Dear Parents, Well, the temperatures this week definitely remind us that we are in the month of December! I hope everyone is having a great week! 

 Important Dates: 

Dec. 15-Lunch/Singing at church

Dec. 19- Spirit Day

Dec. 21- Wear your Ugly Christmas Sweater

Dec. 22- 4th/5th Mass with Bishop Joensen, wear mass clothes and Red or Green if you have it! 

Dec. 23- Jan. 4. Christmas Break

Jan. 5- Classes Resume

Reading- This week they are reading a story called Dangerous Crossing. It is a historical fiction story about John Adams traveling by ship to France three years into the Revolutionary War.  We hear about the adventure from him and his young son Johnny. While the story is fiction, John did travel to France to try and get help for the Americans during the war.  The spelling this week has a VCCV pattern. Have your kids explain that one! It was funny on Monday, they were actually trying to make sure they saw the pattern in each word during their pretest. I think that was a first!  In grammar we are working on replacing nouns with pronouns! 

Unit test scores are in their folders. They are much better than Unit 1, but I am not surprised! Benchmark test scores are typically lower. They did a great job! 

Math- Test scores were really good! I was wrong. Our next chapter is multiplying decimals! Division gets to be put off a little longer! 

Religion- They went to confession on Monday. One of them said, "Well, that was refreshing!" That's exactly how they should feel afterwards! We are in our Advent chapter now. We also have discussed the church calendar and gone over the seasons of the church. We also went over the holy days of obligation. 

Dress Up Days for Christmas-

Tuesday, Dec. 21- Wear your Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! 🎄

Wednesday, Dec. 22-Dress up in your Sunday Best while showing off your Christmas spirit by wearing Red/ Green ! Bishop Joensen will be at this mass! ❤

Donations for the Nursing Home- Please send your donations in ASAP. I think all items need to be in by the 14th.  If you haven't signed up yet, there are still women to buy for! 

Just a reminder that on the 15th, the 5th graders will go to the church and sing for the ladies and have lunch with them! 

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I heard snow is in the forecast for my hometown of Doon! (I'm okay if they keep it)

God Bless, 

Miss Surma