Proclaim His Name

Bretzmann 5th Grade Newsletter: September 29, 2017

Parent Highlights

Weebly.com: Here is a link to our Divine Redeemer Grade 5 Weebly website. This site offers another opportunity to stay connected. As the year grows, so shall our website.

http://drlsgrade5.weebly.com/

Book Club: 4th – 8th Grade Book Club is planning their October meeting (Thursday, Oct. 26). Read a mystery and come and join us!

Outdoor Ed. Fund Raising: On Tuesday, Oct. 10 we will Kick-Off our Fund Raising event to help defer the cost of Outdoor Ed. in May. Your child will bring home the packets on the 10th. More information will be coming.

Calendar Events

10/10 Kick Off Fund Raising for Outdoor Ed. 10/19 & 10/20 7 & 8 Musical 10/20 Grandparents Day 10/21 Trunk or Treat 10/22 5 & 6 Choir sing at 9:15 a.m. in gym 10/25 5th Grade Chapel

FIKISHA Goal to Raise: $1,200 School year:

We will be helping children in Kenya, Africa, get off the streets and into schools. Sam Bretzmann is the Executive Director. Please keep Fikisha in your prayers. Tim & I would like to challenge our families – we will donate $1 for every $1 to Fikisha up to $600.

Let’s be God’s messengers!

http://www.fikisha.org/

Chapel Mission - Fikisha

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Religion & Memory We will continue to study the Holy Spirit and what a Sanctified Life is.

MEMORY

10-3 (T) #9 10-6 (F) 1st Comm. & Meaning

Reading – Elisa’s Diary

SKILL: Visualization

SELF-SELECTED: October’s Genre: Mystery AR Test due by Friday, October 27.

Spelling – Unit 6

English

GRAMMAR: • Unit 1 Review • Unit 1 Test

WRITING: Personal Narrative – firsts.

Focus is on Units 1 through 5.

Review Test scheduled for Wednesday, October 4.

Stop & Smell spelling pages are due on Friday, October 6. There is NO Extra Practice.

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Math Upcoming lessons include:

* Equal Groups * Fractions * Fractions adding & subtracting

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Geography

Unit 1 (2) Canada: We will be learning of Canada’s life

today & begin to explore Mexico.

1st QUARTER COUNTRY: Countries’ social & political.

Due Thursday, Oct. 5.

One useful website: https://www.cia.gov/index.html

Science

Classification Living Things: We will be studying how to

classify living organisms. Due to the short chapter, a Take Home Test will be given next week.

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Bible Thought for the Week

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!