Dear St. Joseph's RCS Families,
We are now in the third week of Advent, and in our final full week of school before Christmas break. Our Christmas play will be Tomorrow, December 15th. We have our dress rehearsal and Kindergarten performance at 1:00 PM. We invite all of our families to attend our performance at 7:00 PM tomorrow night. Please take any opportunity you can to practice singing the song assigned to your child's class. Please refer to the list below for questions.
All: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Grades 1-2: The Snow Lay on the Ground
Grades 3-4: Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine (Lullaby)
Grades 5-6: O Little Town of Bethlehem (tune- Forest Green)
Grades 7-8: God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
In addition to our Christmas play, we will also have our Band concert this week, on Thursday, December 17th. The band concert will be held at 1:00 PM (school concert) and 7:00 PM (parent concert). Please make sure your child is prepared, dressed appropriately, and arrives 30 minutes prior. Please stop by or call the office with questions.
We are all be focusing on
improving our math abilities and performance. I hope the ideas I shared and the website can be helpful. If you missed them, you can find these suggestions in last week's newsletter and the website I shared
HERE. With a common focus, we can make extraordinary gains!
STUDY THOSE MATH FACTS! Reenrollment is open for the 2016-2017 school year. For more information please find the Registration section in the newsletter. This information can also be found by following the link on our twitter page, the school website, or in the school reach that went home today.
I hope that all of you are working with me on developing a growth mindset. I shared with you two weeks ago that this means you believe that you can always better yourself; mind, body, and spirit. I will be swimming, biking, and running in my Half-Ironman at the beginning of next school year. Over the remainder of the year I will share some of my training with you through
Mr. Hooker's Math and Fitness Challenge. Any student that figures out the answer each week can come to me to get a prize from my prize box. I'll also give prizes to students that create their own math and fitness problem based on their own exercise. I have had a few student visitors, but I would love to see more!
Here is this week's challenge.
Mr. Hooker's Math and Fitness Challenge: On average, it takes Mr. Hooker 3 minutes and 20 seconds to bike one mile. If he bikes for one hour, how far will he ride? (show your work)
Bonus (two prizes): Mr. Hooker bikes every weekend. His average pace is 18 MPH. If he bikes for 56 miles at that pace, how long will it take him?
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"Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." James 1:2-4
Zach Hooker, Principal
