HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Colleen- February 15

5th Grade News Week of February 18, 2019

MATH 5A- This week, we will begin

working with greatest common factor and least common multiple. Both of these concepts will be so important to know to be successful with fractions. No quiz this week!☺

5B-This week, we are finishing our ordered pairs unit. Students will finish their projects today; this project will be graded as an assessment. Then, we will spend the rest of the week working on a Diocesan assessment.

LANGUAGE ARTS

*5A Reading – Our anchor story this week

is entitled, Everglades Forever. We will

focus on author’s purpose, explore how

the author explains scientific ideas, and

use prefixes as clues to determine

meanings of words. We will have our

vocabulary/comprehension quiz on

Friday!

*5B Reading – Our anchor story this week

is, Everglades Forever. We will focus on

vocabulary, author’s purpose, the use of

prefixes to determine new words, and how

scientific details are explained by the

author. We will have our comprehension

and vocabulary test on Friday!

*5English/Writing – The new spelling

pattern will be introduced on Tuesday. All

of the spelling words will be homophones

this week (words that sound the same but

are spelled differently). Therefore, the

students will be given the entire list!

Spelling test will be on Friday! Our

grammar focus for this week will be

learning about coordinating and

subordinating conjunctions. Grammar

test will also be Friday!

RELIGION This week we are finishing up chapter 4, which is focused on Sacramentals. This week, we will talk about different Saints who used Sacramentals, such as Mary. We will have a test on Friday! A study guide will go home this week.

SCIENCE I really enjoyed the

creativity of all of the water

cycle jingles and poems last

week! Super job 5th grade ☺

The class was given a study

guide last week to begin

reviewing for our next test.

The test will be on

Thursday this week and

will cover water

properties and the water

cycle.

SOCIAL STUDIES

This week we are finishing up

chapter 3, our focus is on life

in the colonies and conflict in

the colonies. We will talk

about different laws, wars,

taxes, and acts and how they

affected the settlers and land.

IMPORTANT DATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Tuesday, February 19th: BMCS Spelling Bee 6:00 p.m. at

Kankakee site – Come cheer on Walt and Lydia as they compete!

*Wednesday, February 20th: Mass hosted by 2nd grade and Fr.

Horan at 1:30 p.m. – please join us!

*Thursday, February 21st: DEAR Day/Comfortable clothing can

be worn; 5/6th Grade Band 3:20 p.m. @ Kankakee site;

Progressive Raffle Call Night @ Kankakee site

*Friday, February 22nd: Spirit Wear with uniform bottoms; End of

2nd Trimester; Trimester awards will be held after Mass next

Wednesday (2/27/19)

6th Grade News Week of February 18, 2019

MATH 6A- This week we will begin working with 6th grade fraction concepts. Our focus will be using fractions to solve word problems. No quiz this week, but there will be a Diocesan Assessment on Friday.

6B- This week we are working on writing and solving expressions. We will work on creating a menu this week. We will have a quiz on Friday!

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will be reviewing

everything we have

learned about

Mesopotamia. The

students will be given a

study guide and there will

be a test on Friday!

LANGUAGE ARTS

*6A Reading – We will continue

reading our novel, Hoot, this week.

We will continue to focus on imagery

and why it is important when reading

a novel. The new vocabulary words

will be introduced this week, but we

will not have a quiz this week.

*6B Reading – We are still reading

our novel, Hoot. We have been

focusing on imagery and

foreshadowing in the story and how

that can help us understand the

theme. We will have our

comprehension and vocabulary test

for Chapters 7-14 on Thursday!

*6English/Writing – We will continue

working on grammar and our daily

grammar edits. The 6th graders will

be focusing on text features this week

while learning more about Black

History Month.

RELIGION

The students will complete

Chapter 4 this week. We

will finish our lesson on

Joseph from the New

Testament. The students

will play a jeopardy review

game. The test will be on

Friday.

SCIENCE We had a fun Valentine STEM

last week creating ziplines to

send special V-Day messages

across the room!

The 6th graders have begun a

unit on Earth’s geologic history,

beginning with fossils. They are

learning about types of fossils,

how fossils may form, and how

fossils age can be determined.

IMPORTANT DATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Tuesday, February 19th: BMCS Spelling Bee 6:00 p.m. at Kankakee

site – Come cheer on Walt and Lydia as they compete!

*Wednesday, February 20th: Mass hosted by 2nd grade and Fr.

Horan at 1:30 p.m. – please join us!

*Thursday, February 21st: DEAR Day/Comfortable clothing can be

worn; 5/6th Grade Band 3:20 p.m. @ Kankakee site; Progressive

Raffle Call Night @ Kankakee site

*Friday, February 22nd: Spirit Wear with uniform bottoms; End of

2nd Trimester; Trimester awards will be held after Mass next

Wednesday (2/27/19)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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