St. Patrick's Day

Terra Nova testing is over! (Hooray!)

I am very proud of how hard the students worked during the past two weeks to do their best. It has also been nice to get back into the routine of regularly scheduled days.

I apologize for not posting for over one week. I was taken ill on Wednesday and had no voice on Thursday, but your children were cooperative, and we made it through the day.

On Friday, we celebrated St. Patrick's Day. Check out some photos from our day:

We had a visit from the leprechaun - He left us some gold at the end of the day!

We made over 65 words out of the letters from "St. Patrick's Day."

We worked with our Guardian Angels to do a writing activity - Who is worth more to you than gold?

Guardian Angels activity

We learned that the Trinity (God the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit) was like... TOOTHPASTE???

We could not separate the three colors, just as we cannot separate God the Father, from Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

On a separate note:

Thank you to everyone who sent in gifts and cards for my birthday! I was so blessed to celebrate my special day with your children. We even enjoyed some tasty cake pops (courtesy of Alex and his mom) at the end of the day!

Reminders

*Please take your children to Mass every weekend!

   ---> First Reconciliation: Saturday, April 20th

   ---> First Communion: Saturday, May 11th

*Regular homework will resume this week. Please make sure your child completes his/her Reading Log, Math, and Spelling homework every night. Thank you for your help and cooperation!

*Spring Break starts on Holy Thursday (March 28th).

A Christmas Guardian Angel Activity

This morning, we met with our Guardian Angel class (6th grade) to make angel Christmas tree toppers out of paper plates. The students worked well together, and the angels turned out great! The only materials we needed were paper plates, coloring supplies, scissors, and a stapler (we also used glitter and glue for something extra special). Check out some photos from this morning:

Also, if you missed the video of some of the children signing "Mary, Did You Know?" check out this blog post from earlier in the week:
http://secondgradecrusade.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-video-and-some-photos.html



Finally, please keep the community of Newtown, Connecticut in your prayers. The school shooting was a horrible tragedy. One of my friends shared a good resource for how to talk with your children about the recent event: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/terror_general.aspx
Please visit the site if you are able. I think it will be helpful.



Enjoy the weekend. Please remember to take your child to church on Sunday (or Saturday night).
Also, THANK YOU to parents who ordered books from the last Scholastic order. They came today, and I sent them home with your children.

Field Trip

First of all, I would like to thank the parents who gave up time in their day to attend our first field trip of the year- Tom's mom, Ashlei's mom, and Alex's mom. It was wonderful to have you with us!

Monday was a beautiful day, and in the afternoon we joined up with our 6th grade Guardian Angels to visit the National Mexican Museum of Art. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful museum within a half mile of our school.

When we arrived, we dropped our coats and joined our tour guide. Our first stop was in a room with an altar for the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos).

We also got to discuss some artwork in the museum. The one below is a skeleton playing a bass. In the background is the Earth with skeletons, and on the ground is a lot of trash. Our tour guide explained to us that it showed how careless humans are about the way we are destroying the Earth.

We saw masks and paper flags. We even stopped by the gift shop where we saw lots of artwork and sugar skulls for sale. One of the parents and I bought the smallest ones for all of the students to try.

Everyone was well-behaved and seemed to have a lot of fun! It was great to learn about the Mexican culture!

Guardian Angels

On the first Friday of every month, the 2nd graders pair up with their Guardian Angel class- the 6th graders.

This week we sat together at Mass in the morning, and then we met up again in the afternoon to read our Weekly Reader magazines (this week was about butterflies) and to learn about each other. Everyone worked so nicely together! Please take a look at the photos below:

We are already looking forward to another fun activity next month.