Newsletter 1-31-14

No Spelling Words

Due to our shortened week, we will not have a spelling test this Friday.  We will have our next test on Friday, February 7.

Snow Day Fun

We hope you are all staying warm today! It can be hard to stay inside all day long, so we thought we would send out some fun activities to keep busy! Below you will find a fun snowman glyph. You answer the questions and each answer tells you how you should make your snowman look. You can draw it on paper or cut it out if you have fun paper at home. Below that you will find some subtraction error analysis pages. We first practiced this on our chapter 5 test with addition. Have fun finding the errors in these problems and show us how to correctly solve them.

Newsletter 1-24-14

8th Graders vs. Teachers

Today in class we decorated a poster to support room 204's basketball palyer, Jackie. Our class is very excited about Jackie and hopes she plays well! The game is this Friday at 6pm at St. Joseph. We hope to see you all there!

Spelling List 1-21--1-24

Challenge Spelling List 1-21--1-24

Kids Science Lab Field Trip

We had so much fun visiting Kids Science Labs on Friday morning and learning about gravity! For one of our experiments, students had to create a cushion to protect an egg after it was dropped from a ladder. Our students came up with some pretty creative containers and 'mats' for their eggs to land on using foam squares, plastic cups, cotton squares, styrofoam logs, and paper scraps. Enjoy this video of one of the drops filmed in slooooooooooow motion by Mrs. Mahoney!

Here are some more pictures of our visit! 

Newsletter 1-17-14

We invite all parents to take a few moments to complete the Parent Survey about your experience at ICSJ. Instructions were sent home in a school email blast last week. The survey closes on January 22nd. We appreciate your feedback!

For your convenience, here is the Parent Survey Link: http://www.advanc-ed.org/survey/public/section/response/begin?surveyConfigId=167640

*Please choose "Immaculate Conception St. Joseph" on the school scroll-down option.

Newsletter 1-17-14

Family Life

Materials going home tomorrow will highlight the unit in Family Life that our students will be learning about in the upcoming weeks.  Additional resources are available online if you have any questions.  Please use the following link:

http://rclbfamilylife.com/

Family username: FLfamily

Passcode: flrclbf01

QR codes in Social Studies

Today in Social Studies we continued our study of landforms with three interactive centers. We explored a map of the globe and labeled our own with the North and South poles, Equator, and labeled the continents and oceans. In our other two centers we focused on landforms and their definitions. We used a fun QR code center that had the students searching the room for different landforms using clues from the ipad.

No Red File

We will not be sending our Red Assessment Files home this Tuesday due to progress reports.

Parent & Grandparent Appreciation Day-Mark your calendars!

Please save the date for Parent & Grandparent Appreciation Day. We will be providing breakfast and welcoming you into our classroom from 8:30 - 10:00am. 

 

Spelling List 1-13--1-16

Challenge Spelling List 1-13--1-16

Newsletter 1-10-14

Kids Science Lab - Summer Camp!

As you saw the permission slip come home yesterday, we have a field trip coming up! Next Friday we will be going to Kids Science Lab in Lincoln Park. Just yesterday they opened registration for their fun and interactive summer camps. Below is a link to their website if your child is looking for fun educational summer activities.





http://www.kslchicago.com/summer-camp/

Spelling Week of 1-8-14--1-10-14

Happy New Year! There will be no spelling test this week due to the snow days.  Students will continue to study words with comparative endings next week, and their test will be on Thursday 1/16/13.