February 12-February 16, 2024

2024 Family Auction Contributions

This year, please keep in mind that ALL Silent Auction Baskets and Extraordinary items MUST be turned in by February 28, or you will be asked to purchase $1,000 worth of items on the Amazon list to fulfill the February Auction Expectations.

OCTOBER:
Goal: Sign up for (3) bottles of liquor (Bring liquor in January to Ann Dunn’s house)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548A8AF29A4FA7-44421570-2024

NOVEMBER:
Goal: Obtain $250 in gift cards.
Please send gift cards to the office marked “Auction.”

DECEMBER:
Goal: Sell 25 $10 Raffle Tickets
All tickets are online at the link below. Please have your friends and families note your family name in the box when they purchase the raffle tickets. This will give your family “credit” for the tickets sold.
https://Acadstl24.givesmart.com

JANUARY:
Goal: Obtain 3 Ads/Sponsorships (See Donation Form)

FEBRUARY:
Goal: Obtain items for 5 Silent Auction Baskets
($150 min/basket) and 1 Extraordinary Item (>$250)
Click below to purchase items off the Amazon Wish List
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/OCL1222TGWW4?ref_=wl_share

MARCH:
Goal: Sell (2) $100 “Best of Live” Raffle Tickets
https://Acadstl24.givesmart.com

We can show love for God through our actions, being compassionate and kind to those around us. When we give children opportunities to spread kindness to others, it becomes crystal clear that they can improve the world.
Throughout the years, my mother loved helping in my classroom. A few years ago she suffered a brain bleed and hasn’t been the same since. She has missed getting to know my students. So, on Valentine’s Day, we took a field trip and serenaded her on her front porch. My mother loved seeing our beautiful students and hearing their beautiful voices! The children were allowed to be like one of our favorite book characters, Sally McCabe. Sally was the smallest girl in the smallest grade who started a chain reaction of kindness at her school. Everyone, no matter how small, can make the world a better place!

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On Wednesday, we celebrated Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. We learned about the meaning of the ashes we received and discussed the importance of Ash Wednesday to Catholicism and the Lenten journey we are beginning. We loved sharing Valentines and
creating compliment jars to show our love and appreciation towards our classmates! As wonderful as receiving a compliment feels, spreading kindness by giving compliments feels even better.

To celebrate Black History Month, our intermediate class has been learning about important people in the civil rights movement. This week, we learned about the life and contributions of Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. The story of Ruby Bridges reminded us how anyone, even young people, can make a big impact on our world! It was hard to imagine how challenging it would have been to go to school every day with no classmates and spread love despite being faced with hatred. While learning about Harriet Tubman, our class went on a virtual field trip through the Underground Railroad, where we saw safe houses and learned about the journey enslaved Americans had to take to reach
freedom.

This week, the detectives in our reading group worked on the mystery of the poisoned Valentine. This mystery required them to practice spelling, comprehension, inferencing, antonyms, word meanings, and rhyming. It was a challenging mystery, and our detectives worked incredibly hard and demonstrated perseverance throughout the case! In science, we focused on the wetland and grassland ecosystems, looking at the weather conditions and the plants and animals of each ecosystem. The students completed math centers to practice their skills for
measurement, equal groups, shapes, place value, and money.

This week in history we have been doing a deep reading of the Declaration of Independence to understand what the writers intended and how it relates to our current system of government.

The Revolutionary War has found its way to Redding! Our students came face to face with some harsh realities as the main character in our novel study was put into a few life-altering situations. We discussed how there were multiple perspectives on what “freedom” looks like and that the Revolutionary War was extremely multi-faceted. We will complete reading our novel in Groups 1 and 2 next week with Chapters 12-14. Group 1 will begin writing a book report and group 2 will begin reviewing for our Comprehensive exam on Thursday, February 29.

In Science, Groups 1 and 2 are beginning to put our research data into presentations for our Endangered Species Projects. These will be due on February 29. The main premise of this project was to learn the skills of finding reliable resources and pulling information from multiple articles, videos, and websites. We have also been practicing the importance of citations. This will help with future research papers and essays in
multiple classes.

Language Arts – Group 3 is continuing to read through the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead as well, with an emphasis on the main idea and three details. We will be reading Chapters 8-10 so they can focus on the following words at home:

Sedition
Slogged
Depreciation
Pigheaded
Decency

Science-Finishing up the Endangered Species slides in Google Classroom, and we will begin developing our very own board game as a class. The main idea is to encompass all of their chosen endangered species in a conservation adventure that will lead them out of the critically endangered zone and into the safe zone. They will encounter situations that put their species at risk, setting them back a few spaces, and players will draw cards from our conservation efforts that will help them reach a healthy population.

Writing-We have been doing typing.com. We also have been working on simple sentences on different topics.

Math-The students worked on individualized programs in IXL. We also have been working on individualized math worksheets from their math folder.

Independent living class-Discussed careers along with details about careers. The students also took an interesting inventory regarding careers.

Religion-Ash Wednesday and the beginning of LENT.

History-Continued learning about the branches of government and the role they play in our government.