Mrs. Jurik- Second Grade
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Linda Jurik, under Second Grade.
PrintFor the months of December and January we plan to cover the following topics:
Spelling: We will learn about the long ‘a’ spelled ai, a_e, ay;
long ‘e’ spelled ea and or ee; and long ‘i’ spelled y, i_e, igh.
Reading/Phonics: The class will read “Whales Song”, “Cinderella”, “I See Animals Hiding”,” Animal Camouflage”, ”What Color is Camouflage?”, and “They Thought They Saw Him”. We will review consonant blends, diagraphs and ‘o’.
English: We will continue to classify sentences. We will introduce a noun job chart and add common and proper nouns to the chart. We will also continue writing using the writing process. We will write a friendly letter to Santa in December.
Math: The students will begin adding two-digit numbers and be introduced to regrouping.
Social Studies: The students will learn about the Native Americans. They will be assigned a Native American tribe to research. They will also learn about the American Revolution and the growth of the United States.
Science: Students will identify and explore rocks, minerals, and granite. We will also talk about forces and work.
Health: The class will learn about promoting good health through medical checkups and physical activity.
Religion: We will focus on Advent as we enter the Christmas season, continue to learn the Act of Contrition, and practice for our scheduled trip to a nursing home. We will also continue to discuss the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments.
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Mrs. Feil – Fifth & Sixth Grade Social Studies
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Kristy Feil, under Middle School Notes.
Print5th Grade:
Wow..we have been busy!
The students had a great time working on their Native American Projects and did a nice job teaching their classmates about the different tribes. I hope everyone has had an opportunity to see the pictures that I posted on our 5th grade website!
I want to thank you all for all your help with your child’s heritage project! They were all so proud to tell their stories to their classmates! This was the perfect time to have them tell each other about their heritage as we are studying early exploration of the Americas. We will begin our studies of the early colonies/settlements in North America. We will continue to read and learn about the Virginia, Plymouth, Dutch and French Colonies in the Americas and continue until we reach the Thirteen Colonies!
6th Grade:
We are having a great time with our Egypt project! Our Pharaoh Hens are still in the mummification process, they should be finished once we return form Christmas Break!. The class will then have a burial procession to send them off to their afterlife!! We will begin our studies of Ancient India when we return from Thanksgiving Break. The students will learn about Hinduism, the beginnings of Buddhism and then finish the chapter reading about the Maurya Empire. From here we will move into ancient China.
I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed Christmas and a safe New Years!
Thanks for all you do!
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Mrs. Patton and Ms. Meroni’s First Grade
Posted on October 21, 2011, by Judy Patton, under First Grade.
PrintThank goodness the weather has finally cooled off, but our activities in First Grade are heating up! In what is left of October, we will have the Halloween Carnival (22nd), the Red Ribbon Week (24th-27th), we will finish the month of the rosary with a Living Rosary on the 26th at 2:00, and the Halloween parade at 8:15 on the 31st with a Halloween snack in our classroom at 2:30.
In November we will have our All Saints Mass on the 1st with everyone dressing as their patron saint, parent-teacher conferences on the 4th, the Saints Game on the 18th, and a prayer service followed by a primary grades Thanksgiving Feast and early release at 12:00 on the 22nd. Our Thanksgiving break will be the 23rd – 27th. Advent will begin on the 27th.
We will cover the following areas of our curriculum.
Math – We have just finished the chapter on addition and will cover the chapter on subtraction. We will begin an addition Math Minute each Friday. This is an ungraded one minute math drill to help the students practice their addition facts. Later we will add subtraction Math Minutes.
Religion – We will spend the month of November studying Saints that are chosen for the whole school. After Thanksgiving, we will start studying about Advent and the Christmas season.
Science – We will continue and finish the study of trees and the seasons of the year.
Social Studies - We will study about the Native Americans, early travelers to America, and symbols of our country.
Language Arts – In phonics we will continue to introduce the letter sounds of the alphabet, work on phonemic awareness, blending, segmentation, and rhyming. We will begin oral reading tests each Friday using one of the decodable readers we have introduced during the week. Please continue to read each night and fill out the reading logs. In grammar we will introduce -ed endings, capitalization, and special nouns. We will keep reviewing nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We hope you are enjoying the poetry folders going home on Mondays. The students will also continue to bring home guided readers on Fridays.
Health – We will talk about drug prevention during Red Ribbon Week, poison prevention, and begin to discuss how to stay healthy.
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Mrs. Feil- 5th and 6th Grade Social Studies
Posted on October 21, 2011, by Kristy Feil, under Middle School Notes.
