Week 27

A short week here at the School of the Holy Childhood, but what great work Mrs. P.'s class managed to fit into these last four days! Students kicked off this week with a great swimming lesson, learning how to float on our backs and bellies. We also reviewed some of our personal hygiene knowledge, stressing the importance of keeping ourselves clean and healthy both at home and at school.

A majority of our activities here in the classroom were Easter-themed this week, as the Easter bunny's favorite day is right arund the corner! For math and counting, Mrs. P. treated her class to a jellybean count and sort! Students first made estimated guesses regarding how many jelly beans they received, and then counted them to see how their predictions measured up. Students were then asked to sort them by color, before comparing which colors they had most of and which they had the least of. After all that hard work, you can guess what students got to do next!

In SPOT group this week, Mrs. P.'s class read a short story about Easter! In the story, the characters decorate Easter eggs and students were asked to be attentive to what happened first, next and last in the narrative's chain of events. After we completed this sequencing activity, students got to decorate their very own Easter eggs! These treasures will be coming home on the bus today, so please look for them to keep them safe and in tact!

We hope that everyone at home has a wonderful holiday and vacation! Please be reminded that the school will re-open on Monday, March 16th. See you then, and remember: practice your sight words!

Mrs. P.'s Olympians win the 2012 SHC Candy Sale!

After weeks of  intense candy selling, the results of this year's candy sale were revealed in the School of the Holy Childhood's annual Candy Rally today! Mrs. P.'s class finished in first place, selling more candy bars than any other classroom in the school! Mrs. P. and her classroom aides would like to thank all of you who participated in the sale, and congratulate the students on their hard-earned win!

Distinguishing our victory was Teale Bradley, who sold the second most candy bars in the contest! Congratulations Teale, on your vigorous candy-selling!

Week 26

What a beautiful week we have had here in Rochester! Mrs. P.'s class was happy to get outside every single day this week for some much deserved free-time in the sunshine and warm weather. We hope everyone at home had the chance to enjoy these beautiful days outside as we did here at school!

This week students started basketball in gym class, keeping with our classroom's theme of concentration. Students worked on their coordination by practicing dribbling and passing, working in pairs to improve the skills they'll need on a real basketball court. We continued talking about nutrition in health class, further discussing which foods should be considered "green light" foods and which should be considered "red light" foods that we should stop and think about before eating.

In SPOT, students created books about the history of basketball, following up their lesson by putting their shooting skills to the test!

We hope everyone has a safe and relaxing weekend! Practice your sight words! See you next week!