Mrs Ceras

I graduated from Seton Hall University with a degree in Elementary Education and English. I have been a CCD teacher here at ICS for over 20 years. I was a Kindergarten teacher for 15 years and have been teaching 3rd grade at ICS for the last 8 years. I love teaching and look foward to working with your children everyday.

 During the month of March, we enjoyed celebrating Saint Patrick and Saint Joseph. We picked one of these two saints and researched them as a homework project. We found interesting facts about them and presented them to the class. We also learned a lot about him on our Saint Joseph Retreat Day. On Monday, we had fun dyeing Easter eggs and going on an Easter egg hunt. In Math, we worked on our division skills and have finished our geometry unit. Next we will move on to charts and graphs. Please continue to have your child memorize his or her multiplication and division facts! Toward the end of the year, we will be doing problems like 25x6 and if they do not know their basic multiplication, this will be hard for them. In Reading, we have been learning about the author's point of view, finding text evidence, and finding the main idea and supporting details. In Grammar, we have been learning about contractions, helping verbs, complex sentences, and subordinating conjunctions. We wrote a new ending to the story, Stone Soup, that we read in our books. Children then presented them to the class. Children also wrote an opinion essay in their journals about whether or not video games are good for you. We are now working on an opinion essay on whether or not uniforms should be worn in school. Children presented their non-fiction book reports to the class. We learned some interesting facts on various topics from these reports. The children have also been working on their oral presentations. We have been learning to speak with emotion and look up at the audience every so often. Our next book report which is a biography is due on April 23rd. We can't wait to see everyone's poster and hear their presentations! In Science, we have been learning about landforms, earth's surface, and our environment. Now we have begun our unit on properties of matter. In Social Studies, we have been learning about being a good citizen. Now we are learning about how our nation began growing and changing.  In Religion, we have been learning about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. We also have been learning about the mass and how we can serve God.