Hello Parents! I hope all the moms were spoiled on Sunday!!! I had a nice trip back home! Next week will probably be my last blog for the year. Seriously, where did the time go?? 

Calendar Dates:

May 16- Spirit Day

May 19- All Library Books Due

May 21- Kindergarten mass/5th grade helpers/ Spring Concert 

May 26- No School / Memorial Day

May 28- 5th grade plays bells  at mass

May 30- Last Day of School/Early Out 

Permission Slip- Please sign the form for our practice at the high school next week for the concert. It is in your child's take home folder. The concert is at 6 pm at the Creston High School. 

Puberty Video- The girls will be watching the video next Wednesday after mass. While they are doing that, the boys will go to the kindergarten room and hang out with them and maybe even get a recess with them! We will do the switch the next day with the boys watching the video and the girls going to the kindergarten room. 

Reading- We are finishing up our last story in this module this week. They will take the weekly test on Friday. They will also have the spelling test on Friday.  Next Monday they will take their Module/Unit test. I will start a new unit on Tuesday. That story may take us to the end of the year. 

Book Reports are today! I am excited!!! It will take me a few days most likely to grade them! 

Math- They are now adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. The hardest part is remembering that some answers have to be simplified. I don't plan on giving them a chapter test on this one. I may just give them a worksheet and we will call that the test. I'd like to get into multiplying fractions before we end our year! 

Religion- This week we worked on the Corporal Works of Mercy. We created lists of different things they can do to live them out. They also had to draw and color a picture of themselves living out one of their ideas. This week they are going to learn about one of my favorite saints- Maria Goretti. She was killed as a young girl by a man who attacked her. She forgave him before she died.  She lived out one of the Spiritual Works of Mercy. 

Spirit Day on Friday! They can wear sweats and/or a hat for $1. I know the weather has been so warm this week that sweats are probably not something they want to wear. 

Congrats to Mary Keller for winning the front cover of this year's yearbook! Sawyer Clinton's picture will be on the back cover! 

Glow-A-Thon- Our class was surprised at mass today! 5th grade won the pizza party for the class with the most money raised! We also won the Dilly bars for the most laps run! I was shocked! We will probably do those next week! 

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I am heading to Waverly to see my sister Penny. I am going to do some odd jobs around the house for her and we plan on spending time checking papers! She is a 7-8 language arts teacher. She went back to work this week. We still don't have a definitive answer. She will go back to Mayo in June. 

God Bless, 

Miss Surma