Week of 4/21/21

Congratulations to our students from St. Barnabas who received their First Reconciliation on Saturday:

Daniel Bilas, Heidi Brown, Claire Gleason, Logan Harbby, Colin Jewels, Charlie Marino, Roman Mehra, Ava Perrotta, Harrison Scheuerman, Eden Sileo, and Juliana Velazquez

Here's what's happening:

Religion

This week our focus is the part of the Mass called the Communion Rite.   We will be learning how to properly receive Jesus in the Eucharist and what we should do when we return back to our pew to pray.

Math

 Monday and Tuesday will be review days as we prepare for the test on Chapter 7, which covers subtraction of three-digit numbers with and without regrouping.   Please take advantage of the IXL website to help your child strengthen their addition and subtraction skills.

The test for Ch. 7 is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21.

On Thursday, we will begin our next unit on money.  The students will be introduced to pennies, nickels, and dimes.  I will be teaching them all about "Hairy Money", which is a strategy for young children that uses skip counting by fives to count mixed coins more easily.  I will have a video in Google Classroom on this method.

ELA

The letters the children wrote to their pen pals are on their way, and we await our return letters. 
 
Our reading selections this week answer the question, "What do heroes do?"  Our class will be reading biographies about Cesar Chavez and Bessie Coleman.  They will be learning how to use a timeline to find out events in time order.

  Please remember to send in the photograph of a family custom/tradition by this Wednesday.  The children will be writing about this event.

We are covering week 2 in Phonics Unit 11.  This week the children will learn to use the vowel teams "ea", "ee", and "ey" to write multisyllabic words, including suffixes.  A quiz is planned for Thursday.

 We will have 15 new spelling words; a spelling test is planned for Friday. 

We will continue our grammar unit on contractions as we explore these words which make one word from two words.

Social Studies

 On Monday the study guide for the test on "Culture" scheduled for April 27th will go home; please use the notes in the blue notebook to study. 

Science

This week we celebrate Earth Day; the students will be learning about why it is important to conserve Earth's natural resources and what they can do to help.

i-Ready

The students will continue to strengthen their math and reading skills as they work on  their i-Ready Pathways this week.

Google Classroom

 While we are learning in person, all classwork and homework assignments are posted in my Google Classroom. Copies of assignments are all there.  You may print them out at home if needed. Please check it out.


REMINDERS: 

Please remember to send in nut free products with your child's snack/lunch.  This includes items like Nutella and cashews.  Thank you for your cooperation. 

There will be a uniform sale this Sunday, April 25th in the school parking lot from 10:00 am-1:00 pm; please stop by!

Smencils will be sold for $1.00 beginning April 26th!






Mrs. Jeanne Ciano