Don't forget to get the training for mass! This goes for anyone wanting to become a server and anyone who already is! Father has made some changes. You need to know before you can do the job! Wanted: New Servers for Mass at Holy Spirit
Server Training at Holy Spirit
As the new year beginnings, we have some new changes during Mass. There will be server training to help students learn the new change on Sat., Jan. 11 and Jan. 18 after Mass and on Sun., Jan. 12 and Jan. 19 before Mass starting at 8:30 a.m. All new and experienced servers need to attend the training.
Reading- this week they read a story called James Forten. It was about a young African American who was free during the Revolutionary War time and signed up to serve. He worked on a ship carrying the gun powder from below deck to the upper deck so they could use it in the cannons. The ship he was on ended up surrendering to the British. He was treated as a prisoner of war. Luckily for him he was not sent back to Africa and sold as a slave again, which is what happened sometimes to the freed African Americans. We learned that his dad was a freed slave who worked to make sails for the ships. He also saved enough money up to buy his wife's freedom. As an adult, James ended up working at the same business his dad did. Eventually, he became the owner. He continued to work to free slaves and get African American women the right to vote. In grammar they are working on using commas and semicolons. The commas are for items in a series, in a direct address or with a tag question. The semicolons are being used with items in a series as well, but they already have the commas so we need to separate it even more. For example if you are listing cities and their states. My book took place in Creston, Iowa; Houston, Texas; and Detroit, Michigan. They will test over this story on Friday.
I did talk to them about last week's story with the cold read. Only 2 of the students scored well on the cold read section of the test. The others did poorly or basically failed that part. I talked about reading it more than once before answering questions or using the story to go back and look up answers. I don't know that many of them really did that.
Math- We finished up our chapter this week with doing some work with creating tables and filling out the record section of a checkbook. On Wednesday, we started our "dress rehearsal" for the test. I am doing the same thing I did with the last chapter. They are doing the "test" for a practice run. I will check it and we will go over it. Then they will do the same test for real. With the dress rehearsal, they are allowed to use their book to remind them of things we did. The biggest thing they needed help with was filling out the checkbook.
Religion- We are in our new chapter and the focus is on baptism. We have talked about it getting rid of Original Sin, but also helping us get to heaven.
Spirit Day on Friday!
The 5th graders are going to try out for the talent show during Catholic Schools Week. They are going to sing King George's song You'll Be Back. We will practice here. I have some accompaniment music from Youtube. My niece AnnMarie is a senior at YSU in Ohio. She is a music/theater major. She said she would try and send me some videos of some moves we can add to it. I won't stress about that though. She is in her final semester...I know she has things to do!
I hope everyone has a great weekend! Hopefully Friday's weather will be less than what they are predicting! Hope to see some of you at Trivia Night on Saturday!
God Bless,
Miss Surma
I did talk to them about last week's story with the cold read. Only 2 of the students scored well on the cold read section of the test. The others did poorly or basically failed that part. I talked about reading it more than once before answering questions or using the story to go back and look up answers. I don't know that many of them really did that.
Math- We finished up our chapter this week with doing some work with creating tables and filling out the record section of a checkbook. On Wednesday, we started our "dress rehearsal" for the test. I am doing the same thing I did with the last chapter. They are doing the "test" for a practice run. I will check it and we will go over it. Then they will do the same test for real. With the dress rehearsal, they are allowed to use their book to remind them of things we did. The biggest thing they needed help with was filling out the checkbook.
Religion- We are in our new chapter and the focus is on baptism. We have talked about it getting rid of Original Sin, but also helping us get to heaven.
Spirit Day on Friday!
The 5th graders are going to try out for the talent show during Catholic Schools Week. They are going to sing King George's song You'll Be Back. We will practice here. I have some accompaniment music from Youtube. My niece AnnMarie is a senior at YSU in Ohio. She is a music/theater major. She said she would try and send me some videos of some moves we can add to it. I won't stress about that though. She is in her final semester...I know she has things to do!
I hope everyone has a great weekend! Hopefully Friday's weather will be less than what they are predicting! Hope to see some of you at Trivia Night on Saturday!
God Bless,
Miss Surma
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