Hello Parents! I hope you are having a GREAT week! The kids did an outstanding job at mass today!!! They received many compliments afterwards! 

Calendar Dates

Feb. 19- No School/ Professional Development Day

Feb. 23- End of 2nd Trimester/ Spirit Day/ Fish Fry

Mar. 2- STM Foundation/ Gala 

Mar. 4-7 Parent Teacher Conferences

March 8-15 Spring Break/ No School

Reading- This week we are working on our story about urban cities growing gardens. The story was trying to persuade us into making one of our own. We talked about living in Creston and that wasn't really a need because many of us have the space  for one. It showed us how in cities people are creating their own garden space on rooftops . Some of them are grown vertically. They gave us some history on Victory Gardens that were made during WWI and WWII because of the food shortage. That was pretty interesting. 

Grammar- we are wrapping up our section on past tense verbs and whether they are regular or irregular. For example:  like and liked are regular because we only add the -d. But go, went, had gone are irregular because we change the spelling so much that they become different words. 

They will have their spelling test on Friday as well as the weekly test.  This week's words are a little tricky because of the schwa sound on the unstressed final syllable. The words end in -al, il, el or le. They all have a similar sounding ending. 

Math- We worked on area and perimeter on Tuesday. I am NOT going to test them on this chapter. We have done enough of the multiplication with decimals. I need to keep moving because we have to do some division work!!! My plan is to start tomorrow (Thursday). This is where I usually have kids get emotional because it is hard. I am going to show them two ways to divide. One way is the standard algorithm. (The way you were taught).  I am also going to show them partial quotients. This is a way you don't know! I don't expect you to know! I won't let your kids ask you for help with this way either!!! We will do this in the room!!! 🤣

Religion- Now that mass is over we are going to focus on Lent. They made their Lenten promises! Part of that promise is that once a week during religion we will be going to the chapel to say the Rosary. 

The 2nd Trimester will end on February 23. I can't believe we have only one left!!! 

Auction- If you are going to donate to the Live Auction Basket or the Silent Auction item, please do so ASAP. We will be putting the Reading basket together soon. Thank you for the donations I have already received!! 

Fish Fry here at STM on February 23rd. They are offering drive up or dine in! 

I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend! I am heading to Ames on Saturday. My niece Olivia made it to the All-State Speech Contest in two categories. Both of them get to perform on Saturday! 

God Bless, 

Miss Surma