Monday April 6th

~*I know you have all received an alert from Mr. Dunnigan about picking up work if you are in grades K-4 on Tuesday and Wednesday from 11-1.  I have put together more work packets that need to be picked up. I'm sorry you have to go back to STS again but I am planning for the worst and hoping for the best in this situation.  When you come and pick up your child’s packet, please bring the following tests to leave in the basket on the table (Math Chapter 9 test, Coyote School News quiz, and the Religion Chapter 10 test.)  Thank you so much for all of your cooperation during this time.*~

*We will have another class Meet today at 2:00 p.m.  You can join our meet at the following link.*

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/aew-qjco-gdh

Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 470-499-3915 and enter this PIN: 547 390 929#

(If you would like to add the extension on your Google Meet to see the grid instead of a straight line of people, please click on the following link and add it to your Google Chrome.  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-grid-view/bjkegbgpfgpikgkfidhcihhiflbjgfic?authuser=1 )

-Take attendance at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJRa9QA6Ptbzs8RfmMAZDFAJKHyjvYVw6EahTkKdUek613UQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

E-Learning Lessons:

Math: 

• Watch the video and complete the review quiz on Mean, Median, and Mode.  
• https://www.brainpop.com/dashboard/assignments/c16885cecf576af6/periods/5624242cb2016508
• Then watch this Khan Academy video on finding the Mean, Median, and Mode of a set of numbers.  https://youtu.be/k3aKKasOmIw

Spelling:

• Complete p. 150 in cursive.  This is review Unit 24.
• You only have to complete p. 150-152 this week, so if you want to get ahead and complete all the pages today you can.

Phonics:

• Complete page 145 in cursive.

Language Arts:

• In preparation for Earth Day on April 22nd, please listen to “The Lorax” at the following link:  https://youtu.be/EdWesdMfyd4
• If you have the Lorax at home, follow along with your own book.

English:

• Read p. 130 on Prefixes and complete Activity A.
• In a Google Doc, Complete Activity C.
• Rewrite each sentence.
• Highlight or underline the word from the word bank that completed the sentences.
• Then complete workbook p. 149.

Religion:

• Read the following passage from the bible.  Today’s reading comes from John 12:1-11.  
• Jesus Anointed at Bethany
• 12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
• 4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
• 7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you,[c] but you will not always have me.”
• 9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.
• Read pages 238-241 in your Religion books.  Complete the We Respond on p. 240. We will be discussing these pages today during our Meet.

Social Studies:

• Read the Scholastic News Magazine “The Boy Who Started the American Revolution”.  You can read it from your ELearning folder or go to the website to read it.
• Go to www.scholastic.com/sn4
• Click Log in
• You are a student
• Our classroom code is ‘kitesun3’
• Go to ‘All Issues’ and find the one we are reading today
• Then take this Quiz Whiz at the following link (make sure you take your time, this will be used as a grade): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5huB_5nbvToXb8s-waeMO5yIO4ZnZ_tcHfRvU05D3tz6gDQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Handwriting:

• Complete pages 72-73 in cursive.

Early Finishers:

Finished early?  Want something fun or challenging to do?  Find below a list of things you can do when you are done with our regular class/home work.

• Explore the Science and Social Studies section on IXL.
• If you’re interested in the world of coding, go to the following site.  Free for grades K-12. https://code.org/
• Have you always wanted to be an astronaut or see how they train?  Watch this virtual tour of NASA. https://youtu.be/gk0ijHIP3hw
• Please check the Art and Spanish blog and complete the assignments that have been put up.  
• Work on the Energy Saver packet that is in your ELearning folder.

Have a great day and God Bless,

Mrs. Rowland

Friday April 3rd

~*Fun Day Friday*~

*We will have another class Meet today at 9:00 a.m.  (I know I originally I said 10:00, but Claire has a Meet at that time)  Since it’s Friday and we have finished another week of remote learning, let's celebrate by having a crazy hair day!!!

You can join our meet at the following link.*

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/aew-qjco-gdh

Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 470-499-3915 and enter this PIN: 547 390 929#

(If you would like to add the extension on your Google Meet to see the grid instead of a straight line of people, please click on the following link and add it to your Google Chrome.  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-grid-view/bjkegbgpfgpikgkfidhcihhiflbjgfic?authuser=1 )

-Take attendance at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHk2Z0iHA0ShnoucMuBkaeT_F1ElXTH04JxsWwnErz_leOUg/viewform?usp=sf_link

E-Learning Lessons:

Math: 

• Take the Chapter 9 test.  Show all of your work either on the test or on a seperate piece of paper.

Spelling:

• Complete only page 173 in cursive.
• Then take the Ch. 27 dot test.  I will dictate the Review words at our Meet time this morning.

Language Arts:

• Drop Everything and Read!!!!!!!!  Find a quiet spot in your house and read for at least 30 minutes.

English:

• Complete the BrainPop assignment on Roald Dahl that I have assigned at the following link: https://www.brainpop.com/dashboard/assignments/445a3738bd58f739/periods/5624242cb2016508
• Please note, I have been noticing some students not taking the review quizzes seriously, (getting 2/10 or 3/10).  Please take your time and try to do the best that you can.

Religion:

• If you have a Bible in your home, please have it ready for our Meet today, we will be reading John 11: 45-56 today as a class.  If you don’t, that is okay. Go to the following link and you can read along with us. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+11&version=NIV
• Take out a prayer pal paper and color one.  Write a fun note, poem, or song, to your prayer pal.  We will give these to our buddies when we return.

