Monday, February 18, 2019

Week 20 News

Upcoming Events : February 19-22
  • MONDAY:  No Classes, Teacher Professional Development, Make-up Parent Teacher Conferences 4:30-7:30
  • TUESDAY:  
  • WEDNESDAY:  Liturgy @ 8:45
  • THURSDAY:  
  • FRIDAY:  Mission Awareness Dress Down, End of Trimester 2

Religion –We are continuing with our unit on the seven sacraments.  Students continued working on their Google Slide presentations this week.  This will continue next week as well. We will be presenting these in class upon completing them.  


Reading/Language Arts – We are continuing to work on our MLK unit.  We are pairing reading strategies with learning about an important historical figure and non fiction pieces of writing.  We began writing an informative paper about MLK this week. This should be wrapped up next week.

Math – We will be working on Chapter 5 in Math. This chapter focuses on fractions, proportions, and percents. Please look for everyday opportunities to incorporate into your child’s learning.   
  
Science - We will begin our Health Unit this week and start discussing the Heart and Lungs. These are the two main body systems that our part of 5th grade curriculum.


Social Studies - We have debriefed all BizTown information and will be getting back to daily geography mapping skills beginning next week.


Language Arts –  Students continued working with persuasion strategies and persuasive writing this week.  Wednesday was spent learning about and creating Valentine puns. The preposition unit is wrapping up.  The students were asked to review their notes this week, a review will be held in class on Tuesday with a quiz to follow on Wednesday.  Interjections will follow!
 
Spelling – The Spelling list next week will consist of words with the prefixes uni, bi, tri, quad, and pent.