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JANUARY 2016

Second Quarter Christian Virtue Award Winners

Pictured (L –R) PK/Stella Sharp, Kindergarten/Henry Harris, First Grade/

Ansley Harman, Third Grade/Elise Durante, Fourth Grade/Grace Mundy,

Fifth Grade/Brian Flanagan, Sixth Grade/Sydney Dacus, Seventh Grade/

Callie Hollis, Eighth Grade/Stevie Page —Individual Picture-Second Grade/Jack Bray

Sounds of the Season!

Incarnation Catholic School was treated to a preview of Kevin & Bethany Paige’s

Christmas Concert to benefit the Youth Ministry of our Parish. It was a wonderful

way to kick-off the Christmas Season!

Mrs. Wilson & Ms. LuAnne

Ms. Jenny &

Ms. Stephanie

Reading/Language Arts

The students are beginning readers, and have

read two stories.

The students are learning to write complete sentences

in a daily journal, and illustrate the sentences.

Math Skills

The students have learned about fractions. They can make equal parts or shares (fractions) of an object.

The students have learned to identify ordinal numbers first through tenth.

The students have learned to measure objects by length, capacity and weight.

The students can recognize the letters Nn, Ww, Pp, Hh, Mm, Aa, Bb, Dd, Kk, Ff, Oo, Cc, Ee, Yy, Gg. They can also associ-ate each letter with the correct sound and have learned how to write these letters.

We have also began our Decodable Readers and are doing a fantastic job!

The students can recognize numbers 1-10 and are learning to count by 10's.

In Religion, the students have learned that God Made People, God Made Holy Things, and God Made the Earth.

Anna Rose Conti and Jarret Pearson

Buddy Christmas Party!

Josie Gex and Bella Neri

Mrs. Laramie

Mrs. Micheletti

In Religion, we learned about the liturgical calendar and discussed Ordinary Time, Advent and Christmas seasons. We also learned to recite the Hail Mary prayer.

In Math, we learned to count pennies, nickels, and dimes, how to create and read a bar graph, and to identify a line of symmetry.

In Language Arts, we worked on story elements and present, past, and future tense verbs.

Caden Williams and Maxwell Easton

Celebrating Thanksgiving

The First Grade Polar Express!

In Religion, we learned about the sacrament of

Reconciliation and on Saturday, December 5th, we

received the sacrament of Reconciliation for the first

time!

In Science we studied the environments of all living

things. Each student completed a habitat project of

any animal. Each student presented their project to

the class.

We read books on animals and completed our second

book report.

Second Graders Making Cookies & Learning to Measure

Alfredo Moran, Jackson Wicks and Anna Cate Warner

Mrs. Ferrante

Mrs. Wales

The 3rd grade studied the Pilgrims and Native Americans, made to-tem poles, handmade beads and weavings.

The students learned about the life of religious brothers and sisters, learned about how to listen for God’s call and about different vocations.

We created a poster advertisement on the importance of recycling.

The students completed a report and illustration of their favorite Saint.

The fourth grade class completed book reports done in the form of a Skelton on mystery books for this quarter. These are on our bulletin board if you want to see them!

We also finished studying the North-east Region of the United States. We ate food from this region. We tried a variety of food like Mussels, clam chowder, blueberry cobbler to name just a few of the items! Yum!

We are finished dividing and multiply numbers! We can multiply 934 x 52 and divide 62,345 by 8. WOW!

4th Grade Shows off their 4-H Posters!

St. Michael the Archangel

Mrs. Brown

Students had a great time with Literature Circles, reading an assigned number of pages then meeting in small groups to discuss their books. To finalize their Literature Circle, students created a poster of their favorite scene from their book, trying to persuade others to choose their book for the next Literature Circle. Persuasion seemed to be the theme for the 2nd Quarter, because just before Christmas students wrote a persuasion paper. This was not just any persuasive paper, they had to persuade people to purchase them as they took on the persona of a Christmas tree. They stood in the hallway reciting their persua-sive speeches, as students toured selecting the tree they thought was most persuasive.

Fifth Grade and Their 4-H Sponsor

Fifth Grade

Christmas

Trees!

Mrs. Ray - 6th

Grade

Religion and Middle

School Social Studies

The Beta Club attended the state convention in Nashville November 22-24. Congratulations to Lily Clark who won 4th place in the jewelry design competition.

