Monday, March 7th
- End of second trimester
Tuesday, March 8th
- Mass of the Holy Spirit 8:00 am
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- Students should be dropped off at their regular drop off points and head into the classroom. School doors will open at 7:45 am to allow students time to put away their belongings and head to the church as a class. Please do not drop students off at the church. Staff will escort students who are late from the school to the church.
Wednesday, March 9th
- Reconciliation
Thursday, March 10th- EARLY DISMISSAL @ 11:30
- Unit 24 Spelling Test
- 11:00 Stations of the Cross
- 11:30 Dismissal
- 12:30 Parent Teacher Conferences- Please be sure to sign up for a conference if none of the times available work for you please reach out to your child’s teacher for other arrangements.
Friday, March 11th
- No School
Tuesday, March 15th
- Mass of the Holy Spirit 8:00 am
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- Students should be dropped off at their regular drop off points and head into the classroom. School doors will open at 7:45 am to allow students time to put away their belongings and head to the church as a class. Please do not drop students off at the church. Staff will escort students who are late from the school to the church.
Thursday, March 17th
- Green day dress down
Friday, March 18th
- 2022 Auction Shirt Dress Down Day
- Unit 25 Test
- 2:30pm Stations of the Cross
Math: This week, students wrapped up chapter 4 with a summative test. Any test corrections made on this test must be turned in by Monday, 3/8. We then jumped right into chapter 5, and began to review multiples, and patterns- an important foundation before we begin our unit on fractions and decimals. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of divisibility, prime numbers, and composite numbers.
Reading: Students are enjoying our novel, Where the Red Fern Grows. Our focus these past weeks has been vocabulary, summarization, characterization, and referring to the text. These upcoming weeks we will continue exercising these skills, but also looking at the type of conflict found with in the novel, making predictions and connections, as well as, cause and effect.
Spelling/Grammar/Writing: For the week of 3/8, students will be reviewing the spelling patterns learned from units 19-23. Following this, unit 25 explores both regular and irregular plural words. In both units, students will be able to identify the meanings of spelling words and categorize spelling words based on meaning. In writing, students have completed a rough draft of a biographical paper based on information they gathered from research. Students also reflected on their work, assessing how to improve for a final draft. This editing and revising will be completed in the coming weeks. In order to produce a final draft, students will be focusing on grammatical concepts such as verb tense agreement, capitalization, and punctuation, and avoiding run-ons and fragments.
Science: This week, students learned all about weather. We explored how humidity affects air pressure, and how air pressure affects wind. Students have also learned about three main types of clouds, and created their own flip book with which to study them. Next week, students will create their own anemometer to measure wind speed. After this lesson, students will learn how weather is predicted.
Social Studies: We are wrapping up our Midwest Unit and will be moving on to the Southwest. The Southwest region while small (ONLY 4 STATES) has a lot of information and history to share with us. We will be going over the kinds of land found in the southwest, the resources available both renewable and renewable, as well as the history.
Religion: We recently finished We Believe chapter 5, where students learned the importance of asking for God’s forgiveness and striving to share God’s gift of peace and unity with other people. We celebrated Ash Wednesday this week, marking the start of the Liturgical season of Lent. Students decided on three Lenten promises that they will follow during this season. Next week, we will begin our chapter on Lent, where students will learn what we are preparing for during Lent, and how we are preparing for reconciliation which is Wednesday, March 9th.
Announcements/Reminders:
Please be sure to revisit the dress code for 3-8th, including expectations for dress-down days. As a reminder, please be sure to send your child dressed for the weather. We will be having outdoor recess as long as the weather permits.
OUR ST. CLETUS ANNUAL FUNDRAISER is happening Apr 2, 2022. For information on how to donate or sponsor this event please visit Under the Big Top. The teachers and students appreciate all that you do to help our school be the best.
Thank you so much for your constant support and cooperation!
P.S For a house point have your child tell us the code word: absolution
Mrs. Lupe Varchetta and Mrs. Allison Wrodarczyk (Russell)