A FEW NOTES FROM ME
Enrichment Programs
CYT – We are excited to announce that CYT@school is returning to St. Vincent’s! Registration for this is open and our first workshop began on September 11th. Please see this flyer for details so your student won’t miss out on this experience and fun! We can’t wait to get started! You can register here.
Paint Box Studio – Paint Box studio presents Afterschool Sew and Photo Classes and Back to School Art. All classes start the week of September 4th. Please click on the below class for additional information.
Afterschool Sew and Photo Classes
Chess Club – International Master Larry Evans and his staff teach every Thursday starting September 13th. Everyone is welcome! Beginners to advance.
St. Vincent de Paul Feast Day Parish Celebration – September 30th
Please join us on Sunday, September 30th from 11:30am to 2:00pm for our Parish’s Celebration of the Feast Day of St. Vincent de Paul in Mission Hills at Pioneer Park! Our celebration will feature delicious food catered by Phil’s BBQ and the Italian Catholic Federation. There will also be lots of parish picnic games and great family fun! Tickets for the catered lunch are only $5.00 per person. Tickets go on sale soon after every mass and in the Parish Office! Please bring your lawn chairs and picnic blankets and join us for an afternoon of Fellowship, Food and Fun! If you have any questions, please contact Michelle Wakefield at mlw@dmwakelaw.com
Jogathon – October 12th, 2018 – “Americana” —> Online donation
Our school goal for this year is $35,000. Contributions go towards funding our technology, science, art, and music programs. Thank you for helping our school! If you have any questions, please contact the Jog-A-Thon team at svsjogathon@aol.com.
Catch the Americana spirit and show off your business on our St. Vincent’s Jog-a-thon T-shirt this year. You don’t need to own a business to sponsor – your employer can sponsor and your family receives the credit towards your PTG Commitment. Also, your child will receive FREE DRESS and will be entered to win a SONY PS4. Click here for the sponsorship information. Any questions, see Camille Dickinson or Dalece Sardina or email svsjogathon@aol.com.
We have some great prizes this year!
- Bring in a Gold Sponsor or higher earns 3 entries to the raffle for a Sony PS4
- Every student that raises $100 online by Friday 9/21 will receive 1 entry to the raffle for a Sony PS4 and a chance to win a $25 Target gift card (2 gift cards available)
- Student with the most money raised online by Friday 10/5 will have the choice between being Miss Huscher’s music assistant or Mr. Arnas’s mad scientist assistant
- Every student who raises $100 in pledges or brings in a sponsor receives a free dress pass
- Students who raise $500 or more in pledges will earn 5 entries to the PS4 raffle
- Grade Cluster Prizes 6-8: The three students who raise the most money in Grades 6-8 will get to choose between: a $50 gift card of own choosing, a $100 gift card of own choosing, or a 32″ TCL Roku SmartTV.
THIS WEEK….
Reading/Language Arts: We are working our unit on the elements that make up a story, uses short stories from our Prentice Hall Literature book as our primary texts. We’re working on the idea of conflict in “Greyling” by Jane Yolen. We’ll also start reading “Lob’s Girl” and identify theme within literature.
Vocab and Spelling Unit 4 tests will be on Friday, 9/25.
Grammar this week focuses the use of verbs & nouns. We will have a quiz this week on sentences, nouns, and verbs (Lessons 1-10 in hard Grammar book).
Math: Our number systems unit focuses on using the place value system to recognize patterns, create relationships between numbers, and establishing generalizations (rules/properties) for operations with whole numbers and decimals. Please note that while a cumulative test will not be given until after the end of the unit, I will give smaller quizzes throughout the next few weeks (look out for the notice in your child’s homework planner or on the homework page of the class site).
This week, we’re continuing to delve into operations with decimals. Quiz on multiplying with decimals this week.
Religion: We will be continuing our investigation of the Old Testament by exploring the book of Genesis and the story of Creation. We’re continuing to discover the symbolism used by the biblical writers in the Creation stories – focus is on God’s creation of humans and on the expulsion from the Garden of Eden (sin is introduced to the world). Test is scheduled for next Tuesday, 10/3.
Social Studies: Our first Social Studies unit (Origins) focuses on the origins of civilization. We have our first test on Tuesday, 9/25. We will also start reading about the movement to an agricultural people and how this led to the development of civilizations.
Art: We’re starting to work on our next elements of art – space and shape.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept. 27: Feast of St. Vincent de Paul
Sept. 30 – St. Vincent de Paul Parish Feast Day (Mass & Celebration in Park)
October 3 – Picture Day
October 4 – Feast of St. Francis of Assisi – Blessing of the Animals
October 6 – Craft Fair
October 8 – Columbus Day, No School
October 9 – 6th Grade Hot Lunch
October 12 – Jog-a-thon, 1/2 Day, 12:00pm Dismissal
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