Monday, January 7, 2013

The new year has begun and we are ready!! Let's go!

Virtue of the Month:  Courage

Religion:  Unit 2  Jesus, Our Lord and Savior  Session 6:  New Life in Jesus.  Exercise on Friday

Math:  Lesson 68 - Recognizing Halves; 69 - Estimating Arithmetic Answers; 70 - Subtracting a Fraction from a Whole Number Greater Than 1; 71 - Decimal Place Value through Hundredths'; 72 - Writing Tenths in Decimal Form; Exercise 9A on Tuesday

Social Studies:  Renaissance:  Section  7: Michalangelo; Section 8:  Two How-To Men.  Read, take notes, class discussion

English:  Diagramming sentences.  Identifying simple and complete predicates

Science:  Finish Classification of living things.  Review packet in class.  Exercise on Thursday!!!!  

Literature:  Secret Garden  We will be reading this book as a class.  There will be no book report for this month.  The students will be asked to provide reflections on the chapters read.  Our culminating project will be an exercise.

Vocabulary:  Unit 6  pages 56 - 63  Pre-Exercise on Wednesday;  Exercise on Friday Spelling Exercise on Friday.

Computers:  PowerPoint and keyboarding

Finally:  I would love to thank all of the parents in my Fifth Grade class for your generosity.  I love teaching your children and I hope they enjoy being in my class.  Also, I would like to thank the Turners, Lutoskys and Della Ducharme for hosting our Christmas Luncheon.  It was wonderful!  Thank you for all your hard work!