Hey everyone! This is our last week of March can you believe it?? I do hope everyone had an amazing weekend, it was a beautiful weekend! This week there will some changes that Mrs. Gaby and I are extremely excited about! We will be having our first zoom meeting Wednesday (4/1)! This is going to be crucial for keeping us all connected, especially for the children. Do know this is a completely private meeting and only our class will be there, Mrs. Mary and Mrs. Blackburn will be checking in at some point as well! This week we will also be introducing Seesaw Class! Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do what they do best, LEARN! Students can easily us the creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio! Please do not hesitate if you have more questions about the new App!
     We will keep working on Lent, is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter.

     Here is to a terrific Thursday! Today we will be working on:

~Prayer "Our Father"
~Pledge of Allegiance
~Finding letters around our house
~Second Step: Saying the Problem
~Lent Day 26: Some of us live in the country and some in the city. Jesus loved both.  Walk around your house and remember: Jesus loves the place and all who live there.
~Get Epic
~Clifford Scholastic

     Keep up all the great and hard work you are all doing! I know that I am really enjoying all the feed back and I know the children love seeing each other!

Mrs. Donavan

     Happy Tuesday everyone! A lot of videos and information on our Face Book class page! Please keep checking in on our Get Epic, lots of great books and videos are in your assignments. For Clifford we are still working on "A Teeny Tiny Nest", today on Face Book I asked everyone to look around and see what we can find to make our own nest! Look outside, or inside your own house, be creative! Today on our Lent calendar it's to say a prayer for a family member, you can say one, draw a prayer or even record a prayer! Please make sure you are saying your prayers each day! I also posted our Second Step for Tuesday, take the time to look at the photo and see if you can figure out how the children are feeling, and let me know the steps to calm down! Tomorrow I will be posting our science project and hope to see everyone!!

     I am thinking of you all and do hope you are all well!! Please let me know if I can help out in anyway!

Mrs. Donavan

     Happy Monday to everyone!! I do hope everyone had a very much needed weekend and are ready to go for the week! I have sent everyone a private link to our group class on face book! I know we are all out of sorts and therefore I feel if we can find an easy way to connect face to face, the children seeing my face with videos as well as the children seeing each other, can really make this process a lot easier.

This week:
Social and Emotional: Saying the Problem
Clifford: A Teeny Tiny Nest
Letters:  Aa, Zz
Get Epic: Letter Aa, Drew the Screw (construction), Two Little Birds
Religion: Lent
Prayer: Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

     Thank you everyone for your patience during all of this. Know how much everyone is missed and how grateful I am for all of you! If you haven't received your invite to Get Epic please let me know, as well as a face book link. Do know that our Face Book class is completely private and only we can see what we are sharing. Keep your faith strong!

Blessings to All,

Mrs. Donavan

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Today is our last day for our See's Candy Fundraiser. The best part (besides the chocolate!) it's all delivered safely to your home! Anything helps and we are all appreciated of all the constant support!

Mrs. Donavan

     Good morning to OLM families!! We made it through our first week!! I do know we are all adjusting and trying to find a new norm but I can't tell you how grateful I am for everyone doing all they can do! I really am excited each time to see a new comment, or a new email. Contact is essential and I will do my best each day to connect with everyone.
     I would like to start our prayer this morning; *In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen *show your parents prayer hands and prayer feet!
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
     Our pledge of allegiance; *remember right hand over our hearts!
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
     The letters we worked on this week Rr, Yy;
So many fun words for our letters this week!
                              Rr: rainbow, rain, rabbit (good job Lorenzo!), red, rat, rain boots, rain coat
                              Yy: yellow, yo-yo, yam, yarn, yes, yak
     Books: I have sent everyone an invite to GetEpic, our book today; "Join in and Play". I also attached a small quiz, if you can check it out! Any problems just let me know.
     Social and Emotional: This week was all about joining in to play with friends! As a family we can be doing the same thing. How can we ask our sisters and brothers if we can play too? How do you invite your family to come play with you?
     I will be updating later in the day as a check in. Do remember I'm only an email way or even comments on the blog if you need to reach out! I do hope everyone is well and enjoying family time. Talk to you soon!

Mrs. Donavan
    

     Happy Wednesday!! As a class we try to do a simple science projects each Wednesday, with different circumstances I thought how fun it would be for Madison and Parker to do it and share it with our OLM families! This science project is called Lava Lamp.

Ingredients:

• Vegetable Oil
• Water
• Food coloring – primary colors or neon
• Original Alka Seltzer tablets

     We filled the three glass jars with water (about 1 cup) and then filled them again with vegetable oil (about 2 cups). From there we placed in food coloring and about a half of a piece of the alka seltzer tablet.
     Why this works! The water and oil do not mix and the oil doesn’t change color because the food coloring is water soluble. The Alka Seltzer reacts with the water to make bubbles of carbon dioxide. The bubbles attach themselves to the blobs of colored water and bring them to the top of the glass. When the bubbles pop the blobs of colored water fall back to the bottom of the glass.
This was an extremely easy science experiment but so fun! I would love to hear comments below on what the children thought why there was a reaction!

