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__WEEK OF__: 5/21/18 - 5/22/18
__** IMPORTANT DATES: **__
 * ** MAY 18 - NO MASS (Father Joe out of town with 5th grade trip to Cathedral in Sioux Falls.) **
 * **MAY 22** - Last day of School. __**BRING SACK LUNCH**__. 12:30 dismissal. Report cards go home.


 * __ANNOUNCEMENTS / REMINDERS__: **
 * **__Some pictures from throughout the school year are posted at the bottom. Take a look!__**


 * We said last fall how grateful we were to work with your children. We have cherished every minute of our time with your Kids of Christ and are so grateful to you for entrusting us with their care these past nine months! Our lives will be forever touched by their spontaneous love, joy and sparkling hearts - and especially their love of Jesus! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing them with us!!! May God bless you and your families with a wonderful summer!!!


 * ** A Scholastic Login to use for reading material over the summer was sent home. Email Mrs. Steele if you need the log in information again ** . This came as a challenge from the First Lady Linda Daugaard: "Knowing that nothing inspires like a little competition, I’m issuing a challenge to students across the state. I’m calling on schools to participate in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge, which is a free, 18-week online reading program designed to help students turn the “summer slide” into a “summer leap.” Next school year, the Governor and I will visit the school that logs the most Scholastic summer reading minutes and present that school with the winning plaque."


 * A summer book reading list and math/language arts calendar of activities will be included in your child's report card for you to use this summer. Research shows students who practice over the summer perform dramatically better in the fall of the next year. Please use the packet, have your child read and practice math to set him/her up for success in third grade! :)

__ **CURRICULUM FOR THE WEEK** __** __:__ ** __** RELIGION **__ We will talk about Sunday's celebration of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down from heaven and filled the disciples with the fire of God's love. Then, the Lord's disciples went out and preached the Gospel. We will identify this as the beginning of the Christian Church! As we said last week, it was such a beautiful experience to take our Kids of Christ to the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel in our building to pray in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Since then, our Kids of Christ have wanted to go back every day! We will honor their request next week before school is dismissed for the summer. You need to know that your Kids of Christ are powerful prayer warriors!! They have touched many hearts this year with their earnest and sincere prayers. One of the photos below is of Dedra Shaw, a good friend of Mrs. Madsen, for whom the children prayed all year. Dedra found out the first part of her cancer treatment has been successful and thanked the children for storming heaven for her by bringing a cupcake cross to class and sharing it with them. This is just one of the many people whose lives have been touched by your angels!

Next week, we will also continue reviewing all  the different ways we can pray to God: talking to God (praising Him, saying thank you, telling Him I'm sorry and asking for forgiveness when we sin, saying "I LOVE YOU!", etc.), singing, gesture and movement, simply saying and making the Sign of the Cross, etc. Earlier this week our Kids of Christ practiced using Sacred Scripture as a special way to pray (Lexio Divina). We read a Bible story (Jesus' healing of the two blind men.), prayed by silently pondering the words and then talked about what the Holy Spirit revealed to us through the scripture passage. Our prayer warriors learned that __//**listening to God**// //was just as important as talking to God//__ !

__**READING**__ Remember to have your Kid of Christ continue reading over the summer regardless of the type: newspapers, cookbooks, comics, picture books, chapter books, etc. The most important thing is that READ, READ, READ!



__**MATH**__ Please practice basic facts addition and subtraction facts this summer! Having them memorized and fluent by the beginning of third grade will make a big difference in how smoothly our mathematicians transition into multiplication and division - a big skill they will learn next year!

The **Fact Monster website** is just one great resource for practicing basic facts! With only a few weeks to go before our Kids of Christ need to have their facts mastered by the end of the year, I'm seeing a number of students who are still struggling with fluency. So, p lease keep working on those basic facts!

//** Please have your child work on IXL to keep their math skills polished. This is a very useful website for summer practice! **//

__**SCIENCE**__ Our scientists released the Painted Lady Butterflies, so they could continue their life cycle in nature! Next week, we will discuss all the amazing information they learned about how animals use adaptations to survive in different habitats. Please remind them throughout the summer: science is everywhere! :)


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__**WEEKLY SCHEDULE**__ __**MADSEN**__:
 * =  ||= **Monday** ||= **Tuesday** ||= **Wednesday** ||= **Thursday** ||= **Friday** ||
 * = **AM** ||= Computer ||= Mass, Music ||= Library ||= Music, PE ||= Mass, Computer ||
 * = **PM** ||= Computer, PE ||= none ||= PE ||= Art ||= Computer ||

__**STEELE**__:
 * =  ||= **Monday** ||= **Tuesday** ||= **Wednesday** ||= **Thursday** ||= **Friday** ||
 * = **AM** ||= none ||= Mass, Music ||= Library ||= PE, Music ||= Mass, Computer ||
 * = **PM** ||= PE ||= none ||= PE ||= Art ||= Computer ||

Thank you for sharing your children with us!

God bless,

// Mrs. Madsen (math and science) // // Mrs. Steele (language arts and social studies) // // 2nd Grade Teachers // // St. Joseph School // SS Peter and Paul Parents, Please plan on attending the Parent's Meeting for Reconciliation on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 7:00 PM in Good Shepherd Hall. Father will review reconciliation with you and give you the workbook that you and your child will be required to complete.a
 * // National Blue Ribbon School 2013 //**