K-4th grade Spanish

It is hard to believe that another school year is coming to an end! We are very busy finishing up vocabulary units, wrapping up projects and getting evaluations done! Thank you so much for sharing your children with me! It has been a pleasure to be their teacher. I pray for peace and relaxation for all our amazing students and their wonderful families this summer.

Dios los bendiga (God Bless) 

5th grade is finishing up Unit 3, Las Papas, and will have one final test the week of May 20th. Students were given a study guide and review material is posted in Google Classroom. It has been a pleasure to get to know the fifth grade students this year. I look forward to seeing them more frequently in sixth grade.

    Holy and Healthy Habits

Summer 2024

Family Faith Challenge

June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, while July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. We are also celebrating the YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST. Take time to attend all or part of a Holy Hour and reflect on how the Eucharist nourishes our body.

Family Fit Challenge

GET OUTSIDE! Enjoy the warmer weather & be physically active 60 min EVERY DAY! 

K-3rd PE Classes

• Apply the Gospel Values of Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Compassion, and Teamwork, to everything you do!

Pietra Fitness 

Walk or run

Ride a bike

Swim

Take a hike or walk around a zoo

Lawn/Backyard games

Play frisbee

Throw around a football

Kick around a soccer ball

4th-5th PE Classes

• Apply the Gospel Values of Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Compassion, and Teamwork, to everything you do!
• Skills: Classes this month have gotten to play a variety of “backyard” games. These games range from cornhole, bocce ball, giant jenga, and many more. These can be fun ways to get outside during the summer. We’ll end the school year with some fun team games and working on some frisbee skill work as well.

Have a blessed, safe, and active summer!

God bless, Mrs. Brumbaugh & Mr. Farris

Our kindergarteners have been wrapping up their year of art with some fun bug drawings. They were able to pick between 6 different kinds of bugs and they did a step by step drawing on their own. They are doing an awesome job! It’s a great way to end the year when they get to choose what they are creating and what kind of supplies they are going to use to color them!

Our 1st and 2nd graders have been wrapping up this year with a fun and BIG robot! They had the choice of making any kind of robot their heart desired:) We have robots made with construction paper, markers, oil pastels, paint, buttons, bows, etc. Many of their robots have a specific job. For example, many have money shooting out of their bellies!  Some have made their robot play their favorite sport, and one is an actual refrigerator that stocks everything they love! It’s been a creative process that has been so fun to watch them make!

Our 3rd and 4th graders are still working hard on their 2D projects for the art show. We will wrap those up the week before the show. Due to ILEARN, some of their art classes were canceled or moved. So, we roll with the punches and keep movin’ on. The 3rd graders are making really awesome gumball machines and the 4th graders are wrapping up their candy drawings. They all are doing such an amazing job!  I’m so proud of how they get right back into their projects when they walk through the art door!

Our 5th graders are wrapping up their 2D drawing project for the art show. They have made some super cool Pop Art Cakes in oil pastel. They were inspired by the famous artist, Wayne Thiebaud.  We talk a lot about him throughout the years in art.  We love him and his paintings make our mouth’s water.

Kindergarten students are finishing their year off as composers. They have been practicing reading and echoing simple patterns on xylophones and small percussion instruments. Students have been practicing writing simple patterns using both standard and non standard notation.

1st grade students have been practicing reading, playing and improvising Do, Re, Mi melodies. We will end our year by composing our own melodies for lyrics from the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear.

2nd grade students have been working hard to decode, improvise, read and write 6/8 rhythms. They have been exploring Do, Re, Mi melodies using xylophones and through reading standard notation. Students will compose simple melodic Do, Re, Mi phrases using standard notation.

3rd grade students have come a long way with their decoding and reading skills. They have been exploring Do, Re, Mi melodies on recorder and have begun composing their final compositions for recorder.

4th grade will finish their year learning about composing masters, John Williams and Lin Manuel Miranda. The students are also creating an original composition that they will perform on their recorder. This will bring an end to a wonderful year of growing and learning through music!

5th grade students have worked hard to learn fingerings and notation in the key of F. They will compose Do, Re, Mi, So melodies for recorder using standard notation.

Congratulations to the 5th Grade Beginning Band who played their final Band Concert of the school year at the Chris Wilson Pavilion. Students played three popular tunes: Ghostbusters, Star Wars, and Firework. These young musicians have grown immensely through music this year, and each person is an integral part of the Band Program. I pray they continue to experience the pride we all felt at this final concert. 

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Kindergarten – 3rd grade

The children are ending the year in the atrium with the celebration of Pentecost. We begin the celebration by acknowledging the special Church time period we are in. We then go on to proclaim that Jesus promised his disciples that, after he died and rose and ascended to the Father, another gift would be sent to them, the gift of the Holy Spirit. He also told them to wait in the city of Jerusalem until “power from on high” would come to them.

The readings we proclaim are Acts 2:1-4 for the Kindergarteners and Acts 2:1-11 for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders. We lift up the many images found in the text – “mighty wind and flames.” We also lift up the gift of the apostles speaking in many languages. We ponder what Good News they suddenly had the courage to proclaim. We also announce that with the coming of the Holy Spirit, we are invited to share in the gifts of the Spirit of the Lord proclaimed in Isaiah 11:2-3a. We light seven red candles, as we name the seven gifts – wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, the fear of the Lord and piety. We hear in John 16:24 “Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.” The children are then invited to prayerfully consider which particular gift they would like to ask for. It is very meaningful to the children as we light their candle from the particular red candle that signifies the gift they most want to receive. After the

lighting of the candles the children have the opportunity to respond through silence, spontaneous prayer and songs.

The Holy Spirit in our lives: As we enter into the summer months, how will we live well in light of the great gift we have been given through the Holy Spirit? How could we continue to allow ourselves to be transformed and also respond to that gift by assisting the growth of the Kingdom of God around us?

• Tune your ear to references to the Holy Spirit in Scripture passages and in the prayers of the liturgy.

• Do some research on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and then choose one gift each week, asking the Holy Spirit to stir up that gift within you, that he might help you to live as Christ in the world.

• Think of one way you and your family could live in service of others each month in the summer and then prepare by taking time together as a family to ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen you in your work.

4th grade religion has focused on the Beatitudes we have been defining each beatitude using skits, watching Douglas a very informative puppet, and Jared Dees's beautiful book Beatitales 80 Fables about the Beatitudes for Children.  

We will end the year with discussing the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. The last week of school the 4th graders will watch a movie about Mother Teresa. 

The students acted out the ascension this week.

5th grade religion Vatican Projects are due Tuesday May 21st! We cannot wait to see their creative approach to this assignment.

We are wrapping up the sacraments and the students role played the sacrament of reconciliation. Next week we head to the Vatican!