The 7th grade social studies created displays of Revolutionary War battles.

The 8th grade social studies created Yellow Journalism articles to enhance our study of expansionism and imperialism.

The 6th grade social studies class created artifacts to display for our Ancient Mesopotamian museum.

The 6th grade religion class created Old Testament mini-booklets and read them to the first graders.

Lily Clark with her award

winning necklace!

6th Grade students sharing their Old Testament

booklets with first grade friends.

Ms. Thomas - 7th

Grade Reli-

gion , Math and Middle

School Study Skills

7th grade Religion:

Studied the Beatitudes and ways to live out each of them in our daily lives.

During Advent, students reflected on the true meaning of the season in preparation for Christmas and researched saints who are celebrated during Advent.

7th grade Math:

Worked very hard and successfully completed their chapters on rational numbers, proportions, and equations.

Middle School Study Skills

6th grade:

Groups created and presented productive workspace models.

Discussed different study habits and strategies for studying in preparation for semester exams.

7th grade:

Celebrated Christmas with their Kindergarten Buddies.

Discovered how to use a syllabus to align time and workload management in order to meet class expectations for any subject area.

Reviewed different study habits and techniques in preparation for semester exams.

8th grade:

Researched a variety of colleges they are interested in attend-ing. Using the college they found they were the most interested in, they created a brochure that would recruit potential students to their chosen school and presented them to the class.

Learned about the basic high school and college application process such as applying to schools, personal statement essays, and interviewing.

Turner Kitchens and Angela Gardner

E-Day: The entire middle school competed at E-Day at the University of Memphis. All the teams performed great and represented ICS well. We did have a team that placed third in the transportation challenge: Nick Fischer, Connor Daigre, Andrew McLaren, and Chris Gomez.

8th Grade Religion- We helped hang the angels on the angel trees throughout the church.

8th Science- We just completed our Simple Machines projects. The students designed a machine that would crack and egg or dispense candy. Each machine had to include three different simple machines. The students had some very creative designs. If you ever need an egg launched ten feet, the eighth grade class can help with that.

7th Science- The seventh grade science class has been studying the weather and climate. As part of our weather unit, they learned about forecasting the weather. Each group presented a five day weather forecast for a city of their choice. We definitely have some future meteorologists in our midst.

8th

Grade Religion and

Middle School Science

7th Grade Meteorologist Cody Barlovic

Sydney Prascak and Grace Brady Demonstrate

Their Simple Machine!

Mrs. Swanner - Middle

School Language

Arts/Enrichment

2nd/3rd Grade Enrichment students became quite the little architects. They constructed the 4th little pigs house. It had to withstand the big bad wolf.

4th/5th Grade Enrichment students used their artistic abil-ities to create tessellations. It took time, patience and a little bit of perseverance but they are all thrilled with the end product.

Middle School Enrichment students entered the world of photo editing as they created digital selfie collages using the Pixlr software. Students gathered pictures of things that were important to them and using the software created layered collages.

6th Grade empathized with Kevin as they read the heart-wrenching story of Freak the Mighty. Then they composed a compare/contrast essay comparing the book with the 1998 film, The Mighty.

7th Grade entered the dystopian society of Lois Lowry’s The Giver and grappled with the realities of that society.

8th Grade followed Misha Pilsudski on his quest for identity and purpose in Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed. They gained a unique per-spective of the Warsaw ghetto through the eyes of this orphan boy.

Alyssa Wicks and Mary Caroline Waggoner with their

4th Little Piggy’s House Meri Alan Petro and her Digital Selfie Collage

Mrs. Kennedy –

Physical Education

Ride Your Bike to School Day -- was a great success! This was the third year ICS students rode their bikes to school and it was by far the biggest turnout by students and parents!

Basketball -- we completed our unit on basketball during the second quarter. Over the course of nine weeks, we improved our dribbling and shooting skills, finishing up with a free throw contest.

Walking Works for Schools -- continues in the younger grades, in which we walk and talk about healthy habits.

Art Class -Mrs. Ohno

We have celebrated the Fall holidays with a variety of art forms and media. Every student has created a religious-themed Christmas card to celebrate the season and to give as a gift to someone.

