Week of October 26th

Good Afternoon!

We hope everyone had a good weekend!

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we will go on our field trip to the Symphony!  We will leave school around 8:45 and should return around 11:00.  We will wear our uniforms and be back in plenty of time to have our normal lunch.

Also this week we will have our Halloween Party on Friday afternoon.  Thanks to everyone to getting the proposed snack list back last week so our wonderful room parents had time to plan!

This week in...

Reading:  We will be reading Cyber Pigs this week.  This is a fun, rhyming, play that is another version of The Three Little Pigs!  This week we will look at different versions of The Three Little Pigs and work on Author's Purpose for writing.

Religion:  We will continue to learn about The Ten Commandments and how Moses received them on Mt. Sinai.  We will be reading out of the children's bible this week and watching an animated video depicting the story.

Spelling:  Lesson 9.  Practice page due Thursday.  Menu due Friday and Test will be on Friday

4th LA: Finishing up plural and singular nouns, quiz on Friday

5th LA: Frog essay is due on Wednesday and then they will begin possessive nouns

4th SS:  We will be in our region tour this week of the Northeast Region.  There will not be much daily homework while we are on tour and there is no test at the end.  Instead we have a final project that is due at the end of the tour that consists of a letter and scrapbook pages.  Each time we go to a different "stop" we take notes and learn about the site.  The students will use these notes to help them create their scrapbook picture and one-two sentences about each stop and then they will pick their top three stops to describe in a letter to a family member or friend.  Please know that I am explaining this process almost every day, so the students should know exactly what to do.  They already have the sheets in their blue SS folder.  It can be a little confusing for the first project, but once they get the process down it will be very easy for the rest of the tours!

5th SS: Chapter 4- How Spain builds an empire over in North and South America.  Lesson 1 and possible starting lesson 2 this week. 

Week of October 19th

Good Morning!

A few reminders...

1. Please make sure your child turned in their Symphony Concert Field Trip Permission Form- we go next week!
2. Also please turn in the ORANGE Halloween party proposed snack list ASAP
3. Picture day is on Thursday :)

This week in...

Reading:  We will be reading the informational text piece Mimicry and Camouflage.  We will have a test this week on Friday over the comprehension, skill, and vocab

Religion:  We will finish chapter 3 this week and will most likely have an open book chapter 3 test on Thursday or Friday.

Spelling:  Lesson 8.  Practice sheet is due on Thursday and Menu and Test will be due on Friday

4th LA:  No quiz this week, we will continue to work on nouns (singular and plural and common and proper)

5th LA:  Quiz at the end of the week on nouns and then will begin main idea and detail

4th SS:  We will begin our first region tour this week!!  We will be taking a train tour of the Northeast!  We will have lots to talk about at home so please ask us what we are learning about! 

5th SS;  We are learning about Latitude and Longitude this week and taking a short beak from our textbook.  We will have a short quiz over these concepts on Thursday or Friday of this week depending on how we are doing, then we will start chapter 4

Week of October 12th

Good Afternoon!


This week in...

Reading:  No reading test this week but we will have a vocabulary test on our 8 new words.  The week will be spent looking at the reading strategy of questioning.

Spelling:  Lesson 7- practice, menu, and test all due and taken on Friday

Religion:  Lesson 3- Moses and the flight out of Egypt

4th LA:  Starting nouns: single, plural, common, and proper. We will be focusing on spelling plural nouns correctly

5th LA:  Start nouns and possibly begin diocesan writing test

4th SS:  Chapter 4 test Wednesday.  On Thursday and Friday we will get all of our papers necessary for our FIRST northeast tour!

5th SS:  Chapter 3 test Wednesday and Thursday.  On Friday we will start chapter 4 which is on our Spanish Explorers.

4th and 5th SS test Update

Hi Everyone,

Next week both fourth and fifth graders will have SS tests.

Fourth grade is on schedule, we will have our Chapter 4 test on Wednesday

Fifth graders originally had the Chapter 3 test scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, I am going to change that to Wednesday and Thursday.  We just have a few loose ends to wrap up before the review game that we will complete on Tuesday.

Thank you!

4th Grade LA

Fourth graders will have a LA quiz tomorrow.  They have notes in their yellow notebook and did a review lesson today!

Week of October 5th

Hi Everyone!

We had our first day of full uniform today.  Everyone looked great!  We had a few gym shoes, but we understand that things are still getting ordered for our growing feet :)

Our last book report for the quarter is due on Friday, October 9th

This week in...

Reading:  We will read the story Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World.  We made some predictions today as to what we think this story will be about.  Our comprehension test and vocab test will be on Friday.

Spelling:  This is our first REVIEW LESSON and things are a little different this week!  First their is a spelling practice packet that your child should complete, this will be due on Friday.  Second there will be a spelling test on Friday and the students should be studying the words that are given in the packet for each lesson (there are about 10 or so from each lesson).  The test is a little different this week, the students will have to choose the word that is spelled correctly for each number.

For example number one might read:  A. Froge  B. Frouge  C. Frogge  D. Frog

The correct answer would be D.  This is the correct way to spell Frog

Also there is NO MENU this week!  But they should practice those words and make sure their packet is complete :)

Religion: Chapter 3 is all about Moses and the Ten Commandments.  We will be learning about the Ten Commandments even more this year and this will give us a good start.  

4th LA: TBA

5th LA: TBA

4th SS:  We will finish up chapter 4 this week.  On Friday we will review in class and learn a little bit about Christopher Columbus.  On Tuesday (no school Monday) We will play our chapter 4 review game and will be taking our test on Wednesday, October 14th.  This also means that this is the day that vocab is due!

5th SS:  We will finish chapter 3 this week.  We will review on Friday and take our test on Tuesday (no school Monday) and Wednesday of next week.  We will learn about Christopher Columbus in Chapter 4, so we will wait to talk about why we get the day off till then.  However they should know about him!