OUR WORK
1st & 2nd Grades
Happy spring! Freezing one day, and very warm the next. Mother Nature just doesn’t know what to do. In first and second grade we know exactly what to do! Prepare for Easter. In first grade, we are learning about Ash Wednesday, Lent and the Lenten journey of fasting, praying, and almsgiving. We have also been praying the Stations of the Cross at church on Thursdays and learning more about them in class. In reading, the first graders have been reading stories about light. We read about a blackout, day and night, and seasons. Second graders have been reading stories about great Americans who fought for equal rights and migrant workers. In math, first grade is learning how to do mental math by making a 10 to add two numbers up to 20. In second grade, we are reading and making graphs. We just passed our 120th day of school (which is a big milestone in first grade) and celebrated with a lot of activities counting to 120 throughout the day. For science, we are learning the characteristics of living and nonliving things. In social studies, we started a unit on maps. We will be looking at maps of our classroom to our world, and many maps in between. God Bless everyone, and stay warm… or cool.
All are invited to our annual Forensics Night on Wednesday, April 2, in the church basement. The evening of entertainment begins at 6 pm. We hope you can join us!
3rd Grade
It’s Spring! The third graders are growing closer to Jesus during Lent and preparing for Easter. At noon on Thursdays we reflect on the Stations of the Cross. Come join us.
In religion class, we’ve been amazed by the miracles Jesus did and how he used parables to teach lessons. Math has been full of fun with fractions. We’re learning about Wisconsin’s fur trading history and connection to the French explorers.
Science and reading class have been spent researching animals and their adaptations. Our next report is on penguins, seals, albatross, and whales. We’ve learned so many interesting things reading our book Where Is Antarctica? Maybe one of us will travel there someday!
School fundraiser: Eat dinner at Bloomer’s DQ on Monday, March 24. They donate a percentage of sales to support St. Peter School.
5th & 6th Grades
Hello family and friends of St. Peter Catholic School! The staff and students have reached the final quarter of the school year! The fifth through eighth grade students did very well at their Forensics Night and we could not be more proud of all the hard work that they had put into it. Thank you to all who were able to attend. Kevin Smiskey and Aaron Pieper also performed an encore of their piece, “Dat’s Amore”, at Grandparents Day this past Friday. We are so thankful for all of the families that were also able to attend our special Grandparents Day program as well.
In math, the fifth grade students have been working hard at multiplying fractions while the sixth graders have been learning about rational numbers and graphing on a coordinate plane. For science, the students have been learning about climate and biomes and how certain plants and animals can only be found in certain locations more than they can in others. They have also begun their unit on Ancient Greece for Social Studies. In religion, the students have just completed their unit about Jesus fulfilling the prophecies and providing us with the new covenant.
Mrs. Dachel and myself are very proud of all the hard work that the students have put into their Science Fair projects. Reminder that their boards are on display in the St. Peter Church basement through this Sunday, April 13. If you have time, please stop to check out their work!
A few quick reminders about events happening this week. Thursday will be our last Stations of the Cross at noon before Easter. We will also not have school on Friday, April 18th, or Monday, April 21st. If you and your families are able to attend, we will be having Family Choir at the Easter Vigil on Saturday, April 19th, at the 8:30 PM Mass! We hope that you all have a wonderful Easter.
7th & 8th Grades
April greetings from the 7th and 8th grade classroom! This week began the fourth quarter of our school year–where has the time gone?!
Fifth-eighth grades are putting the final touches on their Science Fair displays and look forward to sharing them with you next week, April 12-13. We hope you are able to take some time after Mass to check out all of their hard work.
This quarter, the seventh and eighth graders will study The Theology of the Body based on 129 of St. John Paul II’s lectures. They will look at the questions: Who am I? Where am I going? How do I get there? Prealgebra students are wrapping up their study of systems of equations while algebra students are wrapping up the study of multiplication and division properties of exponents. Everyone is enjoying the novel My Side of the Mountain, a story about a 14-year-old boy who leaves his home in New York City to live “off the land” in the Catskill Mountains.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Forensics Night! We hope you enjoyed the evening as much as we enjoyed performing for you.
In-person sign up for the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP) Tuesday, April 8: 6 pm - 7 pm, at St. Peter School. The WPCP application window closes on April 17, 2025.
Upcoming Events:
During Lent, we invite you to join us for Stations of the Cross on Thursdays at noon.
