St. Stephen Martyr

Welcome to Catholic Schools Week! It looks like we are starting out with some beautiful sunny weather. Be sure and check the Family Focus online for all of the happenings this week.

Our spelling words this week will have the vowel sound er. This vowel sound can be spelled in several different ways.

er – certain herself perfect verb determine nerve commercial

or – world word worm workout worthwhile

ir – third dirty thirsty whirlwind virtual

ear – early earth earn

Vocabulary words with the meaning as used in our story.

average – the quantity found by dividing the sum of all the quantities by the number of quantities

depth – the distance from the top to the bottom

deserts –dry, sandy regions without water and trees

outrun – to run faster than someone or something else

peak – the pointed top of a mountain or hill

tides – the rise and fall of the ocean about every twelve hours

waterfalls – streams of water that fall from a high place

extreme – much more than usual; very great

precipitation – the water that falls to the earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail

temperature – how hot or cold something is

Our story this week is Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest by Steve Jenkins. The story is Expository Nonfiction which gives information about the real world. The students will be finding out how the environment where they live compares to different extreme locations. They will be doing a lot of comparing and contrasting.

In religion we will be learning how the Catholic Church welcomes all people. We will continue with arrays and multiplication in math. And learn how drugs and alcohol affect our body.

On Tuesday, we will be celebrating the 100^th day of school. The children may bring in 100 pieces of cereal to eat as a snack that day. Have a wonderful week!

“By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn”

Latin proverb

About Mrs. Robben

Mrs. Robben has been at St. Stephen Martyr for over 25 years. She has taught both second and first grades at different times.

Mrs. Robben has been married to Mr. Bert Robben for 43 years and they have two daughters, two sons-in-law and 5 grandchildren, all of whom are beautiful and healthy! Bert's family was one of the founding families at St. Stephen Martyr and he is a proud graduate. Both of their daughters, Monicajean and Jennifer also graduated from St. Stephen Martyr.

Mrs. Robben graduated from the University of Louisville with a B.A. in Education and is working on her Master's degree at Bellarmine.

Mrs. Robben loves her job and is always excited every day when she gets up to go to school.