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 6 years. I love teaching and look foward to working with your children everyday.

Science Animal Report Due Wednesday
Religion Test Wednesday
Thurs. 1/2 Day

We are in the home stretch now! Can you believe it? We enjoyed celebrating Dr. Seuss Day and St. Patrick's Day! In Reading, we have been continuing to read various expository texts on hot air balloons, the inventions of trains, and how we can learn things from animals. We also read a folktale about stone soup and a realistic fiction story about a girl named Clementine. We continue to work on finding the main idea, supporting details, cause and effect, and finding the meaning of words by looking for clues in a sentence. In Grammar, we wrote an essay about a goal we had in our life, and we wrote a new ending to Stone Soup. We have been working on linking verbs, helping verbs, using commas, contractions, quotation marks, and identifying simple, compound and complex sentences.  In Math, we finished our chapter on fractions and are now working on various charts and graphs.  Please continue to practice multiplication and division skills.  In Science, we have been working on animal ecosystems. Now we have begun talking about landforms, erosion and weathering. In Socials Studies, we have been learning about immigration, advances in communication, new inventions, and civil rights. Everyone did a great job on their biography reports! We have enjoyed looking at everyone's poster and listening to their presentations. In Religion, we have been learning about the Stations of the Cross, Lent, holy week and other holy seasons. We learned about the mass and about forgiveness. In Computer, we visited the Dr. Seuss website: www.seussville.com in honor of Dr. Seuss. We did research on Saint Patrick and Saint Joseph. We continue to work on websites such as Splashmath, Xtramath, freerice, and multiplication.com. Easter vacation is always a good time to replenish any supplies the children need such as glue sticks, pencils, sharpeners, red pens, highlighters, broken or worn out folders etc. Spring uniforms may be worn starting April 29th. Please remember dress uniforms must be worn on Mass days.