I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break! I know I enjoyed my days away by spending some time with my siblings in Waterloo and Sioux Falls.  

Calendar Dates:

Mar. 27- Spirit Day

Mar. 29- Palm Sunday

Apr. 2- Seder Meal- Sack lunch needed

Apr. 3- Good Friday/ No School

Apr. 6-10 ISASP testing week 

Apr. 8- 5th grade mass

Apr. 13- No School/ PD Day

Reading- We are finishing up our Celestials' Railroad story this week.  They will take their quiz over this story on Friday. They will also have their spelling  post test on Friday. We played a game on Monday of Spelling Tic Tac Toe.  It was a fun way to review the words!  Their grammar is focusing on subject and object pronouns. Today we found the pronoun and its antecedent. The weekly module test will be on Tuesday of next week. 

ISASP Testing- next week I am going to give them practice tests throughout the week to get them ready for  the testing they will do after Easter. In 5th grade they have 4 tests. They have a reading test, language arts/writing, math, and a science test. I believe the science test is only given in 5th grade and 8th grade. 

Math- We worked on finding the common denominator  and then renaming the fraction on Monday and Tuesday. Now we begin adding and subtracting decimals with unlike denominators. 

Religion- We just finished our chapter on Lent. We started a new one the other day. We read the story of the tax collector and the Pharisee saying their prayers. The tax collector asks for forgiveness while the Pharisee basically gives a list of the things he has done right compared to others. This chapter focuses on mercy, but more specifically the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. Next week we will pause to focus on Holy Week. 

Spirit Day on Friday and it looks like the temps will be dropping so it should be a good day for sweats/hat! 

Students will need a sack lunch on Thursday, April 2, after the Seder Meal. 

No School on Good Friday, April 3! 

The 5th graders will have their mass on April 8. They will have another mass when they help the kindergarten class at the end of May. 

March Book It Calendars will be due by April 2. 

I hope everyone has a great weekend! 

God Bless, 

Miss Surma

 Hello Families- I will be having the kids clean out the closet and take home their boots next Wednesday. Hopefully the boots can stay home! 

Calendar Dates:

Mar. 6: Spirit Day

Mar. 6- Reconciliation for Grades 3-8

Mar. 9-12- Parent Teacher Conferences

Mar. 10- ACRE Test for 5th graders

Mar. 11- Noisy Change Collection

Mar. 12-22 Spring Break

March 11, 2026 is now an early out like all other Wednesdays. Dismissal at 2:10

Reading- We are wrapping up our story on the Wild West this week. They will have a post test in spelling on Friday.  Their weekly module test will be then too. This week we focused on problems they faced in the story and how they went about solving them. We also focused on two central ideas. They worked in groups to find proof from the story to back those ideas up.  We worked on quotations and interjections in grammar. 

Math- The tests have been taken. My plan is to go over them tomorrow and have people correct that need to be corrected. The ones I have checked so far have been pretty good! 

Religion- We are focusing on Lent right now. We went to the chapel on Tuesday to say the Rosary again. They did a wonderful job!  On Friday they will have the opportunity to go to Reconciliation. We are going to go with the 6-8 grades in the afternoon. We have been talking about possible sins they have committed since Christmas ( that was the last time we went as a school to Reconciliation). I have been talking to them about their behaviors with a rosary, at mass, or during prayer in the morning, at lunch, or at the end of the day. 

They will take the Religion ACRE test on Tuesday. This is a standardized test for grades 2,5, and 8. 

Spirit Day on Friday, March 6! They can wear a hat if they don't want to wear sweats since it is supposed to be so nice! 

Noisy Change Collection next Wednesday, March 11. 

Wipes- I bought more wipes and we should be okay until spring break. We may need more afterwards though. 

I will see you next week at conferences! I hope everyone has a great weekend! 

God Bless,

Miss Surma