Hello Parents, I hope you are having a great week! The weather has been wonderful! Thank you so much for your help with the silent auction and live auction donations! The 5th grade basket did really well. It was a very successful auction overall. Thank you for your support.

Spring Concert Date Change-- Please mark your calendars--the new date is Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at 7pm. It will be held at the high school.

Cross Walk-- On Friday we will be walking the Stations of the Cross as an entire school. You are more than welcome to join us. The students will be walking with their Lenten Angels. We will have some stops along the way where they will be picking up some mementos of Jesus' journey. We will finish the stations at the church. We are walking rain or shine. Students should dress appropriately for the walk... they may need a light jacket that day. We haven't done this before, but we are very excited about it. If you want to join us, we are gathering in the courtyard at 12:45. 

Reading- This week they read a story called The Birchbark House. It is about an Indian girl who is walking through the woods and tries to befriend to bear cubs, but the mother bear puts a stop to that. This is another historical fiction story. They are also working on Past Perfect Tense, Present Perfect Tense, and Future Perfect Tense verbs in sentences. These are verbs that usually have a helping verb in front of it--has, have, had, or will have.  They are also working on picking out a theme of the story based on what they have read. A theme is kind of a lesson we learn from the story. They will test over it on Friday. I do plan on doing another story next week even though we will only have 4 days. I will need them to stay focused next week, even though we are all ready for spring break. 

Math- We started back in the book this week. Their first lesson was learning how that decimals moves to the left when we are dividing a decimal by 10, 100, or 1000. On Wednesday and Thursday, I gave them Base 10 blocks. They are working in groups to solve division problems with decimals. They are having some fun with this because it is different and they are still solving the problem, but now they may have to trade out their ones for tenths to make it doable or they exchange their tenths for hundredths. All of these problems work out evenly so we aren't in the world of remainders right now.  This does give them a visual of just how small their answers really will be. 

Religion/Biztown-- We finished our unit on Lent, so I am now using my religion time for work on Biztown. They are currently figuring out the different kinds of jobs there are to choose from in life. Do they want to work with people, ideas, things, or data? They will be working on building a resume for their job at Biztown. They are also working on this with Mrs. Sickels during social studies.  

Conferences- If you haven't signed up for a time, please do so, or let me know if next Thursday doesn't work! We can schedule something else!!

Friday Lunch-- Sack lunch is optional. The school will still provide their Friday menu for those without sack lunches. Ala Carte will be available. Milk will be provided. No drinks needed. 

Have a great weekend! I will see you next week at conferences!!!

God Bless, Miss Surma