Happy Halloween!!! I hope you are having a great week! My mom did come back with me on Sunday, so I have enjoyed having her at my house!

Mass- Tomorrow is Holy Day of Obligation. The 5th graders are doing mass. Please join us if you are available. They do need to dress up as usual for mass day.

November 1st-- No more shorts being worn.

Language Arts-- This week we are working on compound words in spelling and in our decoding. Our story this week was historical fiction. It was about a young man who wanted to become a surfman and rescue people from storms at sea. He realizes in his first real experience that he doesn't have the courage to go through with it, but he has enough skills to care for their injuries. We find that those critical skills are just as important! We also discussed characterization and what we can infer from our characters by their words, actions, and thoughts. We are working on subordinating conjunctions this week and dependent & independent clauses. With the the use of the subordinating conjunction in a dependent clause combined with an independent clause, they now have a complex sentence. 

Math- We have started multiplying decimals and whole numbers. The trick is remembering to put the decimal in your answer and putting it in the correct place. 

Halloween Stories-- These have been shared! The kids are really enjoying listening to what their classmates have created!

Spaghetti Supper on November 2nd. The Civics Club will be providing a haunted house and games for the kids!!! 

Have a good weekend. I am heading back to Doon with my mom. Our visit went by too quickly!  God Bless, Miss Surma