Dear Parents,
Happy Thursday! Finally a full week of school together! YAY! Also how about that weather on Tuesday! I was stuck inside but I had to run an errand after school, and I did it without wearing a coat. This is definitely the correct weather for this time of the year. Temperatures look to pretty favorable for the rest of the week and next. Maybe winter is over! Let's say many prayers for that. Please keep the boots and snow pants coming to school though. Our playground will be terribly muddy for a while! We want to try and keep your child clean and dry. Also we try to keep the mud outside!
Conferences- I have emailed you and put the link for conferences on our Facebook page. Many of you are actually already signed up. Thank you. If you have not, here is the link again. Please be sure to reserve a time to visit with me. Also, be sure to read the rules for conferences.
Language Arts - This week we are ready a fun story: Hercules. Hera was jealous of the relationship between her husband Zeus and his son Hercules. Hera wanted Zeus to herself. So she tricked Hercules into using his strength for the bad, and his father sends him down to earth to prove himself to be a God. When on earth Hera tries to be sure he is given impossible tasks to complete to prove he is worthy. Hercules actually accomplishes all 3 impossible tasks. It is a happy ending. He earns his place on Mount Olympus with Zeus. This is different from the Disney movie. I am also showing them the Disney movie. We watched some yesterday and will watch more today and hopefully finish tomorrow. Spelling words this week are using Prefixes: un-, re-, and dis-. The grammar lesson is on Prepositions. This is a difficult lesson to teach and they are kind of hard words to understand. We are doing the best we can to figure them out. When they take the test I will probably put a list of prepositions on the board to help them. Tomorrow they will be taking their post test in spelling and their end of the week test. Please remind them to study their yellow vocabulary packet!
Math - We are working on finishing up Chapter 13 on Area and Perimeter. They were taught three lesson in this chapter. They were taught the formulas to use when finding these. This is a little bit of algebra. When we use the correct Perimeter formula of P= (2 X L) + (2 X W) we are doing algebra. Perimeter can be found by just adding all the sides together but when finding perimeter of a rectangle we can use this formula which is easier. They have completed the Dress Rehearsal and gone over it. Tomorrow we will take the actual test. The next week we will start or week long unit on how to write checks, fill out deposits slips and keep a check register. This will play a role in our March 10th Biztown activities.
Social Studies - We are finishing up our first chapter in the Southeast. They will be taking a test today. We will begin looking at a map test over the Southeast next week. We will dive right into the next chapter. I plan to pick up the pace a bit when covering this one. We only have like 3 states to put into our interactive notebooks also. We just keep moving. We have 3 more regions to get through before the end of May.
BizTown St. Malachy Style - We normally attend JABizTown every other year. The 4th and 5th graders are the ones who attend. Due to COVID ( imagine me saying that) we are unable to attend. Ms. Surma, Mrs. Simmons and I have come up with a Biztown St. Malachy Style. The kids will be given an envelope with deposit slips, checks, and a check register. The kids are doing 2 jobs here at school to earn a paycheck. They are cleaning tables after lunch and gathering the trash at the end of the day with Adolfo. They will receive a paycheck for their work. We also plan to give them a birthday gift from grandparents to deposit into their account also. On March 10th, with this money they will visit the office and pay for a week of lunches, they can visit the Kitchen and purchase popcorn for a snack, and then they will visit a store put on by the 7th grade math class. This store will have some fun school items they can purchase: pencil sharpner, erasers, pencils/pens. The student will have to write a check for all their purchases and subtract it in their check register so they do not spend more money then they actually have. It is a life lesson that we are trying to help them understand. We wanted to do something much bigger involving more parents coming in to run places of business BUT once again the pandemic is causing us to make changes. I think it will be a fun experience.
Spirit Day - Tomorrow is a Spirit Day. Again a very nice opportunity to pay $1.00 and wear sweats!!
I can't wait to see some of our St. Malachy students perform Friday night at Jam the Gym. It is my daughter's Senior year and she will be performing for the last time with the Peppers. Just another "Last" that happens this year. We have not been sad about it. We are actually excited for her next adventure in life. I am sure when it gets down to it I will be super sad but it is exciting to watch her put an end to a high school career and begin the next step. Her plans are to attend Iowa State University and become and elementary teacher.
I hope all of you have a great weekend!!
God Bless,
Mrs. Sickels
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