2nd Trimester Begins

Good Morning Families,

This week marks the beginning of the second trimester. Report Cards will be available for view this Friday, November 11th. All of the students have been working extremely hard, and we are full steam ahead!

On Tuesday, November 8th, we will be off campus at the Grandview Diary Farm. Please PACK your child a lunch. We will be having a snack provided by the Vanderwey's and our sack lunch out there. We will return to school by 2:30 PM.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 9th for our grade band Mass at 10:30 AM in Brophy Chapel.

On Friday, November 11th, we honor our Veteran's. The annual Veteran's Day parade will be taking place until roughly 1:30 PM. This means that our families will ONLY BE ABLE TO ENTER THE PARKING LOT FROM THE WEST SIDE. Please be patient and understanding as there will be lots of traffic.

SCHEDULE CHANGE: On Friday, November 18th, we have Grandparents' and Grandfriends' Day with DISMISSAL AT 11:30 AM. 

English Language Arts and Social Studies 

We will focus heavily this week on Grammar, Writing, and Social Studies.

Grammar - Students will continue to work on verb tenses and compound and complex sentences. We will also continue to circle back to identifying types of nouns and types of sentences.

Writing - We will work on using persuasive language. In small groups, we will work on composing a persuasive paragraph.

Social Studies - We will continue our work with the 5 C's. We will focus on cotton and cattle. We will go on a virtual field trip on beef, which was provided to us by the From Farm to Football organization.

Students will need to complete 4 journal entries this week via Google Classroom. There will also be a few grammar skill sheets for homework this week. 

Math

We are going to finish our metric conversions module on Wednesday. We will begin Module 3, which is multi-digit multiplication and division. Please practice multiplication facts at home.

Science

The field trip is a culmination of our cotton unit. We will continue talking about inventions that have impacted our world and our world in the future.

Religion

We will focus on the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. The students will use these to create decorations for our trip to St. Vincent de Paul.