Respect, Responsibility,
& Reverence
Remember, you are a REFLECTION of God's love!
What's Happening the Week of March 18, 2024:
Please check your child's Take Home Folder daily for mail; homework should be put into this folder.
Daily homework assignments will be written under the morning news in the GREEN NOTEBOOK. Spelling homework is always written in the GREEN NOTEBOOK; do not use looseleaf.
Students may use the IXL website for enrichment; it can be accessed from my link box below. Use your child's school Google account to sign in.
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Religion
We continue our Lenten journey and walk with Jesus as we strive to become more like him. We will focus on the three pillars of Lent: Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving.
Congratulations to Valencia Espinosa who made her First Reconciliation at St. Barnabas Saturday!
We will relate the Last Supper to Jesus' sacrifice of love on the cross, as we meditate upon his Death and Resurrection.
The children will visit the church on Monday afternoon to take a tour of the sacristy and see the Tabernacle and altar. These important places and things will help the students better understand Holy Communion and the Mass. We will also be practicing how to receive Jesus reverently in Holy Communion using unconsecrated hosts.
Happy Feast day to St. Patrick and St. Joseph! We will be talking about these two saintly role models!
Math
We will continue our study of money, and will be practicing how to count various combinations of coins and solve word problems involving money. Please check out the additional videos in Google Classroom from last week, which explain the Hair Money method of counting coins.
There is a quiz on the coins covered so far on Tuesday.
You may access both the math and reading resources using your child's card that was already sent home.
Reading
Our Essential Question this week is, "How do we use money?", which reinforces our math unit. The students will be reading, "Life of a Dollar Bill" and "Money Madness" to answer this weeks' EQ.
There is a reading test Friday on "Money Madness".
Phonics
Refer to the parent letter for Unit 12, which will go home on Monday. It introduces the double vowel pairs, "oi" and "oy", which are found in words like "coil" and "joy".
There is no quiz this week.
Trick Words: favorite, early, ocean
There are resources and videos in the link box below to practice at home. There is a cumulative list of unit videos for review.
Grammar & Writing
We will be focusing on the story elements of summarizing the beginning, middle, and end of a story. The students will use the tale of "King Midas and the Golden Touch" to write these key events.
Our class will begin learning about adverbs, which are words used to describe verbs.
Spelling
There is a test this Friday on these 15 words:
1. sound, 2. mound, 3. cloud, 4. shout, 5. pound, 6. clown,
7. brown, 8. crown, 9. howl, 10. growl, 11. favorite, 12. ready,
13. been, 14. myself, 15. pushed
Science and Social Studies
The students did a great job on their landform models and will be painting them this week.
The "Ancestors & Their Homeland Project" is due on Monday, March 18th.
We will be reading this week's TFK issue!
Computer Lab/iReady Pathways
The children will continue working on their pathways in Math and Reading this week.
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Reminders:
*Confirmation slips for report cards will go home Monday, March 18th per the office
*Ancestors & Their Homeland-Project due March 18th;
St. Patrick's Day part-There is not a dress down!
*Math Quiz Money-Tuesday, March 19th
*Half Day-Report Card Conferences March 20th
*D3 Day-Thursday-March 21st
Monday - Gym & Computer Lab
Tuesday - Art
Wednesday - Library & Spanish
Thursday - Music
Friday - Health