Upcoming Events
- FRANCISfest - October 7
- CONFERENCES - October 8, 9, and 11th
- BOOK FAIR - Monday 5th grade students will be shopping at the book fair. Cash and Checks will be accepted at that time.
- ADORATION - Tuesday we will visit the Blessed Sacrament in the church.
- SPIRITWEAR- Tuesday October 9th, SFA or Dowling shirt with dress code bottoms.
- NO SCHOOL - Thursday, 11th and Friday, 12th
- NO SCHOOL - Monday the 15th, Staff Development
- GRANDPARENT/GRANDFRIEND Day - October 19
- SAINTS WAX MUSEUM - November 1
Reminders
- SHORTS, CAPRI bottoms - May still be worn until November 1st.
- 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 8-12
Religion –October is the month in which the Catholic Church honors the Rosary. K-5 will be participating in weekly Rosary prayer services. The Rosary will be held on Tuesday October 9th in the church at 9:00 in the church. We are studying the parts of mass this week and will wrap it up next week. Mrs. Schaffer’s class will be taking the assessment on Monday the 8th, Mrs. Anderson's class will assess on Wednesday the 10th. We will then begin a unit on saints. This will lead us to the annual 5th grade Saint’s Wax Museum. Please save the date! The wax museum will be held on November 1st in your child’s classroom from 10:10-10:45. Watch for more information to come about this special event.
Reading/Language Arts – We’ve wrapped up our unit on genre and will be moving into a unit on plot. 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 – We continue to work in Unit 2 which focuses on estimation and computational procedures. Please encourage continued practice of basic facts.
Social Studies - We presented student's amazing timelines today. They will be hanging in the 5th grade hallway for all to view during conferences. Next week we will get signed-up on Google classroom and TCI which is our online 5th grade social studies textbook.
Language Arts – We are continuing to work through The Sentence unit. We learned about simple, compound, and complex sentences and conjunctions this week. We will continue practicing with them next week. In writing, we’ve continued to use mentor texts to assist us is coming up with ideas to write about. We read Patricia Polacco’s My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother and Meteor to see how authors use events in their own lives as inspiration for writing.
Spelling –There will not be a spelling list/test next week due to a short week for conferences.
