courtyard to hold signs and collect

We thank you in advance for your support of our program.  We cannot do it without you and we are so appreciative!!