Dear Parents,  Happy Thursday! I hope you are having a great week! 

Clean-Up Day- Tomorrow (Friday) we will be taking the kids outside to clean the school grounds. They can wear sweatpants if they wish. We'd like them to bring rakes and work gloves if they have them. Please make sure your family's name is on the rake. 

Lap-A-Thon- is set for April 24. I put the fundraising envelope in your child's folder a couple of weeks ago. Those need to be returned by Friday, April 24. Please return them even if your child didn't raise any money.  They should wear shorts or sweatpants that day for the run. I told them they can have their headphones that time to listen to music while they run or walk. They should also have a water bottle. I do sometimes suggest a second pair of shoes because sometimes the ones they run/walk in get muddy. 


Math- This week they learned to plot fractions on a number line that they had to create. They also worked on identifying whether a story problem had extra or missing information before they solved it. We are going to begin working on equivalent fractions on Friday. 

Language Arts- This week's story was a nonfiction piece about how animals travel. We learned that bats work off of echoes. They can tell how fat or juicy an insect is based on the echo! Their spelling words have to deal with the prefixes -con, -com, pre, and -pro.

Religion- We will be celebrating the Seder Meal today with the school.The 5th graders help set that up every year! This is one of my favorite activities that we do in our school. I love all of us getting together to share this meal and remembering what the Jews went through and what Jesus did for us.  On Friday, we will do the Stations of the Cross in the chapel. There will also be a short prayer service at the end of the day. 

I hope everyone has a BLESSED Easter! My mom and I are heading to Waterloo to celebrate it with my brother and sister and their families. Another sister of mine is driving in from PA to be there too. It should be a busy, but fun weekend! 
God Bless, Miss Surma