PreK - 3rd Grade students continue to develop their artistic skills with cut pa-per, paints, markers and pencils. 4th and 5th Grade students brainstormed and creat-ed a ‘Doodle 4 Google’ based on the theme, “What Makes Me …Me”. Artwork from several students was submitted to this national contest.

6th Grade students mixed tempera paints creating colorful, unique horizontal landscapes. 7th and 8th Grade students are making great progress with their independent work. Many students have worked with new mixed media. Others are working on an art piece that expresses/teaches an aspect of our Catholic faith.

Mr. Cole-Music Class

Pre-K, K, and 1st Grade students made connec-tions with Music kinesthetically through steady-beat locomotor movements and the incorporation of sign language.

Middle School Students developed fine motor skills in both hands by learning new notes on the re-corder. They also used their Chrome Books to prac-tice identifying note names of lines and spaces on the treble staff.

All students Pre-K through 8th Grade worked to-gether to learn and perform the Christmas music in our program on December 18th. We would like to thank everyone who was involved!

Mr. Zientek and Julia Houff with her

winning Christmas card design!

John Robert Durfee’s Guitar Solo during the

Christmas program!

Mrs. Mundy - Technology PK and K

Continued to learn about the names of the basic parts of

the computer and write the name of the parts by

tracing the words.

Utilized abcmous.com to practice letters of the week

being done in their primary classroom.

1st through 3rd Grades

Learned how to log into the computer lab computer by

themselves using their personal username and the

provided password (1st-3rd)

Learned how to use an online dictionary

Participated in World Math Games

Participated in a worldwide Hour of Code where they

learned about computer programming

Practiced keyboarding/typing skills utilizing Edu Typing

(3rd grade). The standard for the state of Tennessee for 3rd grade is 10WPM (words per minute); our 3rd grade class

average is 13WPM with our current

highest WPM at 20WPM. (3rd)

4th and 5th Grades

Learned about choosing safe websites to use for research

Participated in World Math Games

Participated in a worldwide Hour of Code where they learned about computer programming

Practiced keyboarding/typing skills utilizing Edu Typing. The standard for the state of Tennessee for 4th grade is 15WPM

(words per minute); our 4th grade class average is 21WPM with our current highest WPM at 29WPM. The standard

for 5th grade is 20WPM; our 5th grade class average is 26WPM with our

current highest WPM at 45. I am seeing improvement from all students.

6th through 8th Grades

Learned about Google Drawing and completed a work flow chart. (6th)

Learned about “Taking Control of Your Online Persona” (7th)

Participated in a worldwide Hour of Code where they learned about

computer programming.

Practiced keyboarding/typing skills utilizing Edu Typing (internet-based keyboarding program). The standard for the

state of Tennessee for 6th grade is 20WPM (words per minute); our 6th grade class average is 25WPM with our cur-

rent highest WPM at 41. The standard for 7th grade is 30WPM; our 7th grade class

average is 32WPM with our current highest WPM at 67. The standard for 8th grade is 30WPM; our 8th grade class

average is 40WPM with our current highest WPM at 58. I am seeing improvement from all students.

Mrs. Angelillo-

Guidance Counselor

In November ICS, welcomed Sister Maureen Griner

Executive Director for the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality.

Sister spent the day with us speaking separately to

grades 3-8. Sister spoke about homelessness and the causes

of poverty.

We welcomed Sister back this month to discuss the topic of

serving others. Sister elaborated on the mission of the

Dorothy Day House of Hospitality and ways we can all serve.

She ended each session with her favorite quote from Dorothy

Day, “The mystery of the poor is this: They are Jesus and what

you do for them, you do for him.” At ICS, we are participating

in a school wide service project by collecting items for the

Dorothy Day House during Catholic Schools Week.

INCARNATION MOMENTS

The 8th grade and Santa!

Angel Tree Helpers Jack Shirley & Zachary Huntsman

The Perfect Tree-

Mason Halley

Cousins Lily Spinosa & Halle Signaigo

sharing the New Testament

INCARNATION MOMENTS

Doughnuts

with Dad!

Fr. Ernie with

Kindergarten

Indians

Second Grade Students Jackson Wicks and Abigayle

Dias as Mary and Joseph for the Advent Mass

ICS goes Pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness

Slippers filled with treats on

the Feast of St. Nicholas

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Preschool—8th Grade

Where Scholastic Excellence Meets Spiritual Virtue