Dear 4B Families:
Happy last full week of February and beginning of March on Friday!
Oral Biographies: The students will bring home information on the Oral Biography Project on Monday, and the directions will be posted in an Oral Biography tab on the website. I will be going over the details of this project with the students on Monday, and we will be practicing strategies in class that will help them plan, work through and present this project. All students need to have a biography choice approved by me no later than March 5th. Please refer to the information sheet when choosing a biography choice. We have a good selection of books in our classrooms, and Mrs. Wallace will share books from the library for the students to select from as well. It is good to have more than one choice, as we prefer to have no duplicates. Presentations will be made between April 25th to May 3rd.
Along with going over the Oral Biography project with the students, we are finishing up our mini bio presentations in class—all of the students get a chance to practice their oral presentation skills!
Lent/Religion: Reminder, students are encouraged to bring in a dollar or more to support Fr. Dunstan’s school in Kenya and enjoy a free dress day. Thank you for your generosity last week. We continue to learn about the Sacraments. The students will be using their Bibles regularly during Lent to look up and reflect on readings related to the season. We are practicing the Memorare daily at school. Students should also keep a copy by their bed and say it each night before they go to sleep.
St. Martin de Porres Friday, March 1st:
Last Names A-L: Disposable razors and shaving cream (travel size)
Last Names M-Z: Brown Bag Lunches (perishable OK)
Spelling: Spelling words for the week were passed out last Friday with a test coming this Friday.
Reading: We are reading The World According to Humphrey with a target skill of “theme”. The students are focusing on important lessons the main characters learn over the course of the story. The story addresses the topic of media such as television and the internet—which can be powerful tools that need to be used with regulation and balance.
Math: Keep up regular multiplication and especially division fact practice. Thank you for your continued assistance helping your children work for accuracy on their homework as we work to master the long division algorithm. Our class lessons will remain focused on long division and interpreting remainders in story problems. The Chapter 6 test will be on Friday March 1st or Tuesday the 4th. We will be reviewing for the test on Wednesday and Thursday. Students will receive a study guide on Thursday and we will review that before the test.
Social Studies: This week we will wrap up our study of Lewis and Clark. Students will take an open note/resource final assessment. We will be starting our next unit on the settlers! We will learn about the early groups of missionaries and fur traders that headed west following Lewis and Clark leading us to a study of the Oregon Trail. We will also do some map work with the major rivers of the United States.
Science: We will be moving on to lesson 2: Eyes, Light, and Vision. In this lesson, students discover the basics of how their eyes work, and figure out some of the causes of vision problems. In the activity, Eye Model, students develop a working model of a human eye. They use a magnifying lens as a model of the cornea to explore how the structure of this lens is related to the function of our eyes.