Dear Parents:


Over the course of the last few days we have been discussing the fact that your students need to be active participants in their learning. The way we have defined this is that the students are active listeners in class, focused on the current lesson, and responsible for getting their assignments completed. May of your students are very successful in this area already but hopefully being reminded of this will help those of them who need it.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support. Is seems as though we have been asking you to support the school in may different was as of late and I just want to validate all of your help, thank you again.

Hope to see you at Barnes and Nobel Wednesday.

Anne Peirce

 

My email address at school is Anne.Peirce@stpsb.org

THIS WEEK

Language: the students have been very busy in language. We will complete our unit on verbs and they will be assessed on Wednesday. The will also receive a copy of the conjugations of the verbs "to be" and "to have" this week. They will be expected to memorize these verbs and will be quizzed on Friday. The reason for this is that we use these verbs often and because they are so irregular in the conjugation, students dare often confused by them and do not recognize them as verbs. I ma hoping that committing them to memory will help them recognize all the forms of these verbs.

Reading: We are continuing on with number the Stars. The students are enjoying this book and are really enjoying learning about the larger topic of WWII. The students are very curious and are asking thoughtful, deep questions. There will be a test on chapters 9-12 on Thursday of this week. The test will alos include vocabulary

Spelling: we are on Unit 17 this week. The focus of this lesson is works with double consonants. The quiz will be Friday

Social Studies: We are studying Egypt and will continue on with leaning about the great contribution this culture made to the world. There are may extra activities connected with this unit. The students are very proud of the cartouches the have made.


Character Ed: The character trait that will be discussed in November is self-discipline


FISH Philosophy Rules!
Be There
Choose Your Attitude
Make Their Day
Have fun

Important Dates

Wednesday, Nov. 18th
Bank Day
Week of Nov. 23rd

Thanksgiving Vacation
Saturday, Dec. 9th
PBS Sponored
Parent's Shopping Morning
9am till noon
Week of Dec. 7th
Food Drive
Wednesday, Dec. 9th
Bank Day
Sicily's Pizza Night
Friday, Dec. 11th
Student of the Month Breakfast 8am
Food Drive Collection
Tuesday, Dec. 15th
PTA meeting, Band/Chorus Christmas Concert 6:30pm
Friday, Dec. 18th
End of the 9 weeks
Half day of school for students
Dec. 19th-Jan. 3rd
Holidays
Monday, Jan. 4th
School Re-opens

STPSB Calendar 2009-2010 School Year