Important Dates:

4/01 – March Book Projects Due

4/03 – Literature Assessment “The Universe”

4/04 – Report Card Cover Sheets & Envelopes Due

4/04 – Religion Chapter 12 Test

4/04 – Adoration from 11:30-11:50

4/04 – Noon Dismissal

4/11 – 5^th Grade to Daily Mass

A Note about Report Cards

It has come to my attention that the report cards sent home before the break were dated December 14, 2007. New report cards will be printed this afternoon with the correct date and sent home tomorrow. Nothing will need to be sent back to school regarding the re-printed report cards. The cover sheet that went home on Friday needs to be signed and returned with the envelope on or before Friday. The fee for replacing lost cover sheets and/or envelopes is $1.00.

Curriculum Notes

Religion: We will be taking a closer look at prayer this week with our study of chapter 12, “We Pray the Lord’s Prayer.” We will review this material on Thursday, and the test on this chapter will be on Friday.

Science: No update from Mr. Fairbank this week.

Math: This week we are looking at common denominators and comparing and ordering fractions. Toward the end of the week, we will look at the relationship between fractions and decimals.

Social Studies: We will begin looking at chapter 10, “A New Government Begins.” This week we will focus our attention on the approval of the Constitution. Look for a project sheet to come home on Thursday.

Literature: We are beginning our new unit this week. Students are encouraged to bring items for our new Concept/Question board on “Our Corner of the Universe.” This week we are reading a selection titled “The Universe.” Due to the half day on Friday, the assessments for this selection will be on Thursday.

Language Arts: We will be working with demonstrative pronouns (this, that, those, and these) and hyphens this week.

Our spelling lesson this week deals with Greek roots and irregular plurals. It is a difficult list, and merits a little extra study before the spelling test on Thursday afternoon.

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