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Mrs. Angela Granberg
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We Can Pray Anywhere!
This week we learned more about prayer. Jesus wants us to know that we can pray anywhere and about anything. We learned that Jesus taught us a special prayer to talk to God with called The Lord's Prayer. We also made an ABC book about different places we can pray. Enjoy our book!
Catholic Schools Week
"Since 1974, National Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. It starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which in 2017 is January 29 - February 4. The theme for the National Catholic Schools Week 2017 is “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service.” Schools typically observe the annual celebration week with Masses, open houses and other activities for students, families, parishioners and community members. Through these events, schools focus on the value Catholic education provides to young people and its contributions to our church, our communities and our nation." (www.ncea.com)
St. Charles celebrated this week with lots of fun activities. Our students, staff, and families had a great time participating in the events that our committee planned. Scroll through the pictures to see all the great activities we did!
St. Charles celebrated this week with lots of fun activities. Our students, staff, and families had a great time participating in the events that our committee planned. Scroll through the pictures to see all the great activities we did!
Monday - In Our Community
Today students brought in can of soup in exchange for wearing their favorite sports jersey. The can of soup were used to stock the pantry in the church food pantry that supports our local community. We kicked off Catholic Schools Week with a morning assembly.
Tuesday: Celebrating Your Students
Today we celebrated our wonderful students by having reading outside time. Students brought in beach towels and sunglasses so they could spread out to read on the grass. Our 8th grade buddies came over to read with us. After we were done reading, Mrs. Benning and Mr. Stutz served us a pizza lunch that we with our buddies.
Wednesday: Celebrating the Nation
Today we had 2 different guest speakers. The Border Patrol came and talked about how they help our nation. They answered lots of questions we had!
Mrs. Dunlap came and talked about working as a news reporter. She showed us videos of all the fun events that she has covered and even taught us how to be news reporters. Mrs. Dunlap is a St. Charles alumni so she shared how St. Charles prepared her for her future job.
We ended our day with a Rosary Walk around campus. Each group of ASC members helped us pray parts of the rosary.
Thursday: Celebrating Vocations
Today Father Emilio came and talked about vocations with us. We learned that Father Emilio was a police officer before answering his call to be a priest. He showed us different items that he uses in Mass and explained the significance of them. We also learned how to baptize people in emergencies!
Miss Mimi came after lunch to do a school-wide dance class for us. We loved learning the routine and exercising together. Check out our moves!
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Friday: Celebrating Faculty, Staff and Volunteer
Today we started our morning off by celebrating our volunteer grandma, Grandma Grace. Grandma Grace comes in every morning and helps our class out. We love Grandma Grace because she reads with us, helps us tie our shoes, helps us write sentences, and most importantly, gives us hugs whenever we need them!
We also went to the chapel and learned about St. Blaise. Deacon Mick told us the story of the little boy that had a fish bone stuck in his throat. The boys mom took him to St. Blaise and after praying over the little boy, the bone was no longer in his throat. Deacon Mick blessed all our throats to helps us stay healthy.
100 Days Smarter!
Can you believe that we have been in school 100 day? We started our celebration by first thing in the morning when Mrs. Granberg opened the door for us to see our special decoration. Mrs. Granberg had lots of fun activities planned for us even though it was a short day! We rotated through centers where we made hats with 100 stickers, we made necklaces with 100 Fruit Loops, we counted out ten different snacks in groups of tens to create a 100 day snack mix, and we worked on counting by 5's and 10's to 100.
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Modeling our 100 day hats.
We all created projects at home with our families using 100 items. It is fun to see what everyone used to count to 100!
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Our fun door!
We can count to 100 by 10's!
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All our fun 100 day activities!
Happy Valentine's Day
We had fun making bags to hold all our Valentines Day treats!
January Presentations
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Our January Presentation theme was "My Favorite Toy". It was fun to hear about all of our friends favorite toys and to have some time playing with them afterwards. Everyone did a great job! We can't wait to do our February Presentations on a famous American.
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STEM Fun!
We worked in the STEM Lab to create tin foil boats with our partners. After learning about things that float and sink, Mrs. Granberg challenged us to build a boat of of aluminium foil that would hold the most pennies. First we planned out boats by discussing and drawing out our ideas. Then. Mrs. Granberg gave each group a piece of foil and we built our boat. Finally, we testing out our boats by filling them with pennies. We had to count as we filled them so we knew how many pennies they would hold. After our first try, we were able to go back with our partner and redesign our boat to make it better. We had a lot fun thinking about what made the strongest boat!
Being a Missionary
To learn more about the Mission Childhood Association and Sr. Eva, click on the picture.
Sister Eva from the Missionary Childhood Association visited the school this week. She shared with the students where the money they donate to the missions goes and how it helps others in need. We learned about her mission trip to Jamaica where she took care of kids. We saw pictures and videos of kids that were the same age as us playing and singing. Sr. Eva taught us about the Mission Rosary and what countries the different color beads represent when we are praying. We learned that we can help out others in need by not only donating money but by also praying for them. This makes us all Missionaries! She gave us each a box to take home and fill up with money we earn by doing chores or sacrifices treats. We ❤ learning about how we can help others!!
Snowball Number Fight
What is more fun that a snowball fight??? A snowball fight and practing writing our numbers! We raced to open snowballs and count how many objects were on each one. After counting the pictures, we wrote down the number on a pile of snowballs. It was fun to race to finish in our groups.
December Presentations
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Every month, our kindergartners and their parents work hard at home on an oral presentation. This month our presentation was "What I want to be when I grow up". Each child told us what they wanted to be when they were older and why. They dressed up and brought in items about their future jobs. We had fun learning about all our kindergarten friends!
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Creating our own Nativities
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Advent is a time of preparing for the Lord's birth. We spent time in class learning the story of Jesus' birth. After hearing the Nativity Story, we had fun recreating the story with stickers and the decorating the background. We were able to use this to retell the story of the night Jesus was born.
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Celebrating the Epiphany
The Friday after we returned from Christmas Break, we celebrated the Epiphany at school. We learned that this is the day the three kings or wise men came to visit Jesus. We learned the Epiphany is also called Three Kings Day or Dia de los Reyes in Spanish. Children in Mexico leave their shoes out on the eve of Three Kings day and they wake up to find three presents. They all gather as a family that night and enjoy Rosca de Reyes and hot chocolate. Inside the Rosca de Reyes are plastic babies. If you get the baby in your piece, then you have to throw a party in February. Mrs. Garcia brought Rosca de Reyes for our class to enjoy. Nikko, Adriana, and Dayanara found babies in their bread! All the other kids were sad they didn't get one!
We made crowns to help us celebrate and remember the Three Kings! We also got to go outside and hit piñatas. Everyone enjoy hitting the piñatas and running for the treats that fell from it. |
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Hands On Math!
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Learning is always better when we can have fun! This activity was a super fun way to count and play at the dame time. We used paperclip spinners and play dough to fill a tens frame with a certain number of balls. Then we cleared it and played again. Everyone had a fun time playing!
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Mrs. Angela Granberg
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Mrs. Granberg has been teaching for 15 years. This is her 10th year at St. Charles Catholic School. She graduated from CSUSM with a degree in Liberal Studies and her teaching credential. She is married with two wonderful children that have both attended SCCS since kindergarten. Emily is in 8th grade and Douglas is in 3rd grade. Mrs. Granberg and her family attend St. Charles Catholic Church and are involved in many aspects of the community. Her family enjoys going to Disneyland and camping(Mrs. Granberg prefers hoteling). You may contact Mrs. Granberg at agranberg@saintcharlesschool.com or ar (619)423-3701 ext. 200.
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