Jan 30

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year and we will celebrate the Year of the Horse with some fun activities in the afternoon.

I gave the students a copy of the Apostle's Creed as found in our textbooks. Please review the prayer with them as we will have a Test on it on FEB. 28. They should memorize the prayer.

Homework:
1. Current Events- Armed Forces reading and Map
2. Math graph-- quiz tomorrow
3. Sp Unit 16 due tom.
4. Aine sheets

Reminders:
Book orders due tom.

Are you reading? Keep up with the 15 minutes a day!

Jan 29

Homework:
1. Adjectives w/s
2. Math- pictograph w/s

Reminders:
-Sp Unit 16 due Fri
- Book orders due Fri
-$ donations for buying a goat

Jan 28

We have been discussing friendship in Personal Planning. We have read stories about friendships and talked about what makes a good friend. We will continue to work on skills that will help us with social situations. One of the things we are working on is manners and etiquette. At the end of term, we would love to have a sit down lunch (with cutlery and everything!) where we can use our skills in the classroom setting.

Homework:
1. Onom. (poetry) w/s
2. Math- pictograph
3. Mercury w/s

Don't forget that Spelling (unit 16) is due on Fri! Keep working on it!

Jan 27

This week we have the following:

--Hot Lunch on Wednesday
--Chinese New Year & Feast of Don Bosco on Friday

We are welcoming a student-teacher, Miss Blattman, to our classroom this Thursday. She will be with us for a semester. She is here to observe our class.

Homework:
1. Poem-- good copy
2. Math-- graph
3. SS-- map symbols
4. Georgia star student (from last week!)
5. Sp test corrections

Reminders:
Sp Unit 16 due on Fri (Have students start sections every day so that they are not overwhelmed with the whole thing on Thursday night!

Has your child chosen a poem for Speech Arts? Practiced the bible readings? What about reading a novel for our Reading Fair project? It's all creeping up!!!

Reading Fair project-- due Mon. Feb 17
Bible readings in class-- Feb 18-19
Poetry in class--Fri. Feb 28

Jan 24

Brrr! It's still really chilly out. Please ensure that your child is ready to go outside for recess!

We have a student from Grade 5 going to Nairobi with her family on a Me to We trip (something that our Christian Servers have been working with for a few years now) and we are hoping to buy a goat for the village from our class. I am asking for a $2 from each student so we can reach the $50 price for the goat. Thank you for your support!

Homework:
1. Math w/s (bar graph quiz tom)
2. Poetry- 2 backwards poems (4 line each)
3. Sp 15-- due tom

This is a short week???

Sometimes four day weeks seem longer than five day weeks, as we are trying to "catch up on work". Yesterday was such a blessing because the staff was able to spend time on Faith formation with Father Nick Meisl. How lucky am I to work with a great group of people who share their love of God with my own children!

There is NO HOT LUNCH tomorrow. 

Book Order forms for January were sent home today. They are due on Fri. Jan 31.

Homework:
1. Food poem good copy
2. Math- graphing work sheet
3. Spelling test corrections (7x each word)
4. Sp Unit 15 (WTW, WP, CH)-- Due FRI

Jan 17

Hello weekend!!! I'm sure your child has been telling you that we DO NOT have school on Monday! Enjoy your long weekend! The staff will be having our annual Staff Retreat :)

Don't forget to keep reading and sign those reading logs! I would like to know the title and author of the novels they are reading by next Friday! Also, I need a copy of their Speech Arts poem by January 31st. If the poem is included in our poetry duotangs, then I will just need the title. Thank you!

January 14

Two important things were handed out today. One is a Reading Fair Project. Please read it carefully with your child and I will attach a link to it to our sidebar. The other thing is a duotang with poems for Speech Arts (YES! That time of year!) Each child must recite a bible reading (NOT MEMORIZED) and a poem (MEMORIZED, at least 1 minute in lenght). I sent home some examples, but they are welcome to find their own with you. If your child is reciting a poem that is not added to the duotang, please send a copy of the poem to me.

Homework:
1. Timeline project due
2. Snowman good copy
3. Math w/s
4. Sp14-- WP

Jan 8

The outline for the timeline project has been send home. Please check in with your child. I also sent home a marking rubric with it.

Homework:
1. Sp Unit 13-- challenges
2. Resolutions-- good copy

Sci title page due FRI

Jan. 7

Please note that there is NO HOT LUNCH tomorrow!

Homework:
1. Math-- word problems (2 questions, we did the first three together to model it to them)
2. Sp-- Unit 13 WP
3. Winter break snapshot
4. Resolutions brainstorm

Science- space title page due on FRI (marking rubric was handed out)

Tomorrow, I will hand out a TIMELINE PROJECT to your child. They are to draw or find pictures for the first 8 years of their life that shows their milestones (Baby, 1 year old-7 years old). It is to be done on an 81/2 by 11 sheet that I will provide for them with the boxes and such drawn in. A criteria sheet will also be provided. Talk to them about the milestones are you will have more of the memories from birth to about Kindergarten. These will be due on WED. JANUARY 15, where they will then present them to the class.

January 6, 2014

Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany! Welcome back! I know first hand how difficult the transition may be, as we let our own children sleep in for two whole weeks! It was so hard to get everyone up and moving this morning! We are back on routine this week with our work and hopefully, we get back on track quickly.

We celebrated the Feast of the Three Kings today with a small prayer service in the classroom and door blessing. We also did our book exchange since we were unable to do it due to our AWESOME SNOW DAY!!! Thank you so much for the well-wishes for Christmas and the presents. I am overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity!

In Religion this month, we will begin Unit 2 of our textbooks and continue working on it until we get to the season of Lent. In Language Arts, we are doing some personal writing this week and we will move into poetry next week. This will lead us to Speech Arts (March) and a poetry project for February. In our reading, we are continuing with Reading Groups and a new class novel, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Please do not read this ahead with them as we do various activities with the novel.) In February, we will also be having a READING FAIR (similar to a Science Fair, but with a literary focus... more details to follow!)

We have begun our Socials Unit on mapping today and will begin Space in Science this week.

In Math, we will be doing operations and word problems with money for the next two weeks, and then move on to Graphing for the remainder of January.

PHEW! That is our term in a nutshell!

Homework:
1. Rd for 15 minutes
2. Sp Unit 13 -- WTW due tom.
3, Winter break snapshot-- due Wed

Reminders:
-- Holy Childhood Association boxes due Fri
--Makenna Star Student-- due Fri