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HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL REVIEW/PREVIEW November 7, 2011

Volume 4 Issue 1

Dates to Remember 11/7-Crab Feed tickets on sale NOW in the parking lot! 11/8-CSAC Mtg. 5:00 PM

From Our Principal Mr. Suarez: Think outside the Basket: Have any extra Baskets or containers around the house? Please bring them to the school office for the Crab Feed and Auction.

11/9-Fall Athletic Awards Banquet 6:00 PM 11/10-Parent Club Mtg. 8:15 AM 11/11-Veteran’s Day Holiday NO SCHOOL 11/14-18-Conference Week Min. Days all Week. Teacher meeting scheduled for Monday 11/14/11 11/17-Uniform Exchange 11:30-12:30 PM 11/18-Thanksgiving Mass 10 :00 AM 11/21-25-Thanksgiving Holiday Enjoy!

The week of November 14-18, 2011 is a minimum week with dismissal at 12:00 PM. WASC meeting is scheduled on November 14, 2011. Parent/Teacher conferences are scheduled for November 15 through 18, 2011.

First Trimester Honor Assembly will be November 28, 2011, at 10:00 AM in the church. Students in grades 4-8 with a GPA of 3.0 to 4.0 will be recognized and presented with a certificate. All parents/guardians are invited.

12/2-Min. Day Noon Dismissal 12/8-Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mass 10 AM 12/9-Parent Club Mtg. 8:15 AM 12/10-The 9th Annual HFCS Crab Feed *******************************************************

Holy Family Catholic School presents...Little Dribblers sign ups! We are currently accepting players in grades first through fourth. Please look for forms on the Holy Family School home page under student life/athletics -basketball/ Little Dribblers. Thank you and GO HORNETS! **********************************************************

The Holy Family See’s Candy Holiday Sale will start this week. This is a great opportunity to purchase a wonderful holiday gift while helping the school at the same time! Look for order forms coming home with your child on Wednesday. All orders will be due on Nov. 29th, so be sure to sell to all the family that you see over Thanksgiving break. All candy will be ready for pick up on Dec. 8th and 9th, in plenty of time for shipping to loved ones or giving as gifts. Thank you for your support! **************************************************** Dear Parents/Guardians: As the weather is getting colder lots of children are wearing their HFCS sweatshirts to school. As the day warms up, the children take their sweatshirts off and usually leave them where they are standing. This results in lost sweatshirts. Please take a moment to check your students sweatshirts to make sure they do not belong to someone else. If they do belong to a classmate, return to the teacher/ classroom. Otherwise put them in the lost & found box in front of extension. Thank you for your help!

Students in grades 6-8 will be required to wear school athletic shorts for PE. This new PE uniform shorts requirement will be in effect as of December 5, 2011. Parents have the option of ordering new PE shirts, but students may wear last year’s PE shirts. Please see attachment for PE uniform order form. Please complete the order form and return to the school office with your payment.

Holy Family Catholic School will be collecting various food items and donations for the Parish Thanksgiving Food Basket Program. Each student is asked to bring in one food item and donate $1.00. Each grade is assigned a specific food item. A food item list is attached. Thank you in advance to help those less fortunate.

CRAB FEED VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! We need a few more volunteers to help before, during and after the Crab Feed. Please contact the event chairs, Jennifer Barsotti or Shakay Mack for more information on the open positions. Get your points at one of the most fun events of the year! Jennifer Barsotti @ 765-9233 or Shakay Mack @ 300-9140. Thank you!

CLASSROOM NEWS PAGE 2 Mrs. Hernandez and Ms. Gina:

Mrs. Villamil:

Thank you everyone for ensuring your child meets the proper student uniform and personal appearance requirements. They may not wear any other sweatshirt other than their Holy Family sweatshirt. White or navy tights may be worn under jumpers. Jackets may be other colors but cannot be worn during instruction time. Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays, thus they need to have their PE shirt on those days. Thank you for your help in this matter. Parent teacher conferences will be held next week. If you haven’t already, please turn in your signed conference slip indicating that you can or cannot make our scheduled conference appointment. Student work, social progress, behavior, Report Cards and all assessments will be discussed. Please be on time, as conferences are back to back, in 15 minute increments. I have thirty-one conferences spread out throughout the week and must follow the schedule. Our Thanksgiving Party is on November 18, from 8:30-9:30am. All Parents and Grandparents are welcome to join our pie party. Thanksgiving vacation is the week of November 21, 2011. Please enjoy your family time and God bless!

