CLASS NOTESMr. Cuttica

Thank you for your generosity once again with the monthly food drive. It’s been a busy week creating Native Drums, nature color poems, and making our “Bear Claw Necklaces!” We are really enjoying the various Native American legends we read and discuss. Our “centers” all revolve around our theme. The

Thanksgiving Feast is the culmination of our unit. We then will concentrate on Advent and various Christmas traditions, celebrations, and customs. We will also learn a bit about Hanukkah, the Festival of

lights that our Jewish brothers celebrate. God bless you all and Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 20-24Monday and Tuesday will be spent finishing up our unit on Native American Indian Culture. We will be reading about the Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving as well. We’ll be tasting Succotash, making tortilla teepees, and

enjoying the Thanksgiving Feast on Tuesday! We have Wednesday through Sunday off!

Week of November 27 – December 1READING: We will be reading the Anthology realistic fiction selection “Try Your Best” We are really working on fluent reading and various comprehension skills. PHONICS: We review the vowels and apply their sounds to our word work. We also study the r controlled vowel sound /or/ as in born. Continue blending sounds to decode new words when possible.SPELLING: Spelling words: cork, fork, corn, or, for, more, two, from, ring, hang. High Frequency Words are: be, good, Mr., try, need, time, our, right, saw.ENGLISH: We will continue our study of nouns, proper and common. Days, months, and dates will be covered.MATH: Our daily review includes skip counting, calendar work, concepts of before, after, between, addition and subtraction facts. Keep reviewing the “Doubles Rap” as well as the 5 Facts a Week! Please have the children practice counting by 2’s to 20? We continue our unit on Geometry and fractions this week. Geometry terms, plane and solid figures, as well as patterns will be discussed. We will be testing on plane and solid figures Thursday. MEMORIZE 5 FACTS A WEEK and keep adding to the pile!!!

Thanksgiving … Introduction to Advent and Christmas!Please see Ms. Streib’s class page for information about Religion, Social Studies, and Science!

IMPORTANT DATES

11/20 National Peanut Butter Fudge Day! 11/21 Mayflower Landed in 1620! World Hello day! ICCS Thanksgiving Feast. 11/22-26 NO SCHOOL 11/27 National Bavarian Cream Pie day! Bill Nye the Science Guy’s birthday! 11/28 National French toast Day! 11/29 C.S.Lewis Birthday! National Electronic Greeting Day! MASS today, not Thursday! 11/30 Feast of St. Andrew. Mark Twain’s birthday! National Mason Jar Day! 12/1 National Pie day!

NEWS n NOTES

Divine Mercy Chaplet, Tuesday 8:15AM in the church. Thanksgiving Feast Tuesday 11:45 for Grade 1 … you may sign out students after lunch if you choose. Regular

dismissal time! MASS Wednesday, November 29th at 8:15… dress uniform with sweater! NO MASS the 30th!

BOOK ORDERS DUE Friday, December 1st! (Think Christmas gifts!) PLEASE check the classroom website for updates and info! There are some helpful links for math and Reading

on there as well. PLEASE send in items form the list of needed materials? (Shortened list now … thanks!)

o Coffee containers (like Folgers with lids)o Tissue boxes (large rectangular)o Long shoe laceso Magazines (appropriate … to cut apart for pictures)

THOUGHT: Although Thanksgiving is a secular holiday … most Catholic Churches have a Mass that day. What a wonderful tradition to begin by attending Mass Thanksgiving morning to thank God for all our many blessings. Stop and brainstorm as a family all the things you have to be thankful for … beginning with Our Lady’s School! I am certainly thankful for my family both my biological family and my ICCS family! We are all so blessed!

Father all-powerful, Your gifts of love are countless and Your goodness infinite. On Thanksgiving Day we come before You with gratitude for Your kindness: open our hearts to concern for our fellow men and women, so that

we may share Your gifts in loving service. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one

God, for ever and ever.Amen.

Prayer to Saint Andrew the Apostle

Feast Day November 30

O Glorious Saint Andrew,you were the firstto recognize and followthe Lamb of God.

With your friend Saint Johnyou remained with Jesusfor that first day,or your entire life,and now throughout eternity.As you led your brotherSaint Peter to Christand many others after him,draw us also to Him.

Teach us to lead othersto Christ solely out of lovefor Him and dedicationin His service.Help us to learnThe lesson of the Cross

and to carry our daily crosseswithout complaintso that they maycarry us to Jesus.

Amen