Trimester 2

 

Good Morning Families, 

As we enter into trimester two, please help us, help your children with the following skills:

• time management of tasks
• putting their name on their papers even if it is typed 
• neatness (take pride in their work)
• positive, kind attitudes in the classrooms 

Looking Ahead....

• Wednesday, November 11th - Mass and Veteran's Day We will "attend" Mass from our classroom. 
• Friday, November 20th - Grandparent's Day - Mass is at 9 AM and a class Zoom call at 11:00 AM with dismissal at 12:00 PM

English Language Arts

There will be a spelling test on Thursday, November 12th. 

Grammar - We will continue to look at simple, compound, and complex sentences. We will have a quiz on this skill on Friday, November 13th. 

Reading -  We will be talking about Author's Purpose this week using the acronym, PIE. We will have a reading quiz on Friday, November 13th based on the story, Jose' born to Dance. 

Writing - We will continue to work on our grateful journal writing. 

Social Studies

We are going to begin to learn about the Spanish Explorers and Missionaries. This is Ch. 5 in our Discovering AZ textbook. 

Math

In Xtramath, I moved all the students to multiplication.  Please practice with them at home so they have mastery of the basic facts.  

The students this week will be using place value disks to represent two-digit by one-digit multiplication. The students will use the strategy called partial product. Ask them to show you what that means. We will then use the disks to represent three and four-digit by one digit multiplication. Then finally we will use the standard algorithm to solve the problems.  Of course, we will also solve word problems, too.

Science

We will be finishing Chapter 5 Lesson 4 this week.  Changes Caused By the Weather.

Religion 

This week in Religion we will review the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.  We will be writing a prayer for strength to live in true freedom by making good choices.  We are also going to talk about Veteran's Day and invite the children to bring a photo of a relative or friend that is or was a veteran to place on our altar at school.