Social Studies:

• As per our Meet, you must come up with something that relates to the state of New Jersey using the letter of the alphabet I gave you.  You are to find pictures of it, information on it, links on the internet about it. Make sure you put everything you write in your own words.  This work is due by today, Friday 4/3. 
• Take this extra time now that I am giving you to complete this project.  There is nothing additional for you to do for Social Studies or Science today, but to finish this project and share it with me.

Handwriting:

• Complete pages 70-71 in cursive.

Early Finishers:

Finished early?  Want something fun or challenging to do?  Find below a list of things you can do when you are done with our regular class/home work.

• Explore the Science and Social Studies section on IXL.
• If you’re interested in the world of coding, go to the following site.  Free for grades K-12. https://code.org/
• Have you always wanted to be an astronaut or see how they train?  Watch this virtual tour of NASA. https://youtu.be/gk0ijHIP3hw
• Please check the Art and Spanish blog and complete the assignments that have been put up.  
• Work on the Energy Saver packet that is in your ELearning folder.

Have a great day and God Bless,

Mrs. Rowland

School Wide Project

We are announcing a school-wide project designed to encourage students to exercise their literary and artistic talents. The theme is: Jesus Christ is Risen. We invite students of all grades (including preschool), with parental assistance as needed, to create and submit drawings, paintings, poems, letters that celebrate and showcase the Joy of Easter. They should be submitted electronically either by scanning, or taking photos and emailing to: Deacon Murphy at: advmath@stthereseroxbury.org. We will collect and review all submissions and post as many as we can on the school website and social media. I've asked Deacon Stu Murphy to coordinate and review submissions that are submitted, to ensure they are appropriate.

Guidelines As a Catholic school we want to ensure what we post is appropriate therefore we may decline to post certain submissions if they do not meet the overall theme of this project, or are contrary to Catholic teaching.
Do encourage your students to be creative and look to nature, our Catholic faith, family, friends as well as within their own hearts for inspiration. Do photograph or scan and send from your email account we have on file. We will not accept submissions from non-recognized accounts, nor from social media. Do limit your submission, especially poetry or prose to a single page. Where appropriate, student's picture can be included in the submission (for example holding up their artwork). Finally, Do be creative, use your imagination and enjoy yourselves. We look forward to your seeing your work.

-Tim Dunnigan, Principal STS

Thursday April 2nd

*We will have another class Meet today at 2:00 p.m.  You can join our meet at the following link.*

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/aew-qjco-gdh

Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 470-499-3915 and enter this PIN: 547 390 929#

-Take attendance at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqPB0diEvxQXM-p-18VTEFdQJNJ0bC9iMJQskdWSzW-MOOCQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

E-Learning Lessons:

Math: 

• Complete the textbook p. 322 #1-23 all.  This is a review of Chapter 9.  
• Log onto IXL.  Complete the following two assignments (15 minutes for each assignment).
• Putting fractions in lowest terms (15 minutes) https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-4/write-fractions-in-lowest-terms
• Fraction word problems (15 minutes) https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-4/add-and-subtract-fractions-with-unlike-denominators-word-problems

Spelling:

• Complete only pages 171-172 in cursive.

Phonics:

• Complete page 144 in cursive.  This should now be in your Phonics workbook.  Please keep your other Phonics pages neatly in your ELearning folder.

Language Arts:

• In a Google Doc, show me what you know by writing the different ways our school, St. Therese, is the same and different, than Coyote School.
• Make sure you have 3 different headings, St. Therese School, Coyote School, and Both.
• Under St. Therese, list at least 5 things you know about our school (in complete sentences.)
• Under Coyote School, list at least 5 things you know about this school (in complete sentences.)
• Under Both, list at least 5 things that these schools have in common.
• Don’t forget correct Capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling.

English:

• Complete 15 minutes of practice time on comparative adjectives at the following link on IXL https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-4/use-adjectives-to-compare
• Then complete another 15 minutes of prefix practice.  We will be reading about prefixes next week so this is a good review.  https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-4/determine-the-meanings-of-words-with-prefixes-and-suffixes-review

Religion:

• We will still continue our daily Bible reading during the season of Lent, it will just look a little differently than what we normally see in the classroom.
• Our reading for the day comes from John 8:51-59.
• 51 Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”
• 52 At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death. 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”
• 54 Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. 55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
• 57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
• 58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
• Take the Chapter 10 test that your parents picked up at St. Therese on Tuesday.

Social Studies:

• As per our Meet, you must come up with something that relates to the state of New Jersey using the letter of the alphabet I gave you.  You are to find pictures of it, information on it, links on the internet about it. Make sure you put everything you write in your own words.  This work is due by Friday 4/3. 
• Take this extra time now that I am giving you to complete this project.  There is nothing additional for you to do for Social Studies or Science today, but to finish this project and share it with me.

Early Finishers:

Finished early?  Want something fun or challenging to do?  Find below a list of things you can do when you are done with our regular class/home work.

• Explore the Science and Social Studies section on IXL.
• If you’re interested in the world of coding, go to the following site.  Free for grades K-12. https://code.org/
• Have you always wanted to be an astronaut or see how they train?  Watch this virtual tour of NASA. https://youtu.be/gk0ijHIP3hw
• Please check the Art and Spanish blog and complete the assignments that have been put up.  
• Work on the Energy Saver packet that is in your ELearning folder.

Have a great day and God Bless,

Mrs. Rowland