Hello Everyone- I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know my siblings and I loved spending the time together even though we had to cut it short due to the weather.  My brother got 13 inches of snow! I told him I was happy with our amount! 

Calendar Dates: 

Dec. 5- Spirit Day

Dec. 8- Mass / Holy Day of Obligation

Dec. 10- PE DAY - no mass

Dec. 11- 5th grade sings at Holy Spirit

Dec. 17- 5th grade mass

Dec. 19- Need Sack Lunch

Permission Slip- There is a form in your child's folder for our trip to Holy Spirit Church on the 11th. I have enough drivers. They will sing for the CDA and guests and then we will eat with them. It is a potluck luncheon. If your child doesn't feel comfortable with that- they may still pack a sack lunch! They don't need to dress up on this day.  Please have forms returned to me by the 9th.

Monday, Dec. 8- We have a holy day of obligation. The kids will need to dress for mass on Monday!  We will have our PE Day on Wednesday. They will still get out early on Wednesday. 

Reading- Our final story in this module is really a bunch of different poem styles. The main character is writing poems in school, and he just can't seem to stop writing them! They will take their quiz over this story on Friday. The weekly module test will be on Monday. Since this is our last story in this module- that means we will have a big module test starting on Tuesday.  I think I will break it up this time so that we can start a writing project. They will take a test tomorrow ( Thursday) over their spelling words. 

Religion- We are finishing up our chapter on the Beatitudes. The other day we made a list of hashtags  that would apply to each Beatitude. For example: #praymore  or #acceptapologies   Our next chapter is a short one covering Mary. I wanted to get that covered next week since we are celebrating her on Monday.  After that I will get into our Advent chapter. There seems to be a lot to cover before the Christmas break! 

Math- We started multiplying decimals this week. The first day they used a calculator to multiply by 10, 100, or 1000. We talked about how the decimal moves with each zero.  On Tuesday they multiplied a whole number times a decimal. We talked about money a lot with those problems and how we might be buying multiple items that cost us $0.50.  We also talked about being charged sales tax on items. That led to a whole discussion on why we pay taxes! 

Advent Angels will start next week. I told them who their angel partner was today! It's always exciting! 

I hope you enjoy the music program tonight! The 3-5 graders did an excellent job at practice today. I had a lot of middle school students telling me how great they sounded! Thank you , Mrs. Warner! 

I hope everyone has a great weekend! Stay warm! Stay safe! 

God Bless,

Miss Surma