January 22-26, Upcoming Events:

• Friday 26th: Missions Dress Down Day
• Friday 26th: 5th GRADE Movie Night 
  
  
  
  
  

  January 22nd-26th
  
  
  Religion –We have started our unit on the seven sacraments. We’ve been learning about each one individually and categorizing them into Sacraments of Initiation, Service, and Healing. Next week, we will relate each sacrament to scripture. Students will be in charge of creating a google slide presentation about the seven sacraments. We are asking that students include personal photos of themselves or family members receiving the sacraments. Any photos you may have can be uploaded directly to your child’s google account. If it is easier to email them directly to your child’s teacher, please feel free to do so. If your photos are hard copies, simply take a photo of the photo with your cell phone and email or upload it. Thank you! We will also have generic photos of the sacraments for any student who does not have a picture for any particular sacrament.
  
  Reading/Language Arts – We finished up A Christmas Carol and next week we’ll be moving on to our unit on MLK. Throughout the month of January, we will read various books and articles about MLK and reinforce a number of comprehension strategies during this unit. We will culminate this unit, with an informative writing piece. There will still be time for independent reading and conferencing to reach that 40 book goal at the end of the year!
  
  Math – We will be continue to learn about Financial Literacy to support our BizTown field trip. The students have been doing a wonderful job demonstrating understanding of these concepts. The connection of math to real-life has been so motivating to them! :)
  
  Social Studies - What an exciting week. Students had the chance to listen to some amazing speeches and voted as we went through the election process. Citizens elected a BizTown Mayor, Elizabeth James and a District Attorney, Leo Thornton on Friday! Students will find out Monday what Business and job they have. We will be traveling in these BizTown groups as we switch, so students can work together in their business.
  
  Language Arts – We have continued to work on strengthening our sentences when writing in DLR this week. Some of the easiest ways to strengthen a sentence include adding adjectives and adverbs, combining subjects, combining sentences with conjunctions, etc. In 5th grade, one of our main goals is to make our writing more mature. Practicing how to strengthen sentences is the best way to do this. We have also been working on our rough drafts of our persuasive papers. We will work on editing them and then typing our final drafts next week to then be turned in for a grade.
  
  Spelling – Next week’s spelling list will consist of words that have the greek roots of ology, ologist, bio, geo, astro, and hydro.