Happy Monday 4th grade families!
We are officially done with IOWA testing- yay! The students did a great job and we must say that we probably had the mintiest breath in the entire country last week :) We are back to a normal schedule this week.
This week in....
Reading: Mrs. Carbone's class will complete Kai's Journey and have a test on Friday
Miss Winter's class will read On the Banks of Plum Creek and have a test on Friday
Spelling: Lesson 8
Religion: This week we will be learning about Moses and the Ten Commandments
4th LA: Main Idea and Details
4th SS: We will be on our train tour of the Northeast. We will be "stopping" at nine different places and complete activities focusing on map skills, geography, politics, and economics. There is no test for our train tour but we will have in-class projects that may need to be finished at home. We will finish the tour by writing a letter to a family member about all we have seen (worth 100 points).
5th LA: Nouns and a close read of persuasive articles
5th SS: Chapter 3- Empires of the Eastern Hemisphere. This week or early next we the students will "travel" along the Silk Road
Monday, September 30, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Week of September 23rd
This week we will complete our IOWA Assessments. Please make sure that everyone is getting a good night's sleep and eating a healthy breakfast. Also please send your student with a healthy snack and some mints if you would like- they do help!
Due to testing this week we will not switch for classes until Thursday. Homework will be lighter this week. So this might be a good chance to get some extra independent reading in at home- they are devouring books here at school!
IOWA TESTs:
Monday- Practice Tests
Tuesday- Reading
Wednesday- Math
Thursday- Written Expressions
This week in....
Reading: we will have reading like normal. We will continue working with Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain and comparing and contrasting. This story is about Kai who immigrates through Angel Island in California. If anyone has any family history about Angel or Ellis Island please let your student know and we will have time to share those stories.
Spelling: We are SKIPPING lesson 6 and will do lesson 7 this week. We are going to save lesson 6 for the week of October 7th since it is a three day week and lesson 6 is a review lesson.
Religion: The 10 Commandments. We spend a lot of time on them in 4th grade- this is our big topic this year
Social Studies 4th: We will meet on Friday and review Chapter 4. Due to IOWA testing I am going to send Chapter 4 test home as a take home test for over the weekend that will be due on Monday.
Language Arts 4th: Will meet on Friday as well- wrap up of subject and predicate
Social Studies 5th: Will meet on Thursday and Friday
Language Arts 5th: Will meet on Thursday and Friday
As always if any questions arise please do not hesitate to contact us!
Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter
Due to testing this week we will not switch for classes until Thursday. Homework will be lighter this week. So this might be a good chance to get some extra independent reading in at home- they are devouring books here at school!
IOWA TESTs:
Monday- Practice Tests
Tuesday- Reading
Wednesday- Math
Thursday- Written Expressions
This week in....
Reading: we will have reading like normal. We will continue working with Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain and comparing and contrasting. This story is about Kai who immigrates through Angel Island in California. If anyone has any family history about Angel or Ellis Island please let your student know and we will have time to share those stories.
Spelling: We are SKIPPING lesson 6 and will do lesson 7 this week. We are going to save lesson 6 for the week of October 7th since it is a three day week and lesson 6 is a review lesson.
Religion: The 10 Commandments. We spend a lot of time on them in 4th grade- this is our big topic this year
Social Studies 4th: We will meet on Friday and review Chapter 4. Due to IOWA testing I am going to send Chapter 4 test home as a take home test for over the weekend that will be due on Monday.
Language Arts 4th: Will meet on Friday as well- wrap up of subject and predicate
Social Studies 5th: Will meet on Thursday and Friday
Language Arts 5th: Will meet on Thursday and Friday
As always if any questions arise please do not hesitate to contact us!
Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Spirit Wear on Friday
We may wear our spirit wear on Friday (9/20) to celebrate our homecoming football game on Sunday which will be played at Montini. Students can wear a plain white or green top or anything that says St. Joseph (SJS) on it. However we will still wear normal uniform bottoms- navy blue pants or shorts or wear your spirit wear shirt over your jumper.
Also as a reminder the students will have a science quiz, language arts quiz, and a math quiz tomorrow. They should have everything they need to study for each of them. We will also have our normal Friday spelling test.
Thanks and happy almost weekend!
Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter
Also as a reminder the students will have a science quiz, language arts quiz, and a math quiz tomorrow. They should have everything they need to study for each of them. We will also have our normal Friday spelling test.
Thanks and happy almost weekend!
Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Week of September 16th
This week in...
Reading: We will finish up writing our summaries on the article "Good Enough to Eat" We will start the story Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain on Wednesday- we will be taking our time with this story and will possibly have a reading test next Friday
Spelling: Lesson 5
Religion: We will finish chapter 2- test Friday
4th LA: quiz on subject and predicate on Thursday
5th LA: subject and predicate and also analyzing two different texts on Native Americans
4th SS: Continuing chapter 4- Resources of the Northeast- we will have a chapter 4 test sometime last next week
5th SS: Chapter 2 Native Americans
Also next week we will be taking our IOWA tests. So the schedule next week will be a little "abnormal" we will let you know by the blog what our schedule will look like! Thank you!