Print5th Grade:
We are completing our unit over Native Americans. The students will finish the unit by working
in small groups on a project; and, completing various information about a specific Native American group which we have studied in class. Upon completion, the students in the group will present their project to class. The students are excited about this: some groups would like to bring in a dish that may have been prepared by their group, and some have asked to make a model of the type of housing they lived in. We are going to have a lot of fun with this! They will become the expert on their group! From there we will read and learn about Christopher Columbus, the discovery of “Americas”, the Spanish exploration and how Europe changed the Americas. The week of Thanksgiving break the students will have a “Culture Fest”, exploring and teaching the class about their heritage. (More information to come on this).
6th Grade:
We will begin our unit on Ancient Egypt. The students are looking forward to learning about Egypt’s rulers, religion, and their cultures. We will be doing a few projects during this unit. We will learn about the process of mummification (mummify a few chickens), study the Egyptian gods and goddesses, their beliefs of afterlife; study Pharaoh’s tombs, etc. This subject is always a lot of fun for the students.
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving Break!
Thank you for all you do!
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Mrs. Patton & Mrs. Nelson – First Grade
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Judy Patton, under First Grade.
PrintFirst grade has had a spook-tacular month in October. As the excitement of Halloween subsides be prepared for a multitude of Thanksgiving activities in the month of November. We will do a Thanksgiving Pow Wow program on November 23rd. Information regarding the Pow Wow will be forthcoming. Mrs. Nelson and I are also working on putting together a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum at the end of November or first part of December. We will notify you when we solidify the date. In addition, please make note of the following dates in November from the school calendar: 1st – All Saints Day, 8am Mass; 5th – Parent/Teacher Conferences NO SCHOOL for students; 9th – Booster Club Breakfast Fundraiser @ 7:15 am; 12th – World’s Finest Chocolate Sale begins; 18th – Buck-a-jean Day and 8th grade Snack Sale; 19th – Celebration of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Feast Day; 23rd -Thanksgiving Prayer Service 9:00, Pow Wow 11:00, and NOON DISMISSAL; 24th-28th Thanksgiving Vacation; 28th – First Sunday of Advent.
Here is a brief overview of the curriculum we will cover in November.
Math – We will continue to cover subtraction throughout the month.
Science – The unit on plants will continue with the study of trees and we will wrap it up with the Arboretum field trip “Tree Works.”
Social Studies – We will cover Unit 5 (This is Our Country). The unit covers Native Americans, early travelers to America, the Colonies, and symbols of our Country. We will also study Native American symbols and use these to decorate our Pow Wow costumes.
Religion – We will study about the ways that God speaks to us. We will also spend the month studying about Saints. Finally we will be preparing for the Advent Season which begins at the end of the month.
Language Arts – In the Unit 9 Spelling words, we will begin to have a Thursday practice test. In the Unit 10 Spelling words, we will begin to have a simple sentence using the spelling words. Instructions will be sent home with the spelling lists. In Grammar we will study plural nouns, special nouns, and pronouns. We will continue to introduce more consonant sounds while working on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation. The Oral Reading test will continue on Fridays and we will have several new decodable books each week.
We would like to wish you and your families a wonderful Thanksgiving Season.
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Mrs. Clack – Second Grade
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Saints Author, under Second Grade.
PrintReligion
We will be discussing the Corporal Works of Mercy. We will be visiting St. Joseph’s Nursing Home. We will continue to learn the Act of Contrition. We will end the month by discussing how we should be thankful for God’s goodness and have a Thanksgiving Prayer Service.
Math
We will continue to work on word problems. We will be learning to read and use a graph to retrieve information.
Language Arts
We will continue to work on our jingles, and completing our preposition books. We will learn about topics and supporting sentences.
Social Studies
In Social Studies we will continue to study Native Americans, and continue on our Indian projects. Come visit our hallway outside our class. Don’t forget Indian projects/reports are due November 23rd.
Science
We will continue to study the physical properties of matter. We will identify matter attracted to magnets, exploring magnetic attraction and identifying different types of magnets.
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Mrs. Shelton – Fifth and Sixth Grade
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Saints Author, under Fifth Grade, Sixth Grade.
PrintIn Science, the 5th graders are wrapping up Their Unit on Earth Science. We will begin learning about “The Solar System and Beyond.”
In Social Studies we are continuing to learn about our Native Americans. The 5th graders are enjoying learning their current events in their Scholastic News!
The 6th graders have begun learning about Physical Science. We are learning how to apply the Scientific Method as a way of problem solving. The metric system will be used to make calculations, applying concepts, identifying relationships, and interpreting information. The students are also learning the working knowledge of prefixes and suffixes used in science vocabulary.
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