Dear Families, November 7, 2024
Your children were AMAZING in today’s Veteran’s Prayer Service! Thank you for the support for the speaking parts by practicing at home!
We were lucky enough to also celebrate Vocations Week this week by having St. Eucharista as well as two Sisters of Charity and Deacon Dale from Sacred Heart.
Our field trip is on Tuesday, November 12th. We will be leaving at 12:30 after lunch. Students are to wear their casual dress uniforms and dress warmly! (Similar to our last field trip.) We will be going rain or shine! For parents that are volunteering: I will send home a plan later today or tomorrow.
The Lane family generously obtained four full salmon for us to dissect on November 14th at 1:15. We will also be creating salmon prints. We need volunteers to do this! So, please go here to sign up for helping out at that time!
We will also be having a Salmon Feast on November 15th! We would love to have you bring something and/or just join us! It is a fabulous celebration to culminate our unit! Here is the link to sign up for that.
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Blessings,
Paula A. Martin-Zender
Academics
Religion – Fourth Grade Theologians practiced and conducted the Veteran’s Day Prayer Service. We also celebrated Vocations Week.
Language – Fourth grade readers and writers finished their book reports on Seesaw. They are also reading our book: My Father’s Dragon. We found the vocabulary words, and we are learning how to write responses to the literature questions. In Spelling, students studied the or, au, aught, and ought. In writing, students are writing their book report.
Math – Mathematicians worked on multi-step problem solving, reviewed chapter 3 and took its test. Finally, today, they began chapter 4 with Mrs. Scarlett who will be teaching her first unit on two-digits times two-digits. Keep practicing facts!
Science and Social Studies – We had a representative from Lummi Nation, Mr. Clarence Bob, talking about his experience of being a fisher for salmon as a young man and comparing it to today’s fishing industry. He talked about his experience in setting up the Lummi Hatchery as well as how salmon is important in their culture. Today, we learned and compared Chief Seattle and Chief Joseph.
Every Wednesday – 2:00 dismissal and casual dress uniform
Friday, November 8 – No school – Accreditation work for the teachers
Monday, November 11 – No school – Veteran’s Day
Tuesday, November 12 – Field trip to Maritime Heritage Park to look at salmon and do service work
Thursday, November 14 – Dissection of salmon and salmon prints
Friday, November 15 – Salmon Feast 11:45-12:30
Monday, November 18 – Human Food Chain – Please bring perishable food in for that next week.
Specialists
Art – Students explored human proportions by drawing a figure that demonstrated movement and balance, working to create a rhythmic composition. They applied design principles to enhance their artwork’s flow and dynamic feel.
Spanish – 4th grade and 5th grade- We learned about Día de los Muertos and played a trivia game using common Spanish verbs.
Music – This week in music class we are doing an active listening exercise and passing off recorder karate belts.