Reading: We will finish up writing our summaries on the article "Good Enough to Eat" We will start the story Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain on Wednesday- we will be taking our time with this story and will possibly have a reading test next Friday
Spelling: Lesson 5
Religion: We will finish chapter 2- test Friday
4th LA: quiz on subject and predicate on Thursday
5th LA: subject and predicate and also analyzing two different texts on Native Americans
4th SS: Continuing chapter 4- Resources of the Northeast- we will have a chapter 4 test sometime last next week
5th SS: Chapter 2 Native Americans
Also next week we will be taking our IOWA tests. So the schedule next week will be a little "abnormal" we will let you know by the blog what our schedule will look like! Thank you!
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Mid Week Notes
Good Morning!
Don't forget that tomorrow the Scholastic Book order is due. If you are ordering online our access code is:
1FQVA
Also we have been having some problems with our pencil bags this year. Many students have the plain black one from the supply pack which is great but when we leave them in another room and they do not have a name on them its super hard to recognize! It is also hard to write a name on them since they are dark fabric. So we told the students it might be a good idea to put a small key chain or a ribbon (kinda like luggage!) on the zipper pull. This way they can be easily recognized!
Have a great day!!
Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter
Don't forget that tomorrow the Scholastic Book order is due. If you are ordering online our access code is:
1FQVA
Also we have been having some problems with our pencil bags this year. Many students have the plain black one from the supply pack which is great but when we leave them in another room and they do not have a name on them its super hard to recognize! It is also hard to write a name on them since they are dark fabric. So we told the students it might be a good idea to put a small key chain or a ribbon (kinda like luggage!) on the zipper pull. This way they can be easily recognized!
Have a great day!!
Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter
Monday, September 9, 2013
Week of September 9th
Good Afternoon!
We have made it to week 4 already! We have updated some of our pages to the blog so please check them out!
This week in....
Reading: We are completing our first nonfiction passage, "Good Enough to Eat" The students should keep the passage in their binders. Also we will work on finding the main idea and summarizing the article. The final summary will be due on Friday. We will complete most of it in class however they may have a little bit to finish up on Thursday night. No test or definitions this week! Next week we will read Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain
Religion: We will learn about Adam and Eve and Abraham and Sarah. We will also continue to discuss God's plan.
Spelling: Lesson 4- hard and soft g and c. Workbook due Thursday and Test and Extra credit due Friday
4th Grade Social Studies: Chapter 1 test Tuesday! On Wednesday we will begin Chapter 4 (northeast geography)
4th Grade Language Arts: Subject and Predicate- hard concept for some 4th graders so please review with your child!
5th Grade Social Studies: Chapter 1 test- Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday we will begin Chapter 2 which is an overview our our important Native American groups that lived in North America.
5th Grade Language Arts: Subject and predicate and will continue to work on their personal narratives
For math and science please click here
We have made it to week 4 already! We have updated some of our pages to the blog so please check them out!
This week in....
Reading: We are completing our first nonfiction passage, "Good Enough to Eat" The students should keep the passage in their binders. Also we will work on finding the main idea and summarizing the article. The final summary will be due on Friday. We will complete most of it in class however they may have a little bit to finish up on Thursday night. No test or definitions this week! Next week we will read Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain
Religion: We will learn about Adam and Eve and Abraham and Sarah. We will also continue to discuss God's plan.
Spelling: Lesson 4- hard and soft g and c. Workbook due Thursday and Test and Extra credit due Friday
4th Grade Social Studies: Chapter 1 test Tuesday! On Wednesday we will begin Chapter 4 (northeast geography)
4th Grade Language Arts: Subject and Predicate- hard concept for some 4th graders so please review with your child!
5th Grade Social Studies: Chapter 1 test- Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday we will begin Chapter 2 which is an overview our our important Native American groups that lived in North America.
5th Grade Language Arts: Subject and predicate and will continue to work on their personal narratives
For math and science please click here
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Cub Scout Pack 80
Just a reminder that anyone interested in joining cub scouts- there will be an informational meeting tonight at their pack meeting here at St. Joe's at 7:00
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Week of September 2nd
Good Afternoon 4th grade families!
This week in.....
Reading: Mighty Jackie; lesson test on Friday. We will be looking at character traits and motivations again but also adding in setting
Religion- Open book test Chapter 1 on Friday
Spelling- Lesson 3 Workbook due Thursday, Test Friday
4th Grade Language Arts: Quiz Thursday on types of sentence. They will review on Wednesday
5th Grade Language Arts: Quiz Wednesday and begin personal narratives
4th Grade Social studies: We will finish chapter 1 this week. Chapter 1 test will be on Tuesday next week with a review on Monday.
Chapter 1 Vocabulary will be due on Tuesday
5th Grade Social Studies: We will finish chapter 1 this week. Chapter 1 test will be on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week with a review on Monday
Chapter 1 Vocabulary will be due on Tuesday
For Math and Science please visit the 5th grade blog
This week in.....
Reading: Mighty Jackie; lesson test on Friday. We will be looking at character traits and motivations again but also adding in setting
Religion- Open book test Chapter 1 on Friday
Spelling- Lesson 3 Workbook due Thursday, Test Friday
4th Grade Language Arts: Quiz Thursday on types of sentence. They will review on Wednesday
5th Grade Language Arts: Quiz Wednesday and begin personal narratives
4th Grade Social studies: We will finish chapter 1 this week. Chapter 1 test will be on Tuesday next week with a review on Monday.
Chapter 1 Vocabulary will be due on Tuesday
5th Grade Social Studies: We will finish chapter 1 this week. Chapter 1 test will be on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week with a review on Monday
Chapter 1 Vocabulary will be due on Tuesday
For Math and Science please visit the 5th grade blog
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