School News 11-24-14

St. Laurence Eagle Eye News

THIS WEEK

Monday: Faculty meeting after school

Tuesday: Thanksgiving Feast at Noon / Dismissal after Lunch

Sunday: Sing at the 5:30 Mass, so I hope to see you there.

THANKSGIVING FEAST

Tommorrow at noon we will gather for our Thanksgiving Feast. We will start promptly, since for some this will be their lunch break.

TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL

A letter about the upcoming fundraisers (for grades 4-6) as well as information about the Teton Science trip went home today with the oldest child. We will be selling World’s Finest Chocolate Bars and holding a 50-50 Raffle where half of what we make will go for the trip and half will be paid to the winner. We will draw for that the night of the Christmas Program. These two projects will help make up for the difference from the grant and the actual cost of the trip. The chocolate bars will be coming next week and 20 raffle tickets went home with each child today. Please let me know if you need more tickets.

MR. JIMS PIZZA NIGHT

Thanks to everyone who helped out the school by ordering pizza last week!

GAME NIGHT

Thanks to Ms. Still and Ms. James for their help on the sleepover/game night. Thanks to Buddy Crater for chaperoning and being our breakfast chef. Thanks to Mrs. Oliver for helping out for a couple of hours Friday night as a chaperone. Finally, give a big thank you to Ms. James’ daugther, and her friend for leading games and spending the night with us.

DRESS THEM WARM

Winter is here. Please send students dressed for some cold days on the playground. Snow pants or an over layer for the legs would be nice. Send some warm water proof gloves and a hat as well as a coat that will keep them warm. Snow gear can stay at school if it makes it easier for you. Students go outside three times a day, so we need them dressed for the weather.

GIFTS

You should have received the gifts that were ordered last month during the Magazine/Gift Sale. Please distribute them, if you haven’t done so already. If friends or relatives ask if they can still order to help the school, tell them that they can. They just need to go online to www.gaschool.com Use the school code for St. Laurence School 3589454.

SINGING AT 5:30 MASS

Make every effort if you are in town to come and bring your children to the 5:30 Liturgy at St. Laurence Church. The students are singing at that Mass so the more voices the better.

ART SUPPLIES

Mrs. Howdeshell is in need of empty paper towel rolls and empty oatmeal cylinders for a Christmas Art Project. If you could save some for her over the Thanksgiving Break, she would really appreciate it.

CANS FOR THE CAUSE

Do you have aluminum cans at your house? Bring them to St. Laurence School where we turn cans into money. The money goes into a fund for a variety of worthy classroom projects from field trips to classroom rewards. Please place cans in the barrels on the south side back porch by the art room. The more cans we collect, the more positive ways the teachers can support your kids. Please, no steel or tin cans though. They do check for those when we take them for recycling and they don’t like them.

HELP THE SCHOOL WITH SAFEWAY CARDS

We have for sale Reloadable Safeway Gift Cards as well as $100 Gift Cards. The reloadable cards come with $10 pre-loaded on them so we sell them for $10. Then you can reload them as many times as you wish at the checkout and use them to buy groceries, gas, or prescriptions. The great thing is that you are giving 5% to the school every time you reload. If you’re a Safeway shopper, stop by and purchase your reloadable card. It costs you nothing extra. The card will work at any Safeway throughout the West. Send one to Grandma and Grandpa who shop at Safeway in other towns and the school will still get the 5%.

DON’T FORGET YOUR DOLLARS FOR TAHIANA

We are a little short for this month’s installment for Tahiana from Madagascar. If you will recall we have to come up with $30 each month for our little boy from Madagascar. We did well in September and October but we are little light for November. If every family just puts in $1 per month we can meet our goal. Thanks for your help on this project. There is a letter posted on the bulletin board from Tahiana’s mom. Check it out.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

November 25

Thanksgiving Feast at 12:00 Noon in the School Gym. Dismissal after the meal. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving break

November 25 at 1:00 till November 30

Thanksgiving Break

School back in session on Monday, December 1

November 30

Students sing at the 5:30 Mass at St. Laurence O’Toole Church

December 5

Singing at the Plaza for the Downtown Christmas Parade 5:30

December 6 Happy Holidays, Laramie! Joint St. Laurence/Snowy Range Academy Choirs Sing at the UW Art Museum

December 18

All School Christmas Program 6:30 at St. Laurence Church

Grade 1 & 2 News 11-24-14

 

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

November 24-25, 2014

Grade One/Two

I hope you all have an amazing and love-filled Thanksgiving holiday! When we come back, it will be Advent!

