Hello September

Happy Tuesday! We hope you enjoyed your three-day weekend! September is here, which means so is college football and NFL will follow soon after. We love to have healthy, fun, competitive conversations in class about whose teams are winning. 

Looking Ahead...

• Wednesday, September 4th - 3rd - 5th Mass at Brophy at 9:30
• Friday, September 6th - Free Dress Day - Please consider donating a gift card to our school's auction. 

English Language Arts



**We will spend 2 weeks on this same story and skill. Also, we will be switching grammar skills with lesson 4 as it flows better with what we have been previously working on.**

Reading - We will be working on the skill of Cause and Effect. There will be a reading comprehension test on Friday, September 13th. 

Grammar - We will be looking at Subjects and Predicates.We will also continue to review complete sentences vs. run-ons, vs. fragments. 

 There will be a summative grammar assessment on the skills of complete sentences, run-ons, and fragments, the 4 Kinds of Sentences, and Subjects and Predicates next Thursday, September 12th. 

The goal of a summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit

Writing - We will begin to learn about our State Reports. Each student will be assigned a state that they will become the expert on. After we finish our reports in a few weeks, students will mail out a postcard to a school in their state. We hope to receive back 49 postcards! 

Social Studies 

The students will have a quiz tomorrow, Wednesday, September 4th on the states in the Southwest Region. 

We will move to reading and learning the states in the West Region. There will be a West Region quiz on Wednesday, September 11th. The students will be expected to correctly spell and locate each state. The students will be matching the state to its corresponding capital city. 

Math 

The main focus this week will be rounding numbers using a vertical number line. 
Science

Due to the short week, we are going to review The Respiratory System and discuss health choices. The students will be able to use a spirometer to see what their lung capacity is and they will view a healthy lung and what a smoker's lung would look like. 

There is NO vocabulary quiz this week. 
Religion 


The Act of Faith quiz was originally scheduled for last week, but it has been moved to this Thursday, September 6th. 

We are also discussing The Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.