Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Week of January 25th

Good Morning!

Don't forget that this Sunday is open house from 10-2.  Hope to see you all here!

This week in...

Reading:  Just Like Me.  Our sill is fact and opinion and we will have a reading test on Friday

Spelling:  Review Lesson 18.  No Menu this week!  Practice and Test due on Friday

Religion:  Chapter 6

4th LA:  Linking and helping verbs.  No quiz this week!

5th LA:  Persuasive essays

4th SS:  Wednesday we will start Chapter 8!  All about the Midwest :)

5th SS:  Native American Presentations this week!!  Friday we will start Lesson 4 of chapter 6 and will have a test next week- possibly Wednesday/Thursday

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Parent Volunteers Needed!!

Good Morning!

We are in need of some parent volunteers to help us with a tour stop on the Southeast Tour!

We will be studying about trials in the Southeast in regards to the many trials that took place during the Civil Rights.  We also will be learning about the judicial branch in depth.  We would now like to see it in action!

We need parent volunteers to come in and act out a mock trial for us.  You can use your script while you are acting and we do NOT require you to have acting experience!  Scripts will be going home on Friday, so you have plenty of time to look over your part.

Our Mock Trial- The People V Woody (from Toy Story) will be held at approximately 9:30 AM on Tuesday, January 26th on the stage- we mean court room- in the school hall.  We are in need of 7 parent actors.  If you are available from about 9:30-10:30 please email Miss Winter. lwinter@sjsdg.org

Thank you!!  This is going to be a fun and informative lesson!!      

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Week of January 19th

Good Morning!

Hope everyone had a nice three-day weekend!

Report cards will go home this Friday!

This week in...

Reading:  No story this week- students will be working on gathering facts, opinions, and fictional statements about their famous person and then assembling their flip books.

Religion:  Students will be working on a paper about why they are happy that they go to a Catholic School.  If we finish then we will continue with Chapter 6

Spelling:  Lesson 17- everything is due on Friday.

4th LA:  Linking, Helping, and Irregular Verbs

5th LA:  Persuasive essay this week

4th SS:  We will be just about finished with our Southeast region tour this week.  Next week we will tie up any loose ends and begin Chapter 8.  Southeast Letters and Scrapbooks will be due Monday, February 8th.

5th SS:  We will continue with Chapter 6 and decide presentation schedule this week.  The Native American projects and presentations are due Monday, January 25th.  The students may ask questions in the beginning of class!

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Week of January 11th

Good Morning- happy Tuesday!

We hope everyone has survived the snow and the cold- should be warming up by the end of the week!

This week in...

Reading:  We will finish our jigsaw cooperative learning groups about an invention by Wednesday of this week.  On Thursday we will start our fact and opinion flip book about a famous person of our choice.  Most of the assignment will be done in school but students should have a book about their famous person.  Computers will be available for further research but we want them to also research from a book!  This project should take us through next week :)

Spelling:  Lesson 16 this week

Religion:  Chapter 6

4th LA: subject verb agreement with compound subjects- WOW!

5th LA: Starting a persuasive essay

4th SS:  We have the preliminary rounds for the geography bee this week!  Each classroom will have one winner who will represent that class in the school bee- GOOD LUCK!  We will then continue with our Southeast Tour!

5th SS:  We will also have the preliminary rounds for the geography bee this week!  Each classroom will have one winner who will represent that class in the school bee- GOOD LUCK! On Wednesday we will be starting Chapter 6 which is all about colonial life.  If the students have any questions about their projects I will leave time at the beginning of the class to respond!

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Week of January 5th


Welcome back!

This week in...

Reading:  So you want to be an inventor.  Our skill this week is fact and opinion and we will have a test on Friday.  Next week we will be researching about a famous person of our choosing.  It might be a good idea to get a book this week on the famous person (could be a picture book from the library) to look at.

Spelling:  Lesson 15- everything will be due on Friday and test Friday

Religion:  Chapter 6

4th LA: Quiz Friday on main verbs and helping verbs

5th LA:  Linking verbs and contractions, no quizzes

4th SS:  Southeast region tour stops 1-4!

5th SS:  We received our information for our Native American Research project today.  Tomorrow we are going to answer any questions and concerns and begin to research.  Students should go to the public library for books (we will have a limited amount here).  I will give them this week to research.  The project is due January 25th.