Room 4 News and Reminders

Holy Spirit School students will be learning more about Riley Hospital for Children this week. We have a guest speaker from Riley on Tuesday and students who donate $3.00 may dress-out in red tomorrow. Tomorrow during recess, all students will participate in a 15 minute Walk-A-Thon to promote healthy habits. Please encourage your child to make a small donation to Riley Hospital. We will be collecting all week.

BizTown Success

We had a great day at BizTown on Friday. The students received many compliments about behavior and how seriously they took their responsibilities at their jobs. We spend many hours of class time teaching the economic (Social Studies), communication and writing (Language Arts), and banking lessons (Math)that go with this Junior Achievement program. Thanks again to all our parents who attended, and especially our Room 4 volunteers: Mrs. Nagel, Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Spears, Mrs. Keith, Mr. Nagel, and Mrs. Conway. We appreciate your willingness to give up an entire day to help. Also, thanks to Mrs. McRanor for volunteering to help interview the students for their jobs.

Room 4 Valentine treats and BizTown

If your child plans on bringing Valentine cards or treats to our class party tomorrow, please send enough for everyone. We have 18 students in Room 4. Please do not let your child bring exclusive cards or gifts for individual students. Thank you. Only parents who have completed a Virtus session, and have an up-to-date background check will be able to go to BizTown. Please let me know as soon as possible if your plans have changed. Students will need to wear their school uniform on Friday. Students and adults will need to bring their lunch on Friday, or order a sack lunch from the Cafe. Snacks and drinks will be available at BizTown.

Room 4 BizTown Volunteers, etc

We had several parents who volunteered to go to BizTown with 4th and 5th Grades who had not completed a Virtus workshop, had a background check, or have a Code of Conduct form on file in the office. Information was sent home last week to all volunteers so you can be current on all requirements. Please let me or the office know if you are not able to go with us to BizTown on Friday, February 15th.

Room 4 News

We began Catholic Schools Week by wearing purple to show we are against bullying. Unfortunately, there has been many incidents of bullying in 5th Grade recently. Mrs. Parsons came to our religion class today to address the issue. The class discussed examples of bullying witnessed by students. Almost all students saw or heard and incident of bullying, but did not speak up. They did not tell the bully to stop, or did not tell an adult. Please remind your child that their words and actions, as well as their lack of words and actions, hurt others.

Room 4 BizTown volunteer reminder

If you plan to accompany the 4th and 5th Grades to BizTown on Friday, February 15th, please return the volunteer form by Friday. Parents who volunteer will be working in a shop with 6-8 students. Lunch and shopping breaks are scheduled with your child, but parents are not assigned to the shop where their child works. Students will ride the bus to BizTown. Parents will not be driving students, because parents need to arrive at BizTown 45 minutes early for training.

Room 4 News and Info.

-4th and 5th Grades will be going to Junior Achievement's BizTown on Friday, February 15th where they will participate in a day long simulation. The students will learn about all areas of economics and banking in the next four weeks to prepare for this trip. We will need about 20 parents to accompany us on this day. More information will be sent home this Friday. -All students received a Mass Journal today from Fr. Paul. We took the Journal to church this morning and the students wrote a short reflection after communion. Fr. Paul would like all students to bring this Journal with them to Mass each Sunday, and write a similar reflection, beginning this Sunday. We will discuss their reflections during Religion class on Monday, and this will be part of their Religion grade. Please make attending church on Sumday a priority. -Former middle school Social Studies teacher, Mrs. Amy Moran, is working on her license as a school counselor, and she has offered counseling services to all students during the school day.