Miss Hoffman's Third Grade: December 2018

We are "Smitten" with 3rd Grade!

Our winter bulletin board is all finished and includes reasons why the students love being in 3rd Grade. Listen to some of their favorite things about this awesome grade!

St. Nicholas Visits

The Lower School met to read a book about St. Nicholas called, The Legend of St. Nicholas: A Story of Christmas Giving.

On December 6th, St. Nicholas came to visit the boys and girls at HCA. The students put their shoes out in the hallway in anticipation of his visit. Everyone was surprised to find their shoes filled with a candy treat and a St. Nicholas prayer card.

Math Facts Fun

I mentioned to many parents at the Parent/Teacher conferences that students need to practice their math facts each night. Here's a short article about helping your child learn his/her multiplication facts at home.
http://www.mathfireworks.com/2016/09/parents-can-help-kids-learn-multiplication-facts/

Junior Choir's Christmas Court House Field Trip

The Junior and Senior Choirs enjoyed a trolley ride to Media and brought holiday cheer to the employees and visitors of the Delaware County Courthouse this week. Our students received many compliments on their festive singing. Afterwards, they devoured a pizza lunch at Pinocchio's Restaurant.

Waiting at the trolley station

Friends on the Trolley

Are we there yet?

Senior and Junior Choir in front of the Courthouse

Getting ready to sing!

Mrs. Brown is our hero

Singing Stars!

It was a fun day, but we're beat!

OPERATION ADVENT

Throughout the Advent season,

Holy Child will be collecting materials

to support The Providence Center.

The Providence Center provides educational services

to the community in the Fairhill section of Philadelphia.

The median income per household in this neighborhood is less than $15,000,

which makes for the highest poverty rate in the city.

Additionally, Fairhill's murder rate is over five times the city's average,

which again makes for the highest in the city.

In the midst of the struggles that accompany such statistics,

The Providence Center offers the hard-working families of this neighborhood

education, love, and possibility.

Holy Child aims to help with that mission through Operation Advent.

Please help however you can by donating from the items on their wishlist:

dry erase markers, notebook and lined paper, pens and pencils,

colored computer paper, construction paper,

critical thinking games (chess, Stratego, Ticket to Ride, etc.),

cooperative games (story cubes, race to the Treasure, etc.).

Monday, December 17th - 6:30 p.m. - Early Childhood and Lower School Christmas Show and Nativity (Parents' and Friends' Show)

Tuesday, December 18th - 10:00 a.m. - Early Childhood and Lower School Grandparents' Day Celebration & Lunch

Wednesday, December 19th - Pizza Party Lunch - Please send in your pizza slip and money for our Christmas celebration.

Thursday, December 20, 2018 - January 2, 2019 - Christmas Break! Classes resume on Thursday, January 3rd.

Hail Mary, Full of Grace

We have been learning about the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. The children have taken time to pray the Rosary together during Religion class.

https://catholic-kids.com/rosary.htm

Christmas Parts of Speech

Here are a couple of our 3rd Graders with their Christmas Parts of Speech projects. Each child choose a thing related to the holidays and wrote nouns, verbs, and adjectives related to that item.