Mrs. Schmitz – Third Grade
Posted on May 30, 2012, by Maria Schmitz, under Fourth Grade.
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Wow what a year! We have worked really hard in math and have come a long way. We have added, subtracted, multiplied and divided. We have learned about reading graphs and charts. We have learned about comparing numbers and place value. We have learned about mean, median, mode and range. We have also learned about units of measurement as well as telling time. We have covered lots of material but still have more to learn. The last two weeks of school we will still be working hard! We will be learning about geometry as well as orders of operation.
Science
We are learning all about the geology. We have learned that geology is the study of earth’s structure. We learned that a geologist does not only study earth, they also study other planets and their moons. Ask your children about the different types of rocks and how they are formed. You can also asked them about what causes earthquakes and volcanoes, which they have learned about, too.
Social Studies
We finished our unit on inventors and explorers. We learned about many people who have shaped the world around us. We also know now that the world is continuing to change because people are always inventing and finding new things.
Religion
We have learned many things in religion from our ten commandments to our sacraments. We have learned many interesting facts about saints as well as a few prayers that can help us throughout our lives. We will finish the year discussing Mary our mother and how she intercedes for us.
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Mrs. Schmitz – Third Grade
Posted on March 8, 2012, by Maria Schmitz, under Third Grade.
PrintMath
We are finishing up multiplication and division; however, we will continue to work on these skills for the remainder of the year. We will now be working on charts and graphs making sure we understand how to read and interpret the information provided on them.
Social Studies
We have just finished our unit on Communities and where they are located and why people decided to start communities in these areas. We studied important African Americans who have shaped and impacted our world and culture.
Science
We will now be working on our Physics Unit in Science. We will study the different phases of matter and how they things change between the different phases. We will find out how temperature impacts matter, and we will find out how to measure matter.
Religion
We have just finished learning about the Ten Commandments in detail. We talked about how each commandment applies to our individual lives. We are now learning about the season of Lent. We are discussing the Last Supper and the Crucifixion of Jesus. We are looking at the relationship between the flight of the Israelites and the life of Jesus and how they can be compared.
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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 Schmitz -Third Grade
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Maria Schmitz, under Third Grade.
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We will be finishing up our multiplication and division unit. Most of the students in the 3rd grade have done an awesome job of memorizing their multiplication facts. This will really help them in the future with math. Once we have finished multiplication and division, we will be focusing our attention on learning to read graphs and charts as well as reviewing time.
Science
We are finishing up our Chemistry Unit, and now it is time to focus on the Science Fair. All projects will be completed in class. Students will work everyday in class on their individual or group project. I am sure you will be proud of the work they accomplish.
Social Studies
Once we finish with our Science Fair projects, we will begin working on Social Studies again. We will learn about prominent African American citizens throughout history, We will also be learning about where communities are located and how the weather and climate impact the lives of people that live in different parts of the world.
Religion
Now that we have learned our Ten Commandments, we are now looking at each of them in detail. We are gaining an understanding of how we should live these commandments in our daily lives. We will also learn about the season of Lent.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintI hope this month finds all of you falling “head-over-heels” in love with your family and loved ones all over again. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help assist you and/or your student. Please continue to check the class website. You can access it through the school website by clicking on my link. There are many links and tabs that will help assist you and your student. Please remember, homework is not an option, but a tool to help build in the concepts we have discussed in class.
English/Reading: We are currently working on the last few chapters of Bud, Not Buddy. We will finish this up in the next couple of weeks and begin working on our next novel, The Watson’s Go to Birmingham. During the third quarter, fourth graders will also complete 2 IN CLASS book reports. This will help ALL students stay on track meeting expectations within their homework, such as reading daily at home for 30 minutes. The deadlines for the completed reading will be posted as soon as possible on the website. These book reports will reflect skills that students should have mastered and help the students practice key concepts such as correct punctuation, complete sentences, capitalization rules, the importance of proof reading, and much more.
Math: We just recently began working with division. We will continue to practice division skills during the lovely month of February as well as learning and using the check step to make sure we have answered the division problems correctly. We will continue the “Weekly Check-Ups”. This is very important and will connect what they children have learned from the beginning of the year as well as pull in the material that we have learned, practiced, and mastered during the week. This is a great way to bring many different concepts into the long term memory. It allows children to continue to practice mastered concepts as well as test new ones. In addition to the “Weekly Check-up, the students will receive a “Mad Minute” test over multiplication facts on Fridays. If your student is having difficulty with their multiplication facts, they are invited to the class website, where they can play games that are located on links listed on the math tab.
Social Studies: We have just recently finished discussing the first American Colony settled in Texas. We will test over the Colonization. We will watch The Alamo as a preview to help the children develop a idea of what we will be reading and discussing, followed by the reading and discussion of the fight at the Alamo and the other battles surrounding the independence of Texas from Mexico.
Science: We are currently working on our Science Fair projects. Following this we will move back into the “Water Cycle”. We will begin bringing home a lapbook for science as well. Please note, this will help the students become better prepared for section material and vocabulary building.
Religion: We currently have finished discussing the 2nd and 3rd commandment in detail in class. We will continue to discuss the Ten Commandments in detail in class. The next lesson in line is about “Respect”.
