Dear Parents,
     Happy Thursday of Catholic Schools Week!  Whew!  The week is almost over!  What a week it has been!  Such great fun and activities we have had!!  I hope your kids talked about the movie because we had a great discussion about the things we saw!  They were very weary of the racism and sexism that took place.  Also they were very in tune to the great things all 3 of those women accomplished and in a time where they weren't suppose to do it!  We had a great day of play in the gym!  Today we celebrate students and  their talents on the "Big" stage!  Tomorrow we end the week as we began it!  We have grandparents/special guest day Mass at the church.  Mass will start at 1:30, students will arrive at church at 1:00.  If your student doesn't have anyone coming please let me know.  We have some "adoptive" grandparents on hand to sit with kids.  What a great way to make a new friend!  This week wears all of us out, kids and adults alike!!  I hope they all have a restful weekend and back at it hard on Monday.  

Auction Items-  Again we have things planned out for the auction.  Yesterday I sent a link to a sign up genius where you can sign up for a movie or snack or both.  Anything that goes a long with movie night in your house!  I will add the link on here also in case you missed my email.  Monetary donations are accepted.  Please make checks payable to Kiki Scarberry.  She is in charge of this activity.  We also need small donations like $2.00 a kid for our silent auction item.  Danielle Steele is in charge of it.  Remember be helping your child think of a favorite bible verse they find inspiring or helpful to them.  We will put those on wooden blocks then glue them in the shape of a cross.  Just write the verse on a notecard and send to school.  Make sure we know the book on bible chapter and verse.  Thank you very much.

                                www.SignUpGenius.com/go/30E0E4CA8A729A2F85-movie

Language Arts -  This week we are reading a story called The Right Dog For the Job.  It is a short story about how a puppy becomes a service dog.  It is an interesting read for anyone who has every wondered how a dog is trained to become a service dog.  Some may find it not very because at this age kids  are usually only interested in the things that directly affect them.  We studied adverbs this week.   We learned what the describe and what questions they answer.  I have placed this weeks vocabulary and spelling words on Quizlet so they can study both items online.  Last week the scores on the vocabulary section were amazing.  I am attributing that success to the use of quizlet.  This week I hope to see some better spelling scores from a few.  We really use our computers several times a day now that we have our own!  It was such a blessing for us to have been given the money for these computers.

Math- We have had a great week in math.  We have learned how to find the area of a floor plan.  They have learned to divide areas into rectangles or squares and finding the area.  That is always a fun lesson to show them they can do something that looks difficult and make it very easy.  We also did a little algebra this week.  I gave them either the perimeter or area of a figure and the length of just one side.  They had to use the formula for area or perimeter to find the missing side.  Area is simple for them but perimeter was a struggle.  We are still working on that.  We will finish that up probably on Monday. We will be reviewing for a math test next week and possible testing next week.  This was a fun quick chapter to do during this busy time.

Social Studies- We have started our interactive notebooks for the United States.  They are working on the first state to enter the Union which is Delaware.  They have to use their computers to locate some basic facts about the state, do some coloring, and then cut and past their information into the notebook.  We have colored all the flags of the Northeast all ready.  We are also putting those in the notebook.  This is a fun way for them to gather facts and keep all they have learned about their state in one place.  We are also still working on vocabulary words which are on Quizlet for them to practice, and reading the lessons in the book.  We are very busy when it comes to social studies.  We are also singing everyday.  I apologize if they are singing at home and driving you crazy!

This has been a great week to celebrate Catholic Schools!  I hope you are finding pictures everyday on Facebook of the class.  I take a group photo and post it at some point everyday.  This class has done a great job of participating in all the dress up days!! Thank you!  It makes the week more fun.  I even have pajamas on today!  Have a great weekend!

God Bless,
Mrs. Sickels