3rd Quarter Happenings

Many exciting things have been happening at St. Pius School this quarter and the best is yet to come!  Our 3rd Quarter started off with the students learning to multiply larger numbers!  I think they amazed themselves at how quickly they caught on to this difficult concept!  We are now learning long division and, once again, the kids are tackling the challenge and doing a fantastic job!

We just ended an exciting Catholic Schools Week at St. Pius.  On Monday, the kids had pajama day and a read-in.  Building blanket forts in the classroom is always a ton of fun!  On Tuesday, we had Spirit Day and the kick-ball and volleyball competitions between the classes.  Room 4-11 beat us by one run!!  It was a very exciting game and the kids really exhibited great sportsmanship!  Wednesday was CRAZY day!  The kids had funky hair and clothes (so did Mrs. P!).  Thursday we celebrated Mass and our wonderful Priest, Deacon, Mr. Jerry, and Mrs. Seward.  In the evening we had a Book Bingo and yours truly was the MC (don't give me a microphone!!).  We wrapped up Catholic Schools Week with Camp Day!  The kids dressed in camp gear and we played camp games and had a sing-a-long with the entire school!  It was a fabulous way to wrap up a great week that celebrated Catholic Schools!!

Lent is beginning this Wednesday and we look forward to Stations of the Cross every Friday at 2:15. This is a wonderful way to walk with Jesus and remember the Passion of Jesus as a faith community.

There are a lot of exciting things still to come in the 3rd and 4th quarters...stay tuned!

Christmas 2014

Our Christmas Party was a blast!  After our Secret Santa gift exchange (which I think was a secret) the kids made ice cream sundae's, played Candy Cane bingo and made ornaments!  

Happy New Year, 2015

I can't believe we are finding ourselves at the onset of another year and the 3rd Quarter of the school year!  The 3rd Quarter will prove to be exciting in Room 12!  We will be starting 2015 by exploring our Solar System and learning multi-digit multiplication and long division!  We will also be participating in the school Geography Bee.  At the end of January we will be celebrating Catholic Schools Week with special dress days, competitions, and special events in the classroom.  In March we will be taking a field trip to The Henry Ford!  I would like to wish all of you a Healthy and Happy New Year and would like to thank all of you for making the first half of our school year fantastic!!

October Happenings

I cannot believe that we are already into the month of October!  We have gotten off to a wonderful start in the 4th Grade!  We have been learning about matter and the different properties that matter has such as buoyancy, density, and solubility.  We will now be moving onto heat transfer!  We are getting ready to write our first narrative piece in writing, learning about democracy in Social Studies, and stepping in to large digit addition and subtraction in math.  This month we will be participating in the annual Jog-A-Thon.  This is such a fun event and a huge fundraiser for our school!  We will be wrapping up the 1st quarter (unbelievable!) in a couple of weeks!  The new fourth graders have done a fantastic job getting settling into 4th grade and taking on all of their new challenges!  We will wrap up the month with our Halloween parade & Minute to Win It party!!

Welcome to a New School Year!!

I can't believe we are already into the 2014-2015 school year!!  The year got off to a great start!  We are all getting to know each other and how the 4th grade classroom works. The 4th graders are excited to be able to take part in Student Council, the Spelling Bee, the Geography Bee, Honor Roll, and Altar Service this year!!  We will partake in field trips such as the Imagination Station, the Henry Ford, and the MJR Theater.  We also do special activities in the classroom such as The Thanksgiving Fowlies and Tiger Day.

I look forward to meeting all of you at Parent Night.  I am sure that, together, we will have a Fabulous Fourth Grade year!!

Is it the fourth quarter already???

I cannot believe that we are already entering the 4th quarter of the school year!  So many exciting things have been happening in the Fourth Grade classroom that time has just flown by!  Speaking of flying by....our Painted-Lady Butterfly larvae have arrived!  The larvae have begun forming their chrysalises and should emerge just in time for Easter!  What a wonderful way to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus!  We also have lady bug larvae this year.  We are so excited to see the metamorphosis of both of these insects!  In this last quarter we will be venturing to the MJR Theater to view the Disney Earth Day movie, Bears.  This will be a wonderful outing for the children!  We will also be having a Tiger Day in which we play baseball, eat hot dogs, and have cotton candy!!