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

Reilgion Test April 11
 

  Dear Parents,
            We are in the home stretch now! Can you believe it? We took home cabbage plants yesterday. We hope you participate in this program and visit the website. We can't wait to see the pictures of how your plant has grown! We enjoyed celebrating Dr. Seuss Day and St. Patrick's Day! We went on an Easter egg hunt and dyed Easter eggs!  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 geometry and are now working on fractions.  Please continue to practice multiplication and division skills. I encourage you to practice with flash cards. In Science, we have been learning about simple machines, friction, gravity, energy of motion, stored energy, conductors and insulators. In Socials Studies, we have been learning about the early government and our first president, George Washington. Everyone did a great job on their biography reports! The children have been presenting their reports this week and we will finish hearing everyone's report after Easter vacation. We are enjoying 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 also have been learning about the parts of the Mass. We will have a test on chapters 15-17 on Wednesday, April 11th.  In Computer, we visited the Dr. Seuss website: www.seussville.com in honor of Dr. Seuss. We wrote a Lent poem and continue to practice on various typing websites as well as Splashmath, Xtramath, freerice, and multiplication.com. Easter vacation is always a good time to replenish any supplies the children need such as pencils, sharpeners, red pens, highlighters, broken or worn out folders etc. Spring uniforms may be worn after Easter vacation. Please remember dress uniforms must be worn on Mass days. There is a letter in your child's folder from the diocese regarding the standardized testing for this year. You will be given more details after Easter vacation. When the tests do begin, it is important that you arrive on time in the morning. Testing will begin once everyone is unpacked and ready. Children should be well rested, eaten a good breakfast and come in with a couple of #2 pencils.
            Also, I am sending home the current events form for the 4th marking period. Even though the 3rd marking period doesn't end until April 13th, I figured some of you may want to get a head start on it over vacation. For this assignment, children should pick something that has to do with New Jersey or that is happening in New Jersey. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a blessed and very happy Easter! God bless!          Mrs. Ceras