Learning continues at La Salle. While it looks different than our usual students at desks and tables in classrooms, teachers and students continue to be engaged. Each teacher is in contact with the students and their parents to schedule Zoom sessions and work on classroom materials.

La Salle held packet pick-up events on March 19 and May 4 to exchange books and materials. May is the month of the Mary and students received age-appropriate rosary activities in their packets. Students in preschool and kindergarten were given rosary sticker sheets while students in first through six grades were able to string a rosary of their own. Teachers have emailed and dropped off papers and worksheets to students as needed. 



Some of the highlights for each classroom:
Preschool: Zoom sessions with preschool students are truly interesting! Students are eager to see and interact with their friends. They show each other their toys and tractors and even a new litter of kittens. Their teacher and the associate engage students in language-building activities, rhyming words, Simon Says, counting, science experiments, and scavenger hunts. 




Kindergarten: Five and six year-olds are always eager to see their friends and share what they are doing. Their Zoom sessions have varied from conversations to whole-group activities to multiple small-group sessions to practice skills. In math and science, students are working on adding and subtracting, as well as solid shapes such as cylinders, spheres, cubes, and cones. They are considering the effects of different strengths and directions of pushes and pulls and are recording what they see in their journal. Students are working on reading sight words and learning vowel sounds. They are writing and drawing in their journals. 




First/Second: Students in first and second grade are continuing to practice counting money and making change as well as practice with place value, area and perimeter, and fractions. Students are continuing to work with the reading series, Reading Wonders. The teacher uses Class Dojo for activities and to share writing prompts as students work on narratives and opinion pieces. The science focus is on animals and classification. Second grade students continue to prepare for First Holy Communion. First Communion will be planned for a time when we can again gather together for Mass. 


Third/Fourth: Students in third and fourth grade are continuing to practice math skills, particularly positive and negative numbers, capacity including weight and volume and mean, median, and frequency distributions. Students continue to work on grammar and spelling through the reading series, Reading Wonders. They are utilizing Google Classroom to share their writing. They are working on states for social studies and continue to work on science fair projects. They will present their science fair projects at the end of May.



Fifth/Sixth: Students in fifth and sixth grade are continuing to practice math skills, particularly fractions with adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers and generating equivalent expressions and equations. Students are reading and discussing The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg and continuing to read and work on activities from the reading series, Reading Wonders. In science they are using household materials to discover and discuss the chemical reactions and the properties of matter. For social studies they are learning about the Civil War.