General items of interest: This Wednesday will be a free dress (red, white and blue); cost is $1, and the money will be used in support of veterans. Our annual Saints’ Parade (grades K-2) is on Friday morning after Mass; join us if you are free! Friday is a half day.

What we are working on this week:

Religion: We are learning about God’s laws for living (an introduction to the 10 Commandments)

Math: Students should complete ixL Math skills A5, B5 and C5 by next Monday. In class we continue work in Unit 3. We will be ready for a test on Unit 3 next week.

Spelling: This week we are working on Unit 11. The book pages should be done by Friday, and we will have the test on Friday.

Grammar: We continue Unit 2, focusing upon possessive nouns. We are also working on rough drafts of our stories in Writer’s Workshop: today we discussed how to write quotations, and how to add transitional words and phrases as we move from one scene of the story to another.

Vocabulary: We will begin Unit 6, with a test next week.

Reading: We started new reading groups today. We will be focusing on different strategies to help us become better readers; our focus this week is on Comprehension: Checking for Understanding as a strategy. You can access the Parent Pipeline here. Pipelinecheckunderstanding  Fluency homework #10 should be completed by next Monday.   Reading Logs will be due next Monday as well. You can access the reading log here. main idea readinglog

Social Studies: Students continue to work in groups to prepare presentations about how the native peoples lived in the four different regions of California.

Science: We continue our study of how living things interact with other living things. We are making study cards to help us to learn the main concepts in this chapter.

Thanking you for your continuing support,

Mrs. Mary Dwyer