Room 111 News Friday November 18, 2016 Important dates: No Shine student next week due to short week. Shine student for the week of 11/28 is Benny  Monday 11/21: 1st and 2nd Grade Thanksgiving Prayer Service 11/23-11/25: No school for students- Thanksgiving Break! Week of 11/28: Grace Before Meals prayer test Tuesday 12/6: 1st + 2nd grade Christmas Program Important Information: There WILL NOT be a spelling test next week or the week after!!! Please send in $.50 for a gift for our priests’ Christmas gifts! Thank you to all those who have sent in items for the school food drive! We will be collecting food for the next couple of weeks. There will be no white envelope or newsletter next week We will be having a prayer test on the Grace Before Meals prayer the week of November 28th. Here is the text of the prayer to practice: Bless us O Lord, and these thy gifts which we are about to receive, from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen. Our special Thanksgiving snack and prayer service is Monday 11/21! We have been learning about the Pilgrims and Native Americans as part of our Social Studies unit on history. We will join with the second graders to celebrate together. Thank you to everyone who sent in items to help with this fun day! Remember all are invited to join us! We have been working on Fact and Opinion! The students enjoyed the book Duck! Rabbit!. They wrote if they thought the animal was a duck or a rabbit. They also had to support there view with reasonable details. Rabbit got the most votes! For the Advent season, we will be reading scriptures from the Bible about the many people that were waiting for the birth of Jesus. We will also be studying the Church calendar as a new Church year begins. I wish all of you a blessed and happy Thanksgiving with your families! Enjoy the extra time together. 