Week of September 22-26, 2014
Great quotes by great ladies: *The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. *I refuse to
think of them as chin hairs. I like to think of them as stray eyebrows. *I’m not going to vacuum until Dyson
makes one you can ride on.
Religion: Chapter 5: The students will learn how role models influence us. They will
understand that Jesus, our Role Model, is both human and divine. They will learn that sacrifice
is part of the Christian way of life.
Science (Mrs. Humbert): We will be finishing our salt and flour maps in social studies this
week. We may get into our Life Cycles science booklet if time permits.
Social Studies (Mrs. Humbert): We will be painting our salt and flour maps this week! Our
discussion on how the 3 regions of Indiana formed will continue as we begin discovering Indiana
waterways in the Indiana Studies Weekly: Week 3!
Math (Mrs. Humbert): Multiply, multiply, multiply! We will continue to build our skills in
discovering numerous ways to multiply. We will be using the distributive, commutative, and
associative properties to break down numbers in order to multiply multi-digit numbers!
Reading (Mrs. Craney): We started our new novel, Petey by the author Ben Mikaelsen. I’ve
read this book to my SMS students for a hundred years! (hyperole ) The most amazing news
ever…Ben Mikaelson is coming to St. Malachy on the evening of November 6th! More to come
on that awesome tidbit! Our basal reading story this week is “The Raft.” The students will learn
new vocabulary: raft, downstream, scattered, cluttered, disgusted, and nuzzle. The students will
learn characters, plot, and setting. We will work on fluency. We will learn the parts of a map:
compass rose, map key and legend. We will use context clues and paragraph clues to identify
unknown words and phrases. We will identify figurative language and parts of speech in both
our basal and our novel.
English (Mrs. Craney): We are going to learn when to indent a new paragraph and we will
capitalize proper nouns. We will use capitalization and punctuation correctly. We will learn that
a run-on sentence joins together two or more sentences that should be written separately. The
students will correct a run on sentence by separating two complete ideas into two sentences.
They will use commas correctly in a series and will learn that we have to write out numbers
under ten.
Writing (Mrs. Craney): We will write to prompts. We will learn that a Cinquain is a poem
with five lines that follows a specific pattern, and we will create one of our own. We will also
learn that an Acrostic poem uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line and each line of the
poem relates to the topic. We will write one of these, too!
Spelling (Mrs. Craney): Our words this week contain the long /o/ sound: goal, mole, stone,
stove, chose, own, fold, flow, mold, toll, groan, stole, foam, mows, roasting, lower, sole, blown,
bolt, quote, kite, shy, climb, coaster, motor. Ticket Challenge: scrutinized, determined,
competency, quizzically, rhythm.
Quick Notes:
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Monday:
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Tuesday:
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Wednesday: Mass attire
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Thursday:
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Friday: Casual Day for those students with two or fewer dress code violations.
Looking ahead:
*Hatchet project due Monday, September 29th
*Grandparent’s Day, October 3rd
*Our annual Family Fall Harvest is just around the corner on Saturday October 4, 2014 from 6:30-8:30. Come and join
us for yummy snacks, bonfire, karaoke and a DJ. www.SignUpGenius.com/go/70A044AA9A82D6-family
*Correction: On the Parent Volunteer Form the wrong date was listed for the Christmas Party. It is REALLY on 12/19.