It was fun to see so many of you at the Monti Carlo night- it was very well done. This will be an off schedule week. Monday the DARE officer will be teaching a lesson. The students need a good night’s sleep on Monday and a plentiful breakfast on Tuesday because we start our standardized testing on Tuesday. There will be one test each week. Our field trip will be on Thursday – all need a cold lunch. Please send flowers to Mass on Friday for our May crowning. Final count on Heiffer Project – $440.00 – bought a water buffalo, pig, flocks of ducks, geese and chickens and donated $10.00 to another class.  Looking ahead Zoo Trip is May 12 – all are welcome to come with us.
Monday math l. # 116 – multiplying a single-digit number and a multi-digit number using the multiplication algorithm-gym

religion – Psalm 104 – thanking God for creation-we’ve been chanting

science – how plants make their own food. – they thought it was cool to find the seedling in a bean seed on Friday

writing – adverbs – hard for them

Tuesday – math l.# 117 – identifying a function rule – music & library-testing

science – review chapter A1, p. A36 – A37, packet and vocabulary for test tomorrow

religion – living as good stewards

reading – Pourquoi tales – stories that explain parts of nature – “Night of the Stars/Shadow on the Sun”

Wednesday – no math -dress rehearsal for primary concert-Spanish & art

science test

religion – Thanking God for the harvest – study chapter 21 and faith words for test tomorrow

reading – skill – cause and effect

Thursday – math l. #118 – simplifying expressions containing multiplying three or more factors – gym-field trip

religion test

Friday – May Crowning -bring flowers- spelling test – computer

science – animals and their needs

religion – begin chapter 22 – God shares His life with us – grace

writing – fragments- incomplete sentences

Posted: April 27th, 2009 under Spelling, Uncategorized.
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No spelling pre-test – review week. Art adventure – “Artist Inspiration” on Monday and Friday, social studies test on Tuesday, Spanish test on Wednesday, religion test on Thursday. “Meet Me in Monti Carlo” night on Friday.  If anyone wants the school to make a bag lunch for the field trip on April 30, we need to let the kitchen know by April 23, so send me a note.

Monday – math l.# 112 – multiplying a one-digit number and a two-digit number using mental computation – gym- Art Adventure

religion – showing love for others

reading – nonfiction – “On the Trail” about tracks and sheddings providing clues

social studies – a tunnel in Europe – study chapter 10 review p. 264-265 as well as the unit 4 review on the next 2 pages, packet, and vocabulary for test tomorrow

writing – abbreviations

Tuesday – math l. # 113 – identifying right, obtuse, and acute angles – naming triangles by angle size – library & music

social studies – review & test

religion – 5th -10th commandments

writing – commas in a series

Wednesday – math l. # 114 – measuring line segments using millimeters – Spanish test – art

reading – classifying and taking notes

science – what is a plant

reading – identifying author’s purpose

religion – we are made in the Image of God – study chapter 20 and faith words for test tomorrow

Thursday – math l. # 115 – multiplying by 6 – gym & music

religion – review and test

science – what is a simple plant

writing – adverbs

Friday – spelling test Mass – technology- Art Adventure – Monti Carlo Night

math – identifying faces, vertices, and edges of a geometric solid

religion – begin chapter 21 – psalms

science – what kind of plants have seeds

Posted: April 20th, 2009 under Spelling.
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You and your children are awesome givers! Between the bake sale, toy sale, and the ark money, everyone has raised over $400!!!! We still have a few arks to be brought in-please send them in tomorrow for a final count. They are anxious to figure out what other animal they can buy. This is late notice, but anyone who is available to join us, we are going to Coldstone today at 12:30 as our reward for earning the most class money for the Rake- A -Thon. Field trip permission slips are coming home today. We will go to a park for lunch and playtime, then to Totino Grace for the play “The Princess and the Pea” We are limited with tickets, so can only take 2 parents from each classroom. INTERVIEWS ARE DUE WEDNESDAY. I hope you are as enthusiastic as they are about learning their family history – they come with new news every day. Thursday is Green and White Day and a PHT meeting. ALL BASKET ITEMS ARE DUE FRIDAY APRIL 17, SO THEY CAN BE ASSEMBLED. Thank you for you generosity. Hope to see many of you at this fun and good eating event.  Art Adventure will start this week.  No tests this week except spelling.

Tuesday – math l. # 109 – multiplying multiples of 10, 100, or 1,000 – music & library

writing – homophones

social studies – transportation before 1800 – present

religion – Easter

Wednesday – math l. #110 – multiply by 9 – Spanish and art

religion – witnesses to Jesus’ visits

writing – verb tenses -past and present

reading – “Animal Talk” – a story about how animals communicate – ties in with our social studies

Thursday – math l. # 111- identifying a fractional part of a set and determining age – Green and White Day – PHT meeting – gym & music

reading – skills – predict from previewing – skim and scan- subject/verb agreement

religion – ministry

social studies – transportation maps

writing – present and future tenses of verbs

Friday – Mass, spelling test – technology

religion – begin chapter 20 – we love and respect one another

writing – all 3 verb tenses

social studies – keeping in touch

Posted: April 14th, 2009 under Spelling.
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All arks should be brought in this week. Here is a review of AR requirements – 1 test at their level needs to be taken each week, therefore at least 9 each quarter – most of the class are doing well with this. I sent your child’s scores in their Friday folder. Pleae sign it each week so I know you saw it. We’ll be taking a field trip to a play at Totino Grace on Thursday, April 30th, and a trip to the Minnesota Zoo on May 12. Permission slips will be going home after the break. Planet books are due on Thursday – interview reports are due Wednesday April 15. Thanks to those who have sent in items for the class Movie Night basket. If each student brings an item or $, the class will earn a sundae.  Spanish test on Wednesday.

Monday – math l. #106 – adding money amounts to $99,999.99, – gym & library

reading – 4 books about western expansion by National Geographic will be read by the students this week

writing – work on interviews and planet books

religion – Holy Week topics – time to give

social studies – immigration

Tuesday – math -l.#107 – acting, drawing pictures, and writing number sentences for division story problems – music

religion – be reconciled

social studies – Great Migration of blacks north for jobs

Wednesday – math l. # 108 – writing number sentences for division story problems-Spanish & art

religion – Holy Thursday – will have a modified seder supper tomorrow

social studies – immigration today – study packet, vocabulary, and Pp. 238-239 for test on ch. 9

Thursday -math – identifying transformations, translations, rotation, and reflections-gym & music- planet books due – gym & music

religion – Good Friday – seder supper

social studies – test

Posted: April 6th, 2009 under Spelling.
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