     Everyone should be receiving updated emails with the blog updates as well as an invite to GetEpic. We are still working out a couple kinks and trying to see what works best for everyone. I am enjoying GetEpic and would love to keep seeing your child's projects with the assignments I am including. If you are not receiving any emails or an invite to GetEpic please let me know right away!
    Tomorrow we will be celebrating Saint Joseph and what better way to celebrate and learn about a Saint than food? Saint celebrations and feast days are marked with a special dish, either from the saint’s country of origin or that share some connection to the saint’s life. For Saint Joseph’s feast day, it’s traditional to serve Italian dishes. You’ll find more traditional dishes for St Joseph’s day, including pasta dishes, and fig cookies. Please share with any fun traditional dishes you may do for St. Joseph.

     I've attached a coloring page if you would like to color and share with us! Please keeping saying your prayers, working on your letters Rr, Yy. Please keep an eye out for constant emails.

Blessings to you all,

Mrs. Donavan

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to everyone!!!!

Mrs. Donavan, Madison, Charlie and Parker

     Happy Monday everyone! Today has been a rainy day for sure. It was a great day for extra cleaning, checking emails and watching Frozen 2!! All of you are in my constant thoughts and prayers.
     Today we would be working with the children's favorite puppets Sammie and Eddie and working on our puppet script. If you ask your child about them I'm sure they will brighten up!  This weeks concept; noticing what other children are playing and offering ideas for play helps you join in. You could have your child come up with positive ways to join in with their friends. What questions would you ask your friends? How does it make you feel when you ask a friend to play who was playing by themselves?

    

     Hopefully you all had a chance to say our prayer for the week Hail Mary; Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.. Today was our letter Rr, I would love for you to ask your child what word(s) start with the letter R and leave them in the comments below!
     Let me know if you have any questions, or if any links are not working so I can fix them quickly! Lastly, if there is anything you or your families are in need of during this time please do not hesitate send myself or Mary a private email. We are to help in anyway we can.

Blessings to all my OLM family

Mrs. Donavan

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     Hello to all OLM families. These next couple weeks will be an adjustment for all of us, however this is in the best interest for keeping us all healthy and safe in the long run. Needless to say I will be keeping in touch with the blog as well as email. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate you can contact myself; donavan.garrison@olmlancers or Mary; mary.kravec@olmlancers. At this moment everything has been cancelled or postponed until further notice.

     Below you will see what we would have been working on in class for this week;

Social and Emotional: Joining In with Play
Clifford: A Teeny Tiny Nest
Letters:  Rr, Yy
Religion: Lent, Saint Patrick
Prayer: Hail Mary
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

     For social and emotional this month has been about how to invite friends over to play, the importance of using words and to have fun with friends. In class the children and I go over different scenarios and what would we be able to say when we want to invite friends "would you like to color with me?" "would you like to read a book with me?" Have your child come up with a couple different questions on how to invite friends to play. For this week; joining in with play. We know how to invite friends, but now we are going to learn how to join friends who are already at play.

 

     For Clifford; A Teeny Tiny Nest. The next two weeks will be all about animals, eggs and how different animals are born. I will be putting a link in this blog for all of you to be able to log in. When you click on the link you will log in as a student and the password; olm209.  This is a such a fun site so please look around and try all the links. Any issues please let me know!

https://mybigworld.scholastic.com/home-page-logged-in.html

     For letters Rr, Yy. As a class we go over our names each day and over any words that start with the letters we are working on this week. Please take the time to ask your child about what words they can think of that start with the letter R and Y.

     Religion we are going over Lent, Saint Patrick and Stations of the Cross.  Lent is a time of reflection and praying. For Saint Patrick; how he merged Christianity with more traditional parts of Irish culture,  and creating the Celtic cross, which incorporates the sun with the cross. Saint Patrick used the shamrock as an educational symbol to explain the Holy Trinity to nonbelievers as he converted the Irish to Christianity in the fourth century. For Stations of the cross;  shows the journey Jesus took before he died. They show his suffering and the pain on his path to his own crucifixion. It is most popularly visited in churches during Lent. Many people pray, reflect and connect spiritual to the suffering and challenge Jesus endured. As a class we colored the 14 stations of the crosses as well as made churches for each one.

     Lastly our class prayer. This is our second week working on Hail Mary. I would really love if you could recite this prayer each day so we could really get this prayer down.

     I know this was a lot of information for this blog. I know as a class and as a family we can do this all together, and the best part, it's all temporary! Thank you to all the families, friends and especially for all the prayers. In faith this shall pass.

Blessings to you all and please tell everyone I said HI!!

Mrs. Donavan