Dear Families,

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend!  This Friday is Grandparents Day.  Friday is also a noon dismissal.  Below is an overview of our week:

Religion:  Chapter 2: Jesus calls us to worship.

Math: Our focus this week will be to introduce  squaring numbers, factor strings and prime factorization.  IXL sections are K.1 prime and composite numbers and K.4 divisibility rules.

Science:  Cell organization:  Cells join together to perform basic life functions in multi cellular organisms.

Social Studies:  We will be taking our first states test on Tuesday.  The focus this week is the Native Americans of  of the Southwest.

Vocabulary:  We will be having our first vocabulary test this Wednesday.  We will then move on to Unit 2.

Grammar:  We will be learning about subjects in imperative sentences, compound subjects and compound predicates.

ELA:  We continue with Unit 1, Play on Words. All students now have their reading logs on their flash drives.  Reading logs are due Monday mornings.  Students can either print out the reading logs and turn them in or they can email them to me at fifthgrade@sacredheartschoolventura.org.

If you have any questions please let me know.  Thank you.

Ms. Carney