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