Dear 4B Families:
Happy first full week of March and third week of Lent.
Oral Biographies: The students are very excited about the biography project! They are choosing lots of great people. All students should have their topic and book selections approved for the oral biography project by Tuesday the 5th. Once their book is approved, students should be reading, and rereading their biographies at home each night. As they read students are encouraged to use the sticky notes we will send home with them to mark pages and ideas that they would like to use in their biographies. We will provide tips and ideas each week along the way so that the students will be prepared for the presentations between April 25 and May 3rd.
Lenten Outreach
We will once again have our Friday Free Dress for Fr. Dunstan with a donation of at least one dollar. Thank you again for your generosity to this wonderful cause. Our St. Martin de Porres collections this week are:
Friday, March 8th:
Last Names A-L: Brown Bag Lunches (perishable OK)
Last Names M-Z: Travel toothbrushes/toothpaste
Religion: Our classwork this week will include a wrap up of our Sacrament studies with an open note/book test on the topics we have covered. Students should continue to practice the Memorare—we have already had a couple of students recite it from memory! We will be having some Second Step lessons this week focusing on:
- Recognize when bullying is happening, report bullying to a caring adult, and refuse to let bullying happen.
- Be a bystander who helps stop bullying.
• Support someone being bullied by standing up for that person and being kind and inclusive.
• Recognize, report, and refuse cyber bullying when they see or know about it happening.
Spelling: Spelling Words for this week were passed out last Friday with a test coming this Friday as usual.
Reading: We are finishing up reading The World According to Humphrey. We will then be moving into a new informational text called the Ever-Living Tree and the poetry selection, Towering Trees. Students will learn to use text and structure of graphic features to locate information. As we read, students monitor comprehension and ask questions to clarify. We review the prefixes pre-, inter- and ex- and enhance our vocabulary with the use of similes.
Math: We will be taking the Chapter 6 math test on Tuesday this week. Monday homework will be a test review, and we will use our math time on Monday and Tuesday to review before the test as well. Thank you for checking over the homework with your children. Wednesday we will begin a chapter on patterns and sequences. Students learn about non numeric and numeric patterns and sequences. We will also include review of multi-digit multiplication to keep our skills strong.
Social Studies: Last week we wrapped up our study of Lewis and Clark. Look for a corrected final test in your child’s filer on Monday. 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: In the third lesson, students delve further into the workings of the eye, exploring the function of their iris and pupil. In the activity, Pupil Card, students add a smaller pupil to the eye model that they created in the previous lesson. Then they observe how the changing size of the pupil controls how much light enters the eye.