Week 25

Three weeks into March and Mrs. P.'s class has been seeing green! Using various St. Patrick's Day activities and games, our classroom has been learning about this month's Irish holiday, as well as the symbols, words and customs associated with it! In handwriting class, students made their own pots of gold, cutting out pictures and writing out words to tell what they themselves would like to find at the end of their rainbows. Ranging from tacos to music, from Santa Clause to movies, each of Mrs. P.'s students had something they longed to find in an imaginary pot of gold on St. Patrick's Day. Mrs. P. herself wished to find good listeners at the end of her rainbow, and from students' great performance this week, it is clear that she had the luck of the Irish!

Please continue to make good choices regarding nutrition! In physical education, students have offered up great, healthy snack options to their teachers and been able to tell green light foods from red light foods. We have also been working hard to make environmentally green choices, recycling our paper and plastics to do our part to better the Earth. Let's all try to fill our lunchboxes with the greenest choices we think we can make and fill our recycling bins with the things that we can reuse!

On Thursday, Mrs. P. put her students to the test with a race to find and identify sight words she hid around the room. Divided into teams of three, students raced to find their words and cheered on their friends. When the races finished the whole class joined together as a team to find and identify their Olympic sight words, finishing in Olmpic gold medal time!

Mrs. P.'s class was delighted to welcome various visitors who came to visit the school this Friday to join in our St. Patrick's Day festivities! In the morning, friends from McQuaid Jesuit Highschool came to observe our class' hard work, and assisted us in preparing this week's special Irish treat: Shamrock Shakes! Students' showed our guests how they follow directions, take pride in the their tasks and work together as a team to achieve their goals and rewards themselves!

In the afternoon, the School of the Holy Childhood was treated to another fabulous performance by the talented dancers of  Drumclife Irish School of Dance. Year after year, students and teachers here at Holy Childhood alike are both impressed and grateful for such a wonderful special event. Thank you!

Have a green weekend everyone! Practice your sight words and see you next week!