Happy Thanksgiving!

Good Morning Families,

Could you feel the coolness in the air? It is truly starting to feel like Fall, and with Thanksgiving just a little over a week away, the holiday spirit is among us. This week's blog will serve as the blog for next week as well; since it is a short 2 day school week. 

We wish each of you and your families a very restful and warm Thanksgiving. May each of you travel safe, enjoy good company, and delicious food. Please remember there is NO AFTERCARE on Tuesday, November 22nd and NO SCHOOL on Wednesday, November 23rd. 

Looking ahead...

• Monday, November 14th to Friday, November 18th the Book Fair is here! Both classes will shop on Tuesday during our regularly scheduled Library time. 
• Friday, November 18th is our annual Food Drive Mass. All students received food bags last Friday. You can either fill up the bag with canned food or donate a gift card. 
• Friday, November 18th is our annual Grandparents' and Grandfriends' Day with Mass at 9:00 am followed by hospitality, classroom visits, and the Junior High Concert. DISMISSAL IS AT 11:30 AM. 
• Monday, November 21st the Fourth Graders will be making pumpkin pies and preparing the last minute details for our field trip. 
• Tuesday, November 22nd is our field trip to St. Vincent de Paul. Permission slips went home last Friday. There is NO aftercare this day: dismissal is 3:00 PM. 

English Language Arts

There will not be any spelling words this week or next. We are not moving onto the next lesson in our Journey's Reading program until after the Thanksgiving holiday. 

Our focus these next 7 school days will be as follows:

Grammar - continue to work on simple, compound, and complex sentences as well as basic conventions

Writing - continue to work on persuasive writing, thankful writing, read and evaluate recipes, write a short How-To writing piece

Reading - students will be reading a story called Two Kettles, which comes from the Reading A to Z program. This program allows for the entire class to read the story, but the story is leveled based on lexile level. So, the students are reading text at a level they are ready for. Each student will be working on a reading packet that goes with this story.

Social Studies

We will look at the week 2 AZ Studies Weekly Newspaper.

Math

Students will be working on multi-digit multiplication and division. They will also be solving word problems using tape diagrams.

Science

We are starting chapter two, the Animal Kingdom. Invertebrates is the focus for lesson one.

Religion

We will continue to prepare for our service project to St. Vincent de Paul.