Happy Thursday Parents,
I hope your week is going well and that you and your family are all well. It seems like the sickness stuff is going around again. We are washing our desks. I am not shaking hands in the morning. We are doing fist bumps. :) Germ-X Germ-X Germ-X!

Reading- This week we are reading a story called LAFFF. It is about a boy who builds a time machine that can only go to the future, but not for very long. His neighbor gets him to send her to the future so she can read the winning story in their school magazine and then go back and write it herself. She wants to win. Once she does win, the guilt sets in because she realizes she copied someone else's work and then won! It isn't until her friend talks to her that she realizes she was the author the entire time. She copied her own work. Our story also ends with her reading her story to her friend. What the kids realize is that her story is our story! It comes full circle. It is a great little mystery and I just love when they realize we were reading it all along. 

In their notebooks they are creating an interactive notebook that focuses on our grammar. We are working on adverbs this week. They are words that describe other verbs. They answer questions like how? when? where? and how often? Many adverbs end in -ly. 

Math- On Tuesday we started multiplying decimals times decimals. It went pretty well. They know how to multiply, they just need to figure out where that decimal goes now. They did better than I expected that first day! 

Religion- I have hung up their saint reports in the hallway. I've received compliments from others who have stopped by to read them. I  focused on having them choose one saint because our chapter works heavily with the sacrament of confirmation,and when they get confirmed they will have to choose one. Next week we will be writing our Lenten promises. If they are giving something up, that will begin on the 14th. 

Mass- Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. It is also our 5th grade mass. I was able to give everyone a job! You are more than welcome to join us for mass. It will most likely be a bigger crowd due to it being Ash Wednesday! 

Valentines Day- We will have our party on the 13th at the end of the day. If your child is bringing in Valentines, make sure they do one for every classmate. 

Auction- IF you are able to help out with our live auction basket or silent auction item, please do so! I put a letter in your child's folder about our silent auction item. If you are donating, please send it with your child. I will get it to the parents in charge of this! Thanks so much! 

Have a great weekend! Stay warm.
 God Bless, 
Miss Surma