Dear Parents, I hope you  are having a great week! Well, my desk was covered in packages of cough drops last week and it looks as though they shared it with me! So thankful! :)

Geography Bee- If you'd like to join us for the 2nd round, it will be after mass next week on Dec. 20.


Friday is Spirit Day! Wear sweats for $1!

Reading- This week they are reading a story about Molly Pitcher! Her real name is Mary Hays. She was on the battlefields during the Revolutionary War. She brought pitchers of water to the soldiers during the battle due to the extreme heat! She also took over firing a cannon once her husband had been injured! She was a true hero on those grounds. In grammar we are focusing on regular and irregular verbs. This is based on what happens when you change a verb from present tense to past tense. Simply adding -ed would be a regular verb. If the spelling changes for example from teach to taught-- that is an irregular verb. 

Math- We are working on our decimals! So they are working on writing them in standard, expanded, and written form. They also are learning to compare decimals and then write them from least to greatest or greatest to least. We will be working on rounding them too. They will most likely have to round them to a certain place value position.  We have talked about how you refer to them in tenth, hundredths, and thousandths. The decimal is referred to as point or the word and. It depends how we are working with them.  I am also making them say the numbers in word form to me instead of just saying one point two five (1.25), they have to say one and twenty-five hundredths. 

Religion- They are finishing up their chapter on Advent. They went to reconciliation on Tuesday. When we are in the chapel waiting, they are supposed to be spending their time in prayer. Many of them I found have a hard time sitting quietly and still. I decided they know how to pray the rosary, so that is what we did! If they had to leave for their confession, they did that and rejoined the rosary after their penance was said. It was really cool because we didn't have any of our papers or our rosaries, but they knew exactly what to say and where! It also quieted them down for some time spent with God. It was just a simple, but very cool moment for me as a teacher! 

Pen Pal- We finally received a letter from our pen pal Mason. If you remember, Mason is a little like Auggie in our Wonder book. The kids are going to be writing him a letter or Christmas card before we leave for break! It was nice to hear from him. His mom had also written that he had recently gone through jaw surgery so that was why it took so long. We will keep him in our prayers and hope his recovery goes well! 

December 21- Remember they will need a sack lunch! Milk will be provided. 


Lunch this Friday-- The main dish this Friday is hamburger gravy over biscuits, but the alternate is a sack lunch that you would need to provide. Please talk to your children! Milk is provided so no drink is necessary. 

I hope you have a great weekend!
God Bless,
Miss Surma