We have just one and a half days of fun and learning this week. In reading/language, we will look online at Plimoth Planation. They have a wonderful website full of information about early white settlers on the eastern coast of the now United States, as well as many fun and educational activities which children enjoy much. We will read a true story about Squanto. It is written by Joseph Bruchac, an Abenaki Indian, so we trust its authenticity. J There are no spelling words and there is no homework.

In math we will review doubles added and subtracted, doubles plus one and doubles plus two added and subtracted, and learn about 3 as an addend and a subtrahend.

Science is exciting this week! We have worked hard to prepare for our NASA virtual field trip on Monday. Our program is “Our Magnificent Sun.” My son, the tech guy in South Carolina, who helps me arrange these events, has seen this program and says it is a great one. He was here this weekend helping me with the final preparatory touches for the actual visit tomorrow. Woohoo!

We will also do some quick activities about turkeys, in keeping with the season. J

Mostly I just want to express my gratitude to you and to God for the blessing of knowing you and your children. At Mass this morning I was thinking about my “job” here, which is more like ministry and an amazing opportunity to see the face of Christ in so many of His people. Thank your for sharing with me your precious gift, your children. God bless us everyone.

School News 11-17-14

St. Laurence Eagle Eye News

THIS WEEK

Monday: The rest of the coats arrived.

Tuesday: Spirit Day / Last day for Thanksgiving Feast reservations (See below)

Wednesday: PE & Art

Thursday: Mass at 8:30

Friday : Bring your instruments for group practice. Spanish Classes in the afternoon. Game night and Sleepover rescheduled for tonight.

THANKSGIVING FEAST

Every year the school holds a Thanksgiving Feast on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Break. Today is the last day to reserve. It will take place this year on November 25, at noon. We try to seat every family together for the meal. It is a great meal and a chance for the St. Laurence family to gather. Reservations are required.

TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL MEETING

I will send out an email to all parents tomorrow about the meeting discussions. Also I will be sending with the 4-6 graders a packet of information about the TSS for the parents who missed the meeting. We will be selling World’s Finest Chocolate Bars and holding a 50-50 Raffle where half of what we make will go for the trip and half will be paid to the winner. We will draw for that the night of the Christmas Program. These two projects will help make up for the difference from the grant and the actual cost of the trip.

MR. JIMS PIZZA NIGHT

This Wednesday, November 19, is St. Laurence night at Mr. Jim’s pizza. 10% of you ticket that night will be donated to the school and each class can earn a Pizza Party. Forms went home last week, but there are some in the front lobby if you need more. Delivery and store pick up qualify, just fill out the form and turn it in at either location. Mr. Jim’s has extended the donation night until Sunday, November 23, in case you can’t make it on Wednesday.

GAME NIGHT

We have rescheduled our Sleepover/Game Night. The students in grades 3-6 are invited to spend the night in the school on Friday, November 21. (Last Friday my dog apparently fell coming down the stairs to greet me when I got home from school. He did not move for 45 minutes and in that time I decided to postpone the event. At 6:00 that evening Hunter got up and acted like nothing happened. I apologize for any inconvenience, but at the time I thought I would be taking him to the Vet.) We will have lots of board games and activities for the kids from 7:00 till 10:00. At that time we will have lights out. Breakfast will be served in the morning and the kids will go home at 9:00 A.M. If you filled out a permission slip last week, then it is still good for this Friday. I will send out new ones to those who may be able to stay this time.

DRESS THEM WARM

It seems that our winter is here. Please send students dressed for some cold days on the playground. Snow pants or an over layer for the legs would be nice. Send some warm water proof gloves and a hat as well as a coat that will keep them warm. Snow gear can stay at school if it makes it easier for you. Students go outside three times a day, so we need them dressed for the weather.

CANS FOR THE CAUSE

Do you have aluminum cans at your house? Bring them to St. Laurence School where we turn cans into money. The money goes into a fund for a variety of worthy classroom projects from field trips to classroom rewards. Please place cans in the barrels on the south side back porch by the art room. The more cans we collect, the more positive ways the teachers can support your kids. Please, no steel cans though. They do check for those when we take them for recycling and they don’t like them.

