HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Rubeigh- March 18

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5th Grade News Week of March 11, 2019

MATH 5A- This week we will continue to work with adding and subtracting fractions and will introduce working with mixed numbers. There will be a quiz this Friday. 5B- This week we are starting something new, we will focus on identifying rules and patterns. We will determine the relationship between different patterns. No quiz this week.

LANGUAGE ARTS

5A Reading – We will begin our class

novel, Out of My Mind, this week! The

students will complete an author

WebQuest, an activity which will

explain cerebral palsy (which is what

the main character has), and they will

be introduced to the new vocabulary

words.

5B Reading -This week we will be

staring a new novel! Our novel is

called Out of My Mind by Sharon

Draper. The story focuses on a young

girl and how she deals with her

disability. This week we will focus on

cerebral palsy, the author, and how to

communicate with others.

5English/Writing – The new spelling

pattern will be introduced today.

There will be a spelling test on

Thursday! In English, we will focus on

interjections and using the correct

punctuation for direct quotations.

There will be a grammar test on

Thursday.

RELIGION

We are starting chapter five this week. Our focus is on the sacraments of Baptism and becoming a member of the church. We will discuss Jesus’ baptism and how he gave us that Sacrament. We will continue to reflect in our lent journals. We will attend Stations of the Cross on Friday at 2:15, please join us!

SCIENCE

Last week, students learned

about our most important

star, the sun. This week, they

will also discover why the

closest stars may not always

be the brightest. We will

continue learning about

stars this week and also why

our planet has days, seasons,

and years.

SOCIAL STUDIES This week we are focusing on

the colonies declaring

independence. We will learn

about the Declaration of

Independence and how the

colonists started to choose sides.

We will also discuss Paul Revere

a read a story about his ride.

IMPORTANT DATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Tuesday, March 12th: Early Ed Night 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Invite

any preschool/kindergarten age friends to visit our school!

*Wednesday, March 13th: Mass at 1:30 p.m. hosted by 6th

Grade; Mac Pac Meeting 7:00 p.m. at Kankakee site

*Thursday, March 14th: 5/6th Grade Band 3:20 p.m. @

Kankakee site

*Friday, March 15th: Stations of the Cross at 2:15 p.m. in

the Church – You are welcome to join us!

6th Grade News Week of March 11, 2019

MATH

6A- This week, we will wrap up our fraction unit with multiplication and division of fractions and mixed numbers. Our next unit will focus on area of triangles, circles, parallelograms, and trapezoids. We will kick this off with a celebration of PI Day!

6B- This week, we will focus on adding and subtracting equations and solving them by finding the missing value. No quiz this week.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will continue to learn

about Egypt this week – we

are focusing on Egypt’s

political structure and their

earliest uses of writing.

There will be a vocabulary

quiz over Lesson 2 on

Friday!

LANGUAGE ARTS

6A Reading - We finished our

novel last Friday! We will watch

the movie this week and compare

the novel to the movie. The

students also began a Power Point

project with a partner – they are

researching endangered animals

and will present it to the class.

6B Reading - We are still working

on or novel Hoot. This week we

are focusing on imagery,

environmental and legal issues,

comprehension, and vocabulary.

No quiz this week.

6English/Writing - We will

continue to work on grammar

edits each day to begin class. The

students will also continue to

work on note taking for their

biography writing. We are also

focusing on citing our sources.

RELIGION

The 6th graders are hosting mass on

Wednesday, so we will be practicing

on Monday during religion time.

We will be reading the Gospel

reading for this Sunday and

completing a journal entry in our

Lenten journals. The students will

read “Jesus Heals the Man Born

Blind” and research the Pharisees to

find out the role they played at the

time of Jesus. Join us for Stations of

the Cross on Friday at 2:15!

SCIENCE

The 6th graders will continue

to learn how Earth’s surface

and rock layers give us clues

about its history. They will be

given a study guide for a

Fossils/Relative Dating Test.

This test will take place next

week before spring break.

IMPORTANT DATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Tuesday, March 12th: Early Ed Night 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Invite

any preschool/kindergarten age friends to visit our school!

*Wednesday, March 13th: Mass at 1:30 p.m. hosted by 6th

Grade; Mac Pac Meeting 7:00 p.m. at Kankakee site

*Thursday, March 14th: 5/6th Grade Band 3:20 p.m. @

Kankakee site

*Friday, March 15th: 6th Grade to attend “Godspell” at

Kankakee site; Stations of the Cross at 2:15 p.m. in the Church

– You are welcome to join us!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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