January 29, 2010

From Mr. Bilbe:

We would like to thank our many parent volunteers for their efforts with our Festivals Around the World. Our preschoolers enjoyed the experience of visiting the different countries. Festivals is a great tradition at Kehoe-France and would not be possible without the help of our parents and teachers.

Please be reminded that students must be fever free for 24 hours before they can return to school. This also applies if they student leaves school in the middle of the day due to fever/sickness. This helps to prevent spreading of anything contagious that is going around.

We also would like to remind you that students are not allowed to carry any type of medication in their bag or on their person and if there is a medication they need to take during the day, please ask Erin for the medication form. This must be filled out so that we can administer the medicine. Once again we will be enforcing the policy of not administering medications without a form. If your child comes to the office and needs medication, we will call you to bring and administer it to them.

Our basketball season for our middle school teams came to end this week. We would like to thank our coaches for their hard work this year in working with our students. Thanks to those students and parents who made the commitment to be a part of athletic program.

To the families of our students:

We recently entered into a unique arrangement between our school and Special Olympics Louisiana to offer ScholarWisetm: A $120,000 Scholarship Trust Giveaway. Benefiting Special Olympics Louisiana, ScholarWise gives students and families in greater New Orleans/greaterSouthwest Louisiana/greater Baton Rouge the chance to win a $120,000 scholarship trust, which may be used to pay for any qualified educational expense for learners of all ages: from pre-K to post-grad to adult continuing education. Funds may also be used to retire student loans.

As a Premier Partner School, we earn $25 from every ScholarWise ticket purchased by you, a family member, or friend of our academic community. Simply provide our school name on the order form or give it to the representative who takes your call. Kehoe-France will be donating our $25 per ticket back to the Special Olympics. Net proceeds from the program support the worthy mission of Special Olympics Louisiana.

You can help your student enjoy an academic future relieved of financial pressure while supporting the Special Olympics Louisiana. It's a remarkable opportunity to help your student, our school, and a richly deserving organization like Special Olympics.

Tickets cost $125.00. There are three ways to order:

· Use the mail-in form and follow instructions to mail directly to Special Olympics Louisiana (will be sent

home next week as soon as we receive them)

· Order online at www.myscholarwise.com

· Call 877-324-2010 with any major credit card

Tickets are limited, and I encourage you to reserve yours today.

Registration for the 2010-11 school yr.

Please remember to send in your registration by the end of this month. We will accept new students starting Feb. 1st. Should you have questions or concerns please call or see Lori Molinary in the school office 892-4415.

The Uniform Shop: Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7:45 - 9:00.

Link to calendar page: Please go to below link for instant reference to all Kehoe-France Northshore upcoming events and activities.

http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/calendar.php?

Highlights of our classes:

PP2: Our theme next week will be:Mardi Gras! We will review letters A-P, review numbers 1-8, shape square and Mardi Gras colors-purple, green & yellow.Some of the activities the children will enjoy are: decorating a King cake with colored sand, making a hand print crown, painting with beads and decorating their Mardi Gras t-shirts. The children will do the second line dance with scarves and playing instruments to Mardi Gras music.

A few reminders for the week are:

* Mon., Feb.1- Open enrollment begins.

* Mon., Feb.1- Valentine's Day cards due

Don't forget to refer to our Homework Hero web pages for much more detailed information from PP2A and PP2B!

PP3; We had a perfect week with the letter P! The children did many letter P activities; such as, wearing pajamas, making a penguin, painting polk a dots on a pig, and making a pig out of hearts. We also continued our unit on the number 8, and reviewed the heart and the color Purple. Our theme was pets and the children enjoyed making a pet collar and talking about their pets.

This week was also special because it was festivals week. The children all had a wonderful time learning about Jazz Fest, Italy, Japan, Russia, and Holland!

PP4

Feb. 12-Preschool Parade (10:00 dismissal) Now is a good time to start thinking about how you and your child may want to decorate your wagon. You may choose to decorate it in a Mardi Gras theme, or you may want to follow the theme when decorating.... We will make T-shirts in class to wear on this day, but your child may wear a hat/headband that goes along with the theme. Your child MAY share a wagon with a sibling or a classmate. Please let me know if you have any questions!

KDG:

Tuesday, February 2
-Groundhog Day-Please check the news to see if the Groundhog sees his shadow before school.
-Each child may bring a stuffed bear to school.

Monday, February 8 No School in honor of the Saints' victory!