HELP THE SCHOOL WITH SAFEWAY CARDS

We have for sale Reloadable Safeway Gift Cards as well as $100 Gift Cards. The reloadable cards come with $10 pre-loaded on them so we sell them for $10. Then you can reload them as many times as you wish at the checkout and use them to buy groceries, gas, or prescriptions. The great thing is that you are giving 5% to the school every time you reload. If you’re a Safeway shopper, stop by and purchase your reloadable card. It costs you nothing extra. The card will work at any Safeway throughout the West. Send one to Grandma and Grandpa who shop at Safeway in other towns and the school will still get the 5%.

DON’T FORGET YOUR DOLLARS FOR TAHIANA

We are a little short for this month’s installment for Tahiana from Madagascar. If you will recall we have to come up with $30 each month for our little boy from Madagascar. We did well in September and October but we are little light for November. If every family just puts in $1 per month we can meet our goal. Thanks for your help on this project. There is a letter posted on the bulletin board from Tahiana’s mom. Check it out.

GIFTS

You should have received the gifts that were ordered last month during the Magazine/Gift Sale. Please distribute them, if you haven’t done so already. If friends or relatives ask if they can still order to help the school, tell them that they can. They just need to go online to www.gaschool.com Use the school code for St. Laurence School 3589454.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

November 19

Grade reports go home with students

Mr. Jim’s Pizza Night

November 25

Thanksgiving Feast at 12:00 Noon in the School Gym. Dismissal after the meal. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving break

November 25 at 1:00 till November 30

Thanksgiving Break

School back in session on Monday, December 1

November 30

Students sing at the 5:30 Mass at St. Laurence O’Toole Church

December 18

All School Christmas Program 6:30 at St. Laurence Church

Grade 1-2 News 11-17-14

Observing Native American Month

Grades One/Two November 17-21, 2014

The song, “Over the river and through the woods” has been running through my mind all during this very cold week. We no longer rely on a horse to carry us through the “ice and drifted snow,” and I thank God for vehicles that start and bring us warmly to our destinations. J

This week we will celebrate Native American Appreciation Month as we read an American Indian legend, How Chipmunk Got His Stripes. Joseph Bruchac and his son retell this charming story of a little guy outsmarting a big guy, but not without learning a lesson about using kind words. Our skills will be thinking about syllables and letter writing. For spelling, we will revisit long i with magic e words.

We are moving well in math, just a bit ahead of where I like to be this time of year. This week we will consider numbers 11-19 as 10 and some more, which then segues into 10 as an addend. We spend part of each math time reviewing already learned concepts to keep skills sharp.

In religion we will talk more about the 7 sacraments of the church and introduce the 10 Commandments.

Science is exciting! Our unit on the Sun continues to be wonderful! This week we’ll learn about sunspots and build a very safe sunspot viewer. We’ll talk about the Sun in relation to day and night and seasons. We have a virtual field trip with NASA scheduled for next Monday afternoon. This year’s event is with a woman at the Kennedy Space Center; she’ll be talking with us about “Our Magnificent Sun.” This is a very exciting event for the children and we are working hard to prepare.

Homework

Monday: spelling sort

Tuesday: math

Wednesday: Think about the first three commandments and the happy ways God is most important in your family.

Thursday: spelling

Spelling words

like hike stripe wipe pipe ripe

bite kite

Additional second grade words

strike spike white

School News 11-10-14

St. Laurence Eagle Eye News

Tuesday: Veterans Day / Spirit Day

Wednesday: PE & Art

Thursday: Mass at 8:30 / Funeral Luncheon in Gym / 4-6 Teton Science School Meeting 6:30 (note time change from calendar)

Friday : Bring your instruments for group practice. Spanish Classes in the morning. Game night and Sleepover

Sunday: Feast of St. Laurence O’Toole after 10:30 Mass.

THANKSGIVING FEAST

Every year the school holds a Thanksgiving Feast on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Break. Make plans now to attend. It will take place this year on November 25, at noon. The invitation for the event is being sent as a separate attachment. If you would like to donate a turkey for the feast, please contact Anita.

TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL MEETING

Don’t forget about the meeting for Grade 3-6 parents of students attending the Teton Science Camp in January. The meeting will start at 6:30 this Thursday evening. We want a chance to discuss the trip and talk about fundraising.

GIFTS

You should have received the gifts that were ordered last month during the Magazine/Gift Sale. Please distribute them, if you haven’t done so already. If friends or relatives ask if they can still order to help the school, tell them that they can. They just need to go online to www.gaschool.com Use the school code for St. Laurence School 3589454.

ALTAR FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

I’m putting together an altar in the gym to honor those members of our family who have died. This is a tradition in Latin countries as part of the Day of the Dead Celebration. You can bring small mementos and pictures of a loved one to place on the altar. There will also be a book near the altar where you can add names for our prayer list. You can bring in those items this week.

