Hello Parents, What's that saying, "God laughs when you're busy making plans."  I feel like that is a true representation of my plans during Catholic Schools Week! 🤣🤣🤣  We are having a fun week, that's what counts!!!

Calendar Dates: 

Feb, 3- Mass @ Holy Spirit 1:30

Feb. 10- Spirit Day

Feb. 14- Valentine's Day

Feb 20- No School/ PD Day

Feb. 22- Ash Wednesday/ 5th Grade mass

Feb. 24- Spirit Day

Mar. 3 - Book Report Due

Math- so the test is taking us a couple of days to finish due to our CSW activities! I'm okay with that because I'm not sure CSW is when I want to introduce division!  Not sure there would be a lot of "soaking in" of that information! 

Reading- This week they are reading a portion of Lunch Money. It is about a boy who creates his own comic book and sells them at school for a quarter! The comic book is the size of a credit card and about 16 pages long. In grammar we are working on identifying adjectives. This can be a challenge! On Monday they had to find the adjective and then decide what it answers: how many? what kind? or origin? For example: how many- words like two, twenty-five, few, some, many. For what kind- adventure, pretty, straight, lumpy.  For origin- Chinese, American, Russian, Spanish.  On Tuesday they had to find the linking verb and then the adjective . We did that one together. The next one will be deciding where to use the articles  a, an, and the.  Those are adjectives that give you information about a noun as well! Their spelling list this week are words that end in-ed or -ing. They also noticed during the pretest that many of the words have consonants that need to be doubled! 

Their unit scores are in their folders. This was a benchmark test..which means more stories to read. The scores weren't so pretty. I can tell in some of them that they didn't look back to find the information. 

Book It Calendars- I will accept the January calendars until Friday. It's a crazy week!

Religion- They are finishing up their chapter. We are going over their study guide on Thursday, but they won't test until Monday. I am mixing up the schedule with CSW activities so that I pushed until next week. 

I hope the kids are enjoying this week as much as the teachers do! It's a crazy week, but always so worth it to celebrate our faith and our school and our STM family! Have a great weekend! It looks like we are going to have some great temps compared to what we've been dealing with lately. 

God Bless,

Miss Surma