Blake, Sydney, Dominic, and Maggie offered a warm welcome to those attending mass on Friday. Terra and Alex reverently brought up the gifts. Erick gave a resounding warning from the Book of the Prophet Joel, Nikolai beautifully delivered the Responsorial Psalm and the Alleluia, and Luz graciously read the Prayers of the Faithful. With the direction of Mrs. Roland, these incredible fifth graders prepared for a last minute change in the mass with only one week’s notice. My heart was soaring on Friday morning as I watched these faithful students glorify God in their special ways.
Thank you for your generosity in donating to Hope House. Our bin is nearly half full. Perhaps your hard-working child would like to do a chore to earn a can of food for the bin? That would be a great way to continue our service learning project!
What’s up?
Math: Students reviewed math concepts and began their Chapter 1 Test.
Literacy: Students began reading, The Birchbark House. They are answering inferential and literal questions about the text, taking notes to go along with their nightly reading assignment, and doing daily work on vocabulary and literary devices.
Writing: Students have begun the rough draft of their second essay of the year. A large spider, a 3-D drawing of a house on fire, and a beautifully colored picture of a bee have been brought to school to be used as visual aids to go along with the final drafts of the “Greatest Fear” papers. Please bring in those visual aids! P.S. William, it is not funny to have a giant spider on your head when your teacher greets you in the morning!
ELA/Spelling: Students studied conjunctions and reviewed some cursive letters this week. Thus far, subjects and predicates, fragments vs. complete sentences, and conjunctions have been studied. Students did a D.O.L. (daily oral language) and asked very good questions about why commas are inserted in certain places and why your and you’re are different. They also can tell me what types of sentences they are reading: interrogative, declarative, imperative, and exclamatory. Watch out! They might be correcting your grammar soon!
Students took the Unit 2 test: Long o and Long i
STEAM: Students worked on their Shadow Unit and graphed their data. To be continued next week…
Social Studies: Students watched interesting videos on Navajo Code Talkers, Doctor Susan LaFlesche Picotte, and Lummi salmon. Next week, we will be using these educational videos to do a project around the issues of conflict and their economic, civic, geographical, and historical significance.
Religion: Students prepared for the mass and presented their Seven Sacraments projects. They also studied for the ACRE Test that they’ll take in the spring.
Odds & Ends:
Thank you for remembering music sheets and instruments every Wednesday and Friday!
I don’t think that we will be getting agendas this year as I thought we would. Therefore, I will continue to send students their homework via email and have their homework written on the board so they know what books to take home. I’ve had some positive feedback about that, but I have had a few students who are not accustomed to checking their email. This may be the first time that they’ve had their own 1:1 devices, so it will take some getting used to.
Thank you for your emails, notes about homework, and the positive phone calls. School is always better when communication flows!
Upcoming:
October 15th– NO SCHOOL, Staff Retreat
October 19th to 22nd– Holy Hoops 4-on-4 Tournament for Grades 5-8 this week
October 20th– Early Release @ 11:45 am
October 26th– Picture retakes
October 28th- Orange & Black Day (Follow school guidelines. IF exercise pants/leggings THEN skirt/shorts/dress.)
