Week of 10/15

Special thank you to Michael Salgado, Margaret Quantick for

serving at Friday’s Mass.

The 8th grade had an amazing day on Friday at their leadership Monday, October 23rd: Lions Club Vision
retreat at the Franciscian Life Center. Screening (Grades K, 1, 3, 4 & 5);
Tuesday, October 24th: Middle School
Thank you to the parents that came in for conferences. We know Dress-Down Day for Halloween Candy for the
there were limited spots. If you would still like a conference please Halloween Party;
contact your child’s homeroom teacher. Wednesday, October 25th: Pre-K to Grade 5
Dress-Down Day for Halloween Candy for the
Congratulations to our SBS Soccer team! They won their first game Halloween Party;
of the season this afternoon against East Shoreline Catholic Middle School field trip to Boston Museum of
Academy with a final score of 4-2. Go, Saints! Science;
Thursday, October 26th: School-wide Rosary
Please see the attached notices from Mrs. Hansen. (K-8) in the church from 9:00am-9:50am;
Friday, October 27th: School Mass (9am) and
Please make sure that permission slips for The Lion, “The Witch HSA Halloween Party (6-9pm);
and the Wardrobe” at St. Paul Catholic High School are returned Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween Parade at
with $12 as soon as possible. 1:30pm (Pre-K 3 to Grade 3).
Wednesday November 1st: School Mass (9am)
Next week is our field trip to the Boston Museum of Science. Friday November 3rd: Early dismissal; School
Please arrive on Wednesday at 6:50 AM, as the bus will leave dance (more to come on this!)
promptly at 7:00AM. We will return to the school around 6:30PM.

PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Please contact Marisa Martins

at [email protected] or Michele Gerace at
[email protected] if you are able to assist with the
Halloween Party.

Gentle reminder: when your child(ren) is/are absent from school for
illnesses, appointments or vacation, please remember to contact
the Main Office at [email protected], the school nurse,
Mrs. Connolly, at [email protected] and the homeroom
teacher(s) so the necessary individuals receive the same
information in support of your child(ren).

Mrs. Kreager
This week in math Grade 6 will be Grade 6 science has started a new unit on
reviewing concepts from Chapter 1, using Mountain Building. We have been learning
decimals, and negative numbers, as well about how rocks fault and folds.
as order of operations and mean, median Grade 7 science continues to learn about
and mode. Grade 7 and PreAlgebra will cell organelle function and structure. The
continue equations, entering 2-step 3D cell models will be due to school on
equations, and taking a quiz on single step Monday, October 30th.
equations. Algebra students will continue Grade 8 science is learning about the five
working through inequalities, they will have states of matter and our 3D box will be due
a quiz on single step inequalities and move on Friday, October 27th
on to multi-step inequalities.
 7th and 8th grade have finished their first
essay. Next week they will be completing a special activity
- 6th Graders studied about early humans about justification before beginning their research paper.
populating the Earth. We will now begin our Literature:
exploration of early civilizations. 7th Grade has finished reading Al Capone Does My Shirts
- 7th Graders continued with Medieval and will be working on final projects next week, in class. If
they are making good use of class time, there shouldn’t be
Europe learning stations. Students need to any homework.
complete tasks at home that they did not 8th grade has read,annotated and discussed “The Lottery”
complete in class. They have been given a by Shirley Jackson; next week they will be completing
checklist. They will have a test on the some assignments to prepare them for their quiz next
Friday. Students should be studying vocabulary for
material the end of the week or beginning of homework. They should not be coming home with any
next week. additional homework, unless they need 5-10 minutes to
- 8th grade is finishing the period of finish a classwork assignment.
Jacksonian Democracy and will move on to **I will not be available on Thursday for extra help this
Westward Expansion. week. Students may drop in on Monday, Tuesday or Friday
morning.

Spanish: Literature: 7th Grade has spent time in class

6th grade has been learning about infinitives and exploring working on their Theme Worksheets and
cognates as a way to help learn new Spanish words. They Essays. 6th Grade students have been
have a vocabulary quiz on Tuesday on activities. working on their Ch 16-19 Review
7th grade has been learning about question words and has Questions.
been using their language skills in context to read an Language Arts: 7th Grade have been editing
advertisement and a calendar of events. They have a quiz their Personal Narratives and will finalize
Tuesday on question words. their drafts. 7th Grade Personal Narrative
8th grade has been reviewing question words and the verb Final Drafts will be due on Tuesday, 10/24.
jugar, as well as reviewing vocabulary for family members
6th Grade have also been editing their
and celebrations. They came up with a list of items needed
for a party, and a list of family members and friends they Personal Narratives and these will be
would invite. There is a quiz on the vocabulary on Tuesday. finalized and Due On Friday, 10/27.

Please reiterate with your children that they have

specific assignments in Language Arts and Math for
morning work and lab class. They shouldn’t be taking
those assignments home, adding to their homework
tasks. Their IRP books and assignments should be
coming to school every day, to work on when they are
finished with class assignments.

Please reiterate with your children that they have Please reiterate with your children that they have
specific assignments in Language Arts and Math for specific assignments in Language Arts and Math for
morning work and lab class. They shouldn’t be taking morning work and lab class. They shouldn’t be taking
those assignments home, adding to their homework those assignments home, adding to their homework
tasks. Their IRP books and assignments should be tasks. Their IRP books and assignments should be
coming to school every day, to work on when they are coming to school every day, to work on when they are
finished with class assignments. finished with class assignments.
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