Week of May 16

Hello everyone.  This is a very busy week at St. Joe's.  The children are very busy and excited about VIP on Thursday and Friday.  We hope to see everyone there.  Please note that dismissal on Friday is at noon.  This week's reading story is John Muir and His Dog, Stickeen.  The genre is historical nonfiction.  The children are working on Spelling lesson 35, which is homophones.  In Language Arts we are continuing to study adverbs.  Hopefully, we will get a short quiz in before the end of the year.  We had a visit from Marine Corporal  Frank Zarate last week which was very inspiring and the children have been writing about his talk.  Again, Mrs. Schultz and Mrs. Carbone want to thank everyone for their support this year.  It was very much appreciated.  We hope to see everyone at the VIP parent show on Thursday morning at 8:30.  Your children have done a great job!

Mrs. Schulz
Mrs. Carbone

May 9

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day.  We have quite a few congrats to hand out in 4th grade.  Congratulations  to Mrs. Schultz's class in the "Learn Not to Burn"contest  by the Downers Grove Fire Department.  They will be presented with their award Tuesday, May 10th at 6:45 p.m. at the Village Hall.  Hats off to Mrs. Schultz and her class.  Megan Sluzas  won the essay contest and will have an article in the Sunday Bulletin on May 15th.  Congratulations to Megan.  The band contest was wonderful last week.  Congratulations to our band members.  On Wednesday, May 11th we will have May Crowning at 8:30.  We hope you can join us.  On Wednesday we will also have a visitor,  Charlie Dollard's cousin,  Frank Zarate.  Frank is a Marine home on leave and will talk to the children.  Thank you Frank, for coming to see us and for serving our country!!!!  We hope we did not leave anyone out.  Have a good week.

Mrs. Schultz
Mrs. Carbone

May 2, 2011

Happy May !    Where did the year go?  Mrs. Schultz and Mrs. Carbone want to thank you for your support this past year.  We truly appreciated it.   This week's reading story is GRAND CANYON, a realistic non-fiction.  As always the children will have a quiz on Friday as well as a Spelling test on Lesson 33.  Both classes have been busy with their orange Vocabulary books.   This week the students will be doing some creative writing about their plans for the summer.  We know they are already counting down the days..  Please continue with the book reports.  The month flies and they are all due on May 27th.  We hope you can join us for Mass on Tuesday, some of the fourth graders will be reading.  Also next Wednesday, May 11, at 8:15 is May Crowning,  Please join us if you can.  Lastly, progress reports went home today..

Thank you,
Mrs. Schultz
Mrs. Carbone