Upcoming Events:

• Tuesday October 3 - 5th grade leads Rosary at 9:00am
• Please remember to sign-up for conferences with your homeroom teacher ONLY
• Mrs. Anderson is still in need of a Junior Achievement representative and several more volunteers for Talking canvas for her classroom. Please email her directly if interested landerson@saintfrancisschool.org.
• Friday Oct. 6 - Picture re-takes

5th Grade Newsletter

October 2nd - October 6th

Did you never read in the Scriptures: ”The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone…?” Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.

Psalm 118:22 and Matthew 21:42-43

Special intention: Please continue to keep 5th grade student, Lily Calvert, in your prayers.

Religion –  We wrapped up or will be wrapping up our unit on Prayer/Apostles’ Creed.  We will begin our unit on The Parts of the Mass next week.  October is the month in which the Catholic Church honors the Rosary.  K-5 will be participating in weekly Rosary prayer services.  5th grade will lead the first Rosary prayer service on Tuesday October 3 at 9:00 a.m. Mark your calendars!  Our annual Saints Wax Museum will be held after our school mass on Wednesday November 1st.  More information to come.

Reading/Language Arts – We are continuing to work through our genre unit.  Following our genre unit, we will spend time learning about and practicing all of the comprehension strategies.  Conferencing and letter writing are going really well!  Many students are well on their way to their 40 books by the end of 5th grade!  Keep on reading!

Math – Thank you for reviewing your child’s Unit 1 Math Assessment and returning it signed with your child.  We have started Unit 2 which focuses on estimation and computational procedures. Please encourage continued practice of basic facts.

Social Studies - We have spent the week discussing the Geography of the US and learned how to get on our online textbook for Social Studies.  Students wrote down the specific login and passwords today and will be having a few assignments that will need to be completed online.  Please email me if they do not have access to a computer or the internet at home.  Next week we will be learning about American Indians, their land, ways of life, and dwellings they lived in.  Our study of Mapping skills continues the entire year with our Daily Oral Geography (D.O.G.) lessons.  Please make sure your student is reviewing this every Thursday night, as there is always a quiz on Friday over this information.

Language Arts – We have started a unit on The Sentence.  We learned about a complete sentence, sentence fragment, and run on sentence.  We also learned about the 4 types of sentences-declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory.  Next week we will learn about the subject/predicate of a sentence.  We also learned about Homographs and completed activities that deal with them.  Next week we will re-visit and work with synonyms and antonyms.  In Writer’s Workshop, we’ve been working on a new version of a fairy tale and developing poems about an animal/food combined creature.  Both of these activities stemmed from some excellent examples of children’s literature.  The Frog Prince Continued and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs both by Jon Scieszka and Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky served as our mentor texts.  Next week will try writing an informational piece of writing using the mentor texts-Who Would Win? by Jerry Pallotta

Spelling – Our Spelling list next week will consist of words with the suffixes -ed, -er, and -ing.