4-Day School Week

Happy Monday!

We look forward to a long weekend this coming weekend! We only have a four day school week this week and next week. Enjoy the time off!

March Madness Fun 

The students will be gearing up for the craziness of March Madness by making predictions and filling out brackets for this week's Pac-12 basketball tournament. We will have the larger bracket displayed on the board in class.

Looking Ahead...

• Wednesday, March 11th - Grades 3 - 5 Mass at Brophy at 9:30 AM 
• Friday, March 13th and Monday, March 16th - No School 
• Friday, March 27th - The Living Stations of the Cross - begins promptly at 9:30 AM 

English Language Arts



The students will have a spelling test this Thursday, March 12th.The students did not and will not have regular spelling homework this week. We are looking at words that are prefixes, so, we will be making flashcards in class to help us identify where the prefix is and where the base or root word starts.

Reading - We will spend the next two weeks on this story and skill. We will be reading a myth: Hercules. We will be talking about the skill of story structure and theme. There will be a reading test on this story next Friday, March 20th.

Grammar - We will finish up adjectives and have a quiz this Thursday on this skill. We will also begin to talk about adverbs.

Social Studies

We are moving along in our discussions of the early people who once lived in Arizona.

Math 

In Fractions, we are still working with equivalent fractions, but now we will use division to find simplest form. We are also going to be able to plot a fraction on a number line.

Science  

Now that we finished the Geometry module, we are back to the STEM lab.

We are studying Forms of Energy. The topic of investigation one is Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy.

Religion 

We are practicing for The Stations of the Cross and working in our Totally Lent workbook.

March is here!

Happy, Happy Monday!

March is here! WOW, where is the time going! Please join us this weekend for the annual Fun Fest! It's going to be a 'bright' day!

Looking Ahead...

• Saturday, March 7th - Fun Fest from 9 am to 3 pm at SFX 
• Friday, March 13th and Monday, March 16th - No School 
• Friday, March 27th - The Living Stations of the Cross at 9:30 AM in the Church 

English Language Arts



The students will have a spelling test on Thursday, March 5th . 

Reading - We will be looking at the skill of sequence of events along with summarizing again. The students will have a reading test on Friday, March 6th. 

Grammar - We will continue to look at Adjectives. We will also be introducing Adverbs. The students will have a quiz on ADJECTIVES on Friday, March 6th. 

Social Studies 

Our focus is on the early people of Arizona: the food they hunted or grew, the things they made, the buildings they lived in, and their possible disappearance theories. The students will be put into groups this week and begin to look at the expectations for the Google Slides presentation project.

Math

Students are working on equivalent fractions They will make models and use math to create equivalent fractions.

Geometry

The focus this week is Quadrilaterals including: parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, squares, rhombus. They will identify and construct them.

Religion 

We will work daily in our Totally Lent workbook. The students will use a Bible and find the readings for the day.