Hello Parents. I hope you enjoyed the extended weekend and snow! I am good now...we don't need anymore. 😁

Reading- Due to the snow days, I am changing what we're doing. We won't have a spelling test or a test over the story. We will read the story and work on grammar and spelling, but I am not going to test over any of it. Our story this week is another nonfiction piece. We learn about two people who took part in the Revolutionary War. One of them happens to be a girl who does a run on horseback similar to Paul Revere. This is the last story in our unit, which means next week will be a unit test week. 

Math- We will start the math test on Wednesday or Thursday. I have to see how the schedule plays out on Wednesday.

Auction- I received a couple of donations for the basket last week. Thank you! I will still need more since some of this will go towards our silent auction item. Please do what you can to help out. Donations due by Friday, February 5.

Dress Up Days for CSW-

Monday- Google Meet Day- They need to dress up on top and sweats or pjs on the bottom. I told them they can wear slippers too. They will need to be ready for PE so they might want snowpants and boots! They will need a sack lunch and drink on this day! 

Tuesday- Dress up like a State Day. Hawaiian shirt for Hawaii? Farmer for Iowa or Nebaska? Cowboy for Texas? Cheesehead for Wisconsin? 

Wednesday- Mass attire. This is a 4th and 5th grade mass. It's at 9:15 and will be online.

Thursday-Dress up in Tie Dye. We hope to building snowmen that afternoon. They will need mittens and/or gloves! Many of the 5th graders don't wear them at recess. They HAVE to have them that day! 

Friday- Dress in CAMO day! We plan to do a drone parade for the grandparents and special guests. Look for it on Facebook. 

If your child doesn't have any of the above to wear- please ask friends or visit the Rerun. They aren't required to participate in the dress up days- except for mass day. If they don't want to dress up, I told them to dress like they normally would for a school day. They need to remember that they will still have PE outside and recess...so have the snow pants to keep them warm. 

Religion- we are discussing the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. The plan is for the kids to do some research on a saint of their choosing. In the Catholic church, confirmation students pick a saint to have as their own patron saint...one they can look to for guidance and someone to look up to as a role model. 

Sunday Mass- Mass at Holy Spirit is at 9 am. Bishop Joensen will be presiding this weekend at both masses. I am excited that he will finally be able to visit our church since his ordination last year. 

 T-shirts- Next week we are decorating our hallway to represent the 50 states. If you have traveled anywhere in the state and got a T-shirt from that state, could they bring it to school on Monday? We'd like to use them as part of our decorating. They could have the name of the state on it or somewhere they visited like the Colorado Rockies, Disneyland, etc.  We just want to hang them, so they won't be cut or written on. You will get them back. 

SOS- I have a student of service this semester. Molly Sickels (Mrs. Sickels' daughter) is coming in the room to help out every other day for about an hour or so. 

I hope you have a good weekend! I can't believe I'm already saying that! 

God Bless,

Miss Surma