We spent the week celebrating Catholic education at Saint Mary! It is an honor and a privilege to be a teacher at our school. I strongly believe in Catholic education. Every day is an opportunity to bring a little piece of heaven in to our classroom. Each lesson, whether social, academic, or emotional, is an opportunity to point our children toward Jesus. There is a popular quote that says, “Your students may not remember everything you taught them, but they will always remember how you made them feel.” I take this to heart. Teaching is shaping lives. I want you to know that I see Jesus in each one of my students and I pray that they see His light in me. Teaching is my vocation, it is my passion, my dream. Thank you for making this a reality. Thank you for trusting me with your children. Thank you for supporting and working with me. Together we are truly accomplishing great things.
A look at our upcoming week:
Religion:
In Chapter 15, the students learned about forgiveness and the Sacrament of Penance. In this upcoming chapter, they will learn more about the celebration of Penance and about the Rite of Reconciliation for Several and Individual Penitents. In addition to the Chapter 16 test, I will be assessing the students’ knowledge of the Act of Contrition and the Ten Commandments. The Act of Contrition can be found on page 328 of our Religion text. The Ten Commandments are listed on page 329.
4th Grade Language Arts:
This week’s…
- Target Vocabulary: display, alert, weariness, fractured, standards, vision, huddle, graceful, stranded, concluded
- Vocabulary Strategy: Greek and Latin word parts spect, struct, tele, vis
- Comprehension Skill: Sequence of events—tell the order in which things happen
- Comprehension Strategy: Summarize— telling or writing down the most important ideas in a selection
- Writing Focus: Opinion writing— persuasive letter
- Spelling Words: wiped, covered, mapped, pleasing, slipped, putting, traveled, seeking, visiting, mixed, shipped, phoning, offered, smelling, hiking, checking, fainted, landed, becoming, wandering (Homework assignment can be found here.)
5th Grade Language Arts:
This week’s…
- Target Vocabulary: display, alert, weariness, fractured, standards, vision, huddle, graceful, stranded, concluded
- Vocabulary Strategy: Greek and Latin word parts spect, struct, tele, vis
- Comprehension Skill: Sequence of events—tell the order in which things happen
- Comprehension Strategy: Summarize— telling or writing down the most important ideas in a selection
- Writing Focus: Opinion writing— persuasive letter
- Spelling Words: conflict, orphan, instant, complex, simply, burglar, laundry, laughter, employ, anchor, merchant, improve, arctic, mischief, childhood, purchase, dolphin, partner, complain, tremble (Homework assignment can be found here.)
4th Grade Math:
Students will…
- find missing dividends and divisors
- find the value of a variable in a multiplication or a division sentence
- create and extend number patterns
- estimate quotients
- divide 2-digit dividends by 1-digit divisors to find 1-digit quotients with remainders
5th Grade Math:
Students will…
- rename the differences of two fractions with like denominators
- subtract fractions with compatible unlike denominators
- subtract fractions with unlike denominators that are not compatible
- subtract mixed numbers
5th Grade Accelerated Math: Fractions multiplication and division
Science: Students will identify telescopes, satellites, and space probes as instruments scientists use to study the solar system. We will continue to record our moon observations in our science notebook.
Social Studies: We have finished our chapter on the Age of Exploration. This week we will review the concepts learned and have a test on Chapter 3. Click here for the study guide.
Upcoming Important Dates and Events (Tests are only added on a weekly basis and subject to change):
Wednesday 2/3: 8am Mass, Social Studies Chapter 4 Test, 2:30pm Dismissal
Thursday 2/4: Religion Chapter 16 Test
Friday 2/5: SLE Presentation at morning assembly, Spelling and LA 3.13 Tests, Spelling Bee, 12 noon Dismissal
Saturday 2/6: 5pm Gala
Wednesday 2/10: 8am Ash Wednesday Mass, 2:30pm Dismissal
Thursday 2/11: 9am Stations of the Cross in the Church
Friday 2/12: Daddy Daughter Dance 5:30pm in the Hall
Monday 2/15: No School
Wednesday 2/17: 8am Mass, 2:30pm Dismissal
Thursday 2/18: 9am Stations of the Cross in the Church
Friday 2/19: 12noon Dismissal
For an up-to-date version of our school calendar please visit https://stmesc.org/students-and-families/school-calendar/.
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