Thursday, February 11 we will celebrate Valentine's Day. Each student is allowed to bring Valentines and/or a small piece or pack of candy as long as every child in our class gets one. It is optional. Please remember gift bags are not allowed to be given out. Your child may put names on his/her Valentines. Beware- writing Valentines is a very time consuming project for your child but good practice for writing. I would start now. Reading the names while giving out Valentines is good practice for reading.

1st: : In Reading, we will work on words with r controlled vowels ar, or, er, ir, ur. Also, we will review drawing conclusions, identifying main idea, describe setting, compare/contrasting texts and understanding characters. In Language, we will be studying adjectives. In Math, Ms. Guidry will begin the unit on Fractions. Mrs. Miller will continue the unit on Recognizing Patterns. In Science, we will conclude the unit on Observing Trees.

2nd: MATH:

Mrs. Brandy- Multiplication/Division

Mrs. Lindsey - Telling Time/Review

LANGUAGE ARTS: This week we will continue our second novel, Mr. Popper's Penguins. The students will have a vocabulary test on chapters 11-15 on Friday. In language we will be learning about past tense and irregular verbs and alliteration. We will also look at main idea again. In writing we will continue writing our personal story and learning more lowercase cursive letters.

SCIENCE: Birds

3rd:

Spelling - Unit 23 Homophones

Language - Chapter 17 Irregular Verbs

Reading - "The Cat Who Became a Poet"

4th: Throw me something mister! We are loving having the King Cakes on Fridays. We started out with Mason and David, then Skylar and Tanner, now Tess and Mackensie. Who will be next?? We will be enjoying some Mardi Gras float word problems in math classes next week. They are quite challenging.

In science we are finishing the animal kingdom by studying the invertebrates. The students should be well into the research for their 20 fact project.

Language is a continuation of tenses of verbs. We will concentrate on past tense.

Spelling unit 22.

Mrs. Aufrecht's math class is starting chapter 7 and will be multiplying by tens and 2 digit x 2 digit.

Mrs. Woods' math class is working on improper fractions and mixed numbers.

In reading, a new novel will begin next week. We will be reading The Whipping Boy together.

The American Revolution aftermath is being discussed in social studies. The U.S. is now independent from British Rule.

Geaux Saints!!!

Middle School:

Middle School Language & Literature (Mrs. Wilson): 6th and 7th grade classes are continuing to work on their research papers. Due dates have been posted on the Homework Hero page for my class. Students should continue to research for their paper. I have reminded them that they must have enough information for a five paragraph essay. Outlines are due next Friday, February 5 in class. Students are continuing their chapter on agreement in class.

6th grade Literature classes are continuing The Story of King Arthur, a legend. We will complete this reading during the upcoming week and will begin the project on the Middle Ages. Students will present this project in class on February 10th and 11th.

7th grade Literature classes are continuing the unit on poetry. Students have penned their own poems, which they can use in the project due on Thursday, February 11. I have reminded them that they should be deciding which poems will go into their booklet at this time since the due date is quickly approaching.

Middle School Math: (Mrs. Holsten): Jr. Beta Club: The Jr. Beta Club Induction ceremony for new members will be February 4th at 2PM in the gym.

7th grade: Reminder - Bring pictures for the end-of-year video to Mrs. Holsten.

Middle School Math:
Pre-Algebra - Solving decimal integer equations (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
Math 2 - Ratio, rate, change of rate(slope)
Math 1 - Dividing mixed fractions (multiply and divide fraction variables)
Math 5 - Fractions, factor trees, prime and composite numbers, GCF, multiples

Go SAINTS!!!!! WE are going to the SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!

Middle School Language and Literature (Mrs. Dieudonne'): The fifth grade floats that were brought in earlier this week were amazing! The faculty and students have had the opportunity to stop by and see their great work. We are finishing writing the essays that accompany their floats. We are fine tuning writing skills and learning how to construct a multi paragraph paper. The floats will be placed in the library later next week for anyone to view. In Literature, the students will be tested Monday on the three short stories we have covered this past week. We will then begin an in class Mardi Gras unit that will require the students to design their own Krewe's, masks, and signaure throws. They will also be researching topics and presenting their findings to the rest of the class. In sixth grade, we will continue working on chapter 8 in Language. We will also be finishing Part III of King Arthur and the students will be tested Thursday.

Middle School Science (Ms. Sciortino)

Middle School Social Studies (Mr. Tate):

Student Council Meetings: February 5th

Link to calendar page: please visit our web page calendar for all sports practice and game times.

http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/calendar.php?

Sports Happenings:

Soccer has started! Please see the soccer page and the school web calendar for practices and games. Emails will be sent as well with updates and any changes.

Track Practice - Tuesday and Thursday - Feb. 2 and 4 for grades 5-7. Please return permission slips as soon as possible.