Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on March 8, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintDuring the months of March and April, fourth grade will be moving in like a lion, out like a lamb!!! Please make sure you are checking the website. Here you can find all the classroom activities such as homework, due dates, and notes. I will try my best to continue to keep everyone at home updated to where we are in class.
English/Spelling/Reading:
We will continue to be tested on Shurley as well as spelling, however, this is going to change to a weekly activity. Each week, the students will receive words for spelling either based on Dolch Sight Words (most frequently misspelled words), or concentrating on a specific spelling pattern . The students will have dictionary work, practice spelling work, as well as paragraph writing work weekly.
Shurley Method will continue as we work our way through the pronouns, possessives, direct objects, and lastly indirect objects. We have worked over the last 5-6 weeks on intense writing procedures. We have used a series of activities to help the students become better writers. The students should now be able to form a bubble map or other thinking maps to create an outline-like structure to help them form & organize their ideas to begin their very descriptive writing. We hope that you will enjoy the Treasure Books that will soon be ordered for publishing. Here the students wrote for the first time a story/picture book that will be published about a super hero.
Our current novel is The Watsons Go to Birmingham. We will soon leave this novel and begin on our next reading piece, Matilda. Please note that the students have been asked to do a combination of work for comprehension on this current novel. Students should have their comprehension pieces in their class binder, in the reading section. With having this information, the students are able to begin studying vocabulary and keep up with comprehension of the novel.
Math:
We will continue the weekly check-ups. This helps the students to put previous and current concepts fresh in their minds and build long term memory. We will soon move on to Fractions while still working on multiplication and division. Please continue to practice multiplication as well as addition and subtraction facts with your students. The more we practice, the quicker our response time becomes.
Science:
We just began discussing the atmosphere of the Earth. We will continue to discuss this until Spring Break. Upon on return we will review and test over this material. The next section we will move into will be the Solar System! Yippee! This is going to be out of this World!
Social Studies:
Currently we are reading and discussing what happened after the Texas Revolution. In this section we have discussed Redbacks, debt that we owed to the US., our first president of the Republic of Texas, and much more. We will continue after break to press through the years of Texas History but reading and talking about the Republic of Texas joining the United States and the continued growth of the state, the Civil War and the divide in the United States. WHOOO HOOO Texas History!
Religion:
We are currently discussing the reason for the Lenten Season leading us to Easter Sunday. During Religion, we also will continue to discuss, in detail, each of the Commandments. We do use true life experiences that relate as well as reflect living by the Ten Commandments.
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Mrs. Guerrero & Ms. Lane – Kindergarten
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintHappy New Year! This is what we will be doing for the next couple of weeks:
Religion – We are working on a book about the life of Jesus. We are reading the Bible and learning about Jesus’ life and the many miracles He performed.
Language Arts – Wind is the new unit we will learn about! Our goals are to learn about the wind through books, pictures, discussion, and active experimentation. We will learn about informational prose and its difference from narrative. And finally, we will learn about informational writing and illustration. We will continue to work on letters, sounds, blending, segmenting, and fluency when reading. Decodable books are going home each evening. Please have your child read his/her decodable each night. This will build fluency! We read “The Mitten,” and we had fun making milkshakes with our mittens. Below are some pictures of us making milkshakes, YUMMM!
Acting out The Mittens
We had fun making milkshakes wearing our mittens!
Math – Our goals for this month are to continue to recognize numerals 1 – 60, order numerals on a number line, count by 5′s and 10′s, identify missing numeral on a number line, solve simple subtraction problems, discriminate between subtraction and addition stories, make AB, AABB, and ABC patterns, recognize and name hexagon.
Science – We have been learning about PETS. We will know how to identify and classify pets. We will learn how to identify how animals move, body coverings, and what animals need in order to live. The creature teacher will be visiting us in January! We can’t wait to see all of the animals!
Social Studies – We will learn about the planets in our solar system! We will learn interesting facts about each planet and make a rocket book about what we have learned! We will learn how we are a part of the universe!
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Mrs Schmitz- 3rd Grade
Posted on October 21, 2011, by Maria Schmitz, under Third Grade.
PrintMath
We are finishing up our addition unit and will begin working on subtraction. Please check your students’ evening homework assignments to ensure they have an understanding of subtraction. When we finish with our unit on subtraction we will begin working on memorizing all of our multiplication facts.
Science
We are finishing the unit that covers the Solar System. We will begin investigating elements and compounds. Some of the students are very excited about this new unit.
Religion
October is Respect Life month. Each student will be making a poster that will be placed in the hallway to represent how to respect life. This month we are also praying the rosary each week with the entire school on Wednesdays. In November we will be studying the saints. Each student will be asked to do a project on their favorite saint to share with the class.
Social Studies
We will continue to learn about communities. We will discuss how they are all alike and how they are different. We will also continue to work on our map skills.
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Mrs. Strunk PK 4
Posted on March 7, 2011, by Kathy Strunk, under Pre-kindergarten.
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FEBRUARY
We had some unexpected weather! It put Catholic Schools Week a week late, but every one had fun. The children really enjoyed the Sock Hop. Everyone had a great time dancing; but the best was the root beer float.
The children enjoy going to Mass with their 5th grade partners.
Valentine’s Day was also great. The children had a wonderful time exchanging valentines with their friends. They also learned about St. Valentine.
We finished our unit on “Things that Go.” The children pantomime their favorite thing that goes and the rest of us had to guess what it was. We will begin our unit on the “Senses”.
MARCH
Languages Arts
We will be working on the Five Senses. Learning songs, poems and reading books about our five senses.
Religion
We are learning the time line of Jesus’ life. We will be discussing Ash Wednesday and the Season of Lent. We will also begin working on our Passion play that we will put on for our parents in April. I will give you more information about this later.
Math
We are making sets or groups of numbers. We are counting by tens and we are counting on. Counting on is where you start counting from any number. If I picked number 23, then we would continue counting 24, 25 etc.
We are also discussing the . (period)
We are also discussing our “Treasure Book”. The children have published a book. They chose as their topic, “My Favorite Toy.” I will be giving you more information this month about it.
Mrs. Martinez and Mrs. Strunk want to thank all of the families for our lovely Valentine’s.
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Mrs. Fabian – Third Grade
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Betty Fabian, under Third Grade.
PrintImportant 2nd QRT projects: Book Report for the Quarter will be a biography
Religion Project – Parables
Watch for information in your student’s Red folder the 1st week of the 2nd quarter. Check the class web site for updates.
Religion – Unit 2 – God is Great will be the focus for the month. The Apostle’s Creed oral test will be the first part of the month.
Language Arts – In October we read in whole groups and in Guided Reading Groups. We read a biography in October so students will understand how to do the 2nd QTR book report. Homework will be assigned for Guided Reading this month. Writing – The class has written 2 poems that will be part of their Treasure Books. In November, we will write more poetry. Plus students will write to their families what they are thankful for in their lives.
Spelling/Phonics – Lesson 9 – /o/ sound spelled, o, aw, au. Lesson 10 – double consonants. Lesson 11 – el (le at the end of words) sound. Lesson 12- Review of 7-11.
Grammar - Continuing with labeling sentences. Prepositional phrases, object of the preposition, capitalization, punctuation.
Social Studies – Unit One test (Chapter 1 & 2) will finish out the month of October. Unit 2 – People in Communities. Students will learn how people move from place to place and celebrations.
Science – We will finish the Solar System and the planets and have a assessment before Thanksgiving break.
Math – It’s finally here. Multiplication. We will start working on memorizing facts. Practice at home with flash cards. Continue to practice addition and subtraction at home also.
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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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