Hello! This week will be a short but busy week for us. Remember that Friday, November 11th is Veterans Day and is a school HOLIDAY. I hope you all enjoy the upcoming three-day weekend! This week's Spelling words begin with consonant blends spl - thr- squ- and str- . Our Reading story is “Tops and Bottoms”, and we will be looking at singular possessive nouns and finishing up irregular plural nouns. The comprehension skill this week is to classify and/or categorize. We begin Chapter 6 in Religion this week, which talks about reconciliation and healing. In Science and Social Studies, we will be wrapping up and reviewing concepts in both chapters 1 as a class. Next week, (November 15 -18) begins our parent-teacher conferences. If you haven't already returned the appointment slip with your child, please do so as soon as possible so that I can confirm our meeting time. As always, I thank you for the help you give your child with his/her schoolwork. Lastly, I'd like to thank all the parents that helped out at our Halloween party, and for those families that provided our yummy treats! We appreciate all of you that made it possible!

Mrs. Chapman: A special thank you to Mrs. Schrader, Mrs, Jarvis, and Mrs. Vang, our classroom party planners. The Halloween Party was so much fun! Thank you to all parents for helping make this day a success. Parent teacher conference dates and times went home last week. Please let me know if you did not receive a notice.

Mrs. Remick:

This week’s Curriculum: Religion: The Last Supper Math: Addition/Subtraction problems, Place value. Science: Classifying animals Social Studies: Thanksgiving Phonics/Reading: Story: Life in the forest. Skills: Word analysis, words ending in ed.

This week in Language Arts we will be completing the Unit 2 Cumulative Review. In Religion, we will complete Ch. 10: Confirmed in the Spirit. Chapter 10 Religion test will be on Thursday. We will cover Ch. 5 Spanish California in Social Studies. We will also be working hard on preparing for our Age of Sail trip-learning how to tie knots, sing songs, and learning the vocabulary necessary for our trip. In your child’s VIP folder this week please find a packing list and other important information on our trip. 4th grade will be donating the gravy and $1for the Thanksgiving food baskets. Please send in your donation of packet or jarred gravy. Sydney Obmann is our Star Student of the Week.

Mrs. Sedgwick:

Mrs. Altobell:

Our classroom could use some more Dr. Seuss books for our afternoon buddy reading. If you have any books you would like to donate we would appreciate your generosity.

We have a very busy week ahead of us! We had our religion chapter 7 test today. Our story in language arts is a folk tale called “One Good Turn Deserves Another.” In spelling, we are working on the long a sound: a, ai and ay. In grammar, we are learning about possessive nouns. In addition to our regular language arts lessons, we are also reading the chapter book Flat Stanley. Our math lessons are about trading pennies for dimes, measuring to the nearest inch, adding 10 to a two-digit number and addition facts with a sum of 12. We will have our chapter 3 science test on Thursday, 11/10/11. Please remember that all homework will be due on Thursday and we will have our math, language arts and spelling tests as well. This week Nick LopezFournier is our Star Student. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at our parent/teacher conferences next week. Please do not forget to send in canned vegetables for the Thanksgiving Mass being held on Friday, 11/18/11. A note will be coming home soon with details about our Thanksgiving celebration. Have a wonderful week!

The Fifth Grade will be reading the narrative poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” this week. We will be working on the skill of sequencing, and focusing on subject verb agreement in grammar. Our spelling words have the final syllables of –or, -ar, and –er. We will take our weekly tests on Thursday. In Math, we will be working through lesson 42 this week, and will take a test on Tuesday. In Social Studies, we will take our Chapter 6 test on Tuesday. We will also be reviewing the western and Midwestern states in geography. Be ready for a test on the placement those 25 states on Wednesday. In Religion we are looking forward to planning the Thanksgiving liturgy for Friday, November 18th. In Science, we will finish up Chapter 7 on the solar system this week. Please remember to send in your stuffing and $1.00 for our Thanksgiving basket donations. Sell that See’s Candy! Have a great week!

