Monday, December 1, 2014

Week of December 1st

Good Morning!

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend!  We have three weeks before Christmas Break- can you believe it?!? They are going to go by fast but they are busy!

On Wednesday of last week we handed out Scholastic Book orders- They are due by Tuesday, December 9th.  Remember you can order online using our class code: 1FQVA  Also if Santa would like to order anything please send Miss Winter an email and we can arrange a pick-up with him :)

Progress Reports also went home last week- if you could please sign and return that would be great!

Miss Winter's class will be leading Mass tomorrow

This week in...

Reading: Today we will finish up our Sea Turtle Extended Response.  Tuesday we will start Firestorm.  Test will be on Friday.

Spelling:  Lesson 13.  Workbooks due on Thursday, Test and Menu on Friday

Religion:  We will continue working on our Ten Commandment Books and will also learn about St. Nicholas on Friday

4th LA:  Verb Unit

5th LA: Continuing verbs, irregular verbs and past participle verbs as well

4th SS:  We will be starting our tour of the Southeast!  10 exciting places to go and lots to see!  We will finish this tour before break- Letter and Scrapbook pages will be due after Christmas Break.

5th SS:  Native American Research Project!  This is the BIG 5th grade project for social studies!  The students will receive a handout and their group and region on Wednesday.  Most of the work will be done in class however they may need to meet outside of class depending on what they get done during class.  They will present these projects Friday, January 9th to the younger students and the BIG presentation will be Monday, January 12th and Tuesday January 13th down in the school hall- parents will be invited- more info to follow!!