Holy Rosary Saints www.hrsaints.com October 7, 2019

October Virtue - Magnanimity

To Live, Love, and Learn with Jesus Christ as our Model

Mark Your

Calendar

• Oct. 7

Feast of Our Lady

of the Rosary

Mass, 8:30 am in

the Grotto

Little Caesars Piz-

za Fundraiser or-

ders due!

• Oct. 8

Auction Planning

Mtg, 6 pm

• Oct. 9

TK/K & 1/2 Field

Trip to Pumpkin

Patch

3/4 Field Trip to

Sacramento His-

tory Museum.

• Oct. 10

Faith Family

Lunch

Choir, 3 pm

Common Core

Math Parent

Workshop, 6-7:30

pm

• Oct. 11

Mass, 8:30 am

7/8 Field Trip

• Oct. 13

Family Mass, 10

am in Church

Little Caesars Pizza Kit Fundraiser

All orders are due Oct. 7, make sure orders

and monies are sent to school. Remember

an online ordering option is available, please

see instructions on the order forms that

were sent home. Pizza Kits will be availa-

ble for pick-up on Oct. 22. We appreciate all

the support you have given with this fund-

raiser.

Fall Festival

Our Fall Festival is quickly

approaching (Oct. 25) and

we need you! Please vol-

unteer to help with this

important family fun event,

you can sign up through

School Speak or in the office. Also, we will

be sending home two books of Fall Festi-

val Raffle Tickets with students this week,

please consider selling both books of 10.

Tickets sell for $2 each with prizes being;

$500 first prize, $300 second prize, $100

third prize. Send in the filled-in coupon stub

and monies to the office.

Feast of our Lady of the ‘Most Holy’

Rosary Mass in the Grotto

We will be celebrating the Feast of our Lady

of the Rosary on October 7 in the Grotto.

The Knights of Columbus and Young Ladies

Institute will be

providing a reception

after mass, all are wel-

come to join students

in this celebration.

The Roman Catholic Church celebrates this

yearly feast, known for several centuries by

the alternate title of “Our Lady of Victory,”

the feast day takes place in honor of a 16th

century naval victory which secured Europe

against Turkish invasion. Pope St. Pius V at-

tributed the victory to the intercession of

the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was invoked

on the day of the battle through a campaign

to pray the Rosary throughout Europe. Our

parish and school’s namesakes come from

this feast day.

Understanding Common Core Math

This Oct. 10 workshop is geared for parents

to help understand what Common Core

Math is and how to support the implementa-

tion and student learning. There’s certainly

some confusion and misconceptions from

many parents about what the standards actu-

ally are. Putting the pros and cons aside, we

will take a look at the basics of the Common

Core. The better parents understand the

benchmarks, the easier it’ll be to help our

kids meet them and be successful when ap-

plying math.

Virtue of the Month—Patriotism

Congratulations to our students who re-

ceived the Patriotism Virtue awards for the

month of September. All students are eligi-

ble to receive these awards by exemplifying

and the Virtue of the month. Awardees are

selected by their teachers, staff and peers.

Activities in the Classrooms

3/4– This week students created their own 10

Commandments book, which helped them under-

stand each Commandment better. In math, third

grade is working on adding and subtracting 3 digit

numbers with regrouping and borrowing. In 4th

grade math, they just completed a review of place

value and all potential outcomes for a given situa-

tion.

TK/K— We celebrated St. Francis of Assisi and the

blessing of the animals last week, thank you to

those who sent in representations of your ani-

mals. The K’s had their first Make It-Write It! activ-

ity in which the students make something and then

draw/write about it in their monthly journal. In

math, the students are learning to count with 1-to-1

correspondence. Our ant farm arrived, so we read

a book about how ants live and form their colo-

nies. Along with gathering and collecting fall leaves,

the students have been comparing and matching

green leaves that still have stored sugar with the

same type of yellow/brown leaves that have lost

their sugar content. Next week the Art Ladies will

be doing a project with these leaves. We will also

be studying pumpkins in preparation for our field

trip on Wednesday.

5/6— Students learned about the importance of the

Ten Commandments. They completed an activity to

help remember and understand the meaning of

them. 6th graders finished learning about patterns

and equations in their Math class. Students also

took charge of leading their first parent/teacher

conferences, great job!

1/2—Both first and second grade student’s partici-

pated in Stars and Wishes where students get an

opportunity to read their written story to class-

mates while sitting in the author’s chair. Classmates

raise their hands and volunteer to say a Wish or a

Star. A wish is something that could be improved

or added, a star is a com-

pliment "I like the way

you..." In ELA, first grade

students studied about

buildings and what they are

made of. Second graders

did some comparing and

contrast activities using

two stories, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and The

Wolf Who Cried Boy!”

In the near future…

HRS Family Mass, Oct. 13, 10:00 am in Church, 5/6

Mod Pizza Dine to Donate Fundraiser, Oct. 16, 5-8 pm

Family Movie Night in the Grotto, 6:00 pm

Little Caesars Pizza Kit Pick up Day, Oct. 22, 3 pm

Woodland Fire Visiting 1/2, Oct. 24, 9-10 am

Fall Festival, Oct. 25

STEM Squad Demo Day, Oct. 29, 2-3 pm

Halloween Activity, Oct. 31

Library Grand Re-Opening, Oct. 31

All Saints Day Bi-Lingual Mass. Nov. 1, 8:30 am

Holiday Boutique, Nov. 15 & 16