Saint John School

A Pre-Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade Catholic School in Old Saybrook, Connecticut

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Grow in Faith  -  Learn to Live as Jesus Would  -  Love One Another 
Supply List:

5 - 2 pocket folders

2 - 1 sungle subject notebooks

1 YELLOW highlighter
1 box (16 count) ONLY crayons

1 box (12 count) ONLY colored pencils
     (NO SMELLY pencils)

2 boxex of tissues

1 plastic pencil box (NO POUCHES)

2 glue sticks

1 roll of paper towels

1 container of Chlorox wipes
 

 
 
Radified Reading

Great Authors:
James Flood
Jan Hasbrouck
James Hoffman
Diane Lapp
 

Cynthia Rylant

Donna Lubcker

Scott Paris

Steven Stahl

Jan Brett

  • Learn to identify main ideas and supporting
        details. 
        Make preditions and learn to paraphrase.
  • Understand cause and effect.
  • Use PHONICS to become a sensational speller!
  • Use grammer to become a fabulous writer!
 

 
Sensational Science

  • Interaction of Living Things in
        woodlands, desert, wetlands, 
        coastal, polar, and
        underground habitates.
  • Make a terrarium, make a
        beaver dam, and a beaver
                                     lodge

Energy:

  • Light, sound, heat and motion.
  • What stays the same?  What makes them
        change?
  • Changeable Matter of solids, liquids, and gases.
  • Experiment with size, shape, color, and texture.
  • What makes them change?  What makes them
        stay the same?

Changes over time:

  • Compare and contrast dinosaurs.
  • Dig for fossil remains.
  • Create your own trace fossil.
  • What causes changes in the phases of the moon?
        Constellation changes?  The sunrise and sunset?
        Earth's seasons and weather.
  • Experment with soil and water erosion.
  • What are the layers of the earth?
  • What is soil made of?  Is it living or nonliving?
 

 

Sensible Social Studies 

  • Learn about our global world
        trading.
  • Learn about customs and
        traditions
  • Make a flag, sample a recipe,
        learn a dance!
  • Learn about good citizenship
                                   and government.
  • Read maps.....make a land form map!
  • Learn the 7 continents and seas.
  • Read graphs, flow charts, gather information.

                                                               
Marvelous Math

  • Double digit addition and
        substraction. 
  • Whole numbers
  • Mixed numbers
  • Measurement
  • Fractional notation
  • Geometry
  • Multiply by 0, 1, 2, 3, 5
  • Learn to count money - quarters, dimes, nickles
        and pennies.

 

 
Radiant Religion 

  • Learn how the light
        of Christ can shine
        through you!
  • Learn how Jesus
        teachers us through
        Bible stories, the 
        Parables, the Ten 
        Commandments,
        and  The Fruits of 
        the Spirit