Saturday, April 11, 2015

Week of April 13

MATH 

Fourth Grade 

4th graders will complete Chapter 9, Fractions and Decimals Lessons 4 - 7 this week and have a Chapter Test on Friday.  Use Carmen San Diego Math Models Skills 35-36, to practice concepts from Chapter 9. Remember we need to share logins 1-4 at this time.  

Multiplication Facts: Students should be practicing their facts at home on a regular basis in order to improve scores on weekly timed fact practices.  You can print your own worksheets to practice from Math-drills.com, play online games (see Math Websites Tab above), or borrow some "Holey Cards" from Mrs. Hall. 

Fifth Grade  

5th graders will complete Chapter 9, Graphing this week as we complete lessons 4-7. There will be a Chapter test on Friday. 
Use Carmen San Diego Math Models, Skills 30-31, to help with Chapter 9 skills. GOMATH Online Access:  To use the website we should continue to share the logins for numbers 1 - 4 ( instead of individual student numbers). 

Multiplication Facts: Please remember to continue practicing multiplication facts at home.. You can print your own worksheets from Math-drills.com, play online games (see Math Websites Tab above), or borrow some "Holey Cards" from Mrs. Hall.      


Math Help/Club Hours 
After School (students need a "travel note")
4th Graders only: Tue. 2:20pm  - 3:15pm
5th Graders only:  Wed.  2:20pm - 3:15pm
Before School (students need a "Mrs. Hall permission note")
Both 4th and 5th Graders:
 Wednesday and Fridays from 7:15am - 7:45am 
Also, Mrs. Lux will be available at 7:20am on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays to assist students as well!


SCIENCE 

Fourth Grade 

4th graders will complete Lesson 2 and memorize the four parts of a flower for the quiz on Tuesday.  We will begin Lesson 3, and learn how pollination and fertilizations occur.
Fifth Grade 

5th graders will understand how cells produce new individuals and explore how flowering plants reproduce. Quiz on Lesson 1 should be on Thursday.

Reading, Spelling & Vocab Highlights
FINAL COPY: Lake Michigan Essay Due Monday or Tuesday 4/14

Reading:  Storytown Lesson 26 Lewis & Clark
              Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
              Comprehension Skills: Summarize and Paraphrase, Monitor
                         Comprehension by Reading Ahead, or Rereading.
              Comprehension & Vocabulary Test on Friday, April 17.
              


Spelling (Purple Spelling Practice Book): 
            Spelling Lesson 23 WB Due Thursday
            5x each and Test on Friday 
                         
Vocabulary (Blue Workbook):                      
           Unit 15 Workbook due on Friday, April 17.
           Unit 15 Test on Monday, April 20.
           See Link found in the Reading Websites Tab to create a logon to 
                Vocabulary practice and games.   
         

Religion

We will wrap up Chapter 9, Celebrating the Paschal Mystery and have an open book test on Wednesday. Then, we will begin Family Life covering the Units in a 2 week time frame. 

Social Studies & Language Arts
                     Click to see ---> Social Studies & Language Arts Blog 

Specials: Gym, LRC, Music, Spanish, Computers, Art


Other Fifth Grade News

Cathedral Days field Trip changed to Thursday, April 23rd.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email Mrs. Hall at dhall@stjosephdg.org, or, Mrs. Stillo at dstillo@stjosephdg.org.