With Gratitude

Happy Monday Families!

**Please note this blog post will serve as the post for the next two weeks.**

Happy 'almost' Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be grateful this time of year. Remember to take a moment to pause in the craziness this time of year brings and reflect on all that is good in your life. We are beyond grateful for your children and you all for the many blessings that are given and shown to us daily. 

Important Dates to Remember

• Tuesday, November 14th -  Both 4th Grade classes will visit the Book Fair. (The Book Fair will be open all week and available for Grandparents and Grandperson's to shop on Friday.)
• Friday, November 17th - Grandparents and Grandperson's Day begins with 9:00 AM Mass followed by refreshments, classroom visits, and the Junior High Concert. Dismissal is at 11:30 AM. 
• Monday, November 20th - Pumpkin Pie Baking Day 
• Tuesday, November 21st - St. Vincent de Paul service project in the morning. We will return to school by 11:00 and have lunch like regular. 

English Language Arts

There will be a spelling test on Thursday, November 16th. There will NOT  be a grammar or reading test this week. 

Homework for this week: Spelling is due Thursday (regular nightly task) and Writing: students will be given a prompt each day that will be answered into a Google Doc. By the end of the week, students will have a mini journal of Thanksgiving. Students will turn it in via Google Classroom. 

We will work with the story from Lesson 10 this week.  We will work on the skill of Author's Purpose, text features, and supporting details in class as a partner activity. Follow us on Instagram @ezellsfx to see what the finished product will look like! 

Social Studies

We will finish learning about the 5 Cs and move into learning about different types of maps and what they tell us. Look for an email later this week to come out regarding an upcoming in-class project, which will require some parent volunteers. 

Math 

We are working with the metric system. We are exploring meters, liters, and grams. The students are solving problems using tape diagrams. They are also practicing metric unit conversions.

We will also measure out the dry ingredients for the pies. 

Religion 

The students are finishing their Joyful Mysteries, their messages of encouragement, and paper chain in preparation for St. Vincent de Paul service project.