December 12th 

We will be having a small Christmas Party on Thursday, Dec. 20nd , in the afternoon. We will have a gift exchange. A girl will buy a girl gift and a boy will buy a gift for a boy. Only put your child’s name on the gift. I’m not really sure of the cost of kids gifts so I will say, spend around $5.00 to $8.00. I understand money is really tight around Christmas, so if for some reason your child can not buy a gift please let me know and I can help out. I don’t want any child going home sad.


A few other dates to remember:

Thursday, December 13th K-8 Christmas Program – be here by 6:10 P.M. 

Monday, December 17th Baby Jesus Birthday Party – Please bring in a item for a baby.

Thursday, December 20th Christmas Store – If you would like your child to buy gift for family and relatives please send name tags and money this day.

Thursday, December 20th Classroom Christmas Party

October News

Here we are at the end of 1st quarter! Unbelievable! Where has the time gone? We have accomplished a lot since the first day of school. Religion we have talked about the Church Community and why it’s important to belong to a Church community. Spelling we have learned many new words that we use every day. I would like to thank the parents for helping your child with the at home activity sheet. It shows when they do the test. We have covered place value, odd & even, ordering, comparing, estimating, and rounding numbers. This week they started working with money. Next week they will be learning time in the minutes and seconds and elapsed time. In reading they have read stories about adventures and traditions. If your family has traditions that are passed on from generation to generations, please share them with your child. Language we have finished our first unit on sentences. I will expect complete sentences. A complete sentence has to begin with a capital letter, have a subject and predicate and end with some punctuation. We are working on nouns in the next unit.


I teach the 4th grade religion class so, Ms. Sukanen teaches 3rd grade Social Studies and Science. This is why you may not see their grade on Engrade for science or social studies. I you have not yet registered please do. You can keep up to date with your child’s progress.

You probably already have heard from your child that I have a student teacher from Northland College. Mark Pennell will be with us for the first semester. He has been teaching most the curriculum now. Within the next two weeks he will have total control of the classroom. I will be here supervising him and keeping an eye on the students.
If you have time please come join us for the Veterans Program at 2:00 PM on Nov. 12th. The 3rd and 4th grades are doing a musical skit. Please join us.

A few important dates coming up:
Nov. 6th end of first quarter
Nov. 7th movie night at the visitors center 6:00 PM - FREE
Nov. 9th early release
Nov. 12th Veterans Program
Nov. 13th McTeacher night 4 – 8 PM
Nov. 15th Parent/Teacher conferences
Nov. 21 – 23 No School – Thanksgiving Break

WOW! We’re back to school. What a wonderful group of students I have this year. They appear to be eager to learn. I have found out they are awesome in math. It should be a fun year. So far we have gotten through our beginning assessment for fluency reading, comprehension reading, spelling and math. Now I can look at where I need to go with these results.


This year I’m doing my grading online. Every family should have received their access code to Engrade. Please register and keep checking your child’s grades. I will not be sending home any grades throughout the quarter/year. Please contact me if you have not received your code.

The magazine sales started Wed., Sept. 12, 2012. Please help support the school raise money. This is one of the big fundraiser we do. Ask all your friends, relatives, and co-workers to purchase magazines from your child. If you know of anyone at an eye clinic, doctor clinic or someplace where they orders several magazines, please ask them if they would help support Our Lady of the Lake.
The back to school dinner last night was good. I was little disappointed that I didn’t get to meet many of my families, but hopefully you will stop in for a visit. I did have a nice visit with the two families that did attend. We had lots of food and a nice speech for the out going teachers and Ms. Sara and Mr. Bell. We will miss them all greatly. God bless them in their new adventures.

I’m looking for some bean bags or large pillows to be donated to my classroom. The students like to relax on them while silent reading.

I look forward to a wonderful year full of fun and exciting events.