Week 17 News

Upcoming Events : Catholic Schools Week Activities

• MONDAY, January 28: Celebrating Your Community-Wear a shirt representing a community/program you have been involved in (team, Girl Scouts, Battle of the Books, Choro, etc) and uniform pants.
• TUESDAY, January 29: Celebrating Your Students- Spirit Wear with your choice of bottoms.
• WEDNESDAY, January 30: 11:20 Dismissal Celebrating The Nation-Dress Up for Jesus!
• THURSDAY, January 31: Celebrating Vocations- Wear a shirt that somehow represents our patron saint, St. Francis. (a shirt with an animal, stars, moon, nature etc. If you don’t have one-choose a St. Francis spirit wear or uniform shirt) with uniform bottoms.
• FRIDAY, February 1: Celebrating Faculty, Staff and Volunteers- Pajama Day!

Our BizTown Mayor, Matthew Saegh
and District Attorney Marissa McCarty.

Religion –We have spent time discussing and learning about the seven sacraments.  Next week we will work on relating them 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 – All three classes have started our Martin Luther King unit. Throughout the month of January, we will read various books and articles about MLK and reinforce a number of comprehension strategies during this unit.  There will still be time for independent reading and conferencing to reach that 40 bookmark at the end of the year!

Math – We will continue learning how to write checks, fill out deposit slips, and maintain a check register for BizTown. We have been having great discussions about real-life situations that deal with money! The students will also continue to work on review sheets to reinforce skills previously learned in Everyday Math.

Social Studies - BizTown Speeches went great today.  All candidates did a fantastic job preparing for their speech.  We are proud of all of them. The 5th grade class elected Matthew Saegh for Mayor and Marissa McCarty for DA.  Congrats to both! Students will find out the business and job they will have at BizTown on Monday.

Language Arts – Ms. S will discussed our Grammar unit on Prepositions and Interjections.  She also discussed our next writing unit on Persuasive/Opinion Writing.

Spelling – Our Spelling list next week will consist of the words with the suffix ending -tion.

Week 16 News

Upcoming Events

• MONDAY: NO SCHOOL
• TUESDAY: 
• WEDNESDAY:  Liturgy @ 8:45, BizTown Interviews 9:45-11:00
• THURSDAY: 
• FRIDAY: Mission Awareness, BizTown Speeches

Religion –We have spent time discussing and learning about the seven sacraments.  Next week we will work on relating them 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 – All three classes have started our Martin Luther King unit. Throughout the month of January, we will read various books and articles about MLK and reinforce a number of comprehension strategies during this unit.  There will still be time for independent reading and conferencing to reach that 40 bookmark at the end of the year!

Math – We will continue learning how to write checks, fill out deposit slips, and maintain a check register for BizTown. We have been having great discussions about real-life situations that deal with money! The students will also continue to work on review sheets to reinforce skills previously learned in Everyday Math.

Social Studies - BizTown has begun!  Students did great this week getting practice looking through the BizTown Classified Ads to see what interests they have.  We talked about how to Apply for jobs and filled out our first application. Students will be interviewing with parent volunteers (who will hear from me soon) after Mass on Wednesday the 23rd.  We will spend time doing “mock” interviews on Tuesday. We had a unanimous unopposed bid for District Attorney, Marissa McCarty was named for this position and has graciously accepted. We have 12 students in the run for BizTown Mayor and are excited to hear their speeches Friday the 25th.

Language Arts – We have wrapped up our Narrative Writing Unit!  Students spent this week typing and editing narratives.  Final copies/packets were turned in on Friday. On Monday, Ms. S will begin a Grammar unit on Prepositions and Interjections.  She will also begin our next writing unit on Persuasive/Opinion Writing.

Spelling – Our Spelling list next week will consist of the words with the Greek Roots ology, ologist, bio, geo, astro, hydro.

Week 15 News

Wow...What a fun way to end our first days back from break!  The Brazilian Twins were here sharing some amazing music, and giving their positive message about determination, hope, and fulfilling you dreams not matter the circumstances.  Ask your student, it was pretty cool!

Upcoming Events

• MONDAY: 
• TUESDAY: Spiritwear
• WEDNESDAY:  Liturgy @ 8:45
• THURSDAY: 
• FRIDAY: 

Religion –Our 25 Days of Christ will wrap up next week.  We will then begin learning about the seven sacraments and relating them 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 – Mrs. Schaffer’s class and Mrs. Anderson’s class are finishing up reading A Christmas Carol.  This has been a wonderful whole class book that exposed all of the students to some quality traditional literature.  Mrs. Alsin’s class is finishing their class book Restart as well. Throughout the month of January, all three classes will read various books and articles about MLK and reinforce a number of comprehension strategies during this unit.  There will still be time for independent reading and conferencing to reach that 40 book mark at the end of the year!

Math –  Our Unit 4 test over division will be on Thursday, January 10, and Friday, January 11.  Your child has the following study items to help him/her prepare for the test: red spiral of notes, completed studylinks, and a review sheet.       

Science - We finished our unit over Force and Motion assessing Wednesday.  This was a fun unit to end on as we transition back to Social Studies.  Please look for this test to sign and return.

Social Studies - We started our curriculum for BizTown Thursday.  Students are very excited about this educational experience.  A letter will come home Friday explaining this hands-on simulation, please ask your child about this letter.

Language Arts – We completed our personal narrative rough drafts and started the editing process.  We started the process by completing a personal narrative checklist. We will continue with the editing process and then move on to typing the final draft next week.  Following our personal narrative unit, we will begin a grammar unit on prepositions and interjections as well as a persuasive writing unit.

Spelling – We ended up squeezing in a spelling test this week.  The list consisted of contractions. Contractions should be simply have been a review of words mastered in 3rd and 4th grade.  Next week we will complete a list of words with the silent g sound.