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Mrs. Moniz: Dear Parents, I am very proud of the 6th grade’s presentation of the All Saints Day Mass! Such angels aren’t they? Thank you again to Mrs. Yearwood for all the planning help. Conference slips MUST be in today! They were due on the 4th and are needed so that changes can be made, if necessary. Remember that Conference Week begins on Mon., Nov. 14, and that we are on a minimum day schedule. The Thanksgiving Mass is Nov. 18th…it is time to start bringing in food to fill those baskets! Grade 6 is in charge of cranberry sauce; however, please feel free to bring in as many food items as you can! It would also be nice if all could bring $1 toward the purchase of turkeys (No, we are not purchasing your children…ha!). Thank you for always being so generous! Thank you also to our class moms who provided the Faculty luncheon last Friday...delicious! GRADE 6: Literature: “Aaron’s Gift” and “Water” exam Wed. Grammar: verb concepts…action/linking verbs. Vocabulary: Unit 4. GRADE 7: Literature: We are having very intuitive discussion of symbolism in our discussion of “Suzy and Leah”. Grammar: continuing verb study…predicate nominative/adjective. Vocabulary: Begin review units 1-3. GRADE 8: Literature: Continue discussion of Capote’s “Christmas Memory” and analysis of figurative language. Grammar: Adjective/ adverb study. Vocabulary: Units 1-3 review exam today. I will be out of town this Thursday. Mrs. Murray will be in and presenting special lessons to each grade! Jadon Fowler is one of our creative 6th grade souls. His humorous perspective and keen wit make me laugh! Humor is a sign of high intelligence, so I guess that makes him pretty smart! We are glad that Jadon is part of 6th grade!

Mrs Adamson: We had a very interesting guest speaker from Austria, 10-31 -11. Joseph, a cousin of Erika Bolen’s mother, was our guest. He spoke on their celebration of Halloween. Austria has only celebrated Halloween the past nine years. The children don’t dress up, but do go door to door asking for candy by saying, SWEET OR SOUR. He enjoyed our Halloween parade and took many pictures. He spoke about his work and answered questions. What a treat for us! Everyone enjoyed their visits to Jesuit and St. Francis, 11-311. Thank you to the parents who drove. Please send in the $10 for our Auction project. Conference slips are due back also. Thank you to Jaret, Katelene and Matthew for their fine job doing Safety Patrol the past weeks. Sarah is on this week. 8th grade is busy creating Aliens in Science class. Labs are scheduled for today in class, after school today from 4-5, and Wednesday from 3-4. The Aliens are due November 30th. The Yearbook Staff is meeting after school today from 3-4. History 8 has a Ch 4 TEST, November 15th. History 7 has a Ch 4 TEST, November 15th. History 6 has a Ch 4 TEST, November 17th. Science 6 is studying Earthquakes. Science 7 is studying Genetics.

Mrs. Biller: Art Please pray for Mrs. Biller and her family, her mother is ill.

Mrs. Patterson 6th Grade:

Mrs. Hendry: Thanksgiving Food Drive: I will send out an email with the details. 7th grade has been asked to donate Chicken Broth (can or box) and $1 per child to go toward the purchase of turkeys. Collection runs Nov 6-18. Thanksgiving Mass is scheduled for Friday, Nov 18th. Parent-Teacher Conference notices went out last week. If you have not signed and returned your notice, or contacted me to make other arrangements, please do so by tomorrow.

We just finished a test for lessons 21-30. It seems that we are moving along in our math curriculum. Multiplying and dividing decimals are the focus for this week. Make sure that your student is aware of the math labs on Tuesday from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. 7th Grade: Seventh grade will have a quiz on Wednesday of this week. We will be learning how to build a box-whisker plot and how to calculate percents with a proportion. There may be a test beginning on Thursday to be finished on Monday when they return from the three day holiday. 8th Grade:

Religion: Grade 6 will begin Ch.3; Grade 7 will begin Ch.4; Grade 8 will begin Ch.5

Math: Grade 7 will have a Test this Wednesday that covers Lessons 1-15.

Simplifying rational expressions and calculating in scientific notation is our focus this week. There will be a quiz on Thursday regarding rational expressions.

Special Note: Please remind your student of math lab every Tuesday from 3:00 to 4:00 in my classroom.