Saint Ann School News

May 5, 2008

Dear 5th Grade Parents and Guardians,

The fifth grade class did an outstanding job at last Friday’s Communion Service. They were poised and flawless in carrying out their duties!

I hope our “college-bound” students enjoyed their tour and activities at Cerro Coso last Thursday. I’m sure your child has probably already told you all about it, especially the animal eyeball dissection.

We will conclude our studies of water in our Science units with a Quiz next week. To get a better idea about the amount of water that is pumped from below ground in many parts of California to provide for everyday activities, we’ll map out a section of the playground to demonstrate exactly what is meant by an acre-foot of water.

Now that student will be just about done with all the rough drafts for the State Report, we’ll start on the final copies of each section. As students turn in their “final copies”, I will go through each one again and mark corrections. By doing this, it’s my hope that the final report (with all these sections together) will be error free. Information regarding the posterboard for the State Report will come home next week in the Monday envelope.

I will be gone on Friday to attend a three-day conference on the U.S. Constitution in Morro Bay. The class will be taught by some excellent instructors, and I’ll receive materials for the classroom to help demonstrate and teach the concepts taught in class for my students.

Have a great week!

Tracy

Religion: Finish Chapter 24 ‘Jesus, Our Model of Prayer’; Chapter 24 Test Thursday

English: Discuss adjectives and adverbs in the Skillsbook

Literature: Begin reading Number the Stars Chapters 16-17; Chapter 16-17 Quiz Friday

Math: Continue Chapter 7 (Writing fractions, writing equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, and comparing fractions, decimals and mixed numbers); Chapter 7 Quiz #2 next week

Social Studies: Finish Unit 6 (The Revolutionary War) Lesson 6 (How did the U.S. move into western lands?) and Lesson 7 (How did people’s views on slavery change after independence?) Chapter 6 vocabulary quiz and chapter test next week; States and Capitals Quiz (Southwest states) on Wednesday; States and Capitals Quiz (Middle West states) on Friday

State Report: Major Attractions notes and rough draft are due Wednesday, May 7 due to today’s field trip. The rough drafts of the introductory and concluding paragraphs, title page and bibliography are due Thursday, May 8.

Science: Finish Unit D3 (Protecting Water Resources); Unit D2-D3 Quiz next week

Spelling Unit 34 for week of May 5 through May 9
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Spelling Unit 35 for week of May 12 through May 16
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