Dear Parents, Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a good week.

Religion- They made their Lenten promises this week. You probably need to ask them so you know at home what they are doing or giving up. We celebrated Fat Tuesday with donuts made by the 4th graders. A fun tradition! We are also  starting a Lenten chapter in class. They will begin Lenten angels next week.

Math- We are working on dividing decimals by whole numbers. It was funny to hear them say, "Well, this is easy." I reminded them that they already know how to divide! The trick is now remembering where to put the decimal. They may change their minds a little bit when we start to divide decimals by decimals! I don't think that will change their opinion too much though.

Conferences- If you haven't signed up for a time, please do! 

Reading-This week they read a nonfiction story by Peg Kehret. I have some of her books on my shelf. She writes a great mystery! This one was about her start as a writer and she had her own dog newspaper. It didn't last long. She couldn't seem to keep the audience interested with stories about her dog or the neighborhood dogs. The 5th graders agreed...there wouldn't be much to tell. They are also working with prepositions in grammar. They are finding the prepositional phrases and combining sentences using a prepositional phrase. They are also working on finding a fact or an opinion in our story.

Field Trip to Des Moines- We leave next Friday for our visit to the Civic Center. The students will need a sack lunch and drink that day. We will be back by 2:30 so they will make the bus home. I have a couple of students who still need to pay their $5.

Auction- I hope to see some of you at the auction/dinner on Saturday. 

This seems like a short letter. I really can't think of anything else, but I am probably forgetting something!

Have a great weekend! Sounds like our temps will be nice again!
God Bless,
Miss Surma