Happy Third Sunday of Lent!  The Gospel reading today (Luke 13:1-9) about cultivating the ground around the fig tree so that it will bear fruit was a great reminder (as are so many Gospel readings) that we have to cultivate the ground around our metaphorical fig trees - our own, our students, their families, and each other. Thank you for doing all that you do to cultivate and enrich the soil in which we labor to grow our fig trees. (Now, of course, I want some Fig Newtons.)

 

Your student's report card was sent home in a kraft paper envelope on Friday!  Please sign and return the report card in the envelope. The green sheets were collected and "processed" with smiley faces, highlighter (it's your student's homework on Thursdays to get it signed!) and any other stapled items. I also attached a picture of the pretty flowers for my 56 and a 1/2 birthday!  Spring Uniform begins tomorrow!  Your student may now wear the navy shorts and shorts on the PE days!  Here is the uniform grid: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gpVDdNjYfVbQDEgsWT3Uc_OccNDjjgu9/view

For the third trimester: lots of gentlemen need fresh haircuts, no jewelry (way too many necklaces and bracelets these days - please remind your student keep them at home) and a refresher on what is and is not a "school shoe". (Hint: an all black shoe or a brown flat sole shoe works.)

 

Academic News:   

Sixth grade: We have three weeks to learn and do lots of new things before Easter Break!  In Reading 6, students are reading Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell and Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis. Book groups meet on Thursdays and your student is expected to participate. We get to keep going with Vocab in Action for List 10 and will assess on Friday, March 25th. We will begin List 11 on Monday the 28th and assess on April 8. (Then when we return from Easter we'll do Word Study.) Wednesdays are Blessed Reading Day since the book groups meet now on Thursdays. In LA 6, we will take the Adverb Unit 5 assessment on March 24. In Christ our Life Religion, we have started Chapter 14, God Forgives Us. 

 

Seventh grade:  We have three weeks to learn and do lots of new things before Easter Break as well!  In Reading 7, students are reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and Heat by Mike Lupica. Book groups meet on Thursdays and your student is expected to have been reading and is ready to participate. Now that the book groups meet on Thursdays, Blessed Reading Day is on Wednesdays. 

 

Have a wonderful, wonderful week!

 

Mrs. Morgan