Upcoming Events
- TRACK-A-THON - October 5th
- FRANCISfest - October 7
- CONFERENCES - October 8, 9, and 11th
- SPIRITWEAR- October 9th
- GRANDPARENT/GRANDFRIEND Day - October 19
- SAINTS WAX MUSEUM - November 1
Reminders
- NO SCHOOL - October 11, 12, and 15th.
- CONFERENCES - You are signing up for one spot ONLY with your Homeroom teacher but will rotate through and talk to all three 5th grade teachers. These are only 5 min. conferences with each of us for a total of 15 min.
- LATE-SLIPS - Students will receive 3 lates in each subject. On the third late in the same subject, they will serve a detention on the following Wednesday after school until 4:00.
- Extra Layers - As the weather changes, so does the temperature of our classrooms. Students must be in SFA approved sweatshirts /fleece inside the building. They may wear whatever they want out to recess.
October 1-5
Religion – We began our unit on The Parts of the Mass on Monday with an informational walk through of the mass with Fr. Trevor in the church. We will continue an in depth study of each part of the mass next week using Power Notes. An short assessment will follow. We will keep you posted regarding that date. 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 2 at 9:00 a.m. Mark your calendars! Our annual Saints Wax Museum will be held after our school mass on Thursday November 1st (no school mass on Wednesday this week due to All Saint’s Day). 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 spent the week discussing timelines, how they work, why they are important, and how they help show when events happened. Students are applying these skills to their own lives creating a timeline. They will present their timelines in class and will be hanging in the halls for conferences for all to view. We will use timelines throughout the year when discussing events in history. 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’ve wrapped up Part 1 of The Sentence with an assessment today. Next week, we will begin Part 2 which consists of Simple, Compound, and Complex sentences, conjunctions, and Subjects in Imperatives. We will also be using the mentor texts, My Rotten Red Headed Older Brother and Meteor to help us brainstorm ideas to write about a moments from our own lives.
Spelling – Our Spelling list next week will consist of words with the suffixes -ible, -ment, and -less.
