The Bulldog Barks
May 24, 2017
Principal Mr. Tush
Reds Night is tonight, Monday, May 24th. Our 5th -8th grade singers will be riding a bus to the event, then released to their parents after they sing. Singers should be at school in their Reds shirts and beige pants by 4:45 p.m. The bus will leave school at 5:00 p.m. We look forward to a very special night for our students.
Our 8th grade graduation will be this Wednesday, May 26th at 7:00. Thank you to Katie Lynch Lewis for organizing the reception that follows.
Thank you to all who were involved in making Teacher Appreciation Week so special for our teachers and staff. A big thanks to Ann Hutchinson for organizing the week and everything else she has done for us as P.T.O. President.
School will not be in session this Monday, May 31st so families may celebrate Memorial Day.
Please return registration packets as soon as you can so that we can start preparing for the 2010/11 school year.
Have a great week!
Kindergarten Mrs. Denning
Thank you to our St. Mary's PTO, and our school parents, for all of the treats that were given to the teachers and staff during Teacher Appreciation Week. We all appreciate your kindness and generosity.
In phonics this week we will be working with combination or (keyword-fork), combination er (keyword-butter), and we will learn rule vc'/cv; in words with two vowel sounds, we must separate the vowels into syllables before we code them. We will also get our last two "pop-up" words- want, give.
In math we will be identifying halves and fourths, and doing addition and subtraction number sentences.
Grade 1 Mrs. Hurst
The 1st graders will be participating in our school Mass this Wednesday. Please come and join us in church at 8:30am.
In Phonics this week the students will learn suffixes -er and -est. They also will learn combinations ar (as in dollar) and or (as in doctor) and scribal o (as in sponge). Our sight words this week are: buy, taste, busy, only. We will have a sight word test next Friday. A list of words that will be on the test will be sent home this week.
Grade 2 Mrs. Grove
Our high school pen pals are coming to St. Marys tomorrow morning to meet us. We cant wait!
If any parents have digital pictures from the 2nd grade, wed like to put them in the yearbook. We dont have any from First Communion! Email them to suzy.rice@mystmarys.com. Thanks!
Grade 3 Mrs. Rector
We had a great time with our pen pals last Thursday at lunch. It was fun to finally meet the people we have been writing to all year. Thanks to Pat Wright and Jenny Miller for sending in delicious desserts and to Shannon Perry for helping us at the picnic. We made small bags and notebooks to give our pen pals. Thanks to RSVP for organizing the pen pal program this year. It was a very worthwhile experience.
We are getting close to the end of the year, but were not there yet! We still have work to do these last few weeks. We started literature circles today. We will finish our Social Studies book this week and will start a special unit on the United States for the last two weeks of school. Book projects are also due by June 7. Many have completed their second project and are working on the third.
Grade 4 Mrs. Meyer
Students need to keep working on their book report projects. Not many projects were turned in last week. All projects, a total of 4 for the quarter, are due Monday, June 7. Please do not wait until the last minute.
Students will be writing and practicing their monologue for the Famous Hoosier Wax Museum this week. We finished our chapter on slavery and the Civil War. The Indiana History test will be this Wednesday, May 26.
On Tuesday morning, students will get to meet their high school pen pal they have been writing to throughout the year. Have a good week! Happy Graduation to the 8th graders!
Grade 5 Mrs. Baker
Thank you to everyone who made Teacher Appreciation Week so wonderful! Everything was great!
We are working hard on our Literature Circle projects. These projects are due June 2nd. Students are working on these projects with their reading group. A lot of the work will be completed here at school, but some will need to be done at home. We have some very creative fifth graders!
We have started our space project in science. Each student will need a regular size poster board. Students have chosen a topic about space that interests them. They are required to have a poster and model of their topic. These projects are due by June 4th.
Keep reading. The last day for AR projects is June 4th! Great job to everyone who has already completed all four projects! Wow! Have a wonderful week!
Grade 6 Mrs. Rice
Tonight is the Reds game. Be sure to wear your reds t-shirt and khaki pants. Be at school by 4:45 tonight. The bus leaves at 5:00.
We need pictures from First Communion, golf, cross country, track, boys basketball, and anything else you would like to contribute. Yearbook orders are being taken now. Yearbooks will arrive at the beginning of school in August.
The 6th grade has a math test on Thursday. The 8th grade ECA algebra test is on Tuesday and Wednesday. Have a great Memorial Day weekend.
Grade 7 Mrs. Powell
We have a busy week ahead. The Reds game is tonight. Students must be here by 4:45. The 8th grade graduation will be Wednesday at 7:00.
The 6th and 7th grade will be doing a vocabulary review over units 11-15 with tests on Friday. The 7th grade is reading Anne Frank and will start waves in science. In English we are working on a writing assignment. The 8th grade is working on a fairy tale newspaper and a writing assignment. They will also be working on vocabulary, but they will not have a test this week.
Please remind your student to stay focused; we still have plenty of work to do!
Have a great week!
Grade 8 Mrs. Birkholtz
Graduation is finally here! The students are very excited. The graduation mass begins at 7:00 PM on Wednesday. Students should be in my room no later than 6:45 PM. I will have the room open by 6:30 PM. A reception will follow in the Activity Center, and we hope to see you there. A huge thank you to Mrs. Katie Lynch Lewis for chairing the reception. The 8th grade and I greatly appreciate it!
The 6th graders are covering the United Kingdom in social studies, and they are continuing to read from their reader in Reading. In English, we are working with pronouns. The 7th grade is testing over Japan and Korea this week. Their China projects are due this Friday.
Thank you to the PTO for a wonderful Teacher Appreciation Week! The lunch was delicious, the flowers are beautiful, and the sense of community of our school, priceless!
Vacation Bible School Mrs. Meyer
VBS begins June 21, 2010. If you would be willing to help get supplies together and/or help set up the activity center, please call Carolyn Meyer at 926-0060. We hope to make this a fun filled time of learning for the youth of our parish, but we cant do it without you.
Cafeteria Volunteers
5/25 Laurie Gray, 5/26 Marge Waldon, 5/27 Anna Townsend, 5/28 Katie Lynch Lewis, 6/1 Tina Weber, 6/2 Marge Waldon, 6/3 Cathy Hill, 6/4 Beth Fairfield, 6/7 Chris Kent, 6/8 Laurie Gray, 6/9 Marge Waldon, 6/10 Help Needed
Playground Volunteers
5/25 Marianne Weir, 5/26 Moe Roessler, 5/27 Ann Hutchinson, 5/28 Deb Lischkge, 6/1 Susan Leder, 6/2 Meghan Oatman, 6/3 John Hill, 6/4 Beth Daugherty, 6/7 Ann Hutchinson, 6/8 Marianne Weir, 6