January 24th - 28th

 

This week the students worked on their Ipads reinforcing addition and subtraction, reading, and spelling skills.  The apps we used are Pet Bingo (math) and ABC Sentence (reading).

The students had a blast creating a human number line! We practiced "hopping" with addition and subtraction!

Human Number Line!

Click here to view the PreK and Kindergarten video:  Murphy's Giving Market Food Drive

Murphy’s Giving Market was founded by a HCA family in an effort to stomp out food insecurities within the communities in which it serves. They believe that everyone has the right to sufficient, safe and healthy food with options and that people should be served with dignity and respect and treated as our friends, shopping at the free market with a choice and a voice. 

For our drive, Pre-K and Kindergarten will be collecting canned goods, boxed items (ex.: pasta, cereal, rice, mac and cheese), and especially individually packaged children's snack items (ex.: granola bars, fruit snacks, cookies, goldfish crackers, individual cereal boxes). 

The 7th grade will also be collecting gently used adult and children's clothing for any season.

We will have boxes in school to collect the items. The drive will run from February 1-23.

EVENTS AND REMINDERS

Gym Days next week:  Monday, Tuesday, Friday

Student Council will be selling Candy Grams.  $1 per gram - cash or check only.  Blank candy gram forms can be accessed here.  Sales end Thursday, 2/10.  Grams will be delivered on Monday, 2/14.

  Students will be allowed to wear free dress for Valentine’s Day on Monday 2/14.

Presentations by Kim Jester (DCVAC) will be postponed until a later date.

Today is the last day to purchase Nothing Bundt cake! Buy here: https://www.holychildacademy.com/page.cfm?p=854  

Students in PreK, Kindergarten, and 7th grade are collecting food and gently used clothing for Murphy’s Giving Market in Upper Darby. All donations will be collected until Wednesday, February 23rd. See the Happenings for more details.

Looking ahead: there will be no school on Friday, February 18 (faculty in-service) or Monday, February 21 (Presidents’ Day).

Have a great weekend,

Sharon DeBardino

January 18th - 21st

 

This past week we celebrated two very important people.  Last Friday, we had a prayer service to celebrate the birthday of Cornelia Connelly, the founder of the Holy Child Schools.  

We also honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a special Early Childhood prayer service.

Each class designed a special heart with words that describe a peaceful classroom.  

The students worked on creating phonetic sentences using the Montessori Movable Alphabet.  They chose a word or two from the "Winter" word chart and used our word wall to help create their fantastic sentences!  

EVENTS AND REMINDERS

Gym Days next week:  Monday, Thursday

Please place extra masks in your child's school bag.

Report cards will be sent home next week via email. Parent/teacher conferences are not mandatory at this time, but please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

Looking ahead: there will be no school on Friday, February 18 (faculty in-service) or Monday, February 21 (Presidents’ Day).

Have a great weekend,

Sharon DeBardino

January 10th - 14th

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The students were introduced to addition using a number line and unifix cubes!

The students are working hard writing vocabulary words with the Montessori Movable Alphabet!

Adding into the 100's with the Montessori Bank Game!

EVENTS AND REMINDERS

Gym Days next week:  Wednesday, Friday

Please place extra masks in your child's school bag.

Monday, January 17th - School Holiday, No school

(Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Have a nice weekend,

Sharon DeBardino