GAME NIGHT

The students in grades 3-6 are invited to spend the night in the school on Friday, November 14 (the Feast of St. Laurence O’Toole). We will have lots of board games and activities for the kids from 6:30 till 10:00. At that time we will have lights out. Breakfast will be served in the morning and the kids will go home at 9:00 A.M. Permission slips that went home last week are due by Wednesday.

DRESS THEM WARM

It seems that our winter is here. Please send students dressed for some cold days on the playground. Snow pants or an over layer for the legs would be nice. Send some warm gloves and a hat as well as a coat that will keep them warm. Snow gear can stay at school if it makes it easier for you.

CANS FOR THE CAUSE

Do you have aluminum cans at your house? Bring them to St. Laurence School where we turn cans into money. The money goes into a fund for a variety of worthy classroom projects from field trips to classroom rewards. Please place cans in the barrels on the south side back porch by the art room. The more cans we collect, the more positive ways the teachers can support your kids. Please, no steel cans though. They do check for those when we take them for recycling and they don’t like them.

HELP THE SCHOOL WITH SAFEWAY CARDS

We have for sale Reloadable Safeway Gift Cards as well as $100 Gift Cards. The reloadable cards come with $10 pre-loaded on them so we sell them for $10. Then you can reload them as many times as you wish at the checkout and use them to buy groceries, gas, or prescriptions. The great thing is that you are giving 5% to the school every time you reload. If you’re a Safeway shopper, stop by and purchase your reloadable card. It costs you nothing extra. The card will work at any Safeway throughout the West. Send one to Grandma and Grandpa who shop at Safeway in other towns and the school will still get the 5%.

JACKET & SWEATSHIRT ORDERS

The deadline for ordering school jackets or sweatshirts is this Friday.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

November 13

Funeral luncheon for Vicki Ahrenholtz in the gym (School lunch will be served to students)

November 14

End of the Trimester. Feast Day of St. Laurence O’Toole

November 16

Feast of St. Laurence O’Toole Celebration 12:00 in the school gym. Details in the Parish Bulletin.

November 19

Grade reports go home with students after school

November 25

Thanksgiving Feast at 12:00 Noon in the School Gym. Dismissal after the meal. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving break

November 25 at 1:00 till November 30

Thanksgiving Break

School back in session on Monday, December 1

November 30

Sing at the 5:30 Mass at St. Laurence O’Toole Church

December 18

All School Christmas Program 6:30 at St. Laurence Church

Grade 1-2 News 11-10-14

Something Chilly This Way Comes!

November 10-14, 2014

Perhaps our lovely extended autumn may come to an end this week with snow and cold temperatures predicted. If it does really come, please make sure your child has the necessary cold weather gear: warm coat, snow pants, hat, mittens or gloves, and boots. Thanks! We may need to postpone our trip to the Abbey due to the cold and lack of drivers. We will let you know as soon as the change is confirmed. Thanks.

In reading/language we will read riddles and a story about a moose who tells riddles; how fun! Skills include sequencing story events, contractions with not, and long e spelled e or ee.

We are moving along well in math, this week learning about 5 as the minuend and numbers 6-10 as 5 and some more. We will likely also get to 10 as the minuend and relate this to facts that = 10.

Science finds us learning much about the Sun. We will make a class book about the Sun, each page dealing with another fact about it. I am working on a trip to the UW Planetarium and hopefully, a NASA virtual field trip in late November.

In religion we will learn the 7 Sacraments this week, talk about why they are important, and also think about thankfulness.

Homework

Monday: spelling sort

Tuesday: Math

Wednesday: help your child study the 7 sacraments

Thursday: reading or spelling

Spelling words

we me he she isn’t wasn’t

see seen feet green

Additional for 2nds:

queen speed kneel hasn’t doesn’t

School News 11-4-14

THIS WEEK

Tuesday:

Wednesday: PE & Art

Thursday: Mass at 8:30 / Home and School Meeting at 3:10 in the Art Room

Friday : Bring your instruments for group practice. Spanish Classes in the morning.

PRINCIPAL TALK

Every year the school holds a Thanksgiving Feast on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Break. Make plans now to attend. It will take place this year on November 25 at noon. There will be a chance to buy tickets for the lunch coming with next week’s newsletter. If you would like to donate a turkey for the feast, please contact Anita.