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Mrs. Schmitz – Third Grade
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Maria Schmitz, under Fourth Grade.
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We are deep in the heart of Multiplication. It is critical that your students recite their multiplication each night when they get home. I know you may think that writing the multiplication facts is just busy work; however, it is critical that each student masters the facts in 3rd grade. I am having them write the facts, recite the facts, and work the facts each day because I want to make sure they will be successful in Math. I am even giving each student an incentive. If your student can memorizes all their multiplication facts by Jan. 11th, they will receive a free movie ticket. Once we finish up with Multiplication and Division, we will begin working with Maps and Graphs. Thank you so much for your help and support at home.
Social Studies
We have finished working in our Junior Atlas for the time being; however, we will come back to it later in the year. We are working on learning about the different types of communities and the people that work to make the community a success. Students will present a mock interview with a worker from the community so we can get a better understanding of all the people that work together to make a community successful.
Science
Students will be working on their science projects in class. Hopefully this will be a fun learning experience for each of the students. They will have the opportunity to learn through trial and error and learn about the Scientific Method. Parents will be invited to come and see their student’s projects during Catholic Schools Week. Students will also be learning about Chemistry. We will learn about the different elements and how to locate information on the Periodic table.
Religion
December
We successfully learned the Ten Commandments and have learned about many great Saints. The students did an awesome job presenting their saints to the class. As we move into the Advent season we will focus on what the season of Advent means within the Christian community. We will hear the story of Jesus birth and the story of how Mary accepted God’s call.
January
We will be taking a deeper look at our Ten Commandments and trying to gain a better understanding of what they mean. What does it mean to love God above everything else? What does obedience have to do with Love? Why go to church each Sunday? What should we do when we break God’s Laws of Love? We will discuss reconciliation and how this brings us closer to God when we have broken his commands.
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Mrs. Schmitz – 4th Grade
Posted on April 18, 2011, by Maria Schmitz, under Fourth Grade.
PrintMath - We will be finishing up our unit on Fractions. We have learned how to find the GCF and LCM, we have learned how to simplify fractions, add fractions, subtract fractions. We have learned how to fix improper fractions and how to work with fractions that have unlike denominators. There was a lot to learn about fractions but “By George!” I think we’ve done it!
Science – We are learning about rocks and minerals. There are 40 common minerals found in the rocks around us! Each student should be working to create a character to represent the mineral they were assigned in order to share interesting facts about the mineral with the class. We will finish up this unit and then we will get to dissect a pickle and star fishes
Religion – As we near the end of the school year, we will finish up discussing the Ten Commandments in detail, and then we will begin to discuss and learn the Beatitudes. In honor of Earth Day, we will do a community clean. We will clean the school property and rid it of all the trash that people leave behind. We will also see the movie African Cats and learn about their natural habitats and what we can do to preserve their environment.
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Mrs. Fabian – Third Grade
Posted on December 8, 2010, by Betty Fabian, under Third Grade.
PrintEvents for the month of December – Field trip to St. Joseph’s. Bring all items to take by December 3rd. Items to bring: tissues, lotion, baby powder, toothpaste, pill boxes, socks, and wrapping paper.
Classes information for December:
Math- Finish division up to 5, then start multiplication up to nine. Three digit multiplication will be at the end of the month. Chapter 5 test including chapters 1-4 will be on December 1, 2010.
Grammar/English- Possessive Pronouns, and review of subject pronouns, and 8 parts of speech that we have learned so far this school year.
Spelling- Lesson 13, ed and ing endings of words. Lesson 14, spl, spr, str blends. Lesson 15, double consonants.
Reading – Small group guided reading: Ben’s Trumpet, Amber Brown is not a Crayon, Day of the Blizzard, and There’s a Hamster in my Lunchbox. Assessments will be on December 13th, 2010.
Religion- We will finish the ten commandments during the first week. God Created People to Share His Life, Preparing the World for Jesus, and Jesus Brought the Kingdom of God to Us; plus, Advent and what it means to each of us.
Social Studies – Chapter 4 – Celebrations of Cultures and across our nation.
Science- Elements and the Perodic table. We will be doing simple experiments during the month using the elements.
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Mrs. Schmitz – Fourth Grade
Posted on December 8, 2010, by Maria Schmitz, under Fourth Grade.
PrintReligion
We completed Unit 2 in our workbooks. This unit covered many topics like the Ten Commandments and why we honor Mary. We will now take a closer look at each of the commandments to ensure that we have an understanding of each of them and make sure we understand how to follow the commandments in our daily lives.
Math
Wow what about these students! They are doing an awesome job with double digit multiplication. We will be finishing up this unit on multiplication and begin our unit on division but will continue to work on double digit multiplication. Students will be required to do the check steps on all division work to ensure they have calculated correctly.
Science
We our beginning a unit on Solids, Liquids and Gases. Hopefully this will be a fun unit for us. We will make Rock Candy to demonstrate …. solids, liquids and gases. Students will begin selecting their science fair projects in class. When we return from the holiday’s students will focus all of their attention on completing their Science Fair projects in class. There will be several due dates for the students to meet to ensure that we complete the projects on time.
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