Happy Catholic Schools Week!

Next week we will be busy with a variety of activities for CSW.

Our Catholic Schools Week mass is on Wednesday, January 29^th, at St. Leo church. After mass you will have the opportunity to have donuts/milk/coffee with your child. Please try to come if at all possible. You even get to sit with your child at this mass.

Please send your child’s collection of 100 things Monday, January 27th. The information was in last week’s letter. Here are some reminders:

*100 of the same thing; 100 paper clips, 100 toothpicks, 100 cotton balls, etc. Please have your child count and recount to make sure there are 100.

*It must be able to be handled a lot; no unwrapped candy or things that will melt; like chocolate chips or kisses, but wrapped Starburst would be okay, no marbles, or really big things.

*You will need to send the 100 items in a bag with your child’s name on the bag.

Don’t make them into a display because we will be doing many things with them.

If you have not returned the portfolio and report card, please do so by Monday. Thank you!

Friday, January 31^st is a dress down day.

We will continue our author/illustrator study of Kevin Henkes next week.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Thank you for sending your child to SPSL! We love our school!!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Wilson

There is no school on Monday, January 20^th.

There are not many papers in the Friday folder today. We have been very busy working on things for the end of the semester.

Next Tuesday, January 21^st, your child will be bringing home his/her portfolio. It contains work from the 1^st semester of 1^st grade and something from Kindergarten. It also has your child’s report card. Please look over all of your child’s work. All papers must be returned in the portfolio! Please return the portfolio and signed report card by Thursday, January 23rd.

Next week we will be doing an author study of Kevin Henkes. I need a baby picture of your child that you don’t need to have returned to you. It’s going to be glued into a book. Please make it 4 x 6 or smaller. Please send the picture by Wednesday, January 22^nd. Thanks for your help with this.

I just want to remind you that our Catholic Schools Week mass is on Wednesday, January 29^th, at St. Leo church. After mass you will have the opportunity to have donuts/milk/coffee with your child. Please try to come if at all possible. You even get to sit with your child at this mass. There is a permission form in your child’s GO folder today. There is some other information for you to fill out on the permission form. The form also has all of the information about what time the masses are. The permission forms must be returned by Thursday, January 23^rd.

Today is the 91^st day of 1^st grade! As part of our celebration for the 100^th day of school I am asking each child to bring a collection of 100 things.

These are the guidelines/suggestions:

*100 of the same thing; 100 paper clips, 100 toothpicks, 100 cotton balls, etc. Please have your child count and recount to make sure there are 100.

*It must be able to be handled a lot; no unwrapped candy or things that will melt; like chocolate chips or kisses, but wrapped Starburst would be okay, no marbles, or really big things.

*You will need to send the 100 items in a bag with your child’s name on the bag. Don’t make them into a display because we will be doing many things with them.

*Please don’t send the collection of 100 things until Monday, January 27th. The 100^th day is actually on January 31^st, but I would like the collections a few days before.

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Wilson

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today is the end of the first semester. That means that we are already half way through the year. I truly can’t believe it! Where does the time go?

The Word List books/folders came home on Thursday. Please practice all of the words with your child. They will be tested over the words on Tuesday. Please send the word list books back on Tuesday.

There is mass on Wednesday, January 15^th at 8:30 for grades K-4.

I want to let you know that our Catholic Schools Week mass is on Wednesday, January 29th at ST. LEO church. Families with last names A-L will attend the 8:45 mass. Families starting M-Z will go to the 10:30 mass. You will get to sit with your child at this mass, so it’s really important for all students to have someone there with them. I just wanted to let you know so that you can plan ahead.

This is also just a reminder to send your child to school with hats, gloves or mittens, warm coats, and boots, if necessary. Girls can wear sweat pants or pj pants over jumpers or skorts for recess and dismissal if it is really cold. If the wind chill/temperature is 10 degrees or more, we try to go out and get fresh air. It’s no fun to be cold!

It is time to make sure that your child knows how to tie his/her shoes. If not, please continue to work on this! You may or may not believe me when I tell you that some first graders can’t tell you at least one of their parent’s phone numbers, and their address. So, it’s a good time to check with your child. Thanks!

I hope you all had a great Christmas. It’s so nice to spend some good quality time with friends and family!

Our classroom is in need of GERM prevention/elimination! If anyone would like to send disinfecting wipes or hand sanitizer, we would appreciate it! Along with that, our school is having a PAPER drive. If you would like to send a ream or two of paper, that would be terrific.

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Wilson