GERMAN REALITY SHOW FOLLOW UP

The German family from Cologne came by on Thursday to tour the school. They took a registration packet, but they have not made a decision about schools at this point.

GIFTS

You should have received the gifts that were ordered last month during the Magazine/Gift Sale. Please distribute them, if you haven’t done so already. If friends or relatives ask if they can still order to help the school, tell them that they can. They just need to go online to www.gaschool.com Use the school code for St. Laurence School 3589454.

ALTAR FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

I’m putting together an altar in the gym to honor those members of our family who have died. This is a tradition in Latin countries as part of the Day of the Dead Celebration. You can bring small mementos and pictures of a loved one to place on the altar. There will also be a book near the altar where you can add names for our prayer list. You can start bringing in those items tomorrow.

GAME NIGHT

The students in grades 3-6 are invited to spend the night in the school on Friday, November 14^th (the Feast of St. Laurence O’Toole). We will have lots of board games and activities for the kids from 6:30 till 10:00. At that time we will have lights out. Breakfast will be served in the morning and the kids will go home at 9:00 A.M. More details will be going home in a letter to the parents.

ADAM’S TEAM WRAPUP

Adam's Team had their last day of practice last week with a fun game of "Capture the Flag" at Undine Park.  Thanks to all parents and families who have helped this semester and congratulations to all the miles earned by 29 of St. Laurence's students!!  Way to go!

SCHOOL CARNIVAL

The carnival on Friday was a lot of fun for the kids. Thanks to our fifth and sixth graders who ran the games and took sponges in the face. Thanks to Winter Millan and family for supplying us with a giant hamster ball. They promise to have it running for the next carnival. We brought in around $60 to split between the Teton Science School Trip and the Laramie Soup Kitchen.

CANS FOR THE CAUSE

Do you have aluminum cans at your house? Bring them to St. Laurence School where we turn cans into money. The money goes into a fund for a variety of worthy classroom projects from field trips to classroom rewards. Please place cans in the barrels on the south side back porch by the art room. The more cans we collect, the more positive ways the teachers can support your kids. Please, no steel cans though. They do check for those when we take them for recycling and they don’t like them.

HELP THE SCHOOL WITH SAFEWAY CARDS

We have for sale Reloadable Safeway Gift Cards as well as $100 Gift Cards. The reloadable cards come with $10 pre-loaded on them so we sell them for $10. Then you can reload them as many times as you wish at the checkout and use them to buy groceries, gas, or prescriptions. The great thing is that you are giving 5% to the school every time you reload. If you’re a Safeway shopper, stop by and purchase your reloadable card. It costs you nothing extra. The card will work at any Safeway throughout the West. Send one to Grandma and Grandpa who shop at Safeway in other towns and the school will still get the 5%.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Nov. 6

Last Adams Team till spring

Nov. 14

End of the Trimester. Feast Day of St. Laurence O’Toole

Nov. 19

Grade reports go home with students after school

Nov. 25

Thanksgiving Feast at 12:00 Noon in the School Gym Dismissal after the meal. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving break

Nov. 25 at 1:00 till Nov. 30

Thanksgiving Break School starts on Monday December 1^st.

Nov. 30

Sing at the 5:30 Mass at St. Laurence O’Toole Church

Grade 1-2 News 11-3-14

Yippee-Kay-Yay-Ay, Git Along Little Doggie!

Grade One/Two November 3-7, 2014

Happy November! Oh my, how can our year be passing so quickly?! I hope your All Saints Day weekend was special. J

In reading/language we will read stories about cowboys. Our sound is long u with magic e at the end of the word, as in mule. We will think about the plot of a story and learn about verbs. Second graders will make a group diorama about our story, Why Cowboys Sleep with Their Boots On. This should be fun!

In math we will review doubles, doubles plus one and two, and learn about facts that make 5 and 10. These are anchor skills and are super important!

Now that we have happily celebrated the completion of our downtown Laramie unit, we will turn from social studies to science and begin an astronomy unit. Our focus will be on the stars this year as last year we learned about the planets in our solar system.

In religion we will learn about and make a mezuzah, a scripture-bearing doorpost used in Jewish homes, and think more about prayer, especially the Our Father, the prayer that Jesus taught us.

Homework

Monday: spelling sort, neatly J

Tuesday: math, counting by 5’s

Wednesday: religion, I’ll send home a copy of the scripture in the mezuzah your child will bring home, please prayerfully read and discuss this scripture with your family

Thursday: reading long u review

Spelling words

mule rule cube tube use tune dune

June Additional 2^nd grade words: refuse reuse