School Fair is this Wednesday! Students should bring their models and scrapbooks to the parish center when they arrive on Wednesday morning. I hope everyone will be able to come to the School Fair at 6 p.m. and enjoy the work by all of the classes. We will be going to Stations of the Cross on Wednesday at 2 p.m. You are most welcome to join us if you can! The second trimester ends on Friday, and it is a full day of school.
THE WEEK AHEAD:
HOMEWORK (due next Monday): Students will be working on the following ixL skills: Math D 20 and E 3, and Language F 10. We are doing fluency #26, and students should be reading for 20-30 minutes per night. Students should complete the Math Boxes on page 135 and 136 by Friday.
DAILY WORK
Religion: This week we will be talking about the fifth commandment.
Math: We begin work on Unit 6 tomorrow, with the focus being division. We will learn the partial quotients division algorithm, which I will introduce in class as part of lesson 3. To familiarize yourself with this method, click here for a sheet of sample problems. partial quotients
Reading Workshop: We continue reading biographies for this mini-unit. Students should be jotting as they read, and when they are done with a book they are to write a summary. Click here for the questions to be answered in the summary. biosummaries
Writing Workshop: Our goal is to finish our personal opinion essays this week.
Spelling: We are working on Unit 26; the test will be on Friday.
Vocabulary: We begin work on Unit 12; the test will be next week.
Grammar: This week we continue our study of adjectives and then move on to adverbs.
Science: We will wrap up our study of earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides and will have a test on this chapter on Friday. Students can go to spellingcity.com to review for the test. I will give them a study sheet tomorrow.
Social Studies: All mission projects should be brought to school on Wednesday morning when you arrive. The mission models, etc. will be sent home on Thursday. We are reading magazine #15 about the rancho period.
Thanking you for your continuing support,
Mrs. Mary Dwyer
