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Mrs. Emond has been teaching at St. Christopher School for 9 years. She started teaching as a 5th grade homeroom teacher, where she taught science to 5th and 6th grade. Then she became a 6th grade homeroom teacher, where she currently teaches math to the 5th and 6th grade.

Mrs. Emond grew up in various cities throughout the US and Germany, until her father was stationed in Massachusetts, settling in Nashua, NH. This was a fortunate turn of events, because it brought Mrs. Emond to St. Christopher’s, first as a member of the parish and second as a teacher. Mrs. Emond graduated from Keene State College, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish.

January News

As we welcome the New Year, we realize that the class of 2012 has finally reached their year. It won’t be long before they are promoted. Keep the tissues handy!

January is filled with many activities that will keep us busy all month long. We have our Open House mass on Sunday, January 8^th to help us start our month off on the right foot. We will close the month with our Catholic School’s Week (CSW) mass on January 30^th. 6E will prepare the CSW mass with our buddy class, 1M. 6E has the important role of guiding 1M through the presentation of the mass. This will be their very first mass. We are also collecting items for Corpus Christi as a service project for CSW.

Weekly Spelling Lessons this month include 15, 16, 17 and 18. They are all on www.spellingcity.com except for 18, which consists of lessons 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Along with our weekly spelling lessons, students will participate in mini-spelling bees to earn a spot in the school spelling bee, which will be held on the Monday, January 30^th.

In Religion we look forward to another visit from Sr. Marilyn, our adopted sister, on the 4^th. During her last visit, she shared pictures of her trip to World Youth Day which took place over the summer in Spain. We have also started the annual Catholic Daughter’s Contest. Every year students from grades 4 through 6^th participate in a contest and create works of art, poems or essays. The students in 6E are creating illustrations. We usually have several local winners from St. Chris. All work for the contest must be done in school. We continue to study the Israelites and their early leaders.

In Math Miss Cooper, our student teacher, is wrapping up her last few days with us. The fifth grade is doing a unit on various graphs, statistics, and data. Then they will start their decimal unit. They will begin the unit with decimal sense and place value and finish it with adding and subtracting decimals.

The sixth grade is finishing their first of three fraction units. They have been working on fraction sense, greatest common factors, least common multiples, simplifying, and divisibility rules. They will be comparing, ordering, and relating fractions to decimals. Their second fraction unit involves adding and subtracting fractions and mixed fractions.

Our January book report genre is Historical Fiction. We will have a “story quilt” book report at the end of the month. The book is read at home, but the report is completed in school. We continue reading our weekly stories from our literature series. Lob’s Girl, Amitabh, The Ch’i-lin Purse, and Thunder Butter are our selections this month. We read the stories in class, have class discussions throughout the week, and take a test every Friday. I highly encourage the students to reread the selection Thursday night just to keep it fresh in their minds.

Skiing starts this month for those who signed up. Here’s hoping for a mountain covered with snow!

Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2012 is as great as 2011!

Sr. Marilyn Visits

Sr_Marilyn Sr. Marilyn, our adopted Religious, came by for a visit today! She brought with her slides of her trip over the summer to World Youth Day in Spain. What an amazing trip it was...and we are so happy that she shared it with us!

Christmas Wishes…

“But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom” (Isaiah 11:1)

We have kicked off our Advent season with a focus on the Jesse Tree. The Jesse Tree is a pictorial representation of the genealogy of Jesus’ family. It begins with Jesse, King David’s father, and continues to Jesus. The sixth graders are creating their own Jesse Trees and they will be on display outside of 6E.

We will hear the words: Peace, Waiting, Hope, “The Coming”, Preparing, Anticipating, and Joyful Expectation throughout this Advent season. We are waiting for the arrival of the Prince of Peace, Jesus.

Literature has us preparing for Christmas with “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. We read a six scene condensed version of his very famous play. The children focus on peace, kindness, and goodwill. For our December book report we will practice reading aloud a children’s storybook. Students will work on reading aloud clearly, loudly, and with expression. Their actual book report will be to read their story to their buddies in 1M.

In Spelling we will test on Lessons 11, 12, 13, and 14. All lessons except 12 can be found on www.spellingcity.com. Lesson 12 is a review of Lessons 8, 9, 10, and 11.

Our student teacher, Miss Anna Cooper from Rivier College, will be teaching all four math classes. The fifth grade students are working on a recipe project involving adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions and mixed fractions. Miss Cooper is teaching fractions using notes, practice, and interactive games. Step-by-step, as they learn a new skill, they will add a piece to their project. The sixth grade is finishing the integers unit with a “Connect-the-dots” project in which they graph their own design of an animal on the coordinate plane and list the coordinates to recreate the animal. The sixth grade will begin a fraction unit with divisibility rules, prime numbers, greatest common factors, and least common multiples. These skills will help them add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed fractions into simplest form.

Please continue to drill your children daily on their mathematical facts. They are an essential part of every lesson we do. Without having them memorized, they will find it difficult to perform more complicated tasks.

Don’t miss the sixth grade prayer service on December 23^rd at 9:15 AM. 6E will be preparing this event. Have a Blessed and Merry Christmas holiday!

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