April 20-24, 2015
Three things:
3 things in life that, once gone, never come back: Time, Words, Opportunity
3 things in life that can destroy a person: Anger, Pride, “Un”forgiveness
3 things in life that you should never lose: Hope, Peace, Honesty
3 things in life that are most valuable: Love, Family, Kindness
3 things in life that are never certain: Fortune, Success, Dreams
3 things in life that make a person: Commitment, Sincerity, Hard Work
3 things in life that are truly constant, Father – Son – Holy Spirit
Religion: We will be finishing Chapter 15: The students will examine ways that people can
reconcile and forgive as we learn the meaning of conscience and how it is formed and developed.
Students will understand that the Seventh through the Tenth Commandments teach us to treat
others in loving and unselfish ways.
Science (Mrs. Humbert): Students will finish reading their Force and Motion booklet this week.
Students will work to fill out an Egg Drop Planning Worksheet. They will need to think about
the concepts and vocabulary when explaining why they think their egg contraption will work.
The project is not due until Friday May 1st, 2015 when the student’s final project will be tested
and get dropped from the top of the school! You will be able to find information and resources
in the Egg Drop Challenge packet.
Social Studies (Mrs. Humbert): We will be focusing more on science this week. When we
start on our next newspaper, the students will learn about the roaring twenties and the events that
took place leading up to the Great Depression.
Math (Mrs. Humbert): We will be moving forward with fractions now that students have a
strong foundation of fraction skills to build from. We will be learning how to add/ subtract
fractions with common denominators and converting fractions between improper and mixed
number form. We will also begin rotating through math stations that will refresh students on
skills we have learned since the beginning of school in order to prepare them for their last round
of ISTEP!
Reading (Mrs. Craney): We started our new novel, Where the Red Fern Grows. E-v-e-r-y
single year I promise myself that I am going to take a year off…it’s too emotional…and every
year I read it to them anyway. When seniors from all over come back for our annual St. Malachy
Senior Mass and I ask them to recall a favorite memory from my classroom, this book is
ALWAYS one of them. So, how could I not??? Now, I will put in a formal request for
additional boxes of Kleenex! If you haven’t read this novel yet, or if you have and would like to
read it again, I have a few extra copies I’d love to let you borrow. Then you can ask your weeone what they read/discussed/learned in their daily reading. Just let me know! (Today Billy
picked up his pups, encountered pompous townspeople, and had his first strawberry pop with a
very kind sheriff.) Our basal story this week is called “The Gold Rush Game.” We will be
learning and reviewing new vocabulary: annoyed, prospectors, outstretched, circular, glinted,
reference, and disappointment. We will also work with the comprehension skill of cause and
effect, we’ll practice fluency, and our text feature work will be using and reading a timeline.
English (Mrs. Craney): In English this week we learn the purple words: vilified, anew, atone,
saturated, and remnants. The skills in DOL will be: correcting a run on sentence, spelling the
word friend correctly, using commas correctly in a series, in a participial phrase, with an adverb
at the beginning of a sentence, in a compound sentence, with the introductory word yes, and with
a subordinate clause. Our grammar skills will be using adjectives and adverbs correctly and
using good and well correctly.
Writing (Mrs. Craney): Our ISTEP practice testing and music rehearsals took away from my
planned writing activity. So we will still be: writing a description of an imaginary place, “The
Mysterious Door.” We will be writing with detail using all of our senses in our writing piece.
Spelling (Mrs. Craney): Our words this week are words with the final /ən/ sound: Our words
will be: robin, button, bacon, reason, cotton, sunken, eleven, cousin, woven, raisin, cannon,
muffin, widen, wooden, ridden, common, proven, often, penguin, skeleton, medal, pupil, paddle,
violin, and vitamin. Our ticket challenge words are: vilified, anew, atone, saturated and
remnants.
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Quick Notes:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Mass day/Mass attire
Thursday:
Friday: Last Friday of the month casual day: 2 or fewer dress code violations.
Upcoming: 4th Grade- We will be taking ISTEP on the computers the week of May 4-8.