Hello Parents, I hope you have been staying warm!!! It looks like we might see the outdoors today for recess!!!

Language Arts- This week they are reading the story Lunch Money. It is about a boy who creates his own comic book. This is a book by Andrew Clements. I told the kids they could read the entire story if they were interested in it.  Our grammar this week is focusing on adjectives and articles. They learned that adjectives answer questions like: How many? What kind? or the Origin. This can be difficult to find, but I try to tell them to find their nouns and pronouns in the sentence and then look for possible adjectives that come before those words. Once they find it, they need to go through those questions to see which one it answers. The hard part is to realize most sentences have more than one! They will have a spelling test tomorrow as well as the test over the story.  I still have some kids making up the unit tests from last week. Once all are finished, I will let you know scores.

Math- we are working on basic division with remainders. We are not focusing on decimals yet. We post the steps they follow in a problem: Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down, Repeat until they have a final remainder. They will also learn about having a zero in the quotient. We will move from their to larger numbers to divide. I am impressed. There are quite a few that have caught on quickly to the process.

Religion- Right now I am trying to finish up The Truth About Truman book. We really didn't do anything with it in December. We are having good discussions though as we read. I think we are really seeing all different kinds of bullying, but especially what cyber bullying can look like.

Book Order- I am sending home a book order. If you are interested in ordering you, remember you can order online or using the form. Please have all orders to me by next Thursday, Jan. 16.

Catholic Schools Week- There will be a letter for volunteers to sign up to participate in Sunday's mass at Holy Spirit. This isn't a sign up for helping with the music. That will be another letter from Mrs. Wignall.
I will send home more information on the individual days next week.

Have a good weekend!!! God Bless, Miss Surma