Confirmation Sponsor meeting tonight at 7pm in the hall

Mass at the church tomorrow

Ancient Greece: final quiz tomorrow

Music: history quiz Tuesday Feb.28

Art: all items for the confirmation crest project must be in for Thursday Feb.23

Stories due Monday Feb.27

Music: notation quiz tomorrow

Music: history quiz Feb.28

French Carnaval tomorrow! Wear blue if you are numbers 1-15, wear red if you are numbers 16-31!

Pancakes in the morning (10:40am) – not a meal, just a little snack!

Mass journals: thanks for all the journals today!
Service Hours: 10 hours due by March.16

Art: confirmation crest project items must be in by Thursday Feb.23; a big slot of time will be given to the students on that day to work on this project, if they don’t have their items then it becomes homework

FSA; last quiz, numeracy, on Thursday Feb.23

Ancient Greece quiz Thursday Feb.23

No school Thursday and Friday, teachers at the CEC conference downtown.

Socials: 8th and final station due Monday Feb.20

Ancient Greece quiz: Wed Feb.22nd, cummulative, study guide and hints given, many children took blank maps home today to practice on

Music: a slight change by Mrs Draayers; Feb.21 is a simple notation quiz, the history quiz is Feb.28 now

Art: confirmation crest project; all items to be used on this project must be in class by Thursday Feb.23rd at the latest (they can come in earlier and we can put them in a safe place). Parents your homework is preferred in by Feb.23, but the following Monday Feb.28 is fine too! Thanks!!

Math; short quiz on radius and diameter on Monday Feb.20

Mass journals due every Monday.

Confirmation  meeting (with your sponsor) on Tuesday Feb.21, 7pm in the hall. This is our last meeting and will wrap up about 8pm. Mass on Sunday Feb.26th, 11am at St Joseph’s.

Thanks and have a wonderful long weekend!!

Grade Four

Here are some of my favorite things about Grade Four. I like my teachers, science, L.A. Writing, and Speech Arts. I’m so lucky and blessed to have supportive teachers at Saint Catherine’s. They are always there to help me when I need them. I also like Science. We have studied animals from all around the world. It was interesting. Speech Arts is fun. We have learned a poem and perform in front of others. This is helping me with public speaking. My favorite subject is L.A. Writing. I love using my imagination to write short stories. E.S.

Students have received the criiteria for an independent research project on an animal’s behavioral and physical adaptations. This project will be due Friday, February 10.

Students have recently chosen a creature of B.C. to study. They have received a criterion to assist in completing this project. It will be due March 2. They will be required to report on their animal’s habitat, adaptations, food/prey, and environmental factors affecting their creature’s survival.

Students should have chosen  three out of five categories for St. Catherine’s Speech Arts competition. These categories include: poetry recitation, bible reading, character recitation, speech, and story telling.

Students need to be prepared to present their choices in April.

The Grade Four Class will also be performing “Jabberwocky” as a choric poem.

Peter Kreeft is a well-known Catholic apologetics writer. He is also a professor of philosophy at Boston College and in King’s College in NYC. In addition to being the author of more than 45 Catholic books, Peter Kreeft also contributes to several Catholic publications and is a dynamic speaker at conferences around the country. This month Dr. Kreeft is going to be speaking at the Abbey in Mission.
Here is the information which was printed in their newsletter yesterday:

“We would like to remind you about the January lectures by Peter Kreeft here at the Abbey and Seminary.  There will be two lectures  on Saturday, January 28, beginning at 10 am and finishing at 3 pm.

The theme for the Saturday lectures is: the Church and secularism.

Father Mark Dumont, OSB      Tel: 604-826-8975
Guestmaster                            Fax: 604-826-8725
Westminster Abbey
Mission BC  V2V 4J2
website:  http://www.westminsterabbey.ca/

Last Friday, January 13th, all students received a Mass Journal. One of the requirements for confirmation is completing 10 mass journal entried by the end of March. I strongly encourage students to purchase a missal to make this task easier. This will allow the students to concentrate during mass without scribbling down notes! It also gives them more time to reflect on the questions presented in their journals and give more meaningful responses. I will be checking these journals every week and tracking how many are completed.

The students are highly encouraged to turn in